You wear your shoes inside the house
You wouldn’t roll around a public bathroom, but nearly everyone would walk around one and then walk around their house in the same shoes. Given that you roll on your carpets with your kids or the dog and put your feet up on the coffee table, you might want to leave the shoes at the door. Researchers from the University of Arizona found that shoes can track in 400,000-plus bacteria per shoe, including E. coli, a strain that’s known to cause nasty gastrointestinal distress.
You’re surrounded by wind-pollinated plants
You may unknowingly be inviting allergens into your garden that cause your stuffy nose, watery eyes, sneezing and breathing trouble. If you have allergies, the Old Farmer’s Almanac recommends avoiding the following:
Large shade trees such as oaks, maples, and beeches
Most lawn grasses
Common weeds such as lamb’s-quarter, pigweed, and ragweed
Goldenrod
You have too much stuff
You love throw pillows, coffee table books and knick-knacks: All these things collect dust, dander and pollen, and they can contribute to poor air quality in your home. Unless you plan on constantly moving and cleaning all of this, you should consider minimising your furnishings and collections.
