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AIBU to ask what are your 'disgusting' habits

251 replies

FatBottomedGal · 30/01/2017 16:32

There are loads of things that are generally frowned upon that I'm sure loads of us do - I want to hear yours!

My input - I don't always wash my hands after I pee. I don't pee on my hands always see the need and soap sometimes irritates my hands Blush

Your turn!

OP posts:
kezibear · 01/02/2017 19:47

I pick my childrens/husbands scabs!! I even removed my daughters stitches (with medical permission) i am a beauty therapist so enjoy a good black head removal too. Or an ingrowing hair on a bikini line!!

angiebabes2k · 01/02/2017 20:06

I bent down a few weeks ago in the living room and noticed something under the lip of the arm of the leather couch, it looked like a load of dry bird poo about 4x6 inches big. Turned out to be my lesser Half's bogey wiping spot! (His chair) almost caused a divorce. Never been more disgusted in my life 😷

wait68 · 01/02/2017 20:21

eating bogies is a gut retching thing to watch/see.I can't even see a small
child doing without feeling like throwing up.
however I enjoy cleaning ears. I itch to clean some children when they look filthy and dry skin which needs coming off.

Daydream007 · 01/02/2017 20:22

Pretty much everything in this thread. Pleased to see I'm not the only one.Nobody would guess looking at me😅

happybeeisgoingcrazy · 01/02/2017 20:25

I have OCD and this thread is making my skin crawl. I am so jealous that you guys can do these things because it takes me about 15 minutes to wash my hands after using the toilet. My "disgusting habit" that is part of my CBT is not using an anti bacterial wipe on my phone every time I pick it up. I'm really proud of myself.

Cleanermaidcook · 01/02/2017 20:33

This thread is hilarious, I have found my people (some of you)

I pick my nose and scabs and eat it.
I don't wash hands at home after a wee.
I sniff my jeans to see if i can get another day out of them.
I eat leftover food off my kids plates.
The cat can wander around any work surface it likes (i anti bac them a couple of times a day)
I relish weeing in the shower - it's a favourite passtime.

MumsGoneToYonderLand · 01/02/2017 22:17

do you wee in front of your partner? at a dinner party last month and half the table said yes and the other half was bat-shit shocked we could be so vulgar!
yes we do. Who has the time to wait for the bathroom to be free?

and loads more grim habits than that...

Dodadodaday · 01/02/2017 22:21

I was in a business meeting once and the guy across from me wiped his drippy nose on his thumb and then licked it!!!!! In a meeting!!!!! Almost vommed.

Not washing your hands after weeing is just wrong. It's not the wee, it's the toilet handle, or worse if it's a male-dominated household, putting the seat down. Wee germs fine, it's the scattered about poo particles that mean washing hands is a must! Nasty stuff.

If you can wee without touching anything then fair enough and hats off to you.

For instance, I sometimes wee outside behind a bush. Because my garden office has no toilet see? Then I don't wash my hands as I didn't touch anything. :)

Palomb · 01/02/2017 22:24

The woman in front of me in my meeting today sat there picking the scabs off her head and then examining them and eating them.

All I could think was time and a place, lady

Envy
CaraAspen · 01/02/2017 22:24

Can't read this ghastliness at all. I would be nauseous for a week if I did. YUCK

MumsGoneToYonderLand · 01/02/2017 22:31

my son eats his eye bogeys. grim.

Polkadot1974 · 01/02/2017 22:45

I cannot bear unsqueezed spots so an a squeezer but blimey, some stuff on here. Ouch!

SamineShaw · 01/02/2017 23:07

Ha ha I really needed this giggle after today! Guilty of many of the things mentioned but nose picking and scab picking, we had a flea problem a couple of years ago and I couldn't leave the bites alone. My legs are still horribly scarred 😕

rattlesnake · 01/02/2017 23:15

Nose-pick in the car and wipe the boogers under the seat. Dread to think how many are under there!

Arthur2shedsJackson · 01/02/2017 23:16

DH and I used to play a really great game.
The trick was, when walking along, to catch your partner unawares and push a digit down the back of his/her jeans and into the cleft of the bum.
The game was called 'Stink Finger.'
I often used to wonder if it would ever achieve Olympic status.

FredAstairesUnderwear · 01/02/2017 23:19

I pick and eat: bogeys, scabs, scalp skin, dry ear skin, eye goo, squeeze blackheads and bite the hard bits between my teeth, dig out ingrown hairs on legs and in bikini line, squeeze my half healed holes where my ears used to be pierced, leave my brows to grow and when I pluck them assemble plucked hairs on the back of my hand.
God I feel gross now.

Lulu49 · 02/02/2017 07:43

I take my coffee to the loo with me and I've eaten on the loo too 🙃

AldrinJustice · 02/02/2017 09:37

I don't understand why people don't wash their hands after going to the toilet?? That's basic hygiene! Sick to my stomach...yes yes you don't get pee on your hands but you have touched handles in the bathroom/toilet flush which has been touched by others so you do have other people's bacteria on your hands regardless after going.

PlumpOldBackside · 02/02/2017 09:41

You know when your vaginal discharge dries in your pubes and your pubes go all crispy?

I love picking at that.

I wash my bra probably every six weeks or so Blush

JacquesHammer · 02/02/2017 10:12

I don't understand why people don't wash their hands after going to the toilet

And yet a number of posters have explained. Still. For me, GP's advice following massive issues with my skin on my hands

BazookaJoe90 · 02/02/2017 10:24

Some of mine (that I can remember anyway) are, I too don't always wash my hands after going to the toilet, for either poos or wees! But rest assured if I'm cooking I do wash my hands. I also eat leftover kids food, and if people at work offer me their half eaten sandwich, male or female, I'll have that too, and I very rarely get stomach upsets. And I wee in the shower too sometimes!

My worst one though, is I sometimes take a brew to the toilet with me when going for a poo, and rest it on the sink close to the toilet so I can drink it before it goes cold!

MichaelSheensNextDW · 02/02/2017 10:30

Putting on a particular pair of cheapie earrings that I know cause a load of crusty exudate to collect behind my ears overnight. Very satisfying to feel for it and scrape it off with a fingernail.
Also removing crusty sleep from the dog's eyes every morning and letting her lick it off my finger as if it's a special treat.

Monkeybunkey · 02/02/2017 11:04

Stink finger! GrinGrinGrin

Lulu49 · 02/02/2017 16:36

After DTD with my partner, if I was on top when he finished I would sit on his tummy/chest and push his bodily fluids out of me onto his tummy/chest/wherever I could get to before he realised what I was about to do and turfed me off him lol 😊

whatsthepointofmorgan · 02/02/2017 16:39

A question to The Nosepickers Who Eat It. [sick]

What's the appeal of having a slimy lump of snot go down your throat?
In Gods name WHY?

I get the picking, the flicking (disgusting) but to EAT it?
I need an answer. It's puzzled me my whole life and I need an answer.

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