To think it's disgusting to not wash your feet/legs?

[mumofwantwomany]

I keep seeing posts on twitter about the amount of people who apparently don't wash their legs or feet in the shower (there was a picture that's been circulating of all the parts of your body colour coded into what should be scrubbed thouroughly, what should be less intensely washed etc). AIBU to think not washing your legs and feet in the shower is just really unpleasant? It takes ten seconds maximum, why would anyone deliberately not do it?

Never ever wash my feet (unless they're actually mucky from walking around barefoot or something. They just get sloshed around in the shower. Never have smelly feet or shoes, never had any kind of infection.

Can't get worked up about what anybody else does tbh.

Unless you sit in a bath and keep everything below the knees out of the bath it's fine😁
Never had a "fungal infection and stuff".
Though I am in a shower for 10 min... When I wash my hair 15+.Plenty of time for whatever invieible dirt is there to wash off.

I don’t wash my legs. Call me disgusting if you want. I don’t hear any complaints from DH

I don't consider a bath to be sitting in my own filth, because I'm not filthy.
Humans are living creatures, so they gather bacteria, shed skin, and do all manner of things.
I don't consider any of that particularly filthy.

I don’t wash my feet or legs unless they’re obviously dirty. I’ve never had a fungal infection or any sort of foot problem either.

How do your knees get sweaty?!

Have you ever thought before now that a large percentage of the population have disgustingly filthy legs? Are you you correctly able to distinguish between leg-washers and leg-non-washers? Have you ever caught an illness from an unwashed leg?

If not, then it's not really an issue, and certainly not disgusting.

Can’t wash my feet as have neuropathy following chemo and can’t put any pressure on but shower gel and water flowing on them seem to do the trick.

I don't think I'd go so far as to say it's disgusting but I don't understand it myself - do none of these people ver get sweaty behind the knees??

I do wash my legs, but no, I’ve never had this issue that I can recall.

Also, who are you following on twitter? Foot fetishists? Maybe get a life?

My feet aren't disgusting because I was them every day in the shower.

I expect the horrific smells on public transport (which I have rarely come across) is the whiff of unwashed legs.

The banks of my knees get really sweaty if it’s warm. They are the first part of my to start sweating (the legs of my trousers are sometimes damp), kinda like some people will be back, underarms or hands. I do wash there in particular but the rest of my legs get the water and soap running off my upper half.

BarbarianMum I'm not following foot fetishists, it's just ordinary people discussing it on my timeline. 'maybe get a life' was rude and uncalled for.

Didn't we do this topic a week or two ago?

I wash my feet and legs daily but really it’s a cursory swoosh with my hands or the floofy poofer thingy and some shower gel. Nothing extravagantly energetic unless I’m physically dirty from being out in the garden without shoes (rare) or been running wearing shorts in the mud.

OP if what you have on your timeline is people discussing their lower limb washing habits and you're not actually getting off on it then "get a life" is a serious suggestion. Or a hobby, if you prefer.

Midsomer. Well I hadn't seen it, If I had I wouldn't have started this thread.

I am now imagining OP going around all grossed out with this face on and wondering if randoms on street are washing their legs and feet 😂
Sorrounded by filthy legs you are😂

Well, I'm a conundrum then - I don't wash my legs or feet in the shower, but I do if I have a bath/wallow in my own filth.

Never had a fungal infection...

I’m amazed at how many on MN like to share their washing habits. Or want to know if theirs are ‘normal’.

So what's on your timeline then? Do you not have people discussing the mundane and ordinary aspects of their lives as well? It doesn't mean I engage with it (though so what if I did), it just comes up.

I heard this topic on the radio a few weeks ago too. I wash my legs but not my feet unless they’re particularly dirty from wearing flip flops or out barefoot for example. My shower is in my bath so they’re sloshing about anyway.

TheAverageJuror

'maybe get a life' was rude and uncalled for.

OP, given you’ve described people’s washing habits as ‘disgusting’, ‘really unpleasant’ and ‘bathing in their own filth’ you might want to consider whether you’ve got a leg to stand on here....