Keeping Mold Off of Your Belongings

While we do our best to make sure that both our belongings and our homes stay clean, mold is sometimes a threat that we cannot always detect early on. A lot of times an odor has to develop in a room or it has to start growing visibly on the wall before we are aware that there is a problem. While there may not be a lot that you can do to detect hidden mold in your home as it just starts to grow, there are plenty of things that you can do to keep mold out of your house and off of your belongings.

A lot of people have a bad habit of tossing wet and dirty clothing or towels into the bathroom closet and just leaving them there until the closet gets full of dirty clothes. Not only can this cause mold to start growing on the floor in the closet, but the longer the clothes are left there, the mold will spread to the other clothes that you threw in on top of the wet ones. Washing rags or towels that have become mildewed together with things that are not mildewed does not usually do anything but cause the ‘clean’ clothes to become mildewed and smelly, as well. The best thing to do is empty the dirty clothes from your closet as often as possible; do this every day if you do not have a separate container to put wet items in. Keep mold from growing in the bottom of the closet on the floor by using a plastic laundry bin.

Clothes that are packed too tightly together in closets can also become moldy due to high humidity and lack of air circulation. Some closets have vents installed specifically to keep air circulating in the closet, but if you pack your clothes in there until you just can’t squeeze anymore in, you are defeating the purpose of the vent. Not all molds need significant warmth to survive, but it definitely helps. Your clothes are all the food that they will need and high humidity will provide the moisture.

Baby bottles that are strangely shaped can also become moldy or mildewed, but this can be prevented by washing the bottles, rinsing them, drying them as much as you can, and then putting them in the freezer until they are needed again. Mold does not like cold temperatures and while it can remain dormant in cold weather, if you just washed the bottle, odds are good that there is no mold on it.

Jim Corkern is a writer and promoter of quality
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