What are your 'hygiene horrors' - slightly irrational things that just send you insane?

[Legacy]

I have realised today that two of mine are:

• putting 'outside things' on the kitchen table e.g. DH comes in with the picnic bag we've had sitting on a field (of cow dung, for all I know) today and plonks it straight on the kitchen table - drives me mad! I always put it on the floor or a chair.

Similarly, having suitcases on the bed. I just think of all the places those suitcases have been, all the dust, dirt etc and I don't want to think of it going on my nice clean bedspread. (This could be related to an incident with an early boyfriend of mine, when he put my suitcase down on the pavement in a pile of dog poo? )

• newspapers on the sofa. If you looks at how much newsprint comes off on your fingers and then imagine it rubbing off on the sofa, and then your clothes....

My DH just things I'm loopy, but these things REALLY annoy me!

Anyone equally mad?

ooooh yes-handbags on any floor-let alone loof floors.

Library boks or magazines in any waiting room where evryone has liked thier fingers to turn a page.

SUpermarket trolleys-irrational Ikow but I always take ababy wipe to them.....[weirdo emoticon]

Sorr- Loo floors....

Dirty/soggy tea towels.

Not rinsing off the suds when washing up.

Admitting obsessive behaviour again now-always use wipes on dd's hands after trip to the playground.....

yes, whooosh, why do people have to lick their fingers to turn a page???? I just don't get it....filthy habit!

Slight diversion off topic, but do your childrens' schools forbid the use of loo roll tubes for arts and crafts / junk modelling because of hygiene concerns - ours do?

Bleurgh - yes - what is with the whole licking finger thing?? My FIL does it and I feel like vomiting: he licks his finger and then presses it on crumbs on the table to pick them up before putting them in his mouth, AND (double yuk) before running it under the lip of the gravy, cream or milk jug.... AAARGH!

Oh gawd...

I don't think I have any

Peanuts in bowls in bars...

Man goes to loo, goes for a wee, holds his willy, doesn't wash hands, comes into bar, hand into peanuts

I'm awful.

I hate shoes in the house too. I do have very good reason to, though, as we live in Berlin, which is the German, if not European Capital of Dog Crap. If there isn't any on any given stretch of pavement at the moment, there's bound to have been some before the last rain/extremely perfunctory street sweep.

I need an absolutely clean bed. We don't change sheets all that often, admittedly, which makes this rather irrational, but I hate going to bed without having had a shower. (Hence I have my daily shower in the evening).

I hate it when dh takes the rubbish out on his way out of the house, e.g. on his way to do shopping - I know he won't wash his hands on the way. (Again in my defence, we live in a flat and have big shared bins outside for the whole house - goodness knows who's been at them touching what). Also feel weird if I don't wash my hands after having been out.

I don't mind public loos per se, but absolutely agree about the bags-on-floor thing.

oh God - this is OCD heaven (or hell !)
Handwashing after the loo, with soap and water,preferably liquid anti-bacterial
agree with suitcases on the bed or any outside things on my bed, including cats...
footwear of chairs,sofas etc
don't really like to have bare feet
carpets in the bathroom or kitchen
other people's bath mats
I could go on, and prrobably will ! (and I'm miles better than I used to be!)

Dirty floors and bare feet.
Dirty feet and going to bed with dirty feet or hands or face (if no time for bath children get a hands, face, teeth and feet wash!)
Anything on clean worksurfaces.
Toothpaste smears, euch!
'Outdoor' hands
Putting the houmous pot on plate you are to eat from - yuck! that thing has been all round the supermarket.

Am okay with food dropping on floor and giving to children (not me!) and don't mind if they use dog hairbrush on their hai or kiss the guinea pigs and chickens on the butt, or if ds plays 'tongue twins' with said dog...

I do not use my toilet with bare feet and always put sandals on soon as I'm out of bath.

I also rinse all taps after use

yes,I couldn't and wouldn't hold with dirty outdoor feet in beds
neither will I sit on a public loo seat

When dh has been on the underground in his jeans and then gets into bed with ds to read him a story! And I go Bed! Clean! Arse! Tube!
And he goes Howard Hughes! and changes into tracky bottoms

dh used to hate sitting on the tube after someone had just lweft the seat because it was all warm and sometimes felt damp - so heartily agree with 'tube bum' syndrome

I worked with a girl who was really late for work once and she'd come in early rushed out without weeing, got stuck in a tunnel for ages, weed herself just sitting there!!! Then when everyone else got off she just stood up got out and got a cab home to change! That is such a horrible thought to have to wee yourself on a train!

Dog poo...definately brings out my wierd side!!

Mold, especially furry mold. It makes me scream in fright, and I can't just cut out (or spoon out) the mold and use the rest of the foodstuff in question, I just throw the whole thing into the bin, screaming.

Kerrymumbledore, that's funny about Irishmen. My Irish boyfriend washes his hands after the loo, but otherwise hardly ever washes/bathes. . .he says that washing too frequently isn't good for Irishmen! Strangely he never reeks or anything. . .it's odd--maybe he's right!

other people's towels....

...at my sis's house they all share towels and expect me to use the towels that are in the bathroom when I stay....eeeeugh. I don't even use the towel my DH and DS have used.

also not having a fresh tea towel every time I dry up. It gets used for a batch of washing up and then straight in the laundry, but DH hangs them to dry and uses them for days on end...

and kitchen cloths..nasty horrible smelly things.

and not rinsing the soap suds off glasses and mugs.

apart from that my house is knee high in clutter and is very dusty

-toddler's grubby hands, or actually anybodys grubby hands.

-people touching my food.

-flies

cobwebs

mouldy stuff

eugh eugh eugh!