Geez, I see my wife and her friends carrying those purses as if they were an extension of their arms, now check this email I got today...girls beware!
Have you ever noticed girls who set their handbags on public toilet floors, then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table?
Happens a lot! It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes 'what you don't know will hurt you'!
Read on.............
Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been.
It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside? Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day.
'I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a lot,' says one woman. 'On the floor of my car, and in toilets.'
'I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the floor of the toilet,' says another woman 'and of course in my home which should be clean.'
We decided to find out if handbags harbor a lot of bacteria. We learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake , and then we set out to test the average woman's handbag.
Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared.
Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their handbags were at least a little bit dirty.
It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.
Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the handbags tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick.
In one sampling, four out of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. 'There is fecal contamination on the handbags' says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with one exception.
The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. 'Some type of feces, or possibly vomit' says Amy.
So the moral of this story is that your handbag won't kill you, but it does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat. Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen counter top.
Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes. 'If you think about putting a pair of shoes on your counter tops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your handbag on the counter tops.'
Your handbag has gone where individuals before you have walked, sat, sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc!
Do you really want to bring that home with you?
Can't say I put my bag on the floor' I usually hang it on the 'coat hanger', the door knob/slider, or on my lap...
Cant be any worse then men not washing their hands, but walking straight out the loos after having a slash and then touching everyone/everything with their infested little mitts!
Hey I wash my hands everytime ;)
You make it sound like all penises have the plague.Cant be any worse then men not washing their hands, but walking straight out the loos after having a slash and then touching everyone/everything with their infested little mitts!
Well if you want to **** on your hands before using them to feed your face, be my guest lol
I don'v even use a handbag, I have my stuff in my pockets :P
I hate carrying a bag...
I spray the bottom of my bag with Lysol and don't go anywhere without my instant handbag hanger. It goes on my purse strap and stays there. I don't remember the name of it but if you have to carry a bag, it is great. Yeah, pocket stuffing IS preferable, especially if you're going for that JLo look :-)
I love how all these things have the potential to make you very sick, but somehow never do...
Maybe after thousands of years humans have evolved to defend against such things?Originally Posted by MeganS
Its probably when stuff like swine flu that is made in a lab, is when people get ill, governments wanting to 'thin down' the world population and *so on with the conspiracies* lol
I can urinate without hitting my hands thank you very much. Let's take a second to look at the dynamics of urination:Well if you want to **** on your hands before using them to feed your face, be my guest lol
Now, I do happen to wash my hands after every visit to the toilet but our members aren't as dirty as you'd think. Anyway I'd wager that you've had one or two in your mouth over the years.
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