This seems more suited to MPSIMS. I’ll relocate it.
You could at least try changing things up to see if they in fact work better for you that way. Tonite cook up and ingest a large meal of the raw meat and whatever, afterward take out the garbage to the trash. Without changing clothes relax in a comfortable chair and summon up the farting demon within and then call your daughters in from the park.
You know, if you put the garbage in a bag there will be less air-borne illnesses for your family to catch and your clothes wouldn’t get all dirty from carrying the garbage out to the can.
I know where the fart demon really was - at my grandson’s house. He may be a little fellow, but he can really bring the wind. Phew.
Thanks. I suspected it was going to be moved there.
You know, it was supposed to be a light-hearted thread about our silly scares. I didn’t expect the Spanish (OCD) Inquisition.
Believe it or not, being Belgian, I’ve eaten my share of filet américain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare#Regional_variations. I got sick only once but it was the worst gastro-enteritis that I’ve ever had. Epic.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
My greatest fear is the Spanish OCD Inquisition as mentioned by the OP. There is nothing more alarming than that. :eek:
I just can’t wrap my head around having to change clothes after taking out the garbage. 
FOR EXPLANATORY PURPOSES ONLY. SPEAKS TO OP’S STATE OF MIND VIS-A-VIS GERMS.
This is going to be my last post in this trainwreck of a thread.
First, jimbuff314, I’m impressed that you have enough time on your hands to research past threads of mine (you missed one in which I asked a question regarding an undissolved detergent tablet in the dishwasher). Too bad you didn’t read them.
If you had, you’d have noticed that I was wondering why you could leave salami sandwiches out of the fridge for hours in hot weather and not get sick. That’s the exact verb I used: “wonder”. Not “worry” as your misleading post stated. I also used the phrases “[n]ot a big deal” and “I sometimes toss my work bag not far from a window, directly in the sunlight” in relation to the situation. Exactly the sort of language that a germophobe would use.
In the “diswasher thread”, my answer to the poll was the same as 66% of those who responded. That answer included the phrase “No need to freak out”. Typical germophobe.
If you had read this thread properly, you would have noticed that I mentioned the fact that I’ve eaten filet américain (i.e. raw meat) for as long as I can remember. Again, something that germophobes do all the time.
And of course, encouraging my daughters to go play outside… with these disguting vermin all around? Yeah, a real germophobe.
I admit I tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to the items that I’ve mentioned above. Too much? Perhaps. I’ll think about it. But your post (in bold and caps!) was pure character-assassination.
I’m disappointed.
Les Espaces Du Sommeil, everyone has their quirks. I think it’s inconsistent that your kids can throw things into the trash container (be in the vicinity of the trash)… Yet you prefer them not be around when you dispose of the contents in the trash container. This is purely illogical to me.
I am requesting an explanation for this behavior.
When you remove the trash bag from the container does a poof of bacteria disseminate or something?
Not trying to insult you or be malicious-- I am just wondering whether or not people should adopt this behavior for health reasons. To include changing clothes immediately after disposing of trash.
Looks like I won’t be able to leave this miserable thread alone.
Since you post was not judgmental, brovolone, here it goes:
My youngest daughter spent 3 days at the hospital with bloody diarrhea and dehydration when she was 14 month old due to her mother’s careless attitude with raw hamburgers. I don’t wish to repeat that experience and, most importantly, I don’t want her to re-live it. Especially since foodborne illness in children can have some nasty complications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolytic-uremic_syndrome). What really gets my goat is that her mother displayed the same attitude as the one I see here. “Come on, it’s ok. It’s not going to hurt her”. 3 days later, it was “Hello, ER”. :mad:
As for the garbage, well of course they can toss stuff in it. What else are they going to do, throw it on the floor? But when it comes to handling the not-so-infrequently torn or leaky bags, I’d rather do it. What’s more, they’re only 6 and 8 by the way. The bags are still too heavy and just plain big for them to carry down 8 floors. They also had this habit of running towards me everytime they saw me when they were younger leading to several cases of water, food and various objects dropped on the ground. It’s annoying but ok. A bagful of thrash however? No, thanks.
Thanks for elaborating. This behavior makes perfect sense now. I especially appreciate you sharing your personal experience. Hopefully this can encourage others to really look at household sanitation and preventive health measures.
I work at a hospital and people might think that I am a germophobe for double-bagging isolation trash prior to carrying it out of the room. What my coworkers don’t know is that I’ve had a bag full of C.diff-contaminated waste bust out of the bottom of the bag in the middle of the hospital hallway in transport to the soiled utility room. Had the garbage not busted out of the bottom that day— I probably wouldn’t double-bag today. But it did, so I do.
With that experience-- it’s better to be safe than sorry and just take the extra effort to double-bag the waste. Just like how you take the extra effort to wait until your kids are out of the immediate vicinity to ensure their lack of exposure to potential pathogens in the event that the bag busts or whatever. Totally makes sense now to be more proactive rather than reactive. Kind of sick, and my apologies, that I may have came off as I was assuming you were merely paranoid. Even if you didn’t experience the unfortunate situation you’d mentioned regarding your daughter at age 14mo, it is still a good practice after deeply considering the reasoning behind it. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome ;).
Well, that explains the raw meat in garbage. Which is a relief – I was wondering if maybe you had dead Americans in the garbage that you didn’t want the kids to see.
No need to be defensive though. All the world is weird by you and I, and even you are a little strange…[Who said this: "all strange but thee and Me"]
Alarming. Orderly and clean, but alarming.
Thank you Les Espaces Du Sommei for opening another topic for discussion.
I realize this conversation probably isn’t going in the direction you envisioned, but we who sit in front of computers all day then come home to placate ourselves with the same enjoy different views.
And enjoy the company.
I recently had a bout with salmonella poisoning. It was not pleasant so I can understand how one needs to practice “safe handling”.
I do not want to repeat that experience.