As tempting as it may be to use, Windex or any similar type product can be a hazard to use in the vicinity of food products, particularly cutting boards. If you do not have the proper sanitizer available, a certain “secret” common household item will suffice. Please read on to find out how you can keep your guests safe!

Our web community for business flight attendants can be frequently found discussing proper food handling and food safety tips. One lively discussion a few years back surrounded the proper way of cleaning a cutting board. Might I add that the food preparing area of the typical business jet galley is about the size of a two-by-four? Thus, food can easily get into contact with the wrong products if extra care is not taken.

In the conversation, one of our members remarked that she had cleaned her cutting board with Windex. Well, the ensuing responses to her comment nearly caused an online riot as many of our veteran fliers responded by emphatically stating that products such 409, Fantastik, and Windex can all be harmful if ingested. These and similar products contain high levels of white spirits or similar type toxins, something you never want your guests to come in contact with. These products typically carry warning labels that say something like the following, “Do not ingest even in small quantities. Non-food safe.”

Our beloved and uniformed newbie member was aghast, not at the replies, but at realizing that she had cleaned her cutting boards not

Work at home no fees is a common way to scam people into a dead end opportunity with expensive hidden costs and fees. There are many legitimate work at home no fee offers, but careful examination is necessary before jumping into something without doing your homework. Working at home can be a powerful draw to many people and the fringe benefits are great. You can be your own boss, work full-time or part-time, without a dress code, or a certain time to start work. These attractive lures are often used to pull someone into a program where the person doing the offering, not the self-employed worker, makes the only profits.

Some work at home no fees jobs do not deliver what they promise. Many have slick ads that hide facts and figures. Instead of the easy life, many work at home no fees jobs may have to work many hours without pay. Also, they don’t disclose the out-of-pocket expenses you will have to pay such as buying envelopes, paper, and stamps. Some of these work at home no fee jobs require you to spend your own money sometimes in the thousands of dollars. Not only have they lost money but time and energy.

Here are some tips when looking for a work at home no fees opportunity.

-Legitimate work at home no fees offers will answer all your questions and give you their policies in writing. Scam artist offer pie-in-the-sky figures and noting to back up their claims.

-Follow the money! Ask important questions

Being the youngest in a family of eight didn’t leave much time…or funding for extravagant birthday parties that included balloons, hats or goody bags. We had the usual birthday cake from a box, candles and the “Happy Birthday Song,” and finances permitting - we received gifts from our parents.

I recall one birthday that my father wasn’t home. An Army Sergeant, he spent many weeks on end in “the fields” or drill for his particular duty station. Upon his return, he brought me a very large cardboard box. It wasn’t wrapped, a little warped, and most of the flaps were open. As a wide-eyed 6-year old, I was of course, intrigued by the contents. Pulling back one of the flaps, I peered down inside the container. The base of the box was lined with tiny, used plastic toy soldiers, a few matchbox cars, some lego blocks and a Batman car that traditionally shot “missiles.” However, since the missiles were missing, we accessorized the little, black vehicle with toothpicks - which worked quite well.

We didn’t have a lot of money for a lot of things, but the big, cardboard container with used toys seems to linger in my timebox of precious memories. As a matter of fact, the miscellaneous odds and ends were the perfect gifts for an inquisitive blond-curled tomboy.

As we all matured, my sisters and I proceeded having our own families. One of our primary goals was to give our children ALL the things we didn’t have or couldn’t afford.