You can’t go through a checkout line in a grocery store or major discount chain without seeing them. There’s versions for kids, versions for your purse and keychain, decorative versions for around your house and of course all of the good ol’ household cleaning solutions.

Nowadays, if you have an aversion to germs, you can spray them, spritz them, gel them, scrub them, mist them, zap them and wipe them away – in 2 seconds flat, even! What is it with our apparent fascination with trying to create a germ-free world? (One word: marketing)

Did you know that there are now ‘condoms’ for the handles of exercise equipment at the gym? Or cutting-edge, pocket-sized germ zappers which use ultraviolet light? How about the vacuum with the germ-destroying light? There’s even a sorta cute little hot pink apparatus called “Go Girl” to let women pee standing up when they’re out and about so they don’t have to go near the public restrooms! (Makes ya wonder exactly WHERE they will use this, but, you get the idea)  Read more...