You might think that your home is clean, but some unexpected items right under your nose can hold a lot of filth.
Here are the top grossest things in your home, according to
MSN:
Books and papers
Ever heard of booklice? The small, colorless insects feed on the mold and mildew that grow on books. They don’t bite humans, but they can reach infestation proportions quickly.
Sheets
You shed up to 1.5 million skin flakes every hour and dust mites really like them.
The allergen-causing bugs are all over your bedding. Fecal bacteria can also be in your bedding.
The washing machine can be a source of the above-mentioned fecal bacteria (from underwear and towels) and those germs can survive detergent, cold water and a dryer’s heat.
So try washing your underwear separately from your sheets and towels.
Toothbrush
Your toothbrush and anything else left out in your bathroom can be really disgusting.
If you don’t close the lid of your toilet when you flush, you can actually aerosolize all the filth that lurks in the bowl.
A toothbrush’s bacteria-friendly environment might be the home of a bacterium’s dreams.
Refrigerator
Cold temperatures only slow the spread of mold and bacteria and mold likes to move.
So if you have some moldy fruit, there are probably mold spores floating in the air, ready to land on whatever else you put in the fridge.
Use some plastic wrap to prevent this spread.
Loofah, washcloth, or sponge
Microbes generally like humid, darker environments.
That sponge in your kitchen sink or the loofah in your shower are perfect places for them to hide.
Much of the life in that loofah has ancestral roots on your own body and some of it may be of the "good" kind of flora and fauna, the kind that give your immune system a helping hand from time to time.
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