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1. "When I was moving astatine a tiny electronics company, the proprietor would vigor up unfastened jars of lead-based mixes successful the interruption country microwave. He’d besides popular a large vessel of popcorn for everyone, and past instrumentality his hands in, with his fingers agleam yellowish from the pb oxide pulverization he’d been scooping out. I was precise cautious astir avoiding nutrient there."
—Anonymous, 75, male, Roseburg, Oregon
2. "My member worked 40 years successful the edifice business. Half of that time, helium was the enforcement chef. One time recently, helium told maine that aft helium made his sandwich for the time that helium would lick the weapon and enactment it backmost successful the silverware drawer. He thought it was hilarious and said that his woman did not cognize this. Ugh."
—Anonymous, 60, female, Maryland
3. "I had a neighbour years agone who had truthful galore bugs successful her room and oven, she couldn’t usage it! She had a large portable oven that she cooked in! Made maine consciousness sick! I ne'er ate there."
—Anonymous, 79, female, Clarksville
4. "My fellow utilized to unrecorded with his friends, who were his roommates astatine the time. They would permission crumbs each implicit the room countertop and not spot a problem. One clip I recovered a lizard successful a mug and they didn’t deliberation it was a problem."
—Anonymous
5. "I grew up going to summertime camp. All these years aboriginal america campers inactive stitchery connected the spot each summertime for astir of a week. The lodge that present serves arsenic the room for the summertime reunions has dense mil integrative stapled up to the ‘ceiling’ framing to support the rat poop from falling into the building. Yes, rats person moved in. Suffice to say, I devour thing that comes retired of that kitchen, overmuch little locomotion into the structure."
—Anonymous, 59, male, US
6. "I had a roommate who I saw stroke his chemoreceptor with a napkin, and past helium instantly utilized the napkin to cleanable the countertop. Disgusting. He was apologetic erstwhile I called him out, but who knows what different gross worldly helium did absently do?"
7. "My brother-in-law utilized to permission cracked, dripping eggshells and bloody nutrient packaging close connected the antagonistic FOR DAYS. He would lone bash 1 'big' cleanable erstwhile his room became unusable (and past started the rhythm again). And by cleaning, I mean wiping down the antagonistic with an old, threadbare rag that has since turned gray-ish and has astir apt lone ever been rinsed astatine best. No cleaning products oregon disinfectant, conscionable a damp rag."
8. "She chopped up earthy nutrient utilizing her bare hands, past opened drawers, cabinets, and the fridge earlier washing her hands. When she asked if I wanted to bash play repast prep with her, I politely declined."
9. "A coworker said she mixed her broccoli crockery successful the room sink, and I haven't been capable to devour astatine a potluck since. Stuff of nightmares."
10. "I recovered retired a person uses the aforesaid sponge to cleanable his kitchenware, feline bowls, and the dustbin/filter connected the cordless vacuum."
11. "Their shih tzu started sharting each implicit the place, they grabbed the canine and washed him successful the sink, and past didn’t cleanable oregon sanitize it afterward."
12. "My roommate would unfastened a yogurt, devour 1 spoonful, and past enactment the yogurt and spoon successful the fridge. He did that with each kinds of food. At 1 point, the full fridge was conscionable that."
13. "My ma witnessed a distant person bare her child’s potty into the room sink. Needless to say, we ne'er ate determination ever again."
14. "Well, not me, but my sister. She would spell to this woman’s location to get her nails done. She did this rather often, but it was usually earlier successful the time erstwhile husbands and kids were distant astatine enactment and school. One day, the pistillate switched it up and asked her to travel successful the evening. This pistillate started connected my sister's nails, and halfway through, she stopped to commencement making dinner. And past goes backmost and distant from making meal to doing my sister's nails. NOT ONE TIME DID SHE WASH HER HANDS. Literally had nail dust, acrylic dust, and nail polish remover connected her hands and proceeded to chop and interaction that mediocre family’s meal. 🤢🤮"
15. "Maybe I’m weird, but going implicit to my best friend’s location arsenic a teen, they would marque their sandwiches and devour things similar chips straight connected the countertops. No insubstantial towel oregon plate. It was a cleanable house, but it inactive grosses maine out."
16. "A assemblage roommate of excavation wanted to support the cleanable dishes connected the drying rack successful the furniture nether the sink. She said that’s wherever her parents kept them backmost home. I was floored that it took a bully 30 minutes of treatment to speech her retired of this. No mode I was putting my cleanable dishes nether the descend to adust wherever the bug spray and oven cleaner were stored."
17. "I watched my coworker lavation his potatoes with crockery soap. Squirted the soap consecutive onto the potato, rubbed it each implicit with his bare hands, rinsed it, and started chopping it. Threw the chopped, unpeeled, soapy potatoes into a pot. Boiled them, mashed them without adding thing to them, then, for immoderate reason, picked the tegument retired of the cookware of mashed potatoes with his bare hands. No milk, cream, butter, salt, anything. Tasted similar a sad, soapy heap of compost."
18. "My friend's ma would devour earthy beef each clip she was cooking with it. This was 30 years ago, and she's inactive live and successful large health. LOL."
19. "When my puerility canine would poop inside, and if it was...not solid, my dada would usage a spoon to cleanable it up. Not a designated spoon that was the canine crap spoon, conscionable a regular spoon from the cutlery drawer. I did not observe this until helium had been doing this for years. I was HORRIFIED and furious. When I told him it was disgusting, helium got truthful antiaircraft and said, 'Well, however would you similar maine to cleanable it up?' I past listed galore antithetic ways to cleanable canine shit. My ma besides didn't look excessively acrophobic with it. I refused to usage their cutlery until they nary longer had immoderate dogs and they had bought a caller set. And rather frankly, I effort to debar eating determination arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable due to the fact that I person nary thought what other my parents deliberation is normal."
20. "My hubby has a wont of conscionable putting utilized utensils successful the freezer. Not washed, conscionable licked cleanable (sometimes). Says the freezer kills the bacteria, and helium tin reuse them arsenic galore times arsenic helium wants. I bash the dishes each day. Literally nary crushed for this weird wont 😐."
21. "My aged housemates would chopped nutrient straight connected the marble countertop of the room land and permission the residue there, contempt the information that we each had 2 cabinets worthy of our ain room tools, including cutting boards. They besides ne'er washed their dishes to the constituent that their broadside of the two-basin descend had cobwebs betwixt their soiled pans and plates."
"Just ideate an inch worthy of rotten avocado, citrus juice, and assorted herbs caked connected a countertop, which they'd simply enactment caller nutrient connected apical of to prep and scrape disconnected into their plates oregon pans. It was horrifying! Ironically, they thought I was gross for prepping my ain nutrient connected the eating country array with my cutting boards, adjacent though they devour there."
22. "My ex utilized to fto her feline connected the countertops. She would fto them locomotion and slumber connected them. They were outdoor cats arsenic well, truthful not massively clean. But she wouldn't halt them from doing it oregon hitch the antagonistic down afterward. It started a monolithic statement betwixt america erstwhile due to the fact that she was making luncheon for her 7-year-old and enactment the breadstuff straight connected the counter, seconds earlier, a feline had walked across, sat down, and licked itself."
"She got truly pissy with maine erstwhile I said she is going to marque idiosyncratic truly sick 1 day, successful fact, I'm beauteous definite she got upset and started to cry, to which I had to apologize, similar it was horrible of maine to constituent retired thing that should beryllium wholly and perfectly obvious."
23. "I saw my friend's ma marque PB&J with her fingers. No weapon oregon spoon. And lick it disconnected her fingers. Then rinse it disconnected successful the sink. She didn't adjacent enactment similar she was doing thing weird."
24. "I went to a friend's for a meal enactment and offered to assistance with the cleanable up. As I'm starting to lavation plates, helium tosses successful 2 of his precise ample dog's drool-covered toys that the canine had conscionable licked cleanable of peanut butter. I'm gagging portion penning this and astir threw up my meal astatine the time. I emotion pets and person chosen to mentally artifact each the times I've picked canine hairsbreadth retired of his cooking, but nope, nope, nope."
25. "Refusing to lavation their formed robust due to the fact that 'soap ruins it.' It was visibly moldy and disgusting. It's not the 1800s anymore, you tin enactment soap connected your formed iron, and if you don't, you're nasty."
26. "My person cleans her mushrooms disconnected with bedewed wipes. We utilized to get unneurotic and marque meal erstwhile we were younger, and I've ne'er been much shocked astatine specified unnecessary waste. When I asked wherefore she didn't usage the sink, she said she did... aft cleaning them with the bedewed wipes. Her excuse was that the descend didn't get them cleanable enough."
27. "My grandma’s person would lone 'clean' her room antagonistic with h2o and an old, smelly rag. She claimed that soap oregon immoderate cleaning chemicals caused cancer. This pistillate rips cigarettes similar nobody’s business."
28. "Not washing their drinking glasses. A feline I met successful assemblage lived with his ma and told (and showed us) that they don't ever lavation their glasses. They conscionable usage each solid for a circumstantial drink. So, the solid with a brownish ringing is for Coke, and the 1 with a achromatic ringing is for milk. I deliberation they said they 'rinse' them, but evidently not if they person residue from each the erstwhile beverages consumed..."
29. Lastly, "They kept the cat’s litter container close adjacent to the oven and room table. Every clip the oven was on, it would vigor the feline poop capable to commencement smelling adjacent worse."
Responses person been edited for length/clarity.
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