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π You're very welcome, friend!
I started washing my hands a lot more after my kids started preschool btw. We kept getting sick by their germs all the time, and they kept getting sick, too. Constantly.
So then we introduced this rule of always washing your hands before meals and after coming in from outside, to reduce bacteria and virus exposure. The frequency by which they got sick dropped dramatically.
And I noticed that my keyboard and mouse got a lot less grimy too, so that's nice.
It's crazy how dirty your hands get from being outside. Just touching a door at work or school or holding on to a hand rail or whatever. You come home and the soap water is literally light gray. Disgusting.
Anyway, I'm glad to have reached someone with my being alive. ππ€
Wow, the difference being that noticeable is wild. I also work with 5- and 6-year-olds at my job and I have to constantly remind them to wash their handsβ with soap! I've literally had kids say "yes" to "did you wash your hands?" only to follow it up with "with soap?" and get an eyeroll and sulk back to the sink π₯²
I wash my hands plenty at work, because my hands get grimy and sticky just from being in their vicinity for more than 15 minutes lol, but yeah also washing more at home now!
π Classic! We also hit em with the "can I smell your hands?" And they gave us their hands at first but now they just go back to the sink again knowing what's about to be said, lmao.
Yeah, working with kids I can imagine how dirty hands get. I'm thinking our adult hands get dirty for the same reasons, just a little less so, but still enough to warrant washing, also for the same reasons.