One Easy Tip to Keep Your Kitchen Cleaner
For as long as I can remember I have been a germaphobe.
I am not talking about the ten second rule or dropping a baby’s pacifier. I am talking germs in the bathroom, the kitchen and the laundry room. They gross me out!!
I remember as a teenager I rinsed my glass, plate and fork in hot, hot water before using them. Weird. I get that.
With each baby, my obsession with germs became worse. Do you have any idea how many germs you spread in your washing machine? I run towels and undergarments in the dryer longer because the heat is what kills the germs. Seriously. Don’t Google it. You’ll never wear clothes again.
And the germs that are spread from people not washing their hands. Yeah, gross. I sound like a broken record telling my kids to wash their hands all day long. (Not to mention, I refused to hold a boys hand when I was younger because I KNEW boys did not wash their hands.)
But the biggest place for me and my phobia with germs is in the kitchen. People (like my brother James) hate having me over for dinner. When you’re cooking raw meat my eyes are on you. “Did you just put cooked meat on that plate the raw meat was on? I know you rinsed the plate, but you did not disinfect it? Do you get a lot of stomach aches?” I am embarrassed to admit this, but I have said those very words more than once.
When the twins were babies I was still using sponges to clean my kitchen counter until I read up on the germ cross-contamination that takes place with sponges.
Soap does not clean the sponge or the dishrag. Germs are growing. Rapidly.
I read that you can “cook” a used kitchen sponge in the microwave for a certain period of time and it kills the germs. I can tell you, this also ruins the sponge and causes it to break down. That whole microwaving sponges concept lasted a few weeks for me and I was over it, but not over the germs.
I am going to tell you something you will be thinking about for a while. Dishcloths and sponges redeposit millions, MILLIONS, of germs on the surfaces you and your family come in contact with.
But I have an awesome solution. Ready for it?
For the last seven years I have used paper towels in my kitchen.
I have. I am 150% serious.
Paper towels are a staple on my shopping list.
We use them for cleaning and for drying hands.
I have never looked back. (Although this is a sponsorship between Bounty and me, I have been a committed paper towel user for at least seven years. Anyone who comes to my house knows this. Understand everything shared here is my own opinion.)
Typically I have just purchased store-brand paper towels, but I’ve recently given Bounty DuraTowel a try. Here is what I am loving about them.
- uniquely made in a way that provides durability even when wet (You can wash dishes with them if you want- I use my dishwasher, but you get it. )
- feels and cleans like a cloth- for real!
- clinically proven to leave surfaces 3x cleaner than a dishcloth
That last one seals the deal for me. Three times less germs. I knew I was on to something seven years ago.
Tell me, are you going to ditch and switch? When was the last time you washed your dishcloth?
Bounty exposed my dirty dishcloth and showed me the cleaner way to clean with Bounty DuraTowel, the only cloth-like, durable paper towel that is clinically proven to leave surfaces three times cleaner than a germy dishcloth.* Find out more here!
*1tsp spaghetti sauce, 10 mls. coffee, â…› tsp creamer on laminate countertop
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Bounty. The opinions and text are all mine.