Five Things We Don’t Clean as Much as We Should

Sometimes Louie G. and I will go to the hospital to visit people or deliver things. Well, every time we go I always yell at him because he touches the elevator buttons and the walls. Gross!

I'm not a 'Germaphobe' by any means, but we all know public places are crawling with germs! Well, here are five things you probably are not cleaning enough.

1. Your phone - You touch it up to 150 times a day, and a recent study that tested more than 50 phones found 7,000 different types of bacteria on them. So you should be wiping yours down every single day.

2. Your sheets - Millions of dead skin cells end up in the fabric, and attract dust mites. So you should wash them once a week. You should also wash your pillows every three months . . . not just the cases. Most pillows are machine washable. And you should vacuum or steam clean your mattress every six months. I am so guilty of not washing my pillows. I did it once and they got all clumped up! Hmm, I guess I'll try it again.

3. Bras - They come in contact with a lot of sweat. So you're supposed to hand-wash them in the sink every two or three times you wear them.

4. Kitchen towels - You should only use them once before washing them again. Last year, a study found E. coli on 25% of kitchen towels. And they're the dirtiest thing in most people's kitchens.

5. Your purse - You should wipe down the outside and inside with antibacterial wipes once a week. Because everything you put in there comes in contact with bacteria. This one I'm bad with too! I never think to wipe the inside of my purse.

Well you know how I'll be spending the rest of my day! Yep, cleaning all the things I don't do often enough! How do you stack up to this list?

Source: Daily Mail