Building your immune system
By sharone74
@sharone74 (4837)
United States
February 18, 2008 4:36pm CST
My boyfriend never cleans anything, well almost never. If pressed he will wash a load of laundry or wash the dishes. Even he admits that he has only washed two loads of laundry in the last year since I do it. I am always finding sticky, dusty, musty, and just disgusting messes around the house, not to mention the way that he leaves a bathroom and the filth on doornobs, walls, and countertops. I go behind him and clean it up mind you. Though I am not the absolute cleanest person or best housekeeper in the world. Whenever I point out one of his funky habits or messes he always replies good I am building my immune system! This infuriates me! Germs and sticky unattended messes and handprints do NOT repeat NOT build the immune system. If anything leaving germs and bacteria lying around the house has got to break down the immune system not build it up I would assume. Yes some bacteria and germs in your enviroment do help your immune system but I fail to see how a pepsi cola spilled a month ago and all of the stuff that has collected in that nasty syrupy sample do anything but collect harmful germs and bugs, which bring in more germs into your enviroment!
Do you agree with me or him. Does being a slob and leaving unneccessary germs and bacteria in your home build your immune system or is it just a petri dish of infectious agents ammassed and awaiting an avenue of ingress into your body that the immune system will have to fight off?
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
18 Feb 08
Hmmmm I think it is a man thing, but I am not saying all men, when i lived in a flat a neighbour of mine told me she thought two guys in another flat were gay and i asked her why and she said because their flat was too clean... I think men are just used to their mums cleaning everything and the immune thing i think that has to start when you are very young, as my mum used to tell other mums, let your kids get dirty, they will be healthier....
@RobinJ (2501)
• Canada
18 Feb 08
the reason why he is such a slob is because there has always been someone there to pick/ clean up after him even you can't allow it to go on before you give up and clean it , tell him you are going to rent a dumpster because you can't stand his filthy ways any more and that way you have your problem solved and he can really find out if it actually works. As long as you do the work he will never do it and even if he is walking around in jeans that stand in the corner by themselves he won't change. I wish you all the luck in the world, as you will need it
