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to cringe when I see handbags on kitchen works tops?

161 replies

wonderingwondering · 09/11/2009 20:09

Is my pet hate. Handbags get put on the floor all the time - on trains, buses, shops, pubs, in the loo. Then people put them on their kitchen work top, or on the kitchen or dining room table when they come in. Do other people avoid doing that? Or just me?

OP posts:
Bonsoir · 09/11/2009 20:11

I never put my handbag on the floor!

FlamingoBingo · 09/11/2009 20:12

I never put my handbag on the floor - yuck! Especially not in loos!

Doodlez · 09/11/2009 20:12

Yes but it's Ok because I've installed a walk-through sterilization unit around our front door.

oldraver · 09/11/2009 20:13

No my handbag never gets put on the floor, so the worktop doesnt bother me

kikid · 09/11/2009 20:14

Why would you put your bag on the floor?
especially the toilet foor? never ever!

InterruptingKid · 09/11/2009 20:14

i know ofa woman who would BLEACH her worksurface after unpacking her supermarket shopping

and she smoked

arf

FlamingoBingo · 09/11/2009 20:14

Do you know what I do sometimes? Sometimes, if I sit on the floor, I end up touching it by mistake with my hands, and then....I touch surfaces and my mouth etc. with my hands! I'm surprised I'm not dead by now!

IdrisTheDragon · 09/11/2009 20:15

My handbag is on the kitchen worktop as I type .

Maybe I just have a cast-iron constitution or something.

whooshspicemonster · 09/11/2009 20:15

OMG - I would never put my handbag on the floor in any of those places - the only time it's on the floor is in my house or under my desk at work.

Ewe · 09/11/2009 20:15

I never put my bag on the floor either and I often wipe it with an anti-bac wipe so no, it doesn't bother me or make me cringe.

PoptyPing · 09/11/2009 20:15

Can't afford one of Doodle's units so I cheerfully embrace filth instead

Srsly this seems like a weird thing to worry about. Bacteria/germs/dirt is absolutely everywhere, including on your kitchen worktops.

wonderingwondering · 09/11/2009 20:16

Really? Never on the floor? I don't in loos - always on the peg. But I do put it on the floor under my desk etc, and in the oub (where else does it go? surely not holding on to it all evening?), so I don't want it on my lap on the train, so on the floor it goes (second pet hate is bags on seats on rush-hour trains).

Doodlez, I like the sound of your sterilization feature.

OP posts:
bigchris · 09/11/2009 20:16

what do you do with it in loos then?!! lol have it on your knee?

IdrisTheDragon · 09/11/2009 20:16

I am really very rarely ill (this is probably a bad thing to say of course as I will now be struck down by 1001 lurgies)

bigchris · 09/11/2009 20:16

ah yes, the peg, if there is one....

RustyBear · 09/11/2009 20:17

I put bags on kitchen worktops - but then I don't put food straight on them, it's always on a plate or chopping board.

IdrisTheDragon · 09/11/2009 20:17

I put my handbag down wherever it is - I don't think about it at all.

Ewe · 09/11/2009 20:18

In pubs or bars I tend to hang them on bag hooks if they have them or they go on the seat next to me/hang on chair. On train it goes on my lap, train floors are vile!

TheFallenMadonna · 09/11/2009 20:19

I can honestly say that this has never bothered me in the slightest.

fishie · 09/11/2009 20:19

i'd never put my bag either on a floor or a table. chair is best.

Ewe · 09/11/2009 20:19

My main motivation is not crapping up my bag as opposed to germ avoidance though (apart from on trains, yuk).

TidyBush · 09/11/2009 20:20

bigchris have you never done the handbag around your neck and hovering over the loo whilst hoping desperately that you don't go into sprinker thing?

brimfull · 09/11/2009 20:20

well I wipe my hangbag all over my bumhole
then I lick it
then I serve dinner on it

so there

PoptyPing · 09/11/2009 20:21

ggirl

This thread might start to make more sense if we declare handbag interests

Me: £22 faux leather from Next

BonjourIvresse · 09/11/2009 20:22

its good to have a few germs and bugs around, sterile environments aren't good for anyone's immune system

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