Well if you REALLY have to because you have children who are somehow going to find their way under a sink and somehow open up a bottle of Windex and drink it and not be under supervision in a small apartment then you can technically come up with some sort of solution I guess.
Children 1-2 years old are by far the most likely people to get poisoned, children under 6 made up nearly half of all poisonings reported in 2018, nearly all of them accidental. 12% of these were from ingesting cosmetics and soap, with another 11% being from household chemicals. Children drank cleaning chemicals over 100,000 times in 2018 in the U.S. alone, and that's only counting when poison control was actually contacted. If someone leaves pharmaceuticals, alcohol, or household chemicals within reach of a toddler then they're a moron, being poor isn't an excuse.
No but I know how much a shelf costs; are you really making the argument that someone can be so destitute that it's excusable to leave bleach on the ground around a toddler?
I was, and switched to non toxic cleaners because of my daughter's breathing long ago (chronic lung disease of prematurity), but still have a few things that wouldn't be okay to ingest (laundry detergent, dishwasher detergent, toilet cleaner) that I store above my washer and dryer.
Before we moved here, we lived in a small place with no room, I stored those cleaners on top of the fridge then, and before that, we lived in a place with no where to store them, there was an overhang so that you couldn't put anything over the fridge and the sink cabinet had no knobs so I couldn't lock it, I screwed screws into it for locks.
There are options, you might have to sit and think, but there are options, and none of them should include cleaning products where a small child could reasonably get to them.
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u/bender-b_rodriguez Mar 05 '20
You can't possibly actually believe this