37 Hygiene Habits That Apparently Aren’t Common Sense

YES!

Mythbusters did this one. I always close it now.

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Same

Yep - shoes off, wash hands, change into home clothes

And by washing your hands at home it's all miracuously cured/neutralized.

Thank you, I always thought it was just me.

And the bacterias are then affraid to go there, of course. Beause it's clean over there.

Underwear stains aren’t normal. It’s indicative of poor hygiene. 🤮 Amazed how many people excuse them and consider them normal- especially for boys/men.

Yes to all of this

Yes! Especially if you have piercings and long hair. Keep those clean!

Wash everything where skin touches skin.

I just leave the tops off and caps/lids open overnight. The dry air keeps bacteria and fungus from growing.

Only a quick scrub every few days?

“Always keep your belly button clean and your toenails trimmed. You never know when you’ll be on the operating table” -my sister who works in the operating room.

I mean, just wash all the things!

But what about the urine from when I pee in the shower? That cleans my feet, right?

I carry around small spray bottles with alcohol to prevent me from touching anything going in my eyes, nose or mouth.

I clean my nails while shampooing my hair, scrubbing them into the scalp. Nothing else I've ever tried comes close, or feels so good.

I can't stand having short nails but mine are so thin they're transparent, if I don't feel the dirt I can see it. I'm constantly cleaning under my nails

and wash the paws of the dog regularly as well

I know people who kiss their dogs, so…?

Work in a dollar store. I will never try on hats, shoes, gloves, clothing of any kind without washing it first. People are nasty

Yeah. Let's try not to bring *all* the communicable diseases back.

Same for computer's keyboard and door handles (especially entrance doors).

Or the steering wheel and all other things we don't wash. The shoelaces. Keys. Coins. Yuck.

I hear men using their phones in the stalls all the time. I've even seen phones sitting on the floor. Less than half of them wash their hands at all and probably never clean their phones. Later I see them with the phone sitting on top of their coffee, out on their desk near food, tucked under their chin...

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Thankfully it is less acceptable to shower in perfume these days. I remember going into workplaces where people had so much perfume on (yeah, cologne is perfume) that they stank up the whole place. Riding an elevator was eye watering.

I had a neighbor like that, nice expensive perfume but she bathed in it, I could smell from the other side of the road!

I'd much rather smell perfume than some people's "natural" scent.

I work on a college campus and want to send this as a note to all students. Even if your perfume/cologne technically smells "good," if I can smell you before I see you, it's MUCH too much!

Green gunk IYKYK

An ultrasonic cleaning device is very useful for glasses.

One of the security guards has never cleaned his glasses/ nose pads in probably 100 years. It‘s green/yellow and full of crumbly something 😵‍💫🤢.

I was watching a comedy where the main character was a dentist. He had a line that stuck with me, "only floss the teeth you want to keep". Still makes me chuckle.

Brush, floss, quick brush again (to clear away flossing debris), scrape tongue, and mouth wash. 2-3x daily.

And let them dry out after training. If you leave them stuffed in your gym backpack when they're wet, no amount of footwear spray will cover the smell.

Try to have 2 pair of your go to shoes so they can have a day off to air out.

It is my experience that onions left in the sun will just sprout and then not stink at all, so I reckon our bulbous friends will take offense at that!

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I've noticed guys lately around here have been wearing this absolutely *pungent* deodorant, to the point where it makes me gag whenever eg: I walk down a shopping aisle that said dude has walked down. It almost would make me prefer man-stank. (Almost.)

I use those headphone headband things to sleep at night and started breaking out. Realized it was from the band. So I bought a slightly more expensive one that is machine washable after removing the electronics of course. Get a washable one it's worth the little extra money.

when I take out a pair of earrings , they go right into some rubbing alcohol, same when I put in a new pair, they get soaked and put in wet with the alcohol. it kills germs. then i dry them off with a clean hand towel or washcloth.

I do this, mainly to get rid of calcium. Put white vinegar in a plastic bag, then tie it to the shower rose, and leave it overnight.