I have a confession...

I was really grossed out by the advert where the woman uses the raw chicken to wipe down the benches. Am I alone on this? Ever since, I can't help but inspect family members cloths and scrubbing brushes and replace them when no one is looking...

My confession is....up until recently, I was buying antibacterial disposable wipes to clean the highchair. So those ads really worked! So wasteful I know and it makes no sense because I'm a cloth nappy user, but I just wasn't mentally ready for taking on any other method when I just had to clean so much and I wanted the highchair to not harbour any germs that may make SB sick.

I then found a roll of Chux cloths - available in blue, green or red - cheapest at Priceline (about $3-4 dollars) - and now I throw the days worth into the wash and re-use them. About $5 saved a week by doing this, and the Chux literally take up no space in the machine or in the line.

I have seen people cut a square of each colour Chux and laminate them on a small poster, to remind people that the blue cloth is for the bench, the green is for the bathroom and the red is for the floor. Not a bad idea really, I get grossed out by contamination (thank the gods I don't have a blacklight!).

Do you know what does confuse me? When people don't have handsoap in the kitchen. Don't they wash their hands before preparing food? Or after touching meat? I used to get very annoyed when I was a checkout chick that we weren't allowed soap in the kitchen, and had to touch at least 2 door handles to wash our hands in the bathroom, before touching those 2 doors again to go out and walk through the kitchen to walk out and handle peoples fruit and veg on the checkout. Just crazy.

End rant.