Family history credits my great-grandmother with the typically depression era attitude of "if you really needed it, they wouldn't have to advertise it." I agree that it holds for a lot of the cleaning products out there, it's classic scare tactics. First they have to teach you that there's a problem you hadn't noticed, then they have to sell you the solution. Marketing, mareketing, alas all is marketing .

I'm a big believer in challenging my imune system. The sickest I ever saw anyone was a friend of mine who had her first bout of flu in her 20s, the year the flu shot her doctor/daddy gave her didn't work. Girl damn near died...I got the same bug, and was back on my feet in a couple of days. Then again, I'm the sort of person who thinks that low grade fevers have a purpose and shouldn't be treated unless they spike. And that the best treatment for most passing illnesses is to turn out the lights and go to sleep until it goes away. Definately not a doctor's daughter .

There's a reason the nastiest new bugs are being found in the cleanest places in our sanitized world....if bugs can breed in hospitals, we have to admit we're not going to win the war. We have to learn to fight the battles that matter, fight smarter not just more and not just everything. Basically, if you're not getting sick...your house is likely clean enough already.