How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

Fun With Lysol

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Two little girls were tucked all snug in their beds, with visions of germs alight in their heads.
Gross!

My sweet girls were doing their best to fight the germs that had been racking their bodies for four long and crappy days. Drinking their liquids, washing their hands, resting and sleeping.
I was doing my utmost to help them. Dosing tylonel, making soup, doling out Popsicles, prescribing ginger ale, worrying…feeling helpless to help my coughing sick babies.

Finally by 11pm at night, all was quiet. I had done all I could for the day and it was time to turn in. I felt helpless.

Then I spotted the mighty Lysol can.

I had already scrubbed every counter, wiped down the floors, but perhaps a good spray of Lysol on those door knobs and light switches before I went to bed would be just the thing.
A big fat spray to KILL all those big bad germs.

Pssssst

Psssst

Pssssst

Take that you big bad germs.

Die virus die.

Psssst.

Then cutting through the silence of my blissfully quiet home was a wailing siren.
A screech.
A BLARE.

ModernDad came screaming down the hall!

It was the Carbon Monoxide Detector?

WTH?

He tore the batteries out and threw them on the floor.

Could it be?

I dashed to my trusty computer and googled.

Yep.

Lysol can SET OFF a carbon monoxide detector.

I’m leaving that baby unplugged for a week!
If I have to choose between fighting the scary H1N1 OR the remote possibility of invisible gasses I’m tackling germs this week.

Note to all other Germaphobe Mommies out there…Lysol and Carbon Monosixde Dectors…they don’t mix baby!

    • Comments

    1. Hi Modern Mom,

      Hope you had a great weekend but wanted to let you know that

      You’ve Been Tagged!

      Hope you will swing by to see what it’s about and join in. Would love to read what you come up with!

      Deb

    2. My child came home from school saying they learned to cough and sneeze into their elbows with Germie Wormie, and I was totally taken aback. I always used my hands. But I went to the website, and now I get it, hands touch, elbows don’t!! Kids can touch up to 300 surfaces in 1/2 an hour, and they hate to wash their hands. This is a simple thing that can make a huge difference.

    8. Well I learned something new today! Though I don’t belive I even have a Carbon Monoxide detector in my house.

      :::hangs head in shame:::

      Hope your kids feel better soon!

    9. OK is this where I act like a complete a$$ and ruin your day and tell you that H1N1 is not killed by Lysol? And that you need to be careful when spraying around your girls while they are sick due to it’s assault on the lungs?

      Hmmm, yeah it looks that way.

      Here’s what you do hon, I won’t leave you high and dry…

      BLEACH BLEACH BLEACH! Sure, you may all have the skin tone of a Cullen by the time you’re done dousing the house but, at least the batteries are back in and you don’t have to worry about Carbon Monoxide!

      I think bleach is a 1/10 parts ratio with water, you may need to google that…

      This is all from a self-proclaimed Lysolholic, btw…I prefer the crisp, clean scents.

    12. Well, don’t ya know. The old saying is true after all.

      You learn something new every day.

      Hope everyone feels better soon. It’s going around.

    13. How are the little ones now? I spend my life using antiseptic hand gel, antiseptic wipes cleaining down phones etc, looking menacingly at the other commutors on the bus when they sneeze into their hands and then promptly use every hand rail in sight. Maybe I should just give them a good spray down with our Lysol equivalant. Do you think they would get the message then. ;0)

    14. I never knew that Lysol could do that! I am not too much of a germaphobe, but actually trying to pay better attention to it these days in order to ward off the H1N1 from our house.

      Holly