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What disgusting thing do you do?

655 replies

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 25/03/2025 16:20

I blow my nose on the washing before it goes in the machine... rather than find a tissue!

OP posts:
mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 19:06

Feelinglikeacrapmam · 25/03/2025 18:47

I used to do this and I'd forgotten about it, haven't done it in years! Off to go enjoy it again....lol

😄😄 yes, live your best life, why not

Differentstarts · 25/03/2025 19:06

NDornotND · 25/03/2025 19:05

I have occasionally dried the rim of mugs that have been draining on the draining board, so mostly dry other than a bit of damp around the rim, on my boobs (covered in bra and t-shirt) - they're just the right shape and you can do two mugs at a time before putting them back in the cupboard...Anyone fancy a brew? ☕😁

🤣🤣 I do this

NoMoreMrsNiceBucket · 25/03/2025 19:07

ThatsNotMyTeen · 25/03/2025 18:17

Sometimes I dust the bedside table, bathroom shelves etc with clothes im about to put in the wash. Socks, leggings etc

I do that on a regular basis! It’s going in the wash anyway, I’ve already got it in my hand, it’s just efficiency in my book. 😄 (not knickers btw)

Chronic fatigue has a way of bringing a whole new perspective to all manner of household chores, to be fair...

Purplebunnie · 25/03/2025 19:08

PointsSouth · 25/03/2025 17:54

There are just as many germs on the taps and the door handle. So when you come out of the stall, you turn on the tap, which leaves some germs and picks up some too. You wash the germs off your hands, then turn off the tap, getting more germs on your hands. Then you open the door, getting more germs on the handle, and picking some up as well. Then you go to the kitchen and turn on the tap to fill the kettle.

We're surrounded by germs. Good hygiene can reduce risk, but it can't stop you coming in contact with germs. And in shared loos, there's nothing you can do to avoid them, short of a hazmat suit.

Edited

You take a fresh paper towel after you've dried and washed your hands, open door with said paper towel, prop door open with foot and put paper towel in bin without touching bin lid (it was a swing lid). This was in the office loos not quite so easy when you are in the loos at the service station on the motorway. There you open the door with toilet paper and drop into the toilet. Outside you just have to do your best and antibac gel when you get back to the car

Topsyturvy78 · 25/03/2025 19:08

CowboyJoanna · 25/03/2025 16:31

If it was disgusting in my eyes, I wouldn't do it.

But people at the place I used to work at before having the kids gave me grief for not washing my hands after a wazz (i wash them after a poo obviously)

That's grose my daughter has ASD and OCD. She has a routine after washing her hands she lifts the lid on the toilet and insists on flushing it again. I make her wash her hands again. I've had family asking why I'm telling her to wash her hands again. Especially if we're about to have something to eat.

DaleyDerDrache · 25/03/2025 19:09

Hwi · 25/03/2025 19:03

May I please answer on behalf of several posters who made me literally gag when I was reading a thread yesterday - adults taking baths together with their babies and young children and normalising it! So basically, despite much research into what bathwater contains (faecal matter present between buttocks, urine, sweat, viruses, fungi) they happily do it. Gross (and vulgar too).

The answer is that you need to relax a little. Germs aren't all bad for you. Have you never been swimming?

ChocolatesAndRainbows · 25/03/2025 19:09

CowboyJoanna · 25/03/2025 16:31

If it was disgusting in my eyes, I wouldn't do it.

But people at the place I used to work at before having the kids gave me grief for not washing my hands after a wazz (i wash them after a poo obviously)

Omg that's disgusting..but I'd expect no less from someone who calls a wee a wazz...

babasaclover · 25/03/2025 19:09

PoopingAllTheWay · 25/03/2025 16:50

Well what a silly thing to say 😂

Would you eat off the floor ? No

Daft!

Going to the toilet and not washing your hands is disgusting!!!

It’s definitely how things like the common cold spread and Covid etc. rancid

ShinyPebble32 · 25/03/2025 19:10

So many things! One of the worst is a ‘jug piss’ - I sometimes wee in the Pyrex jug to see how much in ml I’ve produced, and check the colour, clarity etc.
I once (god knows why) confessed this to my DH, and instead of being horrified and leaving me instantly he turned it into some kind of competition and saved up his wee for 18 hours or so to produce a 2 pint badboy, smashing any PB I’ve held before or since. I have a picture of him posing with it proudly somewhere 🤣

UndermyShoeJoe · 25/03/2025 19:11

ShinyPebble32 · 25/03/2025 19:10

So many things! One of the worst is a ‘jug piss’ - I sometimes wee in the Pyrex jug to see how much in ml I’ve produced, and check the colour, clarity etc.
I once (god knows why) confessed this to my DH, and instead of being horrified and leaving me instantly he turned it into some kind of competition and saved up his wee for 18 hours or so to produce a 2 pint badboy, smashing any PB I’ve held before or since. I have a picture of him posing with it proudly somewhere 🤣

Edited

That’s love 🥰

SheWaits · 25/03/2025 19:11

NDornotND · 25/03/2025 19:05

I have occasionally dried the rim of mugs that have been draining on the draining board, so mostly dry other than a bit of damp around the rim, on my boobs (covered in bra and t-shirt) - they're just the right shape and you can do two mugs at a time before putting them back in the cupboard...Anyone fancy a brew? ☕😁

For some reason this one made me snort, and my daughter came in to see what was wrong with me.

SheWaits · 25/03/2025 19:12

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 16:32

Not disgusting but weird

I sometimes climb the stairs on all 4s when dd isn't home 🤭

I used to do this when I was little. It was because we had a dog, I was copying him. I might just do it again for fun now you've reminded me.

UndermyShoeJoe · 25/03/2025 19:12

@NDornotND dh does that with his man boobies 🤣🤣

MummytoE · 25/03/2025 19:12

DaleyDerDrache · 25/03/2025 16:36

Bite my nails. Including toenails.

Wish I was this flexible

babasaclover · 25/03/2025 19:14

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 17:56

😭😭😄 if I'm descending, I sometimes jump down a step or walk on the sides of my feet - zero idea why

This sounds like fun but I don’t know why either. Gonna try it - not tonight though as I’m on the wine

OldChairMan · 25/03/2025 19:15

ItGhoul · 25/03/2025 19:00

Who’s ‘we’? I don’t give a damn if a man’s touched his cock before I shake hands with him. His dick’s almost certainly far more clean than anything else we all touch every day.

I guarantee you that there are more bacteria on every door handle, keyboard and phone screen you touch - and indeed on your own hands - than there are on the shaft of a man who showers daily.

Ah, the latest Pick Me…

I don’t give a damn if a man’s touched his cock before I shake hands…

😏

AChickenPooAndABiscuit · 25/03/2025 19:15

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 16:32

Not disgusting but weird

I sometimes climb the stairs on all 4s when dd isn't home 🤭

Haha I do this … terraced house, 200 years old, steep stairs… it’s easier! Grin

Feelinglikeacrapmam · 25/03/2025 19:16

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 19:06

😄😄 yes, live your best life, why not

I don't even know when I stopped? I'm in my 40s and definitely still did this in my 30s! I've just done it and it really made me giggle 😂 thank you for the reminder of this simple joy in life ❤️

Iloveanicegarden · 25/03/2025 19:16

Many years ago we rented a house from a family who positioned themselves above the rest of us. That illusion flew at high speed out of the window when we first got into their bed (our first night in there) and we amazed to see one of the couple had adorned the divan with a random collection of dried bogies. Adds whole new aspect to 'interior decoration!'

katepilar · 25/03/2025 19:16

Bananalanacake · 25/03/2025 18:17

Use the same towel for over a week before it gets a wash, I'm clean when I dry myself with it then I hang it up to dry.

I thought around a week is normal?

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 19:16

babasaclover · 25/03/2025 19:14

This sounds like fun but I don’t know why either. Gonna try it - not tonight though as I’m on the wine

😭😭 oh God defo don't try it on the wine

I dunno, it just makes the day slightly better 🤭🤭

MooncupMinger · 25/03/2025 19:16

When I was at uni, my room was two floors up from the bathroom, so I’d often wee in a pint glass. One night I’d got home pissed, woke up and had a pint glass piss then gone back to sleep. Woke up in the morning desperate for a wee and grabbed the pint next to my bed and had a couple of big gulps before realising something was wrong 🤢.

As per my name, I also rinse my Mooncup out in the sink, but thankfully AIBU told me that it was ok.

I do sometimes, however, pick my nose and wipe it on things which I don’t think people would approve of so much…

babasaclover · 25/03/2025 19:17

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 25/03/2025 18:08

I've just realised that she may be cleaning the tables in a cafe near where I live...🤢

cafe / restaurant staff always wipe down tables but never the salt and pepper pots and the handles of chairs or underneath of chairs where you pull them in when you sit down. I wish they would

UndermyShoeJoe · 25/03/2025 19:18

Remember never use unsealed cups in hotels. They use the same towel they clean the whole bathroom with to clean / dry the cups 🤢🤢

Naanbreadandcurry · 25/03/2025 19:19

kungfoofighting · 25/03/2025 18:17

Oh, I’ve done that. Hasn’t everyone!?

I used to do this for YEARS. I was too embarrassed to ask my mum for sanitary wear, I thought sanitary towels were like mattresses. I often wonder what my mum thought I used and where I got it from. I tried to buy some tampons once, aged around 14. It was embarrassing and I couldn't get to grips with them. I used the tissue paper from aged 13 to around 18. I'm 50 now and use tampons and happily buy them and speak to my DS about periods no problem. I used to literally climb the walls in period pain when I first started, but too embarrassed to ask mum for pain relief. I would throw away any stained underwear for fear of mum seeing it and the embarrassment. Mum was always asking where my underwear went. I think she knew. She was not strict or unkind I was just mortified with embarrassment

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