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 get this too with my prosthetic eye.
I often get caught doing it though!
Mine is worse for Gunk in the evening, I thought it was maybe becuase it's old and I need a new one but the last one they made me was dreadful.

Deep breath, here goes.
I pee in the shower and the bath
I pee in a large jug if someone’s in the bathroom as we only have one and I can’t wait that long after two sets of twins
I have also, once, peed in a saucepan when on holiday as I didn’t bring the jug with me
Ive got quite a lot of misdemeanours to do with peeing it seems.
oh and obviously I have NC 🤣🤣🤣

Yes I do this too, is it disgusting. I just think it’s sensible recycling.
Reduce reuse recycle

I love watching ingrown toenail removals on YT, especially the hard-core vandenboss(sp?) procedure.

Feeling inferior hear as I have never heard of tonsil stones.

Loads of stuff

love scab picking, I find it so hard to not pick at my DCs scabs
head scabs are fun when they let me.
blackheads and spots. Love blackhead nose strips and examining them under a magnifying glass afterwards.
I also examine ear wax & scabs.
Syringing mine and DCs ears where we can examine anything that comes out.
I use to love squeezing my exs blackheads, he worked a dirty sweaty trade and would have the best ones.
I deliberately let the dirt build up on my earrings so I can spend ages cleaning and poking crap out of them.
I once had an ear drum burst and a scab built up, when it fell off I loved gently pulling it out of my ear and examining it, it was like a mould of my ear.
occasionally I just poke my earrings into old piercings in my ears to push the gunk out. I also like smelling it, like my belly button when it gets crusty.
my favourite was when my bellybutton piercing closed up, for years I had fun pushing gunk out. I then re-pierced it and it got infected and closed again so I spent more time pushing gunk out. I remember one giant lump that was amazing.
I also had a birthmark removed, it looked liked a shrivelled mushroom that had 2roots shooting out of it, I was doped up at the time when they showed me, I wish I could have examined it better.
I love a good pee in the shower
Finally and probably the most disgusting is, I have gastro problems and also immune compromised so get a lot of sickness and diarrhoea, I’ve never passed out on the toilet but have next to it and almost while sat down. When things are really bad I just crawl in the shower or bath and chuck a towel on me to keep warm while it all comes out. I’ve even dozed off in between bouts. I luckily have a brilliant DH who keeps an eye on me and helps me wash afterwards.

Nothing that comes out of me ever goes back in though.

I pick the ingrown hairs on my legs. I developed such severe scars though (thankfully they’ve faded now) that I really had to cut back!

I pluck my chin hair and have a good look at the really thick ones!

I also scan my face for blackheads most evenings and have a squeeze!

During lockdown there were up to 8 of us in the house with only one bathroom and 5 were girls who spent an AGE in there….. Im male and I made many uses of old 2l milk bottle cartons whilst hiding in the utility room and once it was dark the garden had a lot of extra watering. Needs must……

Oh yes I’m a regular outdoorsy wee.er too.
Luckily we have lots of big hedges as I wouldn’t want my sons to see.
Its actually very refreshing and reminds me of holidays every year when I was younger when we didn’t have a bathroom at my grandparents.
Lets pride ourselves on probably doing those roses some good 👍

Pulling strands of hair out to use as dental floss

‘Funnily’ everyone else in the house would have undoubtedly tut tutted, but FIL has a large detached house in the SoF with land and the kids (boys!) are encouraged to wee on the molehills to deter them yet in the UK it’s completely frowned upon. Hey ho!

Interesting
I have 4 sons and a lot of rabbits everywhere
Think I know what I’ll have them up to tomorrow….🤣

Then I can have the bathroom to myself for once…win win

On a previous house we had land and a large lake with ornamental ducks, we had foxes and a few rats. It turns out that ferret droppings on a rat run will get rid of the rats and male pee and various places will put off the foxes….. not as much as a gun apparently but the foxes don’t like male pee…..

Most of these apart from the crisp thing but if I pick something out of my teeth I do eat it…?

I also love the stinky smell of my toddler’s morning breath it’s really grim but I cannot get enough.

when they had conjunctivitis and I wiped it off (cooked boiled water etc etc) I couldn’t resist playing with it on the cotton pad!!

it was so hard to resist when my dc had chicken pox scabs to!!!

Btw, rabbits are normally more welcome than other vermin!

Usual things:
Pick my nose
Floss with a floss harp whilst watching Netflix
Pick my ears with the handle of a teaspoon
Bite my nails
Dig out chin hairs with tweezers
Pick my feet/toenails

Since suffering a mild bout of depression & anxiety I also pull out my eyelashes but that's one habit I'm desperately trying to stop.

DD is appalled by me.

Oh you've just brought back lovely memories of my late Grandad cleaning his ears out using his front door key when he'd be stood chatting waiting to leave somewhere.

Can I ask those of you who pick at children's cradle cap/scabs/bogies (etc) something.
Would you be able to do this with a child that isn't biologically yours, or does the thought totally disgust you?
I'm just really curious to know!

I take my earrings out and use the sharp end to scrape dirt out from under my finger nails. Then put the earring back in.

I can’t really justify spending that on myself at the moment (although it is on my wish list), it’s just frustrating that there was a perfectly good one I could have used, or returned and bought him something different if he’d said something.

@JMSA I think you can get things for just the hard skin on the heel, might be salicylic acid? They are about the size of big plasters

Thank you so much - I'll look that up!

You wipe snot on your own clothes? I use my boyfriend's. 😂 If he's driving at the time he can't do anything about it. 🤣🤣

I used to do this with chocolate buttons…

Chew one to a mush, pop it on another, and then make a sandwhich of it by putting another on top. Was really really nice

I wipe my nose on my girlfriend.

She has psoriasis and gets little lumps under her boobs.. of a morning I often sit there squeezing the gunk out of them. I think it is marginally worse that she just lies there and lets me get on with it.

I have scars from rejected microdermals, constantly squeeze goo out of them.

I've got an old boil in my groin, mostly healed but still develops a lump now and again. I squeeze it and smell what comes out. It is gross but oddly fascinating.