Question & Answer Time Again!

As you all know, I answer all manner of questions via email regarding homemaking issues.  Lately, I've taken to simply replying directly back rather than post them here, as time seems to be a precious commodity!  However, this particular question deserves center stage.  More than once I've gotten this question, and when I received it this last time, I just knew it had to be answered out here!

Dear Helpful Housewife,

We have an ongoing friendly debate in my family.  I prefer our drinking glasses be stored in the cabinet bottom down and the others family members feel bottom up (with the lip of the glass on the actual cupboard floor) is best.  I feel there are for more germs that collect on the bottom of the cabinet and feel it is nothing less than licking the bottom of the cabinet if drinking from a cup stored top down.  What is your advice?

Sincerely,

Elizabeth M

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Dear Elizabeth,

I'm with you on the debate.  ICK!!!  Did you know that meal bugs/worms, dust mites, etc... actually thrive in your cabinets?  And let's face it, we don't exactly wash them out every week!   Just think, most of us let that go for years and years.  Soooooo.... all the microscopic "yuck" that's on those surfaces goes directly onto your rims when stored upside down.  And in that "yuck" is all kinds of imaginable, shall we say, droppings and germs.  I know, I'm so sorry to gross you out! 

In our house, glasses and mugs are stored in their proper upright position!

Happy Dusting!

The Helpful Housewife

Ahh, the things we have to think of in order to keep a tidy little household!