Why do none of my in-laws wash their hands

My in laws are the same, they also only brush their teeth at the most once a day and they share the same toothbrush. They drink a lot too so their teeth are terrible.

A drink from the fridge? Emptying the dishwasher and putting away the lovely clean plates?

No as fruit would be eating how are you not understanding this

But this isn't how germs work how long do you think germs survive on surfaces. I also clean my home daily. The fact that we never get ill says it all to me. I bet I've already washed my hands more then you have today. Including 2 lots of dishes

Public toilets - wash hands, leave tap running , dry hands. If paper towels, use the towel to switch off tap and open door. If air dryer, then use your sleeve or the bottom of your jacket over your hand.

So would you be happy after your quick wee to help yourself to a drink out the fridge, turn the kettle on, select fruit from the fruit bowl, you get the gist?

I don't wash my hands in public toilets - there is absolutely NOTHING in there that I will touch with bare hands. The ridiculous way they are designed means that almost always you have to PULL several doors open to get out, so what's the point of doing that with newly washed hands? If they have no pull doorhandles then I might wash, provided there are paper towels. Hand driers are another disgusting invention (google it). So I use toilet paper (or my own stash of tissues) to close cubicle door, to put lid down, to flush, another wodge to open cubicle door, then same to get out of the sodding doors I have to pull open. Then I have to chuck the used paper/tissues on the floor if there is no bin nearby. Not ideal but until the morons who commission and design these things can do it properly, I'll carry on. Back in the car or outside I use a wet wipe and/or antibac gel on my hands (always in my bag).

I didn't say that i was replying to you saying getting a biscuit out a biscuit tin

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I’m someone who is quite obsessive with hand hygiene and frequently use hand sanitizer when out and about and unable to wash. I am also someone who has to use the toilet frequently at night and it is so embarrassing in another’s home. For this reason I can understand why they wouldn’t flush the loo, or run a hot tap. It’s perfectly hygienic to wash in cold water though as long as you use soap, it’s the soap that cleans a the water just rinses it away. A cold tap can normally be run quietly if you only turn it on slightly. TBH if I was your relative and I thought you were lying in bed counting my bathroom visits each night, I would probably stay in a hotel.

I reckon they have one of these… when mn approve the picture lol

I don’t wash my hands routinely before making a cup of tea or getting a drink out of the fridge, it would depend on what I had been doing before.
If you say that you routinely wash your hands before doing anything in the kitchen then you are indeed washing your hands a lot and washing them a few extra times after a ‘quick’ pee is hardly going to make a difference to the condition of your hands

Unfortunately, you didn't dream it. She didn't say whether she washed her hands afterwards, but probably not.

In a public loo sometimes the basins themselves are blocked, gross health hazard with a broken, filthy, runner towel.

I just lost my appetite 🤢 I'm never visiting anyone before inquiring about their hygiene 🤣

Wow I love these threads as such an eye opener. Normally I am on the side of ‘people on MN are crazy uptight about hygiene’ because I don’t wash my bedsheets or towels as frequently as many. But handwashing is another story. I can’t understand why you wouldn’t do it at night, I wipe/dry my bum when I’ve had a wee! Can’t imagine ever not washing hands that have touched anything bummy. And I had no idea that so many people wouldn’t wash hands at home.

I HOPE it's the majority's basic hygiene ! I am all for your idea about different islands for the handwashing/non handwashing people. I just don't get it. I mean it's something you don't even think about- I couldn't NOT wash my hands after going to the bathroom or eating or before food prep. My DH uncle still calls me hygiene police because I insisted on everyone washing their hands before touching my baby 15 years ago..

But you’ve contaminated half your house by that point. Why bother washing your hands before eating if there’s faecal matter all over your plates and cutlery?

Poo and period 100% at home. I don't always my hands at home after a pee when fully conscious, i.e during the night/half asleep I can't always guarantee I'll remember.

The worst is when you are in the toilets at work and you hear the next person do their business without washing and walk straight out 🤮. I bet they are the ones who eat at their sandwiches at their desk.

Ok I mean wow if theyre cooking right after then thats another level. Offer sanitiser ;)

Yes theyre probably trying to be quiet and if anyone raised it would seem like they can't do right etc..

But clearly they've done something more annoying.

If this does annoy u in of itself you can makd a thing of reminding the kids infront of them like we always wash our hands after the toilet right, its very important and maybe throw in a stat about germs.

My friends - a married couple - are like this too. We went in holiday and the accommodation had a loo with no sink next door to the kitchen. The husband would go to the loo and come straight out to cook dinner for us all.

They also proudly declare how ridiculous it is to wash vegetables.

On the other hand they don't seem to get ill often, which mystifies me!

No i wash my hands before I eat. Don't you?

DM once said about a cake she had made "I can't remember if I washed my hands, but it doesn't matter because I always find unwashed hands make the cake taste better".

And got arsey because I wouldn't eat it 😅
Sorry to ruin your NYEs but this thread gave me the flashback!

Even a ‘quick wee’ involves the mechanics of pulling up/down knickers, wiping, touching the loo handle.
Would you then be happy to go and make yourself a cup of tea or take some biscuits out of the tin without washing your hands?