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In reply to the discussion: So, why the rise in peanut allergies anyway? [View all]MindPilot
(12,693 posts)When my dad worked and my mom was a stay-at-home house keeper, yeah the place was always cleaner than after mom went back to work, but I think this is a bit different.
We didn't used to have a trash can by the restroom door so you could use your last towel to not touch the door handle. There didn't used to be hand sanitizer dispensers, well, everywhere. The guy putting your sandwich together at the local burger joint didn't wear gloves. Used to be not even the dentist wore gloves. Used to be you actually had to touch things in a public restroom to get soap and water.
Just of the few recent changes that may be an example of "too clean".
ETA...both my parents smoked...and drank. One of the big kicks when I was a kid was riding our bikes behind the DDT spray truck pretending we were fighter pilots zooming through the clouds. I come from the generation that ran outside to look at the mushroom cloud.