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Anyone else feel icky away from home?

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lolaVie · 01/11/2023 22:16

Currently away from home for the week and experiencing a life long problem…genuine ickiness about hotel showers, beds, carpets, cups, kettles…you name it, it makes my toes curl. To the point that it makes me desperate for my own shower and bed! It’s not homesickness in the sense that I’m sad or missing home. It’s like a disgust response but there’s nothing disgusting!

But I never hear anyone else ever describe this feeling! Place we are staying seems clean enough and it’s not specific to this place anyway. It is anywhere! Not just hotels. Any kind of holiday accommodation.

I don’t feel this way staying with family (as in at the home of either of my parents) and maybe one or two close friends although it’s been a long time since I slept at a friend’s house.

Is this just me?!

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RampantIvy · 04/11/2023 10:53

I suppose I don’t have carpets at home because I think they are generally nasty

Carpets aren't nasty. It's what some people do that is nasty.

ManAboutTown · 04/11/2023 11:00

RampantIvy · 04/11/2023 10:53

I suppose I don’t have carpets at home because I think they are generally nasty

Carpets aren't nasty. It's what some people do that is nasty.

Or their pets

Chemenger · 04/11/2023 13:25

I assume the venn diagram of the people who find hotels disgusting and those who can only poo in their own toilet has a large intersection.

Dowtcha · 04/11/2023 13:37

garlictwist · 02/11/2023 07:01

I'm currently in a holiday house with my husband, parents, brother, sis in law and their three kids and I am really avoiding using the loo. I just can't stand the thought of it having been used by so many people. I also avoid it at work for this reason. It's quite challenging.

There seem to be a lot of people on mumsnet with hygiene anxiety like this. It must make life so difficult. Perhaps your parents were the same and you inherited it? I would not say that it is not normal, because many people do seem to feel the same, but I would say it is entirely unnecessary and if you could do something to change it, your life would be easier.

Dowtcha · 04/11/2023 13:42

Dowtcha · 04/11/2023 13:37

There seem to be a lot of people on mumsnet with hygiene anxiety like this. It must make life so difficult. Perhaps your parents were the same and you inherited it? I would not say that it is not normal, because many people do seem to feel the same, but I would say it is entirely unnecessary and if you could do something to change it, your life would be easier.

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I should have said, doing something like cognitive behavioral therapy?

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 04/11/2023 13:47

Dowtcha · 04/11/2023 13:37

There seem to be a lot of people on mumsnet with hygiene anxiety like this. It must make life so difficult. Perhaps your parents were the same and you inherited it? I would not say that it is not normal, because many people do seem to feel the same, but I would say it is entirely unnecessary and if you could do something to change it, your life would be easier.

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But sharing a loo with 8 people must mean that the seat is always warm🤢

Dowtcha · 04/11/2023 13:51

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 04/11/2023 13:47

But sharing a loo with 8 people must mean that the seat is always warm🤢

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The poster avoids the loo at work too?

Sillybolloks · 04/11/2023 22:27

im confused. What’s the worst that can happen in your mind?

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