Elaine Parrish wrote:
>
> I think that is a great idea. I carry those wipes individually wrapped in
> my purse all the time. They are so handy and I use a lot of them.
>
> In the grocery store, I always pull a few plastic bags in the produce
> section to put the meat that I buy in - especially chicken. I have never
> yet bought any chicken product that wasn't "leaking" or been leaked on. I
> drop my chicken down in the bags and I don't have to worry about them
> dripping all over everything. Then I wash my hands with my little
> wipe. Makes me feel better.

In one of the chains here, they supply plastic meat bags, and also
Purell and paper towels for your hands. When I used to shop with my
infant son, I was so thankful for that, as I often had to pick him up
to comfort him, etc.

Nothing will turn me off faster from a grocery store than the smell of
stinking blood in the meat bins, soured milk in the dairy section or
the nasty smell of spoiling fish. Ick. The ones that get my repeat
business are the stores where the dairy and meat bins are clean and
smell clean. Unfortunately this takes a little more work and some
stores simply don't care.

Another thing I do...When picking mushrooms from the produce bins by
hand is I take a plastic bag, turn it inside out and use it as a glove.
If anyone thinks this is foolish, smell your hands after you have dug
through the mushroom bin. You will be subjected to the lovely odor of
horse shit.

>
> But the very dirtiest thing is money. boo, hiss. We all love money and
> think of it as such a good thing that we don't think about where it has
> been. Every time a vendor starts to hand me change, I have the vision of
> pulling out a can of disinfectant and spraying her and the money before I
> take it. I guess that comes from all those years in business when I saw
> where that money was coming from. boowaaaah

DH always requests new bills at the bank for just this reason. I get
all of his dirty money.
-L.