Quote Originally Posted by torontokids View Post
So I only had my daughter and one DCB so we spent 1.5 hours this morning cleaning all the toys. I washed them in hot soapy water with some bleach added, rinsed and they are air drying in a huge pile in my bath tub.

1) How do you all dry these toys properly so they actually dry? They still all have water stuck in them/dripping everywhere.

2) How do you wash the toys you can't submerge? I just wiped them down with cloth dipped in the bleach solution then wiped with a clean wet cloth.

3) Do you do anything with the books?

I washed the barbies and dolls in my washing machine with the doll clothes etc.

I figured it can't hurt to do this, even if it is over kill it is probably good to do this at least once a year!
My little next door neighbor is leukemia sufferer. She come my house a lot. Her Mommy and my oldest son went school together. Family friends for long, long time.

So we must take extra care to keep her safe because she not able to have immunizations like her siblings. This is reason no children who not had immunization in my care. We need herd immunity for her.

Plus, our house not big house like some modern home. It old fisherman's cottage. We live her for long time, since we marry so have to be quite tidy when spaces are smaller.

My routine is lots of disinfectant and disinfectant wipes and also bleach. It is lot of chemical but green cleaners not have same qualities we depend on here.

I have two sink in kitchen. Once always have bleach water for wiping down hard surfaces. Counter, high chairs, toilet seat, little stool smaller children use to get up to toilet, all wiped every use. It just take a couple seconds but once part of routine. Can seem like lot when not part of routine.

Every day after children go homes, every single toy is sprayed with aerosol Lysol. Everything. In Summer we try and be outside a lot because it does mean less spraying.

Every Friday night, my husband help me tip all toys into the tubs. We have two full bath and a shower room so the tubs not used really. We fill hot water and bleach and it all soak over night. Then we empty water and sort toys. For dripping toys, we stand so hole which water drip from is down in tub. They drip, drip, over Saturday and Sunday and normally dried out fully by then. Some toys we have to squeeze so water squirt out hole. Then leave to air dry.

Toys with battery that can't be in water, we sit in front of TV on Friday night and between us we wipe good with Lysol wipes. - Not so much rock and roll lifestyle in this house!

Baby book which thick or plastic we would wipe too. The lovely story books we have, we tend to spray but we put them away when neighbor little girl here because we know not so clean as other items. We have a plastic box with lid and they go there. What really good is my husband have Kindle so some of favourite story books now on there and we can wipe that down good.

Washing machine good tool to use. We sometimes fill and add bleach to top loader, then put toys inside little net bags from Dollar store and then add to the barrel of bleach water. This is our go to if having guests and need access to tubs in bathrooms. Can do same thing with nets in top of dishwasher too.

We likely do lot more than many people but this little girl special to us so we take extra care to make sure this place she able to come.