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Disgusting Confessions

337 replies

MochynBudr · 11/09/2019 08:46

AIBU to dare you to confess your disgusting habits? Just a bit of light hearted fun Grin

OP posts:
IAmALazyArse · 12/09/2019 21:25

Everyone knows keyboards are filthier than toilets...

Morado · 12/09/2019 21:27

I don't know why people are being so fussy about not washing hands after having a wee. Urine is sterile! In fact I've just double checked this and read that there is more bacteria in tap water.

I do actually wash my hands after wee but usually just with water and not soap too.

elfycat · 12/09/2019 21:28

I dribble when I sleep, and I love the pungent scent of it and will have a lie in to sniff my drool.

Pick nose, pick ears, pick heels, chew inside of cheeks. The nose one I do in the shower each morning, the others are unconscious habits that get worse with stress.

Recently sniffing my own armpits, but that's because of the perimenopause making me reek, while at the same time increasing my sense of smell awesome combo . I need to know when it would be a good time to babywipe and re-deodorant each day. It was about 2pm today.

Zenith123 · 12/09/2019 21:37

Arghh. I pick my nose, scalp, ears....and eat the results. I pick my naval...... but don't eat. I pluck nose hairs......But I do wash my hands after loo..... everywhere. So am not so gross....

MrsRufusdog789 · 12/09/2019 21:38

I still bite my toenails

LakieLady · 12/09/2019 21:38

I remember when Mariah Carey got caught on camera doing the finger-down-cleavage-and-sniff and I couldn't believe that I wasn't the only weirdo!

Well, I've just done it and was most disappointed to find it smells of nothing at all!

Zenith123 · 12/09/2019 21:42

ooh....and sometimes I wear the same knickers two days.... they're sort of clean.
I go through 'dirty clothes' laundry looking for something to wear.
Omg. This is not good.....

Glow1 · 12/09/2019 21:44

Smile are you guys for real!!Shock

MittsMajuna · 12/09/2019 21:50
Celestine70 · 12/09/2019 21:54
Grin
Neveruseagain · 12/09/2019 22:00

I like to smell my toenails after I've cut them

Tiredtessy · 12/09/2019 22:10

Not washing your hands I get but touching the chain-flush when 100 poo hands have touched it? Grossssssss

Belle89 · 12/09/2019 22:11

Fascinated after giving birth I had to inspect the placenta before it was taken away, cord and sack attached. Our bodies are amazing, the midwife at the time was Hmm apparently most people want it discretely taken away, not poked at Blush

Tammyxxx · 12/09/2019 22:19

I pick n flick I squeeze n sniff I do virtually everything mentioned - I thought I was a lone minger - I’m never ever sick!!!

floffel · 12/09/2019 22:37

Leaving this here for fellow blackhead extractors .....

HoomanMoomin · 12/09/2019 22:46

I don’t always wash my hands after the toilet, but usually end up washing them in the kitchen within the next 20-30 minutes. But it’s only at home. Anywhere else I wash hands religiously. I also always wash hands before cooking or baking. Always. So no need to be afraid of my cakes.

I pick my nose and obviously fart.

I squeeze spots on myself, DH and DS (14).
I don’t floss my teeth normally, as I don’t need to. So I never buy dental floss. Anyway, sometimes after eating a pear or corn on the cob I can’t get everything out with a toothpick and use my hair. Without pulling it out. Grin
I also use my stud earrings to pick my teeth and after that put them back into my ears.

I never ever do all these things in public. Wink

Beaverdam · 12/09/2019 22:50

Im a nose picker and will not apologise. Proud nose picker. I dont understand when people say they do not pick. Surely it would feel crusty up there if you dont pick it.

Cryingwithlaughter91 · 12/09/2019 22:51

@ohbuggerlugs you have absolutely made my day 🤣 I also do most of those things !

I love snorting all the catarrh that builds up when I can have a cold, and spitting it into the sink to marvel at how much is there.

goodwinter · 12/09/2019 22:57

Oh my god. I am so happy I'm not the only scab eater/toenail biter. I also had bad eczema/dandruff as a kid and it was so satisfying to scratch and see how much skin came off - it was compulsive behaviour.

Although - and I realise I'm a hypocrite for being grossed out by anything in this thread - but did a PP say they ate/licked their own pus?!

EggysMom · 12/09/2019 23:16

Those of you who pee in the shower ... does it not occur to you to go to the toilet before getting in the shower? It's routine for me - having a bath or shower? go for a pee in the toilet beforehand.

EdWinchester · 12/09/2019 23:18

I don’t pee in the shower, but can’t see a problem with it.

It all ends up in the same drain.

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 12/09/2019 23:23

I pull my hair out Blush its really bad i need to stop doing it.

I love weeing outside when camping or on a long walk. I love weeing in the sea. Love weeing in the shower.

Obsessive handwasher most of the time but i dont wash hands if i wake in the night for a wee.

If ive been caught short for a number 2 ive gone in some odd places. I was on a Welsh island with my ex boyfriend pretty much miles from anywhere and i was so desperate. So i pood in a cave by the sea. There wasnt a soul around for miles tbf.

Argh speaking of the ex. He used to bite his nails & spit them in any direction with the most annoying bffbfffbff sound. God it made me want to stab him.

Nottheduchess · 12/09/2019 23:26

Loving this thread OP, I finally feel like I belong!

82YorkshireLass · 12/09/2019 23:56

I chew the inside of my cheeks until they're ragged. I can't stop and most the time don't realise I'm doing it. I've seen people looking at me funny in public 😳😂

TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt · 13/09/2019 00:09

@MoominKitty please don't do that with the cats licking spoon and ice cream, their mouths are so heavily laden with bacteria and you are genuinely putting your self at risk of serious infection (cat bites always need treating with antibiotics for this reason) I assume you'll say you've come to no harm so far, but it really isn't worth the risk.

As for the main thread. I always wash my hands, appalled that so many don't - think about everything you touch in a bathroom and if the person before hasn't washed their hands but has had a poo.... Eurgh. No thanks.

I do pick my nose. Quite obsessively. I think it's a symptom of my anxiety conditon. I also obsessively pick scabs.

I am quite obsessive about hand washing though, I don't trust handgel to do the job properly and will wash my hands and then apply hand gel.

I don't touch public door handles (especially not in public loos) or ATM or elevator buttons, I have a clean tissue to hand as a barrier or pull my sleeve down.

Obviously I do touch stuff in public, it's just those specific things give me the heebie jeebies.

I've also been known to pee in a large kitchen receptacle, when I've been too lazy or too busy to go upstairs for a wee. It gets boiled and spritzed with disinfectant afterwards.

I'm minging, I know I've got a cheek to comment on others disgusting habits.