Why do none of my in-laws wash their hands

If i wee in my own home, i wipe with decent chunk of loo roll. There is absolutely no part of my hand that touches wee/skin/the loo bowl or seat etc. If i constantly wash my hands the skin gets dry & sore so i don't.

I always wash before preparing food etc & if i have a poo.

I get more germs from holding the pole on a train carriage than wiping a wee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

^ man who invented “hand washing”. Doctors called him crazy.

I'm 45 years old and I have never had norovirus. I always wash my hands when I arrive home from anywhere, and before I prepare food but not after a wee in my own house. Funnily enough there are a few people I work with who are constantly at the antibac hand gel and they get ill a lot more frequently than I do.

Not to me, you fool, to yourself.

Now wash your hands 😂

I take a few sheets of paper, usually two, and fold them to the size of one sheet, but thicker. I then put them between my legs, hold my flap open with my free thumb, and then wipe my inner labia. Otherwise you’re just drying the top layer. The fingers on the edges will definitely make fanny contact.

Yes!

Justify it 😂 you know complete strangers don’t actually have to justify their behaviour to you don’t you?

You are presumably touching the flush that has previously been touched by someone who has wiped their arse.

Yes, this exactly. How can you justify it? How can you bear to walk out of the bathroom with faecal particles/germs on your hands, bleurgh. It's so easy to have a quick hand wash.

In other news, I've never dried cups on my tits, albeit it seems less objectionable particularly if your top is clean (perhaps not if you've worn it while pooing and flushed with the lid up but I digress ...). It has honestly never occurred to me. I have tea towels next to the sink. Maybe that's terribly quaint these days.

I’m genuinely curious, why then are you so resistant to doing it after a wee if handwashing is such a habit of yours?

@Maestoso agree. The manky mitts on these type of threads ALWAYS say the same things, ‘I’m never il’, ‘we need germs’, etc, however, Its a first to hear someone confessing to fingering a mans butthole and sounding proud of it 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 that is totally sick and a health hazard
it makes me want to wear blue gloves when out in public 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

But i wash my hands on my period after a poo before preparing food, before eating, after being outside, after touching animals, the 50 thousand times I wash pots a day, after doing arts and crafts with the kids. Plus a shower or bath daily the reality is i probably wash my hands more then half the people on this thread who think im disgusting

Well we are very rarely ill and why would my hand be touching my vulva when im using toilet roll. I'm really questioning how you lot wipe yourselves after using the toilet no wonder you all need to wash your hands

I’m on holiday with DH. We’ve been away three weeks and it’s the longest I have ever spent in his company. I have learned his hand washing standards are woeful. We are in South America so I think we should be extra careful with hygiene etc but he just rinses his hands under the cold tap for a couple of seconds after using the loo then will make me a sandwich! I’m so unimpressed. I guess it’s just people’s habits and it’s their choice but I also find it grim.

This thread is hilarious.

It’s second nature to me to give my hands a cursory wash after every loo visit, but I have no idea if guests do. And I don’t care tbh.

Some posters seem very obsessed about illnesses. We’ve never had a stomach bug that’s gone around our family. I care more about all the visiting men that stand up to piss and get splashes everywhere. Now that’s minging.

You might make someone else sick?

I make my own yoghurt. A couple of days ago, I opened the yoghurt flask and the entire surface was covered in a pink liquid, which I’m reliably informed is mould, ie dangerous bacteria. One of the utensils I used must have had a microscopic speck of something on it. The wooden spoon probably. I have always been pretty scrupulous about hygiene, but this didn’t half give me a visual on how bacteria multiply. Obviously the yoghurt was kept at a warm temperature, but all that does is accelerate the process.

You are presumably touching the flush that has previously been touched by someone who has wiped their arse. Ditto on the toilet roll.

And how can anyone dry themselves without coming into contact with their own vulva. What do you use, a toilet brush and a pair of salad tongs?

Not washing your hands after using the loo is utter skank behaviour. You’re just as likely to get ill from E-Coli you catch from your own child as from a stranger. “They’re my family’s germs” makes no sense at all. It’s like saying you don’t need to wear a seatbelt in your husband’s car!

You said this "I only wash my hands after a wee in public places not in my own home". So, a non-washer after using the loo.

And then you said "Everyone in my household has been inside me one way or another i don't think they are worried about my germs its family" as a reason for not washing your hands after the loo, that's as batshit as it gets. I hope you all enjoy your dysentery. Together. As a family.

Not a non washer i shower everyday and wash my hands multiple times a day.

You're right. I should've said a dirty non-washer making an idiotic comment. Apologies.

Someone will probably have flushed your toilet using the hand that they have just used to wipe their bum after a poo and when you flush after a wee, you could pick up some poo germs that you would transfer to the rest of the house as you didn't wash your hands.

This.

ln addition not only does washing hands after each loo visit guarantee good toilet hygiene, it ensures regular hand washing. Have so many people forgotten the pandamic?

I can't get over the people on this thread who don't see this as an issue. It is disgusting not to wash your hands after using the loo.

No reason to call me an idiot

I’ve noticed this not washing hands can go with some abnormally high and fixed self opinion, whereby the non washer feels they are fine so everything they want to do (including not washing hands) is fine.
this won’t change sorry. Hope they are kind and nice in other ways.

No-one needs toilet germs though. If never washing your hands after pooing or weeing helped build resistance to germs, why are people in countries with no access to toilets and proper sanitation dying of preventable diseases?

Poor or no hand washing after using the toilet significantly increases the risk of contracting and spreading serious infections.