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Lovin' The Homestead
Wow. That article was probably the biggest commercial I've ever read - she's got ads on there for both of the products she keeps pushing. And notice, there isn't ONE SINGLE negative comment on there? That suggests she's censoring them pretty heavily, because her attitude is extreme enough that SOMEONE would have posted an opposing view!
And that whole thing about people becoming mentally unstable if they didn't have familiar things, and the lack of toilet paper causing planetwide psycological meltdown! She really needs to get a life if she thinks that people aren't tough enough to use leaves if they have to (I mean, how many of us played in the woods as kids, or adults, and had to use "natural" solutions?).
There is a HUGE difference between a family, and a town. Massive. This is why daycare workers have to glove up, and why kids in daycares still have more illnesses than kids at home, related to hygiene. The germs we are familiar with are such a distinction medically that nurses changing a dressing on a central line for an immune compromised patient are required to glove up and mask before doing it, but a household member of the patient's household is not required to do either - just wash and go.
Yup, there are germs in poop! Ecoli is ALWAYS in poop, because it LIVES in your digestive system, and helps digest food. The kind that lives there ISN'T the same kind that contaminates cattle and makes people sick because it got into their stomachs - there are several strains of it, and it is the strains that are super hardy from mass production of farm animals that are harmful to us. Since we aren't going to be sharing the outhouse or the wipes with the cows and pigs, the risk is relatively low.
I really don't want to have to go that route - I mean, cloth is sort of gross. I'd rather use leaves or something (Sears and Roebuck web pages just can't replace the old multi-purpose catalog!). But she also acts like soft green corn husks are a readily available commodity at any time of year!
We have to avoid putting TP down the toilet in our RV. So we have a zip baggie beside the loo to seal them into. No smell. Not a pleasant thing to have to do even so. I imagine cloth would not be much worse, and there ARE containers with lids, after all!
Love the comment about underwear... That really belongs on her blog, if only to set her into a state of panic as she realizes that she has GERMS incubating in her UNDERWEAR, and OMYGOSH SO DOES EVERYONE IN HER FAMILY!
Sorry, couldn't resist a touch of melodrama, it seemed the only thing to combat that article!
And that whole thing about people becoming mentally unstable if they didn't have familiar things, and the lack of toilet paper causing planetwide psycological meltdown! She really needs to get a life if she thinks that people aren't tough enough to use leaves if they have to (I mean, how many of us played in the woods as kids, or adults, and had to use "natural" solutions?).
There is a HUGE difference between a family, and a town. Massive. This is why daycare workers have to glove up, and why kids in daycares still have more illnesses than kids at home, related to hygiene. The germs we are familiar with are such a distinction medically that nurses changing a dressing on a central line for an immune compromised patient are required to glove up and mask before doing it, but a household member of the patient's household is not required to do either - just wash and go.
Yup, there are germs in poop! Ecoli is ALWAYS in poop, because it LIVES in your digestive system, and helps digest food. The kind that lives there ISN'T the same kind that contaminates cattle and makes people sick because it got into their stomachs - there are several strains of it, and it is the strains that are super hardy from mass production of farm animals that are harmful to us. Since we aren't going to be sharing the outhouse or the wipes with the cows and pigs, the risk is relatively low.
I really don't want to have to go that route - I mean, cloth is sort of gross. I'd rather use leaves or something (Sears and Roebuck web pages just can't replace the old multi-purpose catalog!). But she also acts like soft green corn husks are a readily available commodity at any time of year!
We have to avoid putting TP down the toilet in our RV. So we have a zip baggie beside the loo to seal them into. No smell. Not a pleasant thing to have to do even so. I imagine cloth would not be much worse, and there ARE containers with lids, after all!
Love the comment about underwear... That really belongs on her blog, if only to set her into a state of panic as she realizes that she has GERMS incubating in her UNDERWEAR, and OMYGOSH SO DOES EVERYONE IN HER FAMILY!
Sorry, couldn't resist a touch of melodrama, it seemed the only thing to combat that article!
Check with your local massage therapists. You'll eventually find one who uses flannel and replaces his/her sheets regularly...usually around this time of year, when the flannel sheet sets go on sale and then on clearance.
