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I was about 25 years old before I realized I could use warm water to wash my hands in the winter. I'm usually considered a very intelligent individual, but for some reason this never occurred to me. Maybe it's because I grew up poor and we tried to use as little hot water as possible, or maybe I'm just not as smart as people think I am.
I always wash with cold water, but that's just because I'm impatient. Unless I'm about to get intimate with my SO, then my hands gotta be warm.
Y'all do know warm water cleans better than cold, no matter the weather, right?
That's what soap is for. And for a quick 10-20s hand wash, I doubt the temperature matters much. If I was about to do surgery or something, I'd use as hot of water I could tolerate, but if I'm just washing after taking a piss, yeah, not a big deal.
Not really, it just washes the soap off faster.
I think it’s a little more nuanced. If it wasn’t a problem for you then I see no reason to question your intelligence, if it was a big problem and you didn’t see the obvious solution, then I’d be willing to agree with your reasons
Yup, I wash my hands with cold water because waiting for the water to heat up takes as much time as actually washing my hands. I can handle 10-20s or whatever of cold water, but waiting 10s just feels wasteful for a quick hand wash.
Right, I was going to add exactly this. Who has the patience to wait for hot water
Counter point, most of us don't live in buildings so poorly built that our water takes more than 1-2 seconds to come out hot...