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

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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?

My other hygiene horror is touching taps or door handles in public restrooms AFTER washing hands. Because half the people who use them don't wash their hands or just splash their hands with water.

I always carry extra paper towels or a cloth to use to handle these.

yes i wish i had a locker

Saw a show on the bacterial alcohol stuff the other day. It washes off all of the good bacteria that fight off the bad bacteria on your hands, so infact you are more at risk.

The inside handle of the toilet door before you wash your hands [shudder].

do you not have a locker nailpolish!? Oh the wonderful NHS.

Expat-I am exactly the same when it comes to public toilets.

belgo - i am permanent bank staff - work between 3 sites - so i have to carry my shoes around with me - its mingin!

and incredibly unhygienic - lockers don't cost much!

Public toilets here too!
We went to the coast on Saturday and i had to use one of those toilet blocks in a layby iykwim?
Gross.
There is always someone 'camping' in these 'service' areas too.
Anyway, I took the bathroom anti-bac toilet wipe things with me and wiped all the handles on my way in, then the loo seat before I used it.
The thought of it just makes me puke.
Last time, I didn't have the wipes, I had a full size bottle of anti-bac spray! No-one batted an eyelid mind, and if you go into the servioces with the wipes in your hand, people ask you if they can have one!
I also keep anti-bac hand gel, like in the hosp, in my bag for afterwards - quicker than queing for the dryer and you can do it outside once youve touched all the minging handles!

Freak aren't I?!
LOL

I actually find the 'hole in the ground' type of toilet more hygienic - you don't have to sit on it.

but belgo id need 3 lockers - i work over 3 different hospitals
and 3 pairs of shoes - one in each locker!
i dotn even like bringing my pens home - god knows what is lurking on them

nailpolish -I read about that disposible tourniquets have been invented - good idea - I remember trying to clean blood stained tourniquets and getting very strange looks from colleagues who wondered why I was bothering.

None!
(Except dog poo. And that's a BIGGIE)
Oh and I am phobic about fleas.

should I be ashamed? I can say there are very few things in this thread that worry me... life's too short!

I am actually surprised at the amount of things you can get worked out about.. where's the time??

you probably thing we live in a pigsty...who know maybe we are.

yes i have disposible tourniques - they ar crap though. massive so you need to tie a knot in them for skinny folks
great idea though.
using a tournique on an infected pt then moving on to a non-infected pt.....

I do live in a pig sty. But it is a wonderfully relaxed, inviting pig sty, I've been told..and we are all horribly healthy!

yes normal household bugs are great for the immune system.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it

mine looks quite relaxing and confy and evryone loves it... maybe some wouldn't if they knew of our 'filthy' habits.

we are all healthy too, after reading this thread though i think it's probably a miracle.

lol pippi. Quite a few of my friends have immaculate houses because they have cleaners.

Hate shoes upstairs esp in the bathroom but our cleaner doesnt take her shoes off when she comes and I feel a bit uneasy asking her to, not sure why???

A cleaner would be lovely...

Well, when my mother and big sis peel carrots they're 'washed' apparently. They look at me as if I were utterly beyond any help in the world when I rinse carrots after they've been peeled (this is for carrots to be eaten raw but I probably rinse ones to be cooked as well)
But peeling isn't the same as washing after peeling is it?
AM I ALONE IN THIS CONVICTION???

Pannacotta - I was the same with our cleaner...but I ask everyone else to remove their shoes. I think shoes in the house is horrible.

In the good old days, when we were relatively wealthy, I used to provide our cleaner with an overall and shoes which were kept in our house and into which she changed when she arrived. I used to wash the overall and the soles of the shoes in between her visists

And I always finse carrots after they've been peeled.