Deep Cleaning during Covid

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Well, by "make bed" it involves a duvet, although I also do a thin sheet/blanket layer. It's the dog blanket on top that I consider most urgent to get back on, as it protects everything from dirt, drool and hair (hound-husky cross).
 
My little furball has a rooted dislike for jumping up. He won't jump on beds or laps. I'm not sure I understand it as he jumps with abandon on hikes.
 
Neither critter is allowed in my room at night. Once door is opened (and blanket on), it's a sleeping surface.
 
My little guy has two beds. His Daybed is in the living room and is dragged into the sunny patch as desired. His Nightbed is beside the main bed. I usually get up before my guy and the dog waits until he rises.
 
Carolla said:
Sounds like you're keeping busy with the housekeeping Kimmio. I do less of that, but I ALWAYS make my bed ... old habits die hard I guess. I just like having a tidy bed to climb into at night.
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Me too, our house rule is, last one up makes the bed.
 
I thought of this thread today - as I was vacuuming out the oven! LOL - that's a first! My personal chef had a small potato explode in there last evening & I'm baking bread today - so a little clean up was needed! The little vacuum worked well for much of it, then a quick wipe & ready to pre-heat. I did notice it needs a better cleaning tho - so maybe after the bread is done it will go on self-clean.
 
I convinced my son that he wanted to help clean out the bottom shelf in a hallway closet. It had boxes and crates of plastic containers suitable for dry items when camping and camping pots etc. . We no longer tent camp - much less canoe camp so some things could go! He dragged out everything and I grabbed the things I will still find useful for small trailer camping and picnics. He took almost everything else. WIN WIN.
 
Deeper cleaning?

Probably not.

We have asked that Robert bring his bakery uniform to us for cleaning in our larger machine and we tend to do that daily. A) so that he always has a completely fresh uniform and b) because cleaning on our level means that the uniform is not in a contaminated state on the same level as his grandmother who is in a far more vulnerable demographic for all manner of things.

Kimberly, who has worked with clients from time to time keeps a bottle of hand sanitizer by the door for when she gets home after being with clients. She also has a bottle in her car so I think that there might be some overkill going on. I don't have sanitizer in my office but I'm not touching anyone there and have few visits to my office from folk who aren't staff and we all sanitize upon arrival.
 
I have actually rebelled a bit about this at work.

Suppose to sanitize belts between customers. Most of the time they won't let me, because they load up groceries before I notice that they're there. Demands that they take groceries off the belt are not well received.

My hands are in deep distress. They are so over exposed to alcohol, water, sanitizer, that my nails are flaky and splitting and soft, I have a patch of unmanageable eczema on my right palm.

So, the belts all get cleaned every second or third customer. My hands can do no more. I go to bed every night, after a careful routine of argan oil on all nails, antibiotic ointment on possible infection sites, cortisone cream on itchy eczema bits, vaseline over everything, then cotton gloves.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I have actually rebelled a bit about this at work.

Suppose to sanitize belts between customers. Most of the time they won't let me, because they load up groceries before I notice that they're there. Demands that they take groceries off the belt are not well received.

My hands are in deep distress. They are so over exposed to alcohol, water, sanitizer, that my nails are flaky and splitting and soft, I have a patch of unmanageable eczema on my right palm.

So, the belts all get cleaned every second or third customer. My hands can do no more. I go to bed every night, after a careful routine of argan oil on all nails, antibiotic ointment on possible infection sites, cortisone cream on itchy eczema bits, vaseline over everything, then cotton gloves.
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I think I asked before but forget the issue. Can you wear nitrile gloves? Generally they are fairly nonirritating minus a little just to to sweating.Not sure if work allows.
I wish those belts were actually cleaned more often.I would rather not have raw meat juice on things I stick in the crisper drawer etc. Between each person or every other one is excessive but those things are typically fairly filthy.
 
I can wear gloves. They are provided free. They protect me, not the customer. They do not stand up to sanitizing between customers, and I certainly would not be allowed a pair per customer.

I am totally aware of "meat juices" and always stick them straight into a produce bag, and sanitize between raw meat juice on a lane. And totally, they used to be dirty. Except for clear contamination (meat, eggs, leaky milk), they were only required to be properly sanitized at the end of each day. And we had plastic carry baskets that used to get a once a week sanitization on lane 7 on Monday morning, which took a few hours, so no baskets anymore. The powder-coated steel carts can be sanitized via power washer every time they are moved from "clean carts" to "to be sanitized carts", which requires a level of customer compliance we are only semi-getting, but there's a sanitizing station just inside the door with wipes for cart handles, etc., and hand sanitizer, and a person both counting people in and out but also offering masks.
 
BetteTheRed said:
I can wear gloves. They are provided free. They protect me, not the customer. They do not stand up to sanitizing between customers, and I certainly would not be allowed a pair per customer.

I am totally aware of "meat juices" and always stick them straight into a produce bag, and sanitize between raw meat juice on a lane. And totally, they used to be dirty. Except for clear contamination (meat, eggs, leaky milk), they were only required to be properly sanitized at the end of each day. And we had plastic carry baskets that used to get a once a week sanitization on lane 7 on Monday morning, which took a few hours, so no baskets anymore. The powder-coated steel carts can be sanitized via power washer every time they are moved from "clean carts" to "to be sanitized carts", which requires a level of customer compliance we are only semi-getting, but there's a sanitizing station just inside the door with wipes for cart handles, etc., and hand sanitizer, and a person both counting people in and out but also offering masks.
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Nitrile gloves that are reasonably thick should be able to be sanitized and stand up for hours, used them with many solvents. The clear gloves often seen at places like Subway - no.
 
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