2y ago

We never wash our belts, although they are the first thing we touch when leaving the toilet, even before we wash our hands

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Came into this thread wondering "who the hell wears belts?". Then saw everyone in here was taking belt wearage as a given. Then looked over at my husband and saw he's wearing a belt.
TIL, all men apparently wear belts and I just never noticed before.
- Men's pants can be a lot more loose around the waist and we typically have no butt to hold things up.
  
  It's to leave space for full pockets
  
  Do some squats my brother, everyone loves a good ass.
  
  I tell you hwhat
  
  A lot of jeans don't have a good cut for an athletic man butt that I have built from 30 years of sports, mostly hockey. I end up tearing out the crotch on all my pants because I can't find the right cut.
  
  Yeah it definitely makes sense when I think about it!
  
  I finally started doing squats despite bad knees to make my pants fit better.
  Man I miss my high school ass, it was glorious.
- You have probably noticed but never appreciated that men don't usually have big hips to keep our pants up (or more specifically our waists and hips tend to be very close to the same size). Some men do, but even well fitting pants slide down on me without a belt. My wife is always amazed when we take our measurements and the hip to waist ratio is so wildly different. She's like "I knew women's hips were bigger but Jesus Christ".
  
  I mean I'm trans and even though I have massive hips to keep my pants on, wearing a belt still helps me pass better since they're so ubiquitous
  
  Also the buttons and zippers on pants that aren't jeans are usually kinda flimsy, so the belt gives an extra layer of security ._.
- Not just men, I’m a woman and I wear a belt regularly. It keeps my pants from drooping because I’m thin with wide hips.
  
  Possibly my love of high waisted everything has helped me avoid that particular pitfall. This is a whole new world :D
- I'm an elder emo... I still wear my studded belts. D:
  
  Same here! Rarely leave the house without it
- What'll really blow your mind is look to see if the belt color matches his shoes.
  
  That's a fashion rule that I think is stupid but obey 100% of the time.
- 3 years ago I didn't wear any Then I did for work for like a week
  I where one every single day now, it makes me feel Soo well in my clothes
- That is the style at this time.
- massive phone, wallet, keys, car keys, airpods, tape measure; all kinds of stuff on the pockets, need a belt to hold the pants up
- all men apparently wear belts
  Not me. I used to wear them once upon a time, but I learnt to just buy better fitting pants, or get them altered at the tailors so they fit well.
  
  Look at Rockefeller over here with their tailor.
- Hell, half the trousers I buy come with a belt. (It's a problem for vegan trouser-customers actually, as many of the free belts are crappy cheap leather, meaning you can't buy the otherwise cruelty free trousers.)
  
  I'm learning so much! 😄
- Katy : You guys going to be wearing belts? Wayne : Hard no. Dan : Why donts yous guys wears belts? Wayne : Because we buy pants that fucking fit.
- Gotta be prepared with a tourniquet just in case!
  Plus, most of us have flat grandpa asses that can't hold our pants up naturally.
  
  I did not think of the first aid implications!
- Generally speaking men pants are not form fitting.
- The belts keep the pants up, the pant loops let the belt up. Who is the real hero?
- Not all of us.

I hate that I know this now.
- This reminds me, I need to go see if Lemmy has a Thanks I Hate It (TIHI) community yet.
- Am I the only person that washes hands before putting the belt back on?
  
  Now we all know you touch your pants with your filthy poop hands.
- Cursed knowledge

You never wash your belt? I bet you never wash the poop-knife either.
Sheesh.
- Some things probably should stay on Reddit. Like poop-knives.
  
  Along with Jolly Ranchers and guys who break both of their arms.
  
  Hopefully I never have to see or hear "poop-kinives" ever again.
  
  WHAT ABOUT MY TOE KNIFE
- This will outlive us, no matter the platform.
- I'm sorry, the what now?
  
  The poop-knife.
- It's fine, the poop-knife gets wiped off when I start cutting up my food
  
  taps-head.gif
- I have a family member that had to use a poop knife growing up and I always wondered if that story was him....

If you wash your belt you lose all your jiu-jitsu knowledge and have to start from white again. Everyone knows this.
- Is that why no one at the gym will spar with me as a brown belt!?
  
  Maybe if you’d put on something beyond the belt Mr “Sumo Jitsu”
- Prestige mode. Excellent.
- I don't know who started this idea but I want to find them and wrap their smelly ass belt around their face.
  The sport is gross enough without people dragging their MRSA strips all over the mats.

Wash your hands in the bathroom, nobody bats an eye.
Scrub down your belt buckle in the sink and people lose their minds!
- If someone gets uppity in a bathroom when you are practicing good hygiene, ask them why they don't. And don't let up.
  
  might wanna rethink using the word 'uppity' it has deep-rooted slavery connotations. just fyi.
  try ornery/agitated instead
- Bruh the sink be nasty AF

Here's me running ass naked after pooping to wash my hands before pulling up my pants
- I do that too. That is the most annoying point for using public restrooms
- That's the spirit
- Pooh bear!

Jokes on you, I wash my belt all the time!
...which is definitely not because I leave it on my pants and forget to take it off before I throw them in the laundry.
- Why can't the TSA ever be there to remind me to remove my belt when I actually need them!?

Leather and steel are anti-microbial. If something does get on it, it won't survive for very long.
- Tell that to the mold covered belt I just found in my closet.
  
  Do you live in a retention pond? How on earth does a belt get and stay damp enough to grow mold? How long has it been sitting undisturbed? I didn't know about leather being antimicrobial until just now. Even then, a moldy leather belt just seems wrong lol
- Neither of those are true. Some steel and leathers may be treated to make them anti-microbial, but they are generally not

You guys aren't washing your belts?
Alright.
- I’ve never even thought about it. I use leather belts and I throw them out after they wear out.
  You can’t exactly toss them in the machine.
  Now, the belts I’ve had over the years that were made from cloth went in the laundry with everything else.
  I don’t know why I never thought about this.
  
  Leather ones you can wipe down with a rag and water. Canvas ones just go in the wash and you can air dry.
  
  You wear out leather belts? I swear I still have the same 3 leather belts I had 15-20 years ago

You guys wear belts?
- You guys use toilets?
- How do you hold up your trousers? Suspenders?
  
  I have some clothes that fit well enough that I don't need a belt in order for them to stay up. I do use a belt for some of my clothes though.
  
  You guys wear trousers?
  
  I feel like a belt ruins the appearance of many pants, sometimes you just don't want a belt with your outfit. I like to focus of finding pants with a good fit, and take them to a tailor for some modifications if necessary.
  
  Suspenders are the superior method, yes.
  Also stretchy waistbands don't require either.
  
  Button

Here is another shower thought. You touch things other ppl who don't wash their hands touch all the time... That is worse in my opinion. Because you can wash your hands before touching anything else (belt included) it isn't as easy to wash your hands everytime on the go. Corona made me very aware of this
- Not sure if I am the only one, but ever since the pandemic, even if I step outside to get the mail up about 500' away , I just have to wash my hands immediately when I come in. Go to the store? I just feel really gross after. It's surreal. I guess I've become a bit OCD as a result.
  
  I’ve just always been this way. I will catch myself going to wash my hands going from room to room in my house sometimes, but even I think that’s weird when I realize I’m doing it. I unapologetically wash my hands after handling anything like mail or packages as well. Might be slightly OCD in that regard. On the plus side, I didn’t get COVID until a few months ago for the first time.
- You touch money all the time. Money is filthy, There's a 100% chance you've held a $1 bill that was in a strippers ass-crack at some point. Same goes for being used for blow.
  
  Not sure where you are (lots of places use $), but it's been many many years since I used cash for anything, and it's probably the same for anyone below retirement age in UK/Europe?
  Paying for something in a shop typically means touching your bank card against the payment terminal.
  
  I don’t know how true it is but here in the UK they say the majority of banknotes in circulation have traces of cocaine on them
  
  I think the last time I used actual cash for something was about 4 months ago.
  
  I am glad I only use a credit card. Damn that is nasty!
- The number of men that I see on a regular basis leave the bathroom after going without washing their hands is alarming. I'm almost old enough now to start calling them on it, but not quite.
- Oh god the lingering germophobia as a result of the pandemic shining a massive spotlight on surface contamination and spread vectors has completely ruined me.
  
  Same, I went from drinking from friends glass to only do so if I felt "forced" as in it would be weird if I didn't haha And I have a "dirty" hand that can touch things and a "clean" hand that will only touch my stuff that I know is "clean". Corona really ruined me... But ppl still get corona so I don't want to just stop doing this either. My parents were out for a week not long ago because of corona, I am pretty sure I will react the same way and I hate being sick it cost time, boredom and money...

You don't clean your belts? 🤢
You don't need to throw it in the washing machine to clean it. That's not the only way to wash clothing, guys. At least hit that shit with a spray on sanitizer like Lysol or something once in a while.
- Saddle soap for all leather belts and saddle soap then shoe grease for leather work belts/suspenders/boots.

And we wash our hands after touching our belts. Still, point taken.
- Yeah I'm having a hard time understanding this entire thread. Like... Is everyone here completely baked?
  We touch our belts and then we wash our hands. Just like we touch our dicks AND THEN WE WASH OUR HANDS.
  y'all are acting like I should be washing my dick too.
  
  i agree. washing a belt is fine but cleaning it all the time after every use sounds very anal.
  i work in kitchens half your food is dirtier than that piss belt before it even makes it to a kitchen. y'all know you can't eat chicken and pork undercooked only because of how the animal is kept right? it lives too dirty.
  also the fuck you do in the bathroom? are people fisting themselves and spraying piss all over their hands??
  
  If you dress before breakfast: hands > belt > food and whatever else. Unless you also wash your hands after you dress?
  
  It's not quite the same, but if I tie my shoes I usually wash my hands if there's opportunity. There's got to be some funk on those things given their proximity to the ground, being in the field of fire at a urinal, etc. Also, after COVID I'm probably a more chronic handwasher than I was prior, particularly before meals.

Maybe I'm a weirdo, but my belts are leather and I wipe them down with sanitizing wipes when I get home and take them off, for this exact reason.
- That poor leather!
  
  Eh, its not been hurt by it in years and years of doing it. Granted I dont wear belts every day, and its not like its some premium leather.

I would like to travel about a minute back in time so I could undo reading this!
- New fear unlocked O_O

I wash my belts
- how do you wash your belts?
  
  When i forget to take them off my pants mostly. I don't wear like nice leather belts though I just throw them in and let them clank around
  
  In the washing machine. Then, I throw them out because they are ruined and buy some more.
  I don't actually do this, but I imagine that's what the response will be.
  
  Leather cleaner/conditioner and a brush.
  
  Power washer.
  
  I have a cloth belt. I throw it in the laundry when I go to wash all the pants.
  
  Depends on the material, but with leather I give it a light spray of lysol and then just let it air out. TBH I don't know how effective it is, but I figure it's better than nothing.
  
  I use saddle soap.
- Me too.

Well, as far as I know it hasn't gotten me sick yet.
Thanks for the new fear, though 🙃
- Lick it and report back in few days.
- There's not much of a risk of getting sick by your own germs, relatively speaking. I think the primary reason for washing your hands after using the restroom is that it's gross and you want to get it off your hands before having contact with others. That, and you ought to wash your hands for health reasons at some point anyways, so you might as well do it then. So I guess unless you're going to be touching your belt much throughout the day, it should be fine.
  Just don't touch anyone else's belt.
  
  Lots of food borne illnesses are spread through poop. I think it's the most common form of food borne illnesses from restaurants, at least it was 8 years ago when I did a servsafe course.
- If your colon has hep A, you have hep A.

You gotta keep your belt clean.
You never know when it's going to be used for a naughty time
- We're talking about choking, right?
  
  David Carradine over here.
  
  ... right?

Urine makes the leather soft.
- (It really gets the hoes)

The people that don’t wash their belts are probably also the people that never wash their winter coat regularly.
- You're supposed to wash winter coats?! Next you are going to tell me that you have to wash blue jeans!
  
  You're supposed to wash blue jeans?! Next you are going to tell me that you have to wash underwear!
- I think it depends on the belt. Washing some types of belts would absolutely ruin them. But yes, people should absolutely be washing their winter coats!
- I wash my coat from time to time because I consider and have considered it to be part of my wardrobe. For my belt, I suppose I kinda just considered it as an accessory and it never occurred to me to clean it.

Last time I wore a belt was for a costume party like 10 years ago. Dresses and sweatpants don't thankfully need belts.

I solved this problem by not wearing a belt!
(I dress like a slob.)

Can't cover everything. Gotta leave some things up to your immune system.

Joke's on you, i never leave the toilet.

Every time I forgot to wash my hands my dad would hit me with his sticky belt. I miss them old days ...

Wow you don't wash your belt, eeew

That's why I wear suspenders
- Same concept applies, now you got shit particles running up your whole body. Wouldn't suspenders touch the ground in the bathroom also... shudders
- Shit particle-covered suspenders.

Gross but true.

Okay but how often are you touching your belt after you’re done in the bathroom and have washed your hands?
- Cowboys do. They got their thumbs in their belts all the time. Maybe that’s why they’re dying out…
  
  No, they are dying out due to late stage capitalism.
- <Batman enters stage left>
  🤨

You guys don't take off your pants, even at home?

I bet you think of this during shower.

Give the belt a good ol' wet wipe swipe

god damn... now I am acutely aware about how much I should wash my belt...

Interesting point. I have started not wearing belts, I just choose pants that fit and the shirt is big enough to cover the belt area so nobody notices. And then the belt doesn't get caught on the shirt... and it doesn't get icky. Win win!

Because I wear suspenders...

How about the phone? No body washes their phone after pooping.
- The phone goes away before the tp gets involved, and doesn’t come out again until I’ve washed my hands. We’re good on that front.
  
  Must.... Keep.... Scrolling

I always thought about this and sometimes I’m like… wait this belt is actually gross…?

wish I could unknow this now

Great shower thought 🚿

Just don't use it for anything else other than keeping your pants up. Definitely no kinky stuff with the everyday belt.

are you pooping on your hands? Why would you be worried about "touching" anything after pooping unless you're getting poop all over your hands.
- I know, right! Washing your hands is for the birds, & they're not real, so...yea.

Who even wears belts?

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