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?

touching bins and then not washing hands is another thing that gets to me.

EWWWWWWWWWWW!

my house is a hygeine horror,
the only thing i really can't stand, is a full bin. I must empty it.
don't particularly lke dirty loos or basins either.
that is about all that ican think of.

I've found my natural home among kindred spirits!

My DH calls me Howard Hughes all the time too.

Can't come indoors without changing into "indoor shoes" and even indoor shoes don't go upstairs.

Don't sit on beds in outdoor clothes.

Shower or bath before bed.

Wash hands in the sink by back door after being with dogs and then go wash them in the downstairs loo.

Dogs bowls only wash in sink by back door and all dog blankets and floor mats washed in old washing machine next to "back door" sink.

Very dirty gardening, "doggy" or sports clothes washed in old machine before being allowed into family washing machine.

Tea towels only used once then put in washing hamper, hand towels changed daily.
Kitchen sink and dishcloth bleached overnight every night.

Put down lid of loo before flushing and loos cleaned twice a day.

Bags on floors and then on Kitchen table/work surface?!!! Faint!!!!

Also agree about public loos - dab hand at hovering with handbag swinging from neck!

Oh! I feel soooooo much better!

LOL fiddlemama, with that clean obsession, I'm surprised you let them wash their hands in the loo

out dam spot

Dirty dish cloths, I'm forever putting the dish cloth in the washing even although it's only been out a few hours.

DH wearing his shoes up to the bedroom and then even worse taking them off and leaving them at the side of the bed.

Kids putting pee'd on things in the washing basket.

The handles of my handbag has teeth marks. Won't fit around my neck

People opening the lid of my mirror polished ss bin with their hands when it has a peddal.

you lot are barking

Being too clean isn't good though helps with all the superbugs etc. My house isn't dirty but I don't worry about most things. Life's too short to spend it cleaning imo. Don't get me wrong I do clean but not excessively.

daisy: meant handbasin in downstairs loo

isnt the washign baskt where you put your clothes then?

Woof woof! lol at Katsma

to mrs spoon?

elasticband, yes it is but if someone puts pee'd on sheets or trousers in there and then someone else comes along and puts their clothes in etc and maybe about four days later I'll come across the pee'd on stuff which by then the smell would take the lining off the inside of your nose (and has usually gone crispy), it has also transferred onto other stuff by then too. I have a strict policy that I need to know about anything 'soiled' in any way and it should be put in front of the washing machine for immediate attention.

I'm the same about wet towels, they shouldn't go into the washing basket either.

Well... there are young children and babies who get interested in handling the saliva loaded toys of my dogs, or interested in washing their hands or face in their water... which I find in itself is a bit discuting, but what gets me are their mums who can not see the point of washing the hands of their little offspring after that.

The only sight of someone, any age, not belonging to my family, in my bedroom could make me hit the roof.

although the last one is not an higyenic point but a highly territorial one!

I like you MrsSpoon

Yes, yes, yes, teatowels wipe one set of dishes to Aga rail for an hour to dry then into wahing basket.

Hand towels downstairs over Aga rail overnight then, after morning ablutions collect all towels, upstairs and down, and first wash of the day!

And ..... can't abide anything I'm ironing trailing on the floor (even though utility room floor washed every day before ironing) so have some very convoluted methods of irong various garments.

Duvet covers and sheets always ironed folded - creases acceptable, anything on a bed that has been on a floor definitely not!

This is so cathartic!

I figured you meant the basin fiddlemama!

this thread is great...making me feel guilty about all my domestic sluttery and charged into sorting out my house.

Big yuck factor here, but I was staying at my sisters who has a very exuberant 13 month old golden retriever. He very kindly "helped" me change my 9 week old DD by acting as a living breathing baby wipe! The look on her face....it was . I had to give her a bath straightaway!

big slobbery dogs is another bug-bear of mine.

I can't put anything away unless it's ironed, but I have no time to iron at the mo, so have piles of ironing all over the spare room instead!

Ooh...and those people who kiss their dogs, or let the dog lick their face and mouth...

ewww!!