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Questions tagged [personal-hygiene]

Questions about cleanliness, conditions and practices that helps maintaining health and preventing diseases to spread.

In every day life people try their best to ensure they maintain their cleanliness, and remaining clean is often a very important aspect of day to day life. Personal-hygiene often covers issues of cleanliness, such as showering or other forms of washing/cleaning.

This tag should be used with other tags such as in order to attain who the issue is with, as this can often effect the response needed.

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How to convey a message that will convince an unknown person to not urinate next to my garage door?

Background My wife and I rent an apartment and a garage. The garage is on an underground parking underneath the building in which we live. The garage has a metal door which we lock with a key. The underground parking has a lot of parking slots as…
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How can I politely tell someone that they should take a shower?

When I was in college, myself and a few friends gathered weekly to play D&D together. One friend had weekly track & field sessions scheduled prior to our meet-ups. Usually, this wasn't an issue, but there were some days where it was very clear that…
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How to tell a colleague to take care of how he looks

I am working in a software consultancy company, and our job has a good deal of direct interaction with clients. We are a very international bunch of people, but we are based in Germany, and all our clients are German. From the professional point of…
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What is the politest way to tell someone their breath smells?

Sometimes people have morning breath or garlic-breath of some sort. If I'm talking to a friend in a public place and I notice this, what should I do? Should I tell them to brush their teeth in the morning? Give them a mint? What is the politest way…
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How do I get my mother to use the bathroom?

Background My living situation is as follows: I live in a two-story house with my mother and no one else. Our Bedrooms are upstairs, together with a small bathroom without a toilet. The toilet is downstairs. We live in the middle class of a first…
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How to deal with someone accidentally spitting in my food while dining out

This is a true story. I was dining out with a friend and an acquaintance (who was close friends with my friend). Back story: the acquaintance was jealous of how well her friend and I were getting along and seemed to feel threatened by our…
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How can I tactfully ask someone to wash their hands when going to the bathroom?

Recently I had a few friends come over to play a board game. At one point, one of them went to the bathroom, which was near the area in which we were playing. After about 5 minutes (which would indicate he was defecating and not just urinating), I…
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How can I polite ask someone to blow their nose in public?

From time to time there are cases when I would really like someone (a friend/acquaintance of mine) to blow their nose, whether it be because they're constantly sniffling, or that I can see snot in their nose. Neither of those are nice things, so I…
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How to deal with a runny nose in Japan?

It seems like people in Japan never blow their nose, even though they rather often catch a cold. People still use tissues to touch their nose or press it a bit, but never while blowing it. I remember a friend who came to Japan, who then blew his…
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A casual acquaintance keeps offering me gum

Someone I run into occasionally, when we meet, they always takes a pack of gum out of their pocket, takes a piece for themselves, and offers me one. I am not sure if they think I have bad breath and want to cover the odor before talking to me. Or if…
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How can I encourage cleaner habits to my partner?

Background I've been seeing my partner for a few years now. We are both young adults, have busy but stable jobs, and have our own living spaces. We have a very loving and supportive relationship. My only problem is my partner's place is usually very…
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How to ask a co-worker to sneeze into their elbow?

My co-worker has been sneezing about 8 times a day for the last two weeks. Like clock-work, I will hear him loudly sneeze out into the air every hour. He is not covering his mouth when he sneezes (and coincidentally, many people in the office have…
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How to blow your nose in public

This question is based in the UK (By "in-public", I'm referring to being around other people in general public places such as parties or cafe's, or on a train too) Often in public I need to blow my nose, however I personally find it awkward, and…
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How to tactfully tell a martial arts instructor that I was freaked out by his lack of action?

The other day I joined a martial art/combat sport class. Apart from the many positive aspects of the experience, there was unfortunately one thing that really freaked me out. When the sparring session came somebody started to bleed heavily (his…
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New roommate from India does something to make bathroom smell really bad

Where I live I share the bathroom with one other person. The person who I share it with recently changed and someone from India moved in. He said he's new to the country and just arrived recently. I know this is a strange question, but the bathroom…
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