Hot on the left is not right for right handed frugalists..

[Fumesucker]

Lately I've been noticing the way I use water when I turn on the tap, I'm right handed and most of the time I grab the item I want to run water over with my right hand and then reach for the tap to turn the water on with my left hand.

The problem is that my left hand automatically goes for the left tap on my two knob sink and turns on the hot water even when I don't really need hot water, it's actually difficult for me to keep from automatically doing this if I'm at all distracted (pretty common for me to be lost in thought while I'm doing household chores).

Anyone else notice themselves unnecessarily using hot water just because their left hand is the one that's free to turn the tap?

[cbayer]

1. Most of the time both of my taps give me cold water, lol.

I have to make an effort (and use fuel) to heat up water, so I am generally very aware of what I am doing. But I don't recall this being a problem before.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Sadly, I do this too.

And until you mentioned it, it did not occur to me....especially since my hot water is cold for too long when I first turn it on.

I will have to pay more attention to what I am doing and see if I can retrain myself.

[Kaleva]

3. Which hand is dominant depends on the task.

I'm left handed for writing, eating, and washing dishes. With my right hand, I hold a cup and wash myself, smoke, throw, shoot and use power tools, scissor, snips and chop wood. For many hand tools, I'll use either hand. I'm more comfortable using a rake on my right side and raking to my left but prefer shoveling dirt to my right.

As for turning on the water at a two handle faucet, either hand works for me.

[Fumesucker]

4. I can turn on the water with either hand..

But I tend to to grasp the item I'm going to run water over/into with my right hand which leaves the left as default for turning on the water.

You sound fairly unusual, most people have a more dominant hand, I'm fairly strongly right handed myself.