once a year, whether I need to or not.

[isiscolo]

I have always wondered about these things. Me, I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing. I was raised by wolves.
Poll cleanliness is next to...impossible.Hmm, maybe I need a "domestic goddess" icon. Although that might be false advertising.

Comments

[neotoma]

Well, I don't wash my *sweaters* every time I wear them, but they're usually a layer and not the only thing I'm wearing.

And I have cheap-ish serrated knives, for the most part. I don't think you CAN get those sharpened. I wouldn't know how to sharpen my ulu, which is my best knife, and seems to be indestructible.

[ellid]

Besides, cheap serrated blades are usually stainless steel. That stuff can't hold an edge for shit, alas.

[isiscolo]

Yeah, sweaters worn not next to the skin are like coats. And ooh, ulu! (I just like saying that. :-)

[isiscolo]

Heh, but do you ever wash your sheets?

And maybe I just need to get crappy cheap steak knives.

[isiscolo]

Oh, crap, you have reminded me I intended to ask about vacuuming habits also.

[executrix]

I, too, have cheap knives that are still lovely and sharp, but if they cease to be I'll just replace them. The bread knives from the 99 cent store are surprisingly good.

[isiscolo]

I really like the heft of a decent (although not extremely high-end) knife. I have a cheapy bread knife that does just fine, but I like the way the nicer one feels.

[fer_de_lance]

Heh. My knives are a grab-bag mix of second-hand things given to me by my aunts when I went off to college. Well, except for the little steak- and paring knives I bought for myself (four steak, one paring, I think) from the bargain bin at the grocery store for, uh, $2 for 10.

The nonserrated knives do get sharpened whenever I notice they're dull (father has a fancy automatic knife sharpener and loves to use it, so I just cart them home with me). I don't have a dishwasher, but I imagine that if I did they'd go in it about fifty percent of the time; my mother never put hers in there, but I am a lazy enough kitchenkeeper that I just know I'd do it when in a hurry.

[ubixtiz]

Jeans are a completely separate category from all other clothes and can be worn many times between washings. Because I decide to believe they can.

[meresy]

IAWTC

[cereta]

This. Also skirts, because let's face it: unless you spill something on them, they don't tend to come into contact with, erm, odor-causing fluids.

[isiscolo]

I am not sure I have ever managed to wear a skirt and not spill something on it. La la la.

[aquila1nz]

Shirts are mostly worn once, jeans for a week, shorts a few times, skirts, well I last wore one last century.

Small, plastic handled knives go in the dishwasher sometimes, but we don't use the dishwasher very often at all. Big knives don't.

[isiscolo]

Yeah, jeans stay acceptable longer. But I still wear shirts more times than you, and jeans less times.

[aquila1nz]

Yeah, I think it's mostly because I really only have two functional pairs of jeans right now - if I wash them both on the same weekend I'm stuck wearing shorts if it rains and they don't dry!