Giveaway: My World has Been Rocked, Clorox Studies the 5 Second Rule

Do you fol­low the 5 sec­ond rule? You know what I’m talk­ing about! The one where if food drops on the floor as long as you get it in 5 sec­onds, it’s ok to eat? Do you fol­low that rule? In our house, I usu­ally say, “if the dog hasn’t got­ten it, it’s yours.” Our dog is pretty fast though when it comes to food so I guess its still a 5 sec­ond rule.

I had the plea­sure of sit­ting in on a brief­ing with Saman­tha Bee, Come­dian and also best known as Cor­re­spon­dent for The Daily Show last week. She is also a mom of two small chil­dren ages 1 and 5. She had humor­ous sto­ries about her kids and the 5 sec­ond rule. I asked Saman­tha Bee whether being a come­dian helped her to see the lighter sides of moth­er­hood. She replied that hav­ing a good sense of humor def­i­nitely helps.

So, now back to the 5 sec­ond rule. When I first became a Mom about 13.5 years ago, every time my son’s paci­fier would fall on the floor, I would have to ster­il­ize it before I put it in his mouth.

Then came baby #2. When her paci­fier dropped on the floor, I would run it under water and pop it back in her mouth.

Then came baby #3. When he dropped his paci­fier, I would inspect it, get off any dog hair and give it back to him.

Then came baby #4. When she dropped her paci­fier, I would just leave it where she left it and fig­ure she’ll find another one that fell at another time.

Yes, my style of par­ent­ing has changed through­out the years. But kid­ding aside, Clorox funded a study that showed that some germs can be found on food after it fell on the counter or floor within the first 5 sec­onds. That just rocked my world because I really hate clean­ing. For­tu­nately, you can wipe away those germs with many of the Clorox prod­ucts. Check out the Sim­ple and Sur­pris­ing website.

I love the Clorox wipes. As I said before I hate clean­ing, but I will wipe down all my bath­rooms and my kitchen coun­ters daily with the wipes. It doesn’t feel like clean­ing and my kids LOVE to help me wipe every­thing down. This win­ter we all had the H1N1 flu and those Clorox wipes became my best friend. I bought 1 for every bath­room and an indus­trial size for the kitchen. When we drop things on the floor, I will use the wipes to clean it up. I’m sure there is room for improve­ment in my clean­ing habits, but I do feel like our bath­rooms and kitchen are much cleaner now than they were before I used the wipes.

Now it’s your turn to tell me your funny 5 sec­ond rule sto­ries, pho­tos or videos. Leave me a com­ment below and one lucky com­menter will win a Clorox Gift pack val­ues at $20 with a vari­ety of Clorox Prod­ucts! The con­test will run through Feb­ru­ary 10, 2010.

Read a few more funny 5 sec­ond rule sto­ries at Con­sumer Queen’s blog.

dis­clo­sure: Clorox is com­pen­sat­ing me mon­e­tar­ily for this post, how­ever all opin­ions are my own.

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