AIBU to think that sooo many people have lazy or non-existent hygiene stadards?

[madmomma]

I just despair at people's disregard for basic hygiene.
Bathroom sinks at people's houses with no soap, let alone a nailbrush,
greasy hair, dirty toilets, grubby fingernails, animal hair floating around and cats sitting on food-preparation surfaces. Am I stuffy or are people really grim about hygiene these days, despite how easy we have it wrt access to soap + hotwater?

[Fannydabbydozey]

I HAVE A NAIL BRUSH! And it is by a sink!

I got it in a Christmas cracker.

Can I admit I put it by the kitchen sink as it is a fetching shade of blue and matches the kitchen feature wall?

Now, how does one use the bugger?

[AwkwardSquad]

I use my Lakeland grout brush when my nails are particularly earthy .

[Weelady77]

I have a nail brush in the shower as DH gets minging hands at work! But I don't know anyone else who has one there never on show either is mine it's in the shower! And I agree reminds me of old people with old soap

[squoosh]

I TOO HAVE A NAIL BRUSH BY THE SINK!

[elvesavleftdabildin]

Not inviting you 'round my house again momma. So judge mental.

[elQuintoConyo]

I have a nailbrush. It's purple. It lives in a drawer in t.t bathroom. I use it to clean my nails before putting my contact lenses in/out. I know bacteria frequently hold parties under there and fear getting something minging growing in my eye

I grew up eating mud pies and kissing worms after chasing my bigger dsis round the garden with them and I'm still alive to tell the tale. I have had flu just twice in my life, never been to hospital (apart from giving birth), never broken a bone, no fillings in my teeth.

[ohmymimi]

I always thought the best way to get your nails clean was kneading bread/pastry/pasta dough. Works for me anyway.

[Caitlin17]

You'd hate my house. We have soap dispensers and clean towels but no nail brushes, 4 cats and I'm not in the least bit bothered about them jumping on the table or the kitchen island.

[ohmymimi]

Seriously, a good nail brushing is needed after gardening. Now if you want something really festering with bacteria, I give you the tea towel. Disgusting things.

[HOMEQCRICH]

I find I can clean undee my nails using my opposing hands nails then lather and rinse..

[squoosh]

So much crud gets under fingernails, nailbrushes are the best way of getting rid of this, I didn't realise they were seen as being antiquated!

[Caitlin17]

We have a gardener so I'm fine then.

My son was brought up in my squalid house and when we dropped him off at hall of residence for first year uni he had to fill in a form with his doctor's name."Mum, who is my doctor?"Me Doctor Y"., son Who is he?" having never been near him after his MMR. The only time I recall him being sick was the Captain Scarlet birthday cake incident (which I didn't make but vomiting up red fondant icing didn't half scare us)

[Dingleinthevillage]

My husband is vile. He'd never not have a shower etc but I still have to tell him to wash his hands before he touches food! Don't care if he poisons himself but over Christmas with all that pulling out cold joints to carve he would just lunge at them with a knife and his hand on the other bit. Disgusting! Causes a row every time too.

[squoosh]

Oh I'm no clean freak, the sickly ones are always the ones who rub down their antibacterial cleaner with antibacterial wipes and then clean their hands with antibacterial gel.

Show bacteria some love people, it's your friend!

[AwkwardSquad]

Tea towels aren't minting if they're washed after use rather than being left to dry off repeatedly. DP went on a food hygiene course and is now Tea Towel Police.

[AwkwardSquad]

*minging

[Birdsgottafly]

I have a nail brush.

I was going to say YANBU, I thought it was going to be a thread about a thread. I don't understand, barring disability why people don't wash and clean.

However, I have a cat that will only drink from running tap water and a very hairy German Shepherd.

I worry about harmful bacteria, food hygiene etc, but not dirt that doesn't cause illness.

I try to keep on top of dog hair, but unless I am baby sitting, I won't Hoover up more than once a day, unless I leave the Hoover out and just keep at it (yes my days can be that empty).

It takes money to wash and dry, so I can understand people minimising that.

I don't know if you are UR or not, it depends on the level and kind of dirt.

[minifingers]

No nail brush here. How have I got to the age of 47 NOT washing my hands every 20 minutes, and letting my dog mill around shedding hair in the kitchen and not made myself of my children ill?



Or is it that we are all just blessed with guts of steel?

[Birdsgottafly]

I wouldn't use tea towels (shudder).

[Birdsgottafly]

I often wonder why the residents on "how clean is your house" don't get all the illnesses listed, based on the bacteria, damp, hair etc.

There should be research into that.

[Iwilltrythisnamefornow]

Although my cleanliness standards are no doubt nowhere near as high as yours, I do appreciate clean-freaks as they give me something to aspire to in my fantasy life where the house is immaculate

Hence, I have to vote YANBU :)

[MrsDavidBowie]

I don 't wash fruit.

but I do have a nailbrush for ds when he has been playing football.

[Madamecastafiore]

The two dirtiest houses I have ever visited belonged to mumsnetters!

Absolute filth!!

[Caitlin17]

Birdsgottafly I agree. I don't post on these threads to be all wacky about this. I genuinely don't care and my household genuinely has never suffered any of the horrors predicted.

For myself I think growing up drinking unpasteurised milk from our own cows, eating cheese and butter made from it, eating eggs from our own extremely free range hens and ducks and eating said hens and ducks might have helped.

[Caitlin17]

MrsDB I don't wash fruit either. I didn't eat wash home grown fruit when I was a child and definitely remember eating baby carrots straight from the garden just wiping the earth off.