I've just watched my mum wipe the bin lid then her work surfaces with the same cloth.

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I mean come on.

Even me, the queen of slack and low standards thinks that's just too gross.

Her argument is that she cleans the bin lid everyday. (She doesn't)

AIBU to want buy her colour coordinated cloths for the kitchen 😂

Are you saying pixies and elves arn't real?

So what? It's a bin not a toilet.

You should have seen my Granny.

The dishcloth wiped everything, including the rims of the jam jars.

No one was ever ill.

She'd be unlikely to see colour coordinated cloths.

I've often seen my dad half way through wiping down the kitchen surfaces drop the cloth onto the floor wipe up some dirt (using his foot over the cloth to rub with) the carry on wiping the surface. Same cloth is used for (list not exhausted) washing up, cleaning hands and faces, and the bin.

I do however appear to have survived my childhood despite this (assuming there was the same carry on in my youth).

My late mother used to do a quick dust round with the tights she had just taken off. She also kept a pair of manky ole dampened knickers by the side of the hearth to deal with any errant coal dust from the fire. Every time my boyfriend came round she'd do a quick titivate with the grundies in front of him.
I have been so traumatised by this that I can barely bring myself to dust full stop.

My mum doesn't believe in germs, she doesn't even have any kind of handwashing soap in her kitchen, how I ever survived I don't know

Noooooo! I only ever do that immediately before I throw a cloth away and use spray.. Other times I use kitchen paper and anti back spray.

Reading threads like this always makes me shudder. You just assume others have as high hygiene standards as you do yourself, then you're reminded how that really isn't so,

Wiping the bin, then the work surface is minging. All kinds of stuff goes in the bin from other rooms and from people with dirty hands. Spray & paper towel or a cloth that's going in the bin. It's no different to wiping the loo then the sink & taps. Revolting.

Mystic well, alright...they are real. But you get my point.

dodo oh the wiping faces annoys me! She uses the dish cloth to wipe my toddlers face which she knows I hate. And I'll be even more annoyed now knowing she's been wiping the bloody bin with it.

I quite like the idea of dusting with manky damp knickers. Mind you, I have never cleaned a bin lid either. Bigger things to worry about.

Wouldn't bother me at all, you don't eat directly from the work top surely?

I think people are far too obsessed with this sort of thing - years ago DH & I used to share a house with a friend of DH's who had about five different colour co-ordinated cleaning cloths - funnily enough he and his family are regularly ill with stomach bugs etc but my family are far more robust

I have been known to dust my bedroom with a pair of socks 🙄

I use flash wipes to clean the bin. Then I put them in the bin. Simples. I use a dishcloth for surfaces and change it once a week or so.

Yanbu.

My mum does this OP. And will then go and wipe her coffee table. She used to wipe my face with it too when I was a kid.

I wouldn't do this okay! but

thinking logically: the stuff that's in my bin now is just stuff that was on my work surface this morning. And I clean my bin lid regularly (not with the same cloth that I use on the work tops), so what do people think is going to be on the bin lid that's not on the work surfaces? the bin lid probably has less germs than the work tops that I prepare food on , the bin lid just lifts up and down I don't rub all my rubbish all over it?

Caught DH putting dog's towel in the washing machine with our underwear this morning. He got 'the look' and washing had to be done again, by him I might add. Some people and husbands are filthy!

We had very robust immune systems and were also cleansed, toned and moisturised with a communal dishcloth using the water from the dishes. My aunt changed her washing up sponge every day and actually bathed her children in the bath of all places. They were very sickly consumptive kids.

It's rank.

If I did that at work I'd probably get a warning.

Can't get worked up about this. I have one cloth in my kitchen that's used for everything and we're all still alive.

Rank. Totally unhygienic and I'm no germaphobe.

What is it that makes your bin more dirty than your work tops?

The bin has a black bag in it and all sorts of nasties go in - the bathroom bin gets emptied into it so all bathroom debris and although we have a seperate food bin, the odd thing does get in there by mistake which will obviously go off etc and create the dreaded 'bin juice'.

If it gets fairly full, whatever's at the top is touching the lid (the inside but still). Then when you empty it and take the bag out, you're swinging a black bag full of bleugh and God knows what right next to the outside of the bin. Bit's sometimes fall out, may rub against the bin and so on.

My worktops get cleaned at least twice a day (not in a clean-freak scrubbed down way but at the very least sprayed and wiped when doing dishes etc. My bin not only holds rubbish but only gets wiped once a week ish.

For me, it would be the same as using a sponge to clean the toilet handle/lid/outside seat and then use the same sponge on the bathroom sink - which is another thing I know some people do and think is gross.

The obvious issue isn't really with the food that has gone in the bin but with food that went onto the lid and then stayed there for a few days (I assume she doesn't clean her bin lid twice a day).
So you are more likely to have 'germs' or rather moulds developing there.

But there is a point about the fact the best way to kill 'germs' is with soapy water. So cleaning the worktop and the lid with said soap would just ... kill the germs anyway rather spreading them.
It would be different if he was using a cloth w water only.

Gross.

The bins should be cleaned last.