Cleaning for Coronavirus? Don’t Forget These Dirty Things

Most of us are cleaning more than ever and washing our hands more than ever before. But here's a list of pretty dirty things that you probably touch everyday.

• Refrigerator handles (often!)
• Mailbox handle
• Window cranks or handles
• Washing machine lids (where you open the machine)
• Car door handles (inside and out) including trunk or hatchbacks
• Doorbells
• Tools you might share at work
• Cell phones
• Water bottles (everybody has a metal bottle they're using every day, right?)
• Keys (how many times a day do you touch THOSE?)
• Switches (house and garage)
• Baseball caps (how many times do those brims get touched a day?)
• Municipal garbage can lid (just where you lift it open a few times a week, eh?)
• Pocket knives you might carry and use every day
• Consider washing jackets more often. Coughing into your arm makes clothing now covered in whatever germs you just coughed.)
• Bedding more often than you usually do, especially those "couch blankets" we all use to just cuddle with or use while watching TV.