Anonymous wrote:I rarely wash my hands unless I have something specifically dirtying them. I rarely get sick. My kids as well. My husband does and is the one always comin down with a cold. For real. On some level you have to not be a clean freak to be healthy - there's germs all around us. Seriously my kids get sick maybe once a year if that. As little ones in K/PreK they just rarely got sick.

What would that be? Honest question.

Anonymous wrote:When I get home, after I use the restroom, before preparing food, and before meals.

Same here.

My husband washes all the time and is never sick.
Who knows.

I always wash my hands when I come home.
But I’ll admit I don’t wash after peeing - something I adopted after developing hand eczema.

After using the bathroom, after coming in from outside, after petting the dog, after changing diapers and frequently while preparing food.

I'm on your team, OP. Your boyfriend is wrong.

Probably 30+ times. I’m a SAHM to a 4 year old and 9 month old. Between changing diapers, making snacks, preparing meals, washing dishes, playing with the dog, and helping the 4 year old wash her hand, etc etc etc it adds up to a just silly amount of hand washing

When I enter the house, when I use the bathroom and before cooking/after cooking

I rarely wash my hands unless I have something specifically dirtying them. I rarely get sick. My kids as well. My husband does and is the one always comin down with a cold. For real. On some level you have to not be a clean freak to be healthy - there's germs all around us. Seriously my kids get sick maybe once a year if that. As little ones in K/PreK they just rarely got sick.

I wash hands after I use the bathroom and when I come into my home. I don't also wash before eating.

Always after coming into the house, and always after going to the bathroom. Always before I prepare any type of food. And shower twice a day.

Pre-covid after bathroom and before cooking/eating. Now I wash them every time I enter the house. I was almost never sick before Covid and will probably ease back to that now that I am vaccinated.

Anonymous wrote:I love how all the hand washers are so excited to come share how much they wash their hands. Those of us that are not in that camp probably wouldn’t even click on the thread. I will just say I think it’s good for my immune system to not try to wash away the germs. Will I wash them if they are physically dirty, sure, but otherwise I don’t worry about it.

I am super enthusiastic about washing my hands and won't apologize for my love! 😉 I almost never get sick although I am chronically underslept.

After using the bathroom and before I eat. That's it unless they've gotten dirty/sticky from doing something.

Don't even own hand sanitizer.

Pre covid - after using the bathroom, and if I touched something particularly gross (like raw chicken or something) and that was it. I was also sick ALL THE TIME (terrible immune system, I've always been really prone to colds).

Now - before leaving the house, hand sanitizer between stops (for instance, after leaving Walgreens, but before going into the post office), upon returning to the house, and before I eat. The one silver lining to covid has been not getting colds, and I'm LOVING it.

I'd really like to keep up with some of this (probably not the hand sanitizer between stops) post-covid. I had, just in the year before covid, started being really intense about hand washing/sanitizing anytime I flew on a plane because I ALWAYS get a cold after vacations/air travel, and it was really helping.

Thinking back on it - I used to routinely metro to meet friends at a restaurant and then sit right down to dinner and eat, without washing up. Sounds disgusting now.