Hygiene AIBU?

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Cleaning up the kitchen tonight and dropped a tiny spot of banana on the floor. Had the dish sponge in my hand so bent and wiped it up. Sponge went straight into the sink with very hot water and washing up liquid. DH is appalled by my hygiene practices!! I don’t make a habit of wiping the floor unless with a mop but I steam cleaned the floor this morning so... AIBU?

God it wouldn’t even occur to me to worry about that. Some people don’t have enough going on in their lives if they’re worried about the washing up sponge touching the floor.

Maelstrop "Why not use kitchen roll? I wouldn't dream of using the washing up sponge, you've walked round there with outdoor shoes on,presumably?

I love the way you're outraged about not using kitchen roll but then clearly walk around the kitchen in outdoor shoes
We take shoes off at the door. Not a cultural thing either. All shoes in our house only make it about 1 metre into the house. I can count the number of times I've walked up the stairs in shoes on one hand (had to run up to get something when leaving the house and clock ticking).

Don't think I've ever walked in the kitchen with shoes on!

@garethsouthgatesmrs

Don't most of us take our shoes off in our homes?

No. Not everyone does. Many people don't.

And even if you do, there can be all kinds of shit lurking on the floor. It's not a case of 'we are too clean sometimes' as a pp said.......
wiping the kitchen floor with a washing up sponge and then putting it back in the washing up bowl is just gross.

Jesus Christ, I hope no one on here comes to my house 😂

It’s clean and tidy but wow, wowwwww

I install a new sink every time I wash something to ensure maximum hygiene.

Oh and we’re a shoes on family! My shoes come off when I’m done for the day or relaxing, and that’s about it. We’re too active for that

My sponge would have got rinsed with hot water and washing up liquid and is cleaned before and after i do anything but that would have gone to my third oldest in washing rotation tea towel which would could also be used for a spot of dusting (non food preparation or service areas) or moping seeing as i get water everywhere.

Winterfell Do you walk around the house with outdoor shoes on?

Gotta love how the posters who think it's OK to wipe the floor with a washing up sponge, and then stick it back in the bowl, are accusing people who think it's a bit gross of being 'uptight' and weird. I mean, just how DARE other people think differently to you?!

This is why I HATE eating at other peoples homes..... they may be as gross as you slovenly slatterns ...

And you just KNOW that the posters who are happy to wipe something off the kitchen floor with a washing up sponge and then pop it into the washing up bowl, are the same ones who would waltz around the house in dirty shoes, and have a grubby floor. Such slatterns.

I don't use sponges, I use cotton cloths for wiping up and a brush for washing up. The cotton cloths get soaked in a dab of bleach and hot water in the washing up bowl every night.

So if I did happen to grab the cloth for wiping up food off the floor (unusual but on the rare occasion), it would go straight in the washing up bowl in bleach and hot water. I wouldn't just rinse it out under the tap. Also I wouldn't use the cloth/sponge I'd wash plates with, but then I use a brush for that.

I take my shoes off but have no hall the front door opens up to the front room.

I must be a slattern. But I'm 59, fit and healthy, rarely catch anything and ditto my DD 22 and DP 58 so I must be doing something right.

Hang on... I can wash my chopping boards in the sink, but I can't use the same sponge/cloth to wipe the surfaces? Is that a thing?

I have done that thing where you walk into a room and it's full of not-your-people.

I'm amazed I haven't poisoned my family, what with using a sponge and washing up liquid to clean in the kitchen.

This has to be the most batshit crazy thread I have read! I presume you rinsed the plate? If you didn't rinse the plate then I'm with everybody else.

Reading this thread, I feel as though I've slipped into another dimension! Some people clearly have too much time on their hands and not enough to worry about.

I m not a huge clean freak but why wash cloths when they are 10 for about 40p??? I bin my cloth and sponge at the end of every day! but yes OP I d have done this, my floors are clean!

A kitchen sink should in my view be kept bleached and clean along with whatever cloth and sponge you use. Nothing except dishes should go in there.

Oh well another readon i am giing to hell then😀

I use a basin in my sink.
I wouldnt bat an eyelid at a quick.pick up off the floor and into hot soapy water.
And i dint do a separate wash just for dish cloths either what a bloody waste of water and energy.
imagine all those germs on towels, and outdoor clothes what could you possibly put dish cloths in the machine with? Nothing!!

Girlicorne um, landfill? Waste?

Wtf?
People bin cloths cos they were used to wash a few dishes?
No wonder we are drowning in waste!

I'd have used the sponge, whatever was closest to hand really.
I have pets, wear shoes indoors, have been known to pick food up off the kitchen floor and eat it. I keep myself and my home clean. It's my dirt, I'm fine. Don't give much thought to what's on the soles of my shoes unless it's dog shit or chewing gum, then I'll clean it off.

This thread is crazy. I'm rarely ill. No one who visits us gets ill.

I am feeling sick at the thought of dish cloths and tea towels going in the washing machine alongside knickers etc.

I've vomited in my sink many times over the last 8 years. Sinks aren't just for dishes :-)
My bathroom is downstairs but to the poster who doesn't wash her hands in the kitchen sink, do you go upstairs to wash your hands before, during and after cooking?

I think it's gross. I would never do that.

Daily binning of dish cloths??!!!!
I don't own dish cloths, we just use sponges. They last about a week. Then, as we are so disgusting we use the old sponge to clean the toilet. Maybe we don't generate enough mess or dirt to warrant all this crazily excessive cleaning. Or maybe we are truly vile.