Gross things you do that you know is gross but continue to do

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Occasionally my scalp can be a bit scabby. I love nothing more than picking them out... And eating them. There's something so satisfying about that crunch between the teeth.

Don't come at me about how disgusting it is. I know. Hence the title 😄

AIBU to ask you to share away your also gross but cannot help habits? Let's rejoice in anonymous grossness!

I've ordered a Footner. I am ridiculously excited!!!🤣

@Puffalicious

Here you are! I couldn't seem to link it from Amazon, but screenshotted instead. Obviously Boots etc have them too.

The Hoof GP

I hate the sensation of hard/ dry snot in my nose, or built up earwax in my ears. If nothing else works I will pick both. Also a bit of a compulsive nail biter.

We have cattle 😂

Lots of us clean our mooncups this way. Thanks to you, we now know to never tell anyone! ;)

I bite my nails and then use the nail to clean inbetween my teeth. Well not clean I suppose but that's where it goes anyway. It sometimes makes my gums bleed but I will keep doing it.

Peeling off athletes foot loose skin between toes

How do you rinse a mooncup in a flush? In the cistern or hold it under the incoming water in the bowl?

I use one of those small hair grips to scoop ear wax out. The end acts like a little hook

i'm absolutely howling at this

Likewise, and cup and smell my own farts, nibble my toenails and LOVE the foot exfoliation socks - just ordered some footners to see if they’re better than the usual Amazon 7£ jobs.

Haha love this thread

Especially since elsewhere on mumsnet anything and everything is ‘grim’

Yes to this, I don't understand how some people just blow their noses and that's it! All you're doing is blowing snot and bogeys into your nostrils which feels horrible

Likewise above meant - I bite my nails and then use the nail to clean inbetween my teeth.

Ive done that in a public toilet!! It was a busy airport one and there was no way I was walking out and washing my cup in the sink, so I just did it in the flush.
I them used the flush to rinse my hands enough so it didnt look like a murder scene when I left my cubicle.

I then washes my hands properly at the sink!

Squeezing my spots in the car on the way home from work 😂

I'm actually guffawing at this. Can't stop laughing, I'm snorting. Tears in my eyes. Literally.

The latter is what I did. The water is clean and plentiful. Might have had to flush more than once, though.

I have mild psoriasis on my head and love to pick it - I don't eat it though
I also have some chin hairs (thanks PCOS) and can sit for hours absent mindedly trying to pluck them out with my fingernails, sometimes it causes my skins to break and scab, so then I pick that instead!
I also "pick" my toenails off with my hands instead of cutting them which DH can't stand 😂

Probably the first thing I do of a morning! Hate the feeling of crustyness in my nose. Something Im so throrough, I end up cutting the skin, and then it scabs, and I pick the scabs and its a viscious circle... LOL

I don't think I could use it after washing it with the flush, just in case.
I have used mine without rinsing it at all though, just a dab with some toilet roll and back in it goes

My kids recently had chicken pox and no one told me the sheer JOY of brushing their hair after the pox had all gone and dislodging the healed scabs. I bribed them with a DVD and then went at them with a lice comb to ensure I got every single one. Bliss.

Ditto! So satisfying.

But you realise that the water in the flush is clean, right? Comes from the same place as the water on the tap! it just sits in a cystern for a bit (not that long, when its a public toilet!).
So what exactly is the problem? Its more hygienic than using toilet paper!