Cleaning for Coronavirus? Don’t Forget These Dirty Things
Most of us are still cleaning more than ever and continuing to wash our hands like crazy. But here's a list of pretty dirty things that you probably touch everyday.
- Refrigerator handles (often!)
- Mailbox handle
- Window cranks or handles
- Washing machine lids (where you open the machine)
- Car door handles (inside and out) including trunk or hatchbacks
- Doorbells
- Tools you might share at work
- Cell phones
- Water bottles (everybody has a metal bottle they're using every day, right?)
- Keys (how many times a day do you touch THOSE?)
- Switches (house and garage)
- Baseball caps (how many times do those brims get touched a day?)
- Municipal garbage can lid (just where you lift it open a few times a week, eh?)
- Pocket knives you might carry and use every day
- Consider washing jackets more often. Coughing into your arm makes clothing now covered in whatever germs you just coughed.)
- Bedding more often than you usually do, especially those "couch blankets" we all use to just cuddle with or use while watching TV.