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AIBU?

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To think this is disgusting?!

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JaneS · 20/03/2011 17:49

I just asked DH to pop to the shop for a few things I'd forgotten to buy for dinner tonight. Also asked him to take out the bin as it was full and I was cooking.

He went out with the bins a few minutes ago and I remembered something I'd forgotten to ask him to get, so went to find him - and he's gone straight to the shop. Without coming back to wash his hands. It's not just me thinking that is absolutely disgusting, is it?!

Admittedly it's not as if our kitchen bin is particularly minging, and the way our waste goes he doesn't have to touch the lid of an outside bin at all - but I still think it's really nasty.

AIBU?

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matchesmatchesnevertouch · 20/03/2011 18:44

Am I thie only one (apart from LRD) who thinks it's normal to wash your hands after you've emptied the bins? I wash my hands after I've put a load of washing on too. It just feels a bit clean without it.

I can't touch anything without washing my hands after I've picked up dog poo in one of those little plastic bags either - I know logically I haven't touched anything horrible, just the bag, but I still feel dirty.

matchesmatchesnevertouch · 20/03/2011 18:45

Sorry, I meant it just feels a bit dirty without it.

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JaneS · 20/03/2011 18:50

Awww, thanks matches!

I do know what you mean about feeling a bit unpleasant even when it's not terribly rational - I do feel that way about dog poo.

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thisisyesterday · 20/03/2011 18:51

wow am really surprised at this thread!!!

i am a lot bit of a slattern myself and handwashing isn't high on my list of priorities to be fair.

but not washing your hands after dealing with bins and binbags is really quite manky!

OP yanbu!!! AND he only rinsed his hands along with the lemons before prepping food:??? nice

matchesmatchesnevertouch · 20/03/2011 19:04

Dog poo is the most vile substance known to man, it's true

sims2fan · 20/03/2011 19:12

Matches - I'm the same. Have to wash my hands after everything. Putting laundry in machine, wash hands, wiping down kitchen work top, wash hands, put frozen food in oven, wash hands. And definitely, definitely wash hands after putting out the rubbish!

So, OP, YANBU!

My hands just feel dirty after I've put out the rubbish. I can't touch anything else until I've washed them! I always thought that was normal, but perhaps I do have OCD tendencies?! Hmm, interesting, considering that in lots of other ways I am happy to live as a complete slob!

ZombiePlan · 20/03/2011 20:10

YAtotallyNBU. Bins are IMO dirty - they are, after all, where you put rbbish and waste. After taking them out you should always wash your hands (regardless of what you plan to do next). Just basic hygiene.

Incidentally, vintage - I absolutely do wash my hands after a shopping trip. Same with washing hands after using public transport, library books, etc. Isn't is somehting like 10% of people don't wash their hands after using a bathroom? The thought of that is enough to make me wash my hands after touching anything that strangers touch.

bringonthegoat · 20/03/2011 20:16

My mates used to mock me for bleaching my bin every time I emptied it. Bins are the devils work, toilet brushes his toothpick - yuck!

I have ishoos though

gerontius · 20/03/2011 20:23

YANBU.

Bins are horrible. And they smell horrible. And hands should be washed after having anything to do with them,

MadamDeathstare · 22/03/2011 00:04

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Ryoko · 22/03/2011 00:25

I wipe all my shopping with disinfectant anyway when I bring it in the home and hands are all ways washed after being outdoors so it wouldn't matter to me.

Tortington · 22/03/2011 00:27

wipe all your shopping?

lordy is your life not full enough?

LaWeasel · 22/03/2011 00:37

It is normal to wash your hands after you empty the bins. (Surely anyone that's worked with food as a young 'un has had to do this and got in the habit?!)

Disinfecting your food is weird.

Just so we're clear.

Ryoko · 22/03/2011 00:50

So you go to the shops you buy your tin of beans etc and are perfectly happy to take them home and treat them like they are clean when they have been handled by countless hands?. The factory where the packaging was made, the delivery to the food production plant, the deliver to the distribution centre, delivery to the shop, the putting out on the shelf.

During all that it could have come into contact with many things, dirty pallets, the floors of grubby warehouses or dumped outside a warehouse for awhile, the backs of dirty lorries and finally the many hands of many people who may or may not have questionable hygiene.

I shall continue to wipe things my dear it only takes one person in the chain to pick their nose before handling to make that tin grubby.

And what of yourself? you've been picking them up in the shop, you was on a bus before, you've been handling money, germs transfer.

ChippingInMistressSteamMop · 22/03/2011 00:54

I guess it depends really doesn't it?!

My kitchen bin is really, really, clean - the bag is in the bin (no spillage)... I tie the clean handles of the bag together... why is that any less 'clean' than any other plastic bag in the house?

I would, however, be very unimpressed with him not washing his hands before zesting the lemon, getting them a bit wet while rinsing the lemon is worse not better.

LDNmummy · 22/03/2011 01:03

YANBU, if I knew I was in someones house who didn't wash their hands after takung the bin out, I would decline any offer of tea or other refreshment extended to me out of disgust. Bins are waste recepticles where things fester and rot, that is why they smell. I am no germophobe but that is just yuck. Hope you had a word with him.

cumfy · 22/03/2011 01:03

[boggles] @ "binroom"

Never heard of such a thing.

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JaneS · 22/03/2011 01:07

I hasten to point out we didn't know about the 'binroom' before we moved in - we assumed there'd be a normal outside bin! Bleugh.

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BluePyjamas · 22/03/2011 01:08

Do you run your hands through the beans before cooking Ryoko? Otherwise, as you don't actually touch the beans, what is the point of cleaning the outside of a tin?

Bubbaluv · 22/03/2011 01:11

Ryoko - that can't be healthy!
I would MUCH rather eat food prepared with bin hands than food that had disinfectant on it. I won't have disinfectant spray used anywhere near food let alone actively wiping food with it - it's poison!

Bubbaluv · 22/03/2011 01:14

Dont lick the tin - problem solved!

cumfy · 22/03/2011 01:14

But...

Did everyone bag up stuff before slinging in the room or simply chuck raw rubbish into the room ?

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JaneS · 22/03/2011 10:00

cumfy - oh, everyone bagged stuff up. But when you think about it (and we were there from April-November), it doesn't actually make much difference in the heat.

We were at least on a different floor, but we had mice in our room by the end of it and - not too surprisingly - shortly after the place was gutted, the restaurant next door was shut because health and safety officials found mice there (these were old buildings that shared walls).

I suspect I'm still bothered by that place and paranoid now.

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Adversecamber · 22/03/2011 10:21

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