What makes you go "Yuk!" ?

I change into my slippers immediately, but that's just because I like slippers. I don't wash my hands.

I'm finding it very interesting that a lot of posters have said that they wash their hands immediately upon coming into the house, but do they change their shoes from outdoor to indoor slippers too?
ps I do the handwashing, and also take off my shoes. Here in my city there are many people who spit on the sidewalk. No way do I want to track those germs through my house.

I agree with Wilma how have you lot and your families survived, come on!! No wonder children these days have poor immune systems. Yes, some things are yuk, but it's exposure to germs that gets the immune system geared up! As for dogs licking faces, my daughter and I often get down to dog height with a friendly dog and get plenty of 'kisses', no harm done and we love it

Dogs licking faces and people coughing or sneezing without making an attempt to turn away or cover their mouth.

When I was working a colleague said she had a phobia of flushing public loos so if it was just a wee she used that bit of paper to flush the loo with !

No, mouth kissing, an absolute no, no. Not with my children, grandchildren, nobody, apart from my husband, in private.

One friend always used to plonk her handbag in the middle of my kitchen worktop when she arrived. No-one has mentioned children sitting or standing actually in the shopping trolley (not in the child seat). Who knows what they have walked in outside? I've seen people hold money - coins or notes - between their teeth. I always wash my hands when I've handled money at home. As soon as DH and I come into the house when we've been out and about we both wash our hands.

That’s just funny not yuk!

Am quite particular about pets, my dear sister is as good as blind in one eye cos of dog poo and a friend is registered partially sighted for the same reason. Insist on hand washing for DGC coming into house from school. DGS's teacher, this year said "dabs" is not allowed-except for coughing and sneezing into elbows! What a treasure she is!

Grizelda NOT only the elderly.
Recently while shopping I witnessed a woman I would estimate in her late forties early fifties go up to a young woman with a toddler in a pushchair pick the child out of the pushchair saying 'give your Nan a big kiss'
Plonked a slimy smacker right onto the childs mouth.
Yuk and more yuks.

In our family, we all dip in with the one spoon, swig from the same cartons of milk, and, yes, horror of all horrors, eat peanuts from the one bowl. We are all reasonably healthy.

I also font lije to see people putting a spoon in to taste food whencooking and then replacing it - Using your finger is even worse!! This is a known method of contaminating food! So is coughing, sneezing or nose picking when preparing food.
But a bag on the table is not a problem as no food touches the table - its all on plates etc!

My cat sleeps on my head and my dog on my feet. I hate having to wake up with cat hairs in my face and not being able to stretch my legs. But I wouldn´t call it "yuk". I feel totally protected and loved.

A cat or dog - or any animal - licking a human face - in particular a baby or a toddler ??

I had to report a bakery assistant in Sainsbury's once. She wasn't actually serving, but chatting to the person who was and picking bits of food out between her teeth with her finger nail. Then she disappeared into the back and I bet it wasn't to wash her hands.

The thought of cats and dogs sleeping on the bed - yuk.

Well it all goes to show that whtever you do you ribably offend someone. For example : i think using cloth handkerchieves which can be washed and ironed to kill germs is MUCH more hygienic than leaving used tissues everywhere! And I xant bear to see people shuffli g around tge hoyse in sluppers ot bare fewt - wear proper shoes!
I cant stand oeople who hover over toilets and leave the seat wet for me to sit on ! I cant stand seeing peope spit in the street and not keen on being livked by dogs but pretty much all the rest dont disgust me.
No, wait, ckeanin the hair and slime out of pmughokes is gross as the young say! Butvit has to be done.
Couldnt care less about bags in tables or workrops, trolley handles and all tge otger things some get neurotic about. Just use chopping boards to prepare food, wipe down tabkes etc regularly (with Water!) always wash your hands thoroughly , that's all that's necessary!

Definitely all the pets comments -licking, walking on surfaces, sitting on chairs make me want to throw up. I had to be very careful to say nothing round my MIL because she encouraged it.
Marieeliz, my mum said the same and I passed the message on to my children. One child's friend didn't believe me and DID curt her tongue. I was amazed because I didn't think our knives were that sharp.
If you are caught out with a sneeze, sneeze on the back of your hand rather than the front. Then if you have to touch anything else before using a wipe, you're not putting snot on everything. I never hold onto handrails because of what I've seen go on to them.

Detol spray and air sprays . My dogs have always given me a kiss, I love it

So glad I started this thread. I'm sitting here with tears of laughter streaming down my face at some of the posts.

Changing a baby's nappy anywhere apart from the bathroom.....the young think it is ok to do it on the sitting room floor, admittedly on a changing mat but in front of anyone and everyone! Old nursery nursing habits die hard-I still took my DGS into the bathroom to change him and will do the same for subsequent GCs.

I actually love those programmes about other people’s filthy houses.
It’s so nice to see their pleasure when everything has been spruced up, and besides, it all makes me feel less guilty about my own less-than-perfect house cleaning!

I am disgusted by people in TV or movies, who are shown brushing their teeth, spitting out repeatedly, and leaving it there, without ever bothering to give the sink a good rinse. Yuk!!!

I've had cats for years and they've all sat/walked on the worktops - I never prepare food directly on there though not only for hygiene reasons but also to avoid damaging them. I think I can probably go one better with the false teeth - in his later years when he'd developed dementia my father would take his false teeth out after a meal and lick them himself I would quickly stop him but it always made me feel sick. I think my pet hates are food uncovered in bakeries, shop assistants licking their fingers to open bags and women not washing their hands as they leave public toilets. Also agree dogs shouldn't lick faces.

Children picking their noses and then eating it. That makes me retch.

Must admit I don't like it either LoobyLoo when people don't wash their hands after going to the loo.