Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

04 Mar 2002, 1:07 a.m.

On Zack's "I need a bigger dishrack" of 3 March: Kitchenware? …

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On Zack's "I need a bigger dishrack" of 3 March:

Kitchenware? Food laundry?

You could take some of your dishes &tc. out of commission -- bench them so you have to do the dishes more often. I've done that here. Most of my dishes, utensils, and cookware are in inaccessible cabinets. People try to do the dishes often anyway, especially since the rule is "do your own dishes," with the benevolent corollary of "you can leave your dishes for later once in a while, as long as you just as often do other people's dishes that they don't do immediately."