Do you wash your hands after hoovering?

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We have a difference of opinion here and I'd like some perspective please.

Big hoover is kept in the cupboard under the stairs.

Little rechargeable hoover, for a quick blast around the kitchen floor, is kept on the wall in the utility room.

Should we wash our hands are hoovering with either, neither or both?

TIA

Neither. Why would your hoovers be particularly dirty?

Neither.

Erm.
Is this a trick question?
I’m not sure why you would, it’s a plastic sealed unit.

No unless I've Emptied it and it's dusty

I wouldn’t wash my hands after hoovering

Neither

I do but only because I empty the vacuum into the outside dustbin after I have used it and I wash my hands after touching the bin.

Both, but I wash my hands a lot!

Yes, but thinking about it I don’t know why really

I always do.

Neither!

I don’t.

I also find it odd to not wash hands after touching a bin, or putting a washing machine/dishwasher on.

Only if I've emptied it and potentially had to touch the inside/dusty bit. Otherwise it's just an object the same as hundreds of others around the house, you'd never stop washing your hands if you had to do it every time you touched anything you owned!

Yes. Just because feels like I should, and would sometimes be dusting at the same time.

I always do wash my hands after hoovering, as I empty the hoover in the bin so I will have touched the manky bin lid in order to open it. So my hands could have bin juice on them. Yuk.

Plus I’d have touched my keys and the door handle to get out/in to/from the wheelie bin, and the last time id have touched those was when I was coming in from the weekly shop so they could potentially have some virus on them from the shop. Although I washed my hands for 20 seconds on return from shopping and wiped my goods, I didn’t wash the keys/handle. I ‘know’ they are ‘dirty’! I don’t touch them and wash hands if I do.

To those of you who don’t wash your hands, would you prepare food like that ie how clean do you feel your hands are?

No

@Notgotanyidea

I also find it odd to not wash hands after touching a bin, or putting a washing machine/dishwasher on.

You wash your hands every time you put the washing machine and dishwasher on? Why?!

I would never wash my hands after using the vacuum cleaner. I always wash my hands before preparing food, depending on the food I would wash my hands during preparation. For example if I touch raw meat,

No, neither.

The rechargeable one. But only because I have still not mastered the "easy empty" feature that easily empties at least some of it on my hands!

@Elieza are.you my husband in disguise? No...because he would have wiped the door handle with an antibacterial wipe after touching it....

Would I prepare food like this....hell yeah....a few germs on your hands will not kill you. (Yes I have been more.caitious than usual over the last year.....and I wash when coming home.....but I am not getting into the territory of.washing my hands a.million times inside my home. And I am well, and I don't suffer from it.)

If i have emptied bagless dust,then yes.

I dont wash my hands after hovering, only if its needed to be emptied.

Yes but only because I will have pulled dust and hair out of the brush bit, I just feel cleaner if I wash my hands after.

Btw I am not a germ-phobe nor am I even very tidy!