Really weird stuff people do that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Maybe some of us would rather enjoy our stay in a hotel without wasting time doing needless tasks in the name of "hygiene". I don't stay in a hotel to do the cleaning. Honestly, you sound bonkers.

So you want me to offer a subjective personal anecdote when I have already presented objective evidence that these pathogens are present?

I agree that most people have sufficient immunity that it's not a big concern. All I was doing was explaining why it isn't actually crazy to want the remote and other hot spots to be cleaned, whatever your immune status may be. It's smart not to take a needless risk when all you have to do is use an antibacterial wipe.
Why common sense would be controversial to some people is a mystery to me.

DH has some peculiar rituals regarding the dishwasher.

1. He'll empty it but only cutlery and plates gets returned to the cupboard. Everything else, cups, glasses, pots and pans get stacked up on the bench near to the cupboard where it lives on the basis that it needs to 'dry off properly and they'll make the cupboards damp'. Firstly they are dry when they come out and secondly we have tea towels. That doesn't seem to occur to him and then he can't remember what is clean and what's used and they get mixed up with used stuff so they end up getting washed again 'just in case'.
2. He will watch me fill the dishwasher and then rearrange it in his preferred format. It drives me mad.

He also leaves tea bags in the sink because 'hot wet things can't go in bins'. My parents also do the same but leave teabags balanced on teaspoons near the kettle... DH's mum has got a special 'hot wet teabag' receptacle near the kettle and she always commandeers a small bowl for the purpose when she's here exclaimed she also can't find the 'spoon rest'. Becuase we don't have one! Just spoon in the dishwasher rather than leaving things around! What IS the issue with putting a teabag straight in the bin?

Try it without, way nicer.

I'm not an Australian, and I don't live there. While some new houses here might have double sinks the average house doesn't. Therefore we must all be "grim" (how I hate the way that word is used in that context).

Last time I looked, hotels had bathrooms with washbasins and soap and towels and everything. Now I know why they installed them - it's so you can wash your hands after changing channels.

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If your username is a clue to your nationality then I have never met an Australian who doesn’t rinse their dishes after washing them. Everyone has 1.5 or double kitchen sinks for precisely that purpose. Not rinsing your soapy dishes is grim.

A hotel maid once told me she found a turd had been fried up in the kitchenette of a suite.
It makes pissing in the kettle seem sane by comparison.

Yes, but they supposedly do it because they find it a hilarious prank, rather than purely because they need to relieve themselves. People find some very childish things funny.

Surely it's more effort to do that than just going to the loo?

Once again I don't know anyone who rinses their dishes after washing them, I'm not in the UK and it's not something people do here (we also don't use those weird washing up bowls). No, there is no residue of soapy, dirty water on our dishes. If plates are particularly dirty they are rinsed in running water before being washed - I've never seen anyone washing in "dirty" water!

I imagine they have very dull lives and a lot of spare time. I go out several times a day, if I were to change my clothes every time before sitting on the furniture I would get little else done.

Never in real life have I met anyone who is so obsessive about germs, hygiene, "nasties" as seem to be on MN. It's a magnet for oddballs.

I've always assumed this was down to laziness. Dishes should be rinsed off. Anyone who doesn't is just a bit scummy really.

That notion that it makes no difference is based on an incorrect understanding. Reducing the total load of pollen exposure makes a difference to people with allergies. Reducing the number of harmful bacteria makes the chances of infection lower. Of course the environment is never sterile and it shouldn't be, because many microbes are actually healthy. The ideal is to expose yourself to those while at the same time reducing your risk to the dangerous ones. It's a balancing act. Gardening helps, because there are soil microbes which are beneficial. Walks in the woods are helpful as well, because the air will be full of beneficial bacteria. That doesn't mean you should heedlessly rush headlong into poison ivy. That's an example of the balance.

Every Slimming World group I've ever attended has been run by someone who WAS overweight and no longer is. With a photo display to prove it. Betty Oldknow, who ran a group in Derbys for (iirc) over 40 years kept her weight off right through having lost it with SW in the first place.

I've never given hotel remotes or carpets a second thought and am fit and healthy lol. I suppose it's all relative to whatever else you have going on 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't wash fruit and veg unless it's visibly dirty.

Never cleaned a hotel room on entering.

Don't have a kitchen bin.

Don't turn off stuff at sockets

I do sometimes make up squash in the summer to save the kids using gallons of it.

Sometimes flush with the lid open (although tbf my toilet is in seperate room to sink)

Use hotel kettles

Don't always wash my hands when coming in (always after loo and before making food though)

Ironically, I have (diagnosed) severe OCD

I had been married 11 years before my DH allowed a dishwasher in the house.
He would spend up to an hour washing dishes, rinsing them then covering with a tea towel. I'm still not allowed to put stainless steel pans in the dishwasher as they smear! I wait until he's out and load the buggers up! 😄

You rinse it under the tap at the end, once you’ve changed the plates and got the food off.

deviantfeline · Today 06:29

I once got an absolute bollocking in a Home Economics lesson in the 1980s for doing this. The teacher went absolutely bananas and screeched 'would you dry your hands on tea towel at home, I don't think so!'
I thought 'well err yes I would!'

That wasn't 5' 1" in 4 inch heels Molloy, by any chance?

Tinymrscollings · Yesterday 22:40

I am the proud owner of a DH who every single morning takes a clean cloth, folds it and places it underneath the spout of our espresso machine to catch any post-coffee making drips. I have explained repeatedly that he is preventing the drip tray from fulfilling its life’s purpose and irritating the fuck out of me, but to no avail.

I have only one question for you: how good are your patio re-laying skills?

Flu and cold viruses survive on hard surfaces for 24 to 48 hours, some say longer - up to 3 days.

@floatingislands 'Survive' yes, but that's not the same as having the ability to infect. This usually deteriorates very quickly on hard surfaces.

On a different note, why is it that most people don't rinse their dishes after hand washing in soapy water? Doesn't this leave a residue of soapy, dirty water on your dishes? Asking for a friend.

KittenQuibbles · Yesterday 17:50

Washing raw meat. Very odd

It depends on how you're going to cook it, if making a clear soup, it reduces the scum you need to skim off. But I wouldn't bother for roasting, or frying.