The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Onebrokelady

greenbee said:

cod3 said:

Thanks @greenbee I'll have another look at the ratios.  We use soap and water mainly, but would like sanitiser for the likes of the car steering wheel and the phones (including work ones).   

Sanitiser can damage your phones. Most of them are best washed with soap and water, but you can get more detailed info here: https://thewirecutter.com/blog/how-to-sanitize-clean-phone/ My phones are in cases, so soap and water on a flannel and then drying with a towel is my normal option. I occasionally take them out and wipe the phone with a cloth, and clean inside the case. While I was travelling last week I also took to washing my credit cards as in the US they insist on handling them even for contactless...

Your car steering wheel can be washed with soap and water, or wiped with neat alcohol on a cloth, or bleach wipes. Gel would make it sticky and more likely to grow bugs rather than less likely.

Are the wipes you can clean your glasses with alcohol based, mine say they are suitable to use as screen wipes too,I clean my phone with them 

maryb

I'm as germ phobic as the rest of the population atm but I don't see why my phone is so much more toxic than anything else I touch.  It lives in my handbag, if I take it out to text or phone, it's just me touching it and I don't put it down anywhere.  Why is it essential to sanitise that and not my bag, for example?  Speaking of handbags, I think they are usually much more likely to harbour nasties than just about anything else.  I always hang mine on a hook on the back of the door if I go to the loo, never put it on the floor and I get conniptions if I see people put their bag on the table in a restaurant

greenbee

Onebrokelady said:

greenbee said:

cod3 said:

Thanks @greenbee I'll have another look at the ratios.  We use soap and water mainly, but would like sanitiser for the likes of the car steering wheel and the phones (including work ones).   

Sanitiser can damage your phones. Most of them are best washed with soap and water, but you can get more detailed info here: https://thewirecutter.com/blog/how-to-sanitize-clean-phone/ My phones are in cases, so soap and water on a flannel and then drying with a towel is my normal option. I occasionally take them out and wipe the phone with a cloth, and clean inside the case. While I was travelling last week I also took to washing my credit cards as in the US they insist on handling them even for contactless...

Your car steering wheel can be washed with soap and water, or wiped with neat alcohol on a cloth, or bleach wipes. Gel would make it sticky and more likely to grow bugs rather than less likely.

Are the wipes you can clean your glasses with alcohol based, mine say they are suitable to use as screen wipes too,I clean my phone with them 

Check the details in the link for how to clean your model of phone as some can be damaged by wipes but most are waterproof. And your glasses wipes should say what their ingredients are. 

greenbee

maryb said:

I'm as germ phobic as the rest of the population atm but I don't see why my phone is so much more toxic than anything else I touch.  It lives in my handbag, if I take it out to text or phone, it's just me touching it and I don't put it down anywhere.  Why is it essential to sanitise that and not my bag, for example?  Speaking of handbags, I think they are usually much more likely to harbour nasties than just about anything else.  I always hang mine on a hook on the back of the door if I go to the loo, never put it on the floor and I get conniptions if I see people put their bag on the table in a restaurant

You may be an exception. Lots of people take their phone into the loo in their hands. Or keep them in a back pocket so take them out in the loo. Not everyone uses handbags, plenty of people let others handle their phones, and many people also put them down on seats, tables, desks etc. More info: https://time.com/4908654/cell-phone-bacteria/

i have just put my work laptop bag through the washing machine and given my makeup and toiletry bags a thorough clean. Most of my belongings go through airport scanners a couple of tines a week, and I bet the trays aren’t clean. Only Sweden seem to have separate trays for shoes, although some airports do have microban impregnated trays (I bet it has worn off though). So thorough cleaning when I arrive/get home is important, although I don’t always do it as well as I should. 

Onebrokelady

maryb said:

I'm as germ phobic as the rest of the population atm but I don't see why my phone is so much more toxic than anything else I touch.  It lives in my handbag, if I take it out to text or phone, it's just me touching it and I don't put it down anywhere.  Why is it essential to sanitise that and not my bag, for example?  Speaking of handbags, I think they are usually much more likely to harbour nasties than just about anything else.  I always hang mine on a hook on the back of the door if I go to the loo, never put it on the floor and I get conniptions if I see people put their bag on the table in a restaurant

I'm the same,I'm not actually worried about my phone because it's either in my bag or the inside pocket of my coat,I don't take it to the loo with me because in the past I dropped one down the toilet 😟I also hang my bag on the hook and don't put it on the table 😊 the bottom of handbags have got to be one of the worst places for germs if you tend to put it on the floor

herlig

Look around you with how much of the population never have their phone out of their hand - hanging on to the bus rail while scrolling, waiting in the GP waiting room while scrolling, immediately answering calls while shopping pushing the trolley with the other hand, walking down the street messaging etc. While many of us are conscious to wash/sanitize our hands once we've touched the ATM, handled money in the store, touched a hand rail etc the phone is used mid hand clean, while we're doing things, it often gets immediate use whenever it beeps and then put away only to be taken out once that person is home etc. Whatever is on that phone will then be on the hands again as we're not too zoned in, feel a little safer in our own space and a little complacent as we've already scrubbed the outside germs from our hands as we walked through the door. 

pineapple

Been trying to work out how best to use disposable gloves when out shopping  Gloves on before I so much as touch a trolley. Carefully remove gloves before getting into the car and driving home. I reckon gloves could safely remain in door compartment for several days or maybe be binned in outdoor waste basket. Drive home with uncontaminated car key/hands and open house door with uncontaminated key/hands. Then don second pair of gloves to bring in shopping and bin gloves. But then I have to remove products from bag. Arghh.... Either that or forget the gloves and simply clean everything on getting home, hands, keys, bag handle, shopping... It's not that simple!  

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I'm going to make up a bleach solution and do ALL the door handles inside and out and chair arms and bannisters on the stairs every day, once in the mornings and again in the evenings.  I am going to use gloves to handle any mail that comes through the door too and find the letter opener to get in to the envelopes, we can dispose of any paper/card included in them by burning on the stove which will keep our waste down to a minimum and mean no one else (the recycling men) will have to come into contact with possibly contaminated surfaces.

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herlig said:

Look around you with how much of the population never have their phone out of their hand - hanging on to the bus rail while scrolling, waiting in the GP waiting room while scrolling, immediately answering calls while shopping pushing the trolley with the other hand, walking down the street messaging etc. While many of us are conscious to wash/sanitize our hands once we've touched the ATM, handled money in the store, touched a hand rail etc the phone is used mid hand clean, while we're doing things, it often gets immediate use whenever it beeps and then put away only to be taken out once that person is home etc. Whatever is on that phone will then be on the hands again as we're not too zoned in, feel a little safer in our own space and a little complacent as we've already scrubbed the outside germs from our hands as we walked through the door. 

I'm reminded of a detail from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy where the 'useless' inhabitants of Golgafrincham were persuaded to settle on a new planet (which turned out to be a prehistoric Earth) where they all died from a virulent disease caught from dirty telephones
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B

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pineapple said:

Been trying to work out how best to use disposable gloves when out shopping  Gloves on before I so much as touch a trolley. Carefully remove gloves before getting into the car and driving home. I reckon gloves could safely remain in door compartment for several days or maybe be binned in outdoor waste basket. Drive home with uncontaminated car key/hands and open house door with uncontaminated key/hands. Then don second pair of gloves to bring in shopping and bin gloves. But then I have to remove products from bag. Arghh.... Either that or forget the gloves and simply clean everything on getting home, hands, keys, bag handle, shopping... It's not that simple!  

Was checking in with an old friend in Italy earlier, & advised him to be prepared to take a blowtorch to the doors of his landy (assuming he's allowed out)