PAGE 10 What Your Dirty
Floors Won’t Tell You! By Suzan Chiang,
Founder of HappyMomBlogger Some people say I’m a
germaphobe. Well I’m fine with that and I’m not embarrassed to admit it. Without germaphobes
in this world the personal and house cleaning industry would be bankrupt. Germaphobes keep the antibacterial hand soaps a popular item and disin- fectants a common household word. Germaphobes know the difference between keeping
bad germs at bay and keep- ing good germs within arms distance. Most importantly, germaphobes have a tendan- cy to really know how to keep themselves clean and their homes clean.
So besides keeping our
bathrooms and kitchen clean (for obvious reasons), there is one thing that most of us tend to neglect in the clean- ing department. That depart- ment is our floors. The floor in our houses is one of the dirti- est areas you can ever imag- ine. The floors in our houses connects us from room to room, therefore it’s essential to keep them clean. But a lot of people clean them only once a week or as needed. And that’s not nearly enough. Let me give you a scenario. Imagine walking around
outside all day, whether at the park, at your work, at school, at the bus station, or at the supermarket. Imagine you are walking at the park and you accidentally stepped on dog poo. And then you’re at the bus station and you stepped on someone’s leftover hot dog. And then you’re at the supermarket parking lot and you step on gum or what looks like gum, but could be anything sticky. Then imagine arriving
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at home and you walk inside your house, with your shoes on. Now you’ve brought into your lovely home all the stuff you just stepped on and has gathered ceremoniously onto the bottom of your shoes and is at that mo- ment, being tracked all over your carpets, your wood floors, and your tiled floors. And then imag- ine your kids and your newborn crawling around on the same floors your shoes just smudged all over. Basically, they just got all that gunk that was on the bottom of your shoes onto their hands, clothes, or worse – in their mouths. Kids will be kids after all, and they don’t know about gross stuff underneath the bottom of shoes. So if you can picture that
scenario in your head, wouldn’t you be pretty disgusted by all the stuff that’s left on your floors? And if you only clean your floors once a week, then you’re just adding more dirt, grime, and germs onto the floors. And what- ever you track on your floors will get tracked everywhere else in your home. So what can you do at this point? You’ve got a week’s worth or germs on your floors and probably in your bedroom as well. You can do a hard scrubbing at this point, disinfect, and then scrub really hard again. Or, you can take preventative measures in keep- ing your floors as clean as hu- manly possible. What are some of the ways
to keep floors clean and prevent germs from taking over your house?
Here are some suggestions
that we use at our home wheth- er you’re a germaphobe or not: • Remove your shoes
before you enter your house. Not only are you tracking in dirt and grime from the outside world, but you could be poten- tially tracking in dangerous lead from older buildings, certain materials, and dirt. • If you walk outside bare- foot, clean your feet before you enter your house. The same theory applies to shoes as do Continued on P. 11
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