What common items are secretly teeming with germs? 🦠 #DirtySecrets #GrossFacts #UnsanitarySurprises
Curious about the hidden dirt lurking all around you? Well, brace yourself because you won’t believe where these germs are hiding!
🔍 Key search terms: bacteria, filth, hygiene, contamination
Surprising Sources of Germs
1. Kitchen Sponges
– Believe it or not, your seemingly innocent kitchen sponge is a breeding ground for bacteria.
2. Cellphones
– Your trusty smartphone is probably dirtier than a toilet seat! Make sure to clean it regularly.
Germ Hotspots in Daily Life
1. Handbags
– From money to makeup, your handbag carries more than just your essentials. Give it a clean sweep!
2. Remote Controls
– Don’t let the convenience fool you! Remote controls are notorious for hosting germs.
Tips for Staying Clean
– Regularly disinfect high-touch surfaces like doorknobs, light switches, and faucets.
– Wash your hands frequently with soap and water.
– Avoid touching your face to prevent germ transfer.
So, ready to tackle the unseen germs lurking in your everyday items? Stay informed and keep those pesky bacteria at bay! #StayClean #GermBusters🧼
Your keys, you never wash them, drop them a lot, use them with filthy hand… etc… and just think how often parents give them to their babies to play with.
Books at the library and keyboards. Source: Used to work in a library.
Ladies, if you bring your bag inside the public bathroom stall with you, don’t set it down on the floor. Especially if it doesn’t have little metal feet(s).
Many of us don’t realize how dirty the floors in bathroom stalls or public area’s actually are.
In some cases, the floors are more bacteria ridden than the toilet seats.
The space behind your ears if you don’t specifically clean behind them
your belt because you tighten it right after taking a dump before you even have the opportunity to wash your hands
Your steering wheel. Think of all the things you touch when you’re out and about then get back into your car and transfer it all to your steering wheel. Especially the gas pump 🤮.
Kitchen sponges.
These things are gross. Likely one of the dirtiest things in your home.
Lemons in water at restaurants. They are never cleaned on the outside and handled by numerous people then dropped in your water with all the accumulated filth on the peel. When was the last time you saw a server or bartender clean a lemon? Never. Then right in your water.
Movie theatre seats
Your keyboard. It’s hard to clean, and is used almost constantly
Hotel rooms
there’s fecal matter and dead skin all over your house
Not washing your hands after cleaning out the catbox.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t touch the peed on/pooped on litter, it’s still disgusting. It’s the same kinda feeling as like using a toilet plunger or toilet brush; you’re only touching the handle which doesn’t usually get dirty, but you have the instinct to wash your hands anyway.
Restaurant menus
Drinking from canned beverages without cleaning them off. You have no idea what’s been touching that can before it touches your lips.
Children, especially toddlers. I remember a pediatrics paramedic instructor once saying, “Forget aerosol sprays, just contaminate one ball in a preschool and that’s it.”
Your phone screen is probably dirtier than a public toilet seat. Better start cleaning it regularly!
Doorknobs/handles, faucet handles, the backs and armrests of chairs and the UNDERSIDE edge of chair seats, water fountains, elevator buttons, escalator handrails, oven, dishwasher & refrigerator buttons & handles, condiment bottles, salt & pepper shakers, cupboard handles, garbage can handles, napkin holders, grocery carts, canned & boxed goods, sealed meats, all produce, ice cream cones, etc.
Anything hands touch. Just pay attention to where all you touch. You can probably safely assume that the person who touched it before you had filthy hands.
Fucking hell this thread made me scared of everything.
Cash
Biting your fingernails. Y’all have no clue how much shit is under there.
Wearing your shoes inside the house after walking around all day stepping in who knows what.
Clean under your fingernails. Use an old toothbrush if you have to. Don’t use the same brush for both.
Here’s something no one thinks about – luggage. You’re dragging your suitcase, and maybe an attached tote bag, across sidewalks, floors, maybe airport bathrooms…then what? Handling them when putting them in the overhead bins on the airplane (which makes the bins pretty gross, too). I’m still shocked when I hear people say the set their luggage on the hotel bed.
Airplane seats are gross, too. Nothing gets sanitized between flights, so there could be all kinds of germs on the armrests, tray tables, etc. I’ve seen people put their bare feet on the tray tables! The other day as we were deplaning, the girl next to me got up and her seat was wet from crotch sweat. 🤢
The hallway water fountains. Who knows how many people put their mouth on the spout
Soda bottles and cans. Specifically, the singles you buy from the coolers or shelf. They’re shipped on open pallets with a little plastic bundling them together. They’re covered in dirt and dust.
The fact that we don’t wipe or wash cans off before putting our mouths on them is gross.
Ex-PepsiCo Merchandiser
That coffee pot/ kureig at work. No, they don’t clean it, they only remove the old pods.
Everything I’ve seen listed I’m happy to pretend I’m still ignorant about. The stress I’m carrying from all the other shit I’m dealing with makes me not give a thought about any of it.
Escalator hand rails. They NEVER get cleaned, ever.
Flushing with the lid open
Wearing shoes indoors especially on carpets
Buffets. My husband needs a kidney transplant. Afterwards, he will be immunocompromised for life because of the anti-rejection drugs. They gave him a list of things he can’t do again after transplant, and eating at a buffet is on it. Even one that has a sneeze guard, even if it looks clean, even if it’s vegetarian. No more buffets, Jimmy.
The bottom of your purse. My mother constantly puts hers on my kitchen counter when she comes over. You may as well be putting your shoe on the counter.
Hand air dryers in restrooms. Those Dyson air blade ones are the worst apparently
Not washing their hands every time they use the restroom. Even if you haven’t actively gotten urine/feces on your hands from yourself, you have touched dozens of things that other people with urine/feces have touched before you by entering that room. Also, this is your chance to keep your hands clean from the thousands of other surfaces, doorknobs, and light switches outside the bathroom.
Door knobs
Fast food ice
The condiment bottles at a restaurant.
Flushing with the lid up…
And leaving toothbrushes exposed/near toilets.
Soda fountain ice chutes. Absolutely FILTHY and moldy. No place you have ever been to disassembles and sterilizes them nearly as often as they’re supposed to.
Look into the ice chute next time. You’ll think twice about drinking soda from a fountain.
Any and all goods that are made in house at grocery store delis. Biggest offenders chicken/protein salads and mixed salads like slaws and kale salads that are pre mixed. The choppers that cut the meats for the salads have parts that are EXTREMELY tiny and easy to miss when cleaning them that you’d have to hire a staff of OCD people to make sure its deep cleaned after every use. And sadly, it’s never the case. I’ve worked in so many different prep kitchens, and 99% of them have all had dirty gunky mixers and choppers that no one cares to clean thoroughly. Salad dressing containers in Salad bars are the same. No one has brushes to deep clean those things and I guarantee their just hit with the hand held sink sprayer and dipped in the sani water and this all. Oils cling to plastic containers if you walk back their and grab a clean salad dressing bottle I guarantee you’ll feel grease on the inside from hundreds refills. If you think you got sick from the food you ate at a fast food place it’s gonna be from your foods with dressings and sauces.
Ice dispensers..Iike anywhere you go
Many fountain soda dispensers and bar gun dispensers never get properly cleaned/sanitized and harbor molds, fungi and bacteria. Drink up!
The kitchens in many of the restaurants you eat at. I’ve been indirectly connected to commercial kitchen hood cleaning for decades. I’ve been out on jobs with the guys that clean them. I’ve seen sticky, grimy floors in kitchens. Taco salad bowls stored, uncovered, on top of refrigerators. Packages of hamburger buns stored in bathrooms just off the kitchen. Rats drowned in buckets of grease. Grease in the hood vents that hasn’t been cleaned in 3 months.
I’ve seen some restaurants that were gleaming, stainless steel, spotless. I’ve seen a lot more, though, I’d never set foot in as a customer.
When people lick their finger before turning pages or counting out money.
Coughing and sneezing into hands. Fucking disgusting. Everything touched afterwards is contaminated. Cough/sneeze into your arm or shoulder.