Visibly dirty lanyards

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In no sense could I be described as a clean freak, so I surprise myself with this but I have so many questions in my head when I see people who are generally clean and tidy people with their work lanyards so clearly unwashed even occasionally.

Does it just not occur to people to clean them? It only takes seconds to unclip a pass and/or fob and put it in the wash with your clothes.

Is it odd to want to keep something that spends so long dangling around your neck (that if you work somewhere with access control doors you need to touch multiple ties a day) clean?

Am I unreasonable to think that lanyards should be washed regularly?

I need to stop using Mumsnet - there’s always something new that needs cleaning (that I can’t be arsed to).

I’m the same I hang it on the hook with the car keys. You have made me think though that mine hadn’t been washed since I started nearly a year sgo 🤢

Mine got so regularly sucked by children during COVID that I stopped wearing it. I couldn't wash it between visits so I ensured nobody had access to It. It attached to my bag so it's with me but my bag is usually chucked in the corner of a classroom floor so it is completely unhygienic.

I never wear mine around my neck. No need to wash it.

Ours are navy. To be fair though, I hate wearing it 'properly' around my neck, as if I lean forward to help a child it will swing down in the way, and if I help from over their shoulder it is liable to swing forward and hit them on the back of their head!
So I attach mine to my trouser loop and put it in my pocket.

Christ! Something else that MN thinks is a necessity that I have never thought about! Piling more guilt and more jobs onto women 🙄
In 15 years I've never washed my lanyard.

They are not designed to be washed sadly! Tired and ruined some. Some places of work make you buy them and they only are available at the start of employment or change of position / job

I'm a teacher and have been wearing the same lanyard for almost ten years and never washed it😳I saw a FB post yesterday saying 'don't forget to wash your lanyard'. I whipped it out of my bag, soaked it in oxy wash for an hour, and oh my word... the water was brown/ black! So now I've ordered a nice new hard back for my ID as well and will be lining up in September to get a brand new badge/ photo to go in it. My ten year old photo doesn't resemble me now, so all in all, washing my lanyard has spurred on a 'new and improved' version. At least the children won't ask me 'Who's that?' when looking at my ID 😩

I noticed mine was visibly dirty along the back and realised i really need to scrub my neck more! Or maybe at all....

Doesn't have to be on women. You could get a man to wash it (and fo the rest of the laundry.)

I’ve never washed a lanyard in 30 years of working. (Obviously I’ve not had the same one all the time, but even so). I’ve also never been aware of anybody else washing theirs.

Ours are white and I’m amazed at the grubbiness of some I see. But some people don’t wash their lunch bags etc so it shouldn’t be so surprising!

Well, given that ‘lanyardocracy’ is now a (pejorative) term, we’ll be back to name badges in no time !

Mine goes straight into my laptop case walking to the car so I dont forget it lol 😅
Along with my bra the moment I get in the car!

So no have never washed it, hasn't crossed my mind so note made.

However I tend to wear it under a shirt collar, a clean one every day, not around my bare neck and it doesn't look dirty at all? Xx

You're right, lanyards should be washed, and ID badges and phones should be regularly cleaned.

The other thing that otherwise perfectly normal hygienic people regularly overlook is bathroom lightpulls. I see a great many bathrooms in my job, and in some of the very shiniest and best stocked there it is, a horrid mucky grey bit of string that hundreds of sweaty unwashed (on the way in, I mean, hope and pray) hands have swiped down. Not so easy to wash effectively, perhaps, but very easy to replace.

Op I am with you! I work in schools and chuck mine in the wash every school hols as it’s turquoise and looks grubby after a while. Can’t bear it when I see colleagues wearing grubby ones. Grim.

If my lanyard were a generic one eg STAFF I’d google them and buy half a dozen. Then when each gets dirty I’d throw it and get a new one.

🤣🤣

I've never washed my lanyard, although when it starts looking grubby I ask security for a new one.

Shit things. Lanyards are another unnecessary pain in the arse.

i replaced our bathroom light pulls, in covid,

I know a woman who works in a school kitchen and her lanyard is grubby with old hair grips slid onto it, and the white background has ground in muck, awful.

How would you lose it? Do you lose a bra or blouse or dress that you wash and hang up? Why would a lanyard be any different?

😅😂🤣

Posts like this are the reason I am so cross that MNHQ took away the 'laugh' reaction.