Re: Handbags

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Amythist

Did you know that handbags are one of the main reasons we can get sick?

How many women take their handbags to a toilet and put it on the floor and then go back to say a table in a restaurant and put it on the table without thinking?

When someone comes to your house how often do they or you put their handbag on your kitchen table or worksurface?

Tests on the bottom of handbags have found major food poisoning organisms and bacteria.

Yeurch

I always hang my bag up if there is a hook.

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AmythistMember 10 years

Sorry bet you thought this was going to be a lovely girly shopping handbag thread!

7/29/095:57 AM

LindsxdxMember

I try to hang mine on the door hook or lock but ewwwh, never thought of that. Will now have to add holding a handbag whilst hovering and checking for camera phones above and below to my list of public toilet routines.

7/29/095:59 AM

KayteeMember 10 years

My handbag lives on the floor in the corner. I feed it twice a day, but it does have it's own bowl

7/29/096:00 AM

DarthhoobMember

i dont even have a handbag

as i get older though, i find myself drawn to buying them..i have a few but dont use them

7/29/096:00 AM

SazBombMember

I always hang my bag on the hook on the doors in toilets

7/29/096:00 AM

Former Member

Yes your right, since my daughter had her baby she is noticing things like this and carries antibacterial wipes everywhere and wipes everything!

7/29/096:01 AM

tuppsMember

Always hang your handbag up and never sit on the tube.. these are my two basic unidentifiable bacteria avoidance techniques..

7/29/096:02 AM

GMAMember

quote:
Originally posted by SazBomb:
I always hang my bag on the hook on the doors in toilets

7/29/096:02 AM

SazBombMember

quote:
Originally posted by tupps:
Always hang your handbag up and never sit on the tube.. these are my two basic unidentifiable bacteria avoidance techniques..

I try not to touch anything on the tube

7/29/096:08 AM

tuppsMember

quote:
Originally posted by SazBomb:
quote:
Originally posted by tupps:
Always hang your handbag up and never sit on the tube.. these are my two basic unidentifiable bacteria avoidance techniques..

I try not to touch anything on the tube

Wise move..

They did an article once and you should have seen the list of nasties on the seats. And, someone I worked with once told me about a time she was going in on the Victoria line, sat down.. the seat was wet.. with urine!

7/29/096:11 AM

Former Member

I always use a key to press the buttons in lifts, and road crossing lights!

7/29/096:12 AM

GMAMember

quote:
Originally posted by SazBomb:
quote:
Originally posted by tupps:
Always hang your handbag up and never sit on the tube.. these are my two basic unidentifiable bacteria avoidance techniques..

I try not to touch anything on the tube

Oh, I carry wipes; if anything sweaty or even more gross then they're out - hanging on to bus handles in Turkey made me gag - sweaty and garlicky - not that we're/I'm perfect but when hubby's Aunt's etc hug me they're clammy and garlicky!

I love garlic too but only eat it if I know I'm not going anywhere the next day to be anti-social.

7/29/096:12 AM

SazBombMember

oh and I carry a little bottle of that antibacterial gel around with me so that I can wash my hands after I come out of the tube - I do generally have to hold onto a rail during rush hour... though managed to make it all the way home last night without touching anything on the tube/DLR

7/29/096:20 AM

GMAMember

quote:
Originally posted by SazBomb:
oh and I carry a little bottle of that antibacterial gel around with me so that I can wash my hands after I come out of the tube - I do generally have to hold onto a rail during rush hour... though managed to make it all the way home last night without touching anything on the tube/DLR

That stuff is great, I'm never without it and I don't class myself a phobic - it's just a basic these days imo. (Although I can't speak for days of yore!

7/29/096:23 AM

EssieMember

I’m paranoid about touching things, I carry anti bacterial wipes everywhere. I also prefer public toilets to have John Lewis type taps where the water comes out automatically where you don’t have to touch the taps, I always carry a wipe as I’m leaving public WC’s to put on the door handles in case people don’t wash their hands.
I never buy food from salad bars in supermarkets due to people breathing on them.
The only time I’ve ever been pulled up on my paranoia was when I was a dental nurse, when patients are having tooth extractions the nurse has to support the head, a guy came in with the greasiest hair I had ever seen, so I pulled about 200ft of paper towel out of the roller and wrapped his head up in it, when the dentist walked in the guy had a 2ft wide paper turban on his head and I got told off.

7/29/097:03 AM

LindsxdxMember

quote:
Originally posted by Essex Angel:
I’m paranoid about touching things, I carry anti bacterial wipes everywhere. I also prefer public toilets to have John Lewis type taps where the water comes out automatically where you don’t have to touch the taps, I always carry a wipe as I’m leaving public WC’s to put on the door handles in case people don’t wash their hands.
I never buy food from salad bars in supermarkets due to people breathing on them.
The only time I’ve ever been pulled up on my paranoia was when I was a dental nurse, when patients are having tooth extractions the nurse has to support the head, a guy came in with the greasiest hair I had ever seen, so I pulled about 200ft of paper towel out of the roller and wrapped his head up in it, when the dentist walked in the guy had a 2ft wide paper turban on his head and I got told off.

Hahaha, I am sorry, I know its not funny how things like this make you feel but can just imagine this guy wrapped up in tissue paper and the dentists face when he walked in.

Did you say, I am sorry, you have really greasy hair I need to wrap you up? Or did you pretend it was all perfectly normal part of the proceedure?

7/29/097:07 AM

KayteeMember 10 years

quote:
Originally posted by Essex Angel:
I’m paranoid about touching things, I carry anti bacterial wipes everywhere. I also prefer public toilets to have John Lewis type taps where the water comes out automatically where you don’t have to touch the taps, I always carry a wipe as I’m leaving public WC’s to put on the door handles in case people don’t wash their hands.
I never buy food from salad bars in supermarkets due to people breathing on them.
The only time I’ve ever been pulled up on my paranoia was when I was a dental nurse, when patients are having tooth extractions the nurse has to support the head, a guy came in with the greasiest hair I had ever seen, so I pulled about 200ft of paper towel out of the roller and wrapped his head up in it, when the dentist walked in the guy had a 2ft wide paper turban on his head and I got told off.

Weren't you wearing disposable gloves?

7/29/097:43 AM

Former Member

They say a bit of dirt is good for you and being all anxious about germs is going to make you more likely to pick things up.

But interesting about handbags ,they go on the floor a lot ,like shoes but unlike shoes they do get plonked down on tables and kitchen surfaces its true.

7/29/097:50 AM

EssieMember

quote:
Originally posted by Lindsxdx:
quote:
Originally posted by Essex Angel:
I’m paranoid about touching things, I carry anti bacterial wipes everywhere. I also prefer public toilets to have John Lewis type taps where the water comes out automatically where you don’t have to touch the taps, I always carry a wipe as I’m leaving public WC’s to put on the door handles in case people don’t wash their hands.
I never buy food from salad bars in supermarkets due to people breathing on them.
The only time I’ve ever been pulled up on my paranoia was when I was a dental nurse, when patients are having tooth extractions the nurse has to support the head, a guy came in with the greasiest hair I had ever seen, so I pulled about 200ft of paper towel out of the roller and wrapped his head up in it, when the dentist walked in the guy had a 2ft wide paper turban on his head and I got told off.

Hahaha, I am sorry, I know its not funny how things like this make you feel but can just imagine this guy wrapped up in tissue paper and the dentists face when he walked in.

Did you say, I am sorry, you have really greasy hair I need to wrap you up? Or did you pretend it was all perfectly normal part of the proceedure?

Poor guy thought it was normal.

7/29/098:01 AM

EssieMember

quote:
Originally posted by Kaytee:
quote:
Originally posted by Essex Angel:
I’m paranoid about touching things, I carry anti bacterial wipes everywhere. I also prefer public toilets to have John Lewis type taps where the water comes out automatically where you don’t have to touch the taps, I always carry a wipe as I’m leaving public WC’s to put on the door handles in case people don’t wash their hands.
I never buy food from salad bars in supermarkets due to people breathing on them.
The only time I’ve ever been pulled up on my paranoia was when I was a dental nurse, when patients are having tooth extractions the nurse has to support the head, a guy came in with the greasiest hair I had ever seen, so I pulled about 200ft of paper towel out of the roller and wrapped his head up in it, when the dentist walked in the guy had a 2ft wide paper turban on his head and I got told off.

Weren't you wearing disposable gloves?

I wore gloves but they only go up to the wrists, I was scared my forearms would touch his hair and I didn't want to smell it either.

7/29/098:03 AM

LindsxdxMember

quote:
Originally posted by Essex Angel:
quote:
Originally posted by Lindsxdx:
quote:
Originally posted by Essex Angel:
I’m paranoid about touching things, I carry anti bacterial wipes everywhere. I also prefer public toilets to have John Lewis type taps where the water comes out automatically where you don’t have to touch the taps, I always carry a wipe as I’m leaving public WC’s to put on the door handles in case people don’t wash their hands.
I never buy food from salad bars in supermarkets due to people breathing on them.
The only time I’ve ever been pulled up on my paranoia was when I was a dental nurse, when patients are having tooth extractions the nurse has to support the head, a guy came in with the greasiest hair I had ever seen, so I pulled about 200ft of paper towel out of the roller and wrapped his head up in it, when the dentist walked in the guy had a 2ft wide paper turban on his head and I got told off.

Hahaha, I am sorry, I know its not funny how things like this make you feel but can just imagine this guy wrapped up in tissue paper and the dentists face when he walked in.

Did you say, I am sorry, you have really greasy hair I need to wrap you up? Or did you pretend it was all perfectly normal part of the proceedure?

Poor guy thought it was normal.

Hahahaha!

How funny!

7/29/098:04 AM

demonickittenMember

I always carry wet wipes and antibac gel..I am Howard Hughes

7/29/098:05 AM

prettycocoaeyesMember 10 years

I know gosh I see these females dropping their shopping bags and handbags on toilet floors

... I hold my own near by body while I do the do...

7/29/098:20 AM

prettycocoaeyesMember 10 years

quote:
Originally posted by Essex Angel:
I’m paranoid about touching things, I carry anti bacterial wipes everywhere. I also prefer public toilets to have John Lewis type taps where the water comes out automatically where you don’t have to touch the taps, I always carry a wipe as I’m leaving public WC’s to put on the door handles in case people don’t wash their hands.
I never buy food from salad bars in supermarkets due to people breathing on them.
The only time I’ve ever been pulled up on my paranoia was when I was a dental nurse, when patients are having tooth extractions the nurse has to support the head, a guy came in with the greasiest hair I had ever seen, so I pulled about 200ft of paper towel out of the roller and wrapped his head up in it, when the dentist walked in the guy had a 2ft wide paper turban on his head and I got told off.

Im paranoid about bacteria and germs as well, have antibacterial gel in my bag at all times...

7/29/098:22 AM

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