How often do you wash/wipe your keys?

[Parrotanne]

Some years ago I started a thread asking this question, and lots of people were amazed that I did this at all! Just wondering if things have changed now with Covid.

I wash mine about once a week but I wipe them pretty much daily.

I try to wash school bags frequently. But only because they tend to get clogged up with all kinds of gunk e.g. crumbs from sandwiches...need emptying of random bits of paper...

Never.

Never washed keys or locks or steering wheel

Rarely use hand sanitiser now either but do wash my hands thoroughly and regularly during the day.

Never clean my keys. Or my steering wheel or handbrake, though the car wash workers do it when they clean the interior, about twice a year! I very rarely use hand sanitizer either. I’ve survived this far….

@Parrotanne

Hmm. At least one other person out there does this - hello *@MeanderingGently* :)

I wipe them with wipes and wash them in fairy liquid. But I don’t fully immerse the car key. I may be batshit (actually, I think I’m very boring in all other respects) but I’m not that batshit!

Wipes are the work of the devil and the worst of single use plastic. Totally unnecessary in most situations and especially for invented work such as wiping steering wheels and gear sticks.

Some people really are batshit, aren't they?

I don’t wash school bags either. Lunchboxes get cleaned, but I’m not laundering a bookbag!!

Yeah never. I have no children, live in a household of two and already seem to spend most of my time cleaning and doing laundry. And yet my house is filthy! If I had a list of everything to be cleaned in priority order and keys were on it id prob be doing housework 24/7.
Besides. If I ever need to use them to stab a mugger in the eye I think some pathogens would be helpful.

A out once a year I look at one of my keys that has a rubber fob on it and realise it's disgusting and clean under the fob. That's it! Never wiped any other keys!

Never washed my house keys or car keys in my life….. BUT….. I’m a food teacher and have to let students take my keys to unlock the toilets so I sometimes shove them in the washer with the aprons because I don’t know where they store them in the toilet/how well they wash their hands before bringing them back! I reckon 20+ people handle them a week going to the toilet though. It’s more the lanyard that is the issue because it’s come back wet several times. I would never normally wash keys though.

Totally agree @TheGenealogist, the inventor of the disposable wipe was probably the devil himself. What happened to a good old cloth (for non-pointless cleaning obviously)!

Never.

Don’t put keys in the washing machine @lulola they can damage the drum!

Never cleaned my steering wheel either, though I suppose the chaps who clean it for me once a year might do.

Never in my life. In terms of my car I take it for the fortnightly wash at my local car wash and that's enough for me. But hey some people are anal about cleaning certain things LOL.

I noticed how dirty my front door key was the other week and was shocked to see how much dirt was on the cloth once i wiped it.

@PattyPan

Totally agree *@TheGenealogist*, the inventor of the disposable wipe was probably the devil himself. What happened to a good old cloth (for non-pointless cleaning obviously)!

I hold my hands up, I used wipes on my kids when they were in nappies. Because they were useful and at that point there wasn't really an alternative.

But in the 18 years since I've had my eldest it's now all floor wipes, and anti-bac wipes, and face wipes, and sofa wipes and everything else wipes. Used in situations where some washing up liquid on a sponge or cloth does exactly the same thing.

SO wasteful. And who has time to be inventing jobs like cleaning their keys? Are these the people who pop up on threads saying how BUSY they are, and how they don't have 2 minutes to sit down ALL DAY, because they are creating ridiculous work for themselves?

Just nuts.

Never

@PattyPan they are fastened in a pocket so they don’t get stuck or anything

I have never washed my keys-it would just never have occurred to me.

@ApolloandDaphne just intrigued as to why you pretend to use hand sanitiser instead of actually using it? Seems almost harder than just using it? plus you are touching the pump that everyone's dirty hands touched without the benefit of the clean?

Seeing as I only handle my keys and they are either in my handbag or in the car ignition or locking\ unlocking my doors I don't actually see the need to wash them

That would be never.

Never but I did consider getting one of those uv sanitising boxes for my keys and purse at the height of Covid. I like that you do though, OP. It would be boring if we were all the same!

You wipe them with wipes and wash them with fairy liquid? Why both? Especially since I assume you mean disposable wipes that are just wasteful, especially if you’re washing them in liquid anyway.

@GalaPie There is less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of contracting COVID from a surface. Smearing hand sanitizer over your steering wheel is entirely pointless at best, dangerous at worst as it causes antimicrobial mutations that causes resistance.

You're mad