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To not want to wash my dishes using

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OddHoleySocks · 09/06/2019 21:10

Someone else's socks?

A Facebook friend that I know through an online craft group has started making 'scrubbers' for washing dishes using her odd socks. She is selling them for charity - and wants people to donate their odd and holey socks so she can make more...

Envy (not envy)

AIBU to be a bit grossed out by this? I know they will be clean.

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OddHoleySocks · 10/06/2019 08:12

We’re honestly doomed

Because people don't want to use a strangers socks to wash dishes with?

Who knew the solution was that simple!

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OddHoleySocks · 10/06/2019 08:15

I don’t think people did use a lines with terries when I was a kid. Don’t remember my mum using one with my little sister

People certainly did. Your mum might not have, but mine did.

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UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 10/06/2019 08:16

Back in the 80s, we used old knickers as dusters. There was no such thing as a bought duster. It wouldn't bother me to do that now, or to use socks, but they'd be our own, not someone else's!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 10/06/2019 09:22

Knickers were bigger back then, I suspect! I don’t think I could clean much with my high leg bikini cut ones - despite the vastness of my arse! Grin

Happyspud · 10/06/2019 10:12

No @OddHoleySocks, because people are so precious about everything these days. The socks is just one example of hysterical overreactions to ‘hygiene’ issues. It’s a simple repurpose of cloth. Peoples hands probably have poo and penis juice on them and they touch everything you touch out and about but no, the thought of a washed socks past life is too much for people🙄

OddHoleySocks · 10/06/2019 11:06

Oh please. It's hardly a 'hysterical overreaction' to say I don't like the idea of washing my dishes with a sock that has been worn by people I don't know.

It does seem to be a bit of an overreaction to suggest we are doomed because I'm not going to, however!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 10/06/2019 11:27

“We’re doomed, laddie - dooooomed!”

Antigon · 10/06/2019 11:36

I'd rather give my old socks to the council for recycling, they're quite happy to take them.

Celebelly · 10/06/2019 11:44

It's a bit weird but I wouldn't really care about the hygiene aspects. Dish clothes are little germ cities in general.

Itsnotmesothere · 10/06/2019 12:05

It's kind of weird but very environmentally friendly. I have a few rules in my house about cleaning but the hang-ups about hygiene some people have are ridiculous. I had a colleague who threw out a plastic jug because it had been used for a piss sample. Just wash and sterilize it. So wasteful. I blame cleaning companies making people think things need to be completely germ and bacteria free. Antibac products are dreadful.

Whoopstheregomyinsides · 10/06/2019 14:57

Would they actually scrub?? My socks are all very soft. Missing point I guess

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