You didn’t know? The floor is much dirtier than your squeaky-clean arse. 
Yep and yep. Sheets can go a couple of weeks. No problemo. Fortunately the advert people mentioned hasn’t made it to these shores, although if it did I’m sure it would just be laughed off the airwaves. Having said that, we did have an advert a few weeks back for disposable toilet brushes. Yep, simply flush it away to overload our Victorian sewage system, once you’re done. It was good for a laugh, though:
“You use the brush to scrub HERE…”
(cut to shot of toilet)
“…and then the brush goes back HERE…”
(shot of toilet brush holder)
“…so next time you use it you’re spreading the germs back HERE”
(another shot of toilet. Cut to housewife looking horrified. Germs? In the toilet? Say it ain’t so!!)
So, you’re saying I should be worried about spreading a few germs in my toilet bowl. Well excuse me, but I don’t lick the bowl, I don’t eat my dinner out of it, and unless those germs are going to go crawling back up my colon, which of course, is where they came out of in the first place, I shan’t be losing any beauty sleep over it. I give it a good squirt of bleach every few days and leave it overnight, and if the fungus grows too tall to comfortably sit down on the seat, then I’ll just chop it back a bit. :rolleyes:
Me too, but it’s probably even longer than four years. When all around me are people snuffling through winter colds and “flu”, I occasionally get a slight sore throat for a day or so and then feel fine.
Don’t let the ad men con you out of your health.
I confess, I got one of those throw-away toilet brush dealie-bobbers. You don’t flush it though, you put the little sponge that goes on the end in the trash. Mostly because I’m lazy though. The cleaning stuff and everything is already in the sponge. And I clean the bathroom really well maybe once a month or so, so I don’t feel too guilty about contributing to the overwhelming barrage of disposable garbage.
I’m convinced that those and the original Swiffers are some of the best little house-gadgets they’ve come out with in years. Considering how many useless brooms I’ve had that were just trash after getting all ratty, a couple of wet and dry paper “towels” from the Swiffer about once a week do an admirable job of keeping my dinky little 1-bed apt kitchen and bathroom floor clean. But again… it’s not germ-o-phobe stuff. Anything that makes cleaning faster is good.
My ex sister-in-law has severe OCD which she refuses to take medication for. Back when I knew her, she would wash anything that touched the floor, including bedspreads and dust ruffles, every single day. She also washed coins and shoes in the washing machine and scrubbed light switches so hard with Clorox that the paint would peel off the walls. She bought Clorox and sanitizing wipes in bulk and had them stockpiled in the kitchen cabinets so tightly that there was no room left for food or dishes in there. Strangely, her OCD cleaning didn’t extend to dust so the whole house would have a half inch thick layer of dust on every surface, unless that surface was near a doorknob, light switch, or drawer handle.
Of course, she wasn’t what you would call normal so I suppose that doesn’t answer the question in the OP.
I’m not too germ-paranoid myself, although I do have an obsession with keeping the kitchen counters clean and I use Clorox wipes a couple of times a day especially after preparing food. Bed sheets and towels get washed once a week or so. But to wash a sock after it hits the floor? Nope.
I’m with the crowd that thinks the advertisers wants us to think we should be this germ-phobic. I do know one woman who washes her can opener every single time she uses it, but she really is germ-phobic. As far as a sock falling on her floor? Her floor is probably cleaner than the dishes you and I eat off of, so no loss there.
Because I have stackable washer/dryer, probably two or three articles of clothing fall out of the dryer, and onto the floor or top of the washer, per load. If I rewashed everything that didn’t go straight into the basket, I’d probably be doing two extra loads of wash a week.
And speaking of laundry baskets, where can you buy disinfectants for them? I mean, your dirty clothes go in there to go into the laundry room, then you put your clean clothes in them, where no doubt dirty clothes germs and body filth still reside!! :eek:
I think I’m on to something! Hold on while I call an advertising agency. . .
I subscribe to this theory myself. I wash my clothes after every use, but that’s mostly to keep them from getting dirty and smelly. My bed sheets get washed once a week, and I don’t use antibacterial anything. I clean the apartment so that it looks neat and presentable, not due to some futile quest to eliminate germs from my life.
BTW, I don’t have any allergies, and I haven’t been seriously ill in years. When I get cold-like symptoms (runny nose, sore throat, etc.) they tend to be mild and usually disappear within a few days.
I’m still surprised no advertiser has created a product specifically targeted at eyebrow dandruff.
If I ever see one, I’ll know the Apocalypse is truly upon us.
George Carlin has a comedy bit about hypercleanliness in his book Napalm and Silly Putty. He’s against hand washing in order to build up his immune system and says he only washes them when he gets shit on them wich it two, three times a week usually, ROFL. He said only four areas need to be washed on the human body, mouth, armpits, asshole and crotch and they should preferably be cleaned with the same brush.
…and for those who aren’t from Houston, channel 8 is the local PBS affiliate – by far the best TV station in Houston.
Whoohoo Frontline!
The best way to disinfect stuff is with fire. Everyone knows this. So, if you want a completely cean house, just burn it down. No more germs. As for the house, that’s waht insuarnce is for.
I’m just waiting for napalm to become comercially available for cleaning purposes. 