So when you go to the bathroom, or dirty up your hands some other way, you have to touch the spigot handle to turn it on (at least at home, I do). Therefore, germs are spread to it. Then, after washing your hands, you have to turn off the water so what do you do? You touch the dirty handle thus dirtying your hands again.
Short of installing one of those sensor-operated spigots (like the kind you see in airport restrooms) in my apartment, what’s a dirty bird to do? 
Install paper towels. Use paper towel to dry hands, then keeping paper towel in hand, turn off water. Throw away paper towel.
Use the paper towel you dried your hands with to turn it off.
Okay. Short of installing a paper towel holder in my bathroom, any other suggestions?
You should use paper towels in your home bathroom- cloth towels are germy, nasty things.
Or you could just become as proficient at turning off the water with your feet as I am at flushing the toilet with mine.
-Use the back of your hand or your knuckles to turn on the spigot.
or
-Use a small piece of paper to turn it off.
Or stop sweating the small stuff. I’ve managed to survive 51 years so far without using paper towels to turn off every spigot I encounter. Life is full of germs - reasonable precautions will keep you alive. Chill. Carry on.
I use paper towels. You could always designate a special “turning off water handle” stick and remember which side is the clean side you can hold and which end comes in contact with the handle. You could keep it in a bucket of bleach in between uses.
Perhaps that’s why he is so concerned.
You have approximately 10x as many bacteria on and in your body as you have body cells. Bacteria are the most successful life form on Earth, judged by longevity of the group, by numbers of individual organisms, by total biomass, and by environmental penetration. Most of the bacteria found on your skin are harmless and serve a useful purpose in keeping more harmful types from moving in. Your goal is to keep the E. coli and other harmful bacteria down to an insignificant level and live with the rest.
Don’t fret the dirty taps.
Cut two pieces of PVC pipe about 6" long. Label one “Contaminated” and the other one “Cleansed”. Put them in a container of that green stuff that they soak the combs in at the hair salon. When you go to wash your hands, get the “Contaminated” piece out, slip it over facet handle and turn or pull it. Put that piece back. Wash hands. When you are done, get the “Cleansed” piece and reverse the process. If you often use the bathroom with the door closed, you will need to add a third container of the green stuff and cut something that will fit your door nob. Also, you may want to attach a string to the door so that you can close it from the outside. The outside nobs are also very contaminated by people touching it after using the bathroom and not washing their hands.
Bah. Washing your hands is overrated. That’s what you have an immune system for. It likes a challenge now and then. So play with yourself, use the bathroom and have a sandwich. Live, dammit! LIVE!
What she said. Especially at home, where you will only encounter your own germs, or those of people who are so close to you that you carry the same germs. Just clean the bathroom once in a while and wash the towels once in a while and don’t worry about it. Now if you go to the restroom at this one place I used to work? Bring a blowtorch.
Sometimes being dirty, with brothers and sisters, is a good thing …
One of the following:
–Turn off with a washcloth.
–Turn off with a paper towel.
–Spray the tap with disinfectant.
–Zen method: Turn off the tap by not turning it off.
–Use a 1920’s-style Death Ray.
–Get Og to smash the tap.
–Blame it all on those damn aliens. Adjust tinfoil hat as needed.
–Sit in the bathroom and weep for the horrible tragedy of it all.
My preferred option:
–Chill. It won’t kill you to touch a dirty tap for two seconds.
Ever see those big paddle faucet handles in some rest rooms and your doctor’s office? You can turn those off with your elbow.