The Unclutterer blog offers a smart way to separate your kitchen sponges into various roles. A reader there writes:
In our household, we discovered a trick: the Good Clean sponge [for dishes]is used as-is, straight out of the package. When it gets downgraded to the Wiping Sponge [for kitchen counters and the table] , we cut one of the corners off. When the sponge gets downgraded again to a Skunging Sponge [the dregs of cleaning] , we cut another corner off.
Sounds like a great way to make sure you’re not using a skunky sponge on your cereal bowl.
john
September 29, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Reminds me of the story of a cleaner from the excellent US book “Nickel and Dimed” – the cleaner used one washcloth for every cleaning job – kitchen, toiletbowl, dog dish, benchtop…
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September 29, 2008 at 9:25 PM
Nickel And Dimed is an awesome read — if I recall rightly, the using multiple cloths was a highly recommended expert approach, while the approach actually pushed by the agency the author was employed by was about minimal effort and maximum flash — making it clear the cleaning service had visited but not necessarily doing the job well.
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