Personal hygiene has varying degrees of importance to people, but we can probably agree that, at least on some level, it's necessary.
Brushing your teeth, washing your hands after using the bathroom, and laundering your underwear should be second nature. However, according to one Reddit thread, even such basic tasks can be done incorrectly.
Started by platform user HEADAs66, it asked everyone what they think is the most common hygiene mistake people make, and in just a few days has received thousands of replies. Here are the most popular ones.
#21
This is not directly related to hygiene but general cleanliness - most people don't realize that dishwashers and washing machines have filters that are supposed to be cleaned regularly. The dishwasher one is particularly important because there is a screen filter that catches food particles and is always wet. The first time I cleaned the filter on our several-year-old dishwasher after learning this, it was horrific - I was retching the entire time I was cleaning it. Made me want to re-wash every single dish in the house, ha ha.
19points
#22
Not sanitising door handles. It’s one of the most common places where bacteria lives.
17points
#24
Generally when cleaning your house, body, or whatever clean from top to bottom. That knocks stuff down to the next thing to be cleaned instead of onto the thing you just cleaned
15points
#25
Not drying properly after washing. All those nooks and crannies you (hopefully) spent time washing properly need to be dried as well.
An ex of mine would get out of the shower without drying and just wrap a towel around his waist then sit on the lounge till he completely dried off. Wet armpits and ballsack marinating in water created BO by the time he was dry.
14points
#26
Not washing their legs in the shower
14points
#27
Trim those finger nails, please! It only takes 5 minutes once in a while. Don't need to clean under them if you cut them.
13points
#28
Hikers and bikers at college and work who go nose blind to what they come in smelling like. These guys have no idea they’re torturing the entire office. No use in secretly placing a tube of deodorant on their desk because no way can old spice combat this murder stench.
13points
#29
Using too much detergent or fabric softener. It will actually trap dirt and smells into the fibres if it doesn't rinse clean. Also you don't need fabric softener, if you are using it to stop static you are drying your clothes too long as it's caused by dry fabric rubbing on dry fabric.
8points
#30
Going to the toilet with their phones
7points
#31
Not brushing the back of their tongue properly and not flossing. It’s literally visible every time they open their mouth that they haven’t flossed and it gives me mad shivers
6points
