HYGIENE

 Oh dear. Good morning. 

*Please forgive the grammatical errors. 

Any time I start a blog with "Oh dear" you know it's not good.

While waiting for my master bedroom to be ready I am in an airbnb for the next 6 days. This is my second night here so far and oh dear. My room reeks of rotting garbage. I leave my window open, but it doesn't help much. There is a fella, a grown man, renting a room immediately to my right. When he opens his bedroom door the stench of rotting garbage emanates from a stockpile of trash he has hoarded two feet high in a corner of his bedroom. I don't understand. He has literally let a pile of trash grow in his bedroom. No wastebasket. No garbage pail. He just throws his trash in the corner of his room. He's creating a trash dump in his bedroom where he sleeps. The smell is horrible. The shared bathroom is equally horrible after he uses it. He urinates and poops on the seat. He doesn't wash his hands. It's as if he's been homeless and unbathed for ten years yet somehow he's managed money for an airbnb for a few nights. Just terrible. He could shower if he wanted to, but I don't see how that would help him any being as how the stench in his bedroom is so unholy it will make him stink again seconds after bathing. I want to help him, but he is just as hostile and crude as he is dirty. He told the lady who manages the house, "I'll help you toss out the trash." Meaning he thinks it's her job to clean all the garbage he's thrown into the corner of his bedroom. I rented this room earlier in the year while waiting for the master bedroom in another house to be available. I rented this very same room I'm currently in for almost six months until I just couldn't stay here any longer. Sharing a bathroom with people is disgusting I'm sorry to say. I don't know if only a small number of us had a proper education on hygiene or what and because of this I need my own toilet at the very least. I'm only in this room once again because the master bedroom I want has opened up but due to a snafu in scheduling I'm here again for another week. I don't know how they're going to get the smell out of this fella's room. I can't get the rotting smell out of my room. How are they going to get it out of his room where the stink is originating from? Yesterday when the lady who manages this house knocked on this guy's door to collect rent money, I saw the garbage pile when he opened the door. Saw it and smelled it. Just terrible.

The mindset of, "Well, Airbnb is supposed to provide hand soap and cleaning products and if they don't I won't go to the store and buy any. I'll just not wash my hands or clean up after myself" is more common than you think. I always buy Clorox bleach wipes, soap, and other cleaning supplies because not sorry I have to be clean in a clean environment. How do you not spend $3 on yourself and buy some hand soap? If you can afford an Airbnb you can afford soap. Clean yourself.   

I admire young fellas who cook on social media. The channels where young men are cooking or doing home repairs are necessary educational tools for the men folk. But oh dear. I'm curious is this fella renting next to me a hoarder. Is he homeless? Wouldn't he want to get away from sleeping in trash? What is the point of sleeping in a bed only to fill the room with garbage? There was literally more garbage in his room than one of those big blue dumpster bins you put in your garage. The lady who manages the house told him to clean it. Oh dear.

We need more male role models to talk to the fellas about cleaning their bodies. Fellas need male role models to teach them about cleanliness. Teach them about hygiene. Teach them about home economics like my generation had in junior high school. Teach them basic housecleaning, hygiene, how to mend a shirt, and how to cook simple easy meals. I don't know why or how anyone can decidedly live in trash. 

Not knowing basic hygiene 101 is bad for society. Forget the plague with rats a pandemic had to occur in order to teach grown adults how to wash their hands. What on earth were they doing before then? Push the 'wash your hands' agenda. Wash your hands after going to the bathroom. Wash your hands after using public transit. Wash your hands after eating. And somewhere, I don't know where, in men's magazines and in commercials for male hygiene products perhaps, slip in there some subliminal hand washing. Have your actor wash his hands while selling shaving cream. Society leaders need to re/educate people, men in particular, basic hygiene. 

I left this house November 1. It is now December 6. Just a little over a month ago. I left full hand soaps in both bathrooms. I left a clean sponge in the kitchen with a half bottle of dish soap. And since then, not one renter has changed out the kitchen dish sponge or replaced/filled the hand soaps in the bathrooms. No one person. I can't pay for everyone's hygiene products. I don't have that kind of money. I buy my own for my own personal use. And people wonder why they keep getting sick. Because no one washes their hands. People cough and don't cover their mouths. I mean, something needs to be done. We need to remind people to bathe with proper instructions on how to clean themselves. We need to remind people to wash their hands several times a day. We need to remind people to purchase hygiene products and clean themselves. We need to remind women that a restaurant table is not the proper place to change a baby's diaper. We need a proper hygiene campaign. 

My Grandma Louise taught me how to bathe when I was a little girl. She taught me old school with body powder after a bath and everything. Grandma was a fancy lady. I had more shades of lipstick by the time I was twelve than any one cosmetic counter. 

Smelling like garbage isn't masculine. You just stink.

Gals today aren't any cleaner let me tell you. Society needs repeated lessons on hygiene and housekeeping. I think schools need to keep teaching home economics all through high school.

Living in a house where the other bedrooms are rented out on Airbnb has opened my eyes on just how unclean and unhygienic people are.

"When I wash my hair and rinse off the shampoo, shampoo runs down my body and that's how my backside and private parts get clean." Oh dear! No, fellas. That is not how you get clean. Use body soap and warm water. A good lather. 

Preach these words Preachers:

Wash ye, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil

-- Isaiah 1:16

Or "Wash your hands. Wash your butts." That works too.

We as a society need to do better promoting hygiene and not just assume someone else is doing the teaching because obviously no one is. Hygiene, how we bathe, how a kitchen should be clean and healthy, how a bathroom should be clean and healthy, etc. Save the duckies yes please, and hey, while we're at it remind people to wash their hands and be mindful of other people who share this bathroom. 

"Invest in your health with Clorox Bleach Wipes." Please use that tagline in your advertisements Clorox. You're welcome. God bless.

Preachers do preach:

And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat: When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the alter, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses. 

Exodus 40:31, 32