[pizzaman]

the best time saver if you don't have a dishwasher: use throw away cutlery & plates. saved me a lot of time.

people that don't hate doing chores, simply look at them like a game. It does make them feel good, to have everything under control, a clean house, all bills paid...and i think you can train yourself that you will also feel that way and you will want to have everything neatly done. It's like going to the gym, if you go for a while, you will miss it when you stop going.

But i don't want to train myself to give annoying, boring things a meaning.

i guess it all changes when you have kids, then you have to do that stuff.

[gensym]

Ugh. Your time must be pretty darn important if we should get petroleum out of the earth, turn it into dishware, haul it to your home, haul it from your home and into the landfill just to save you the two minutes it would take to actually wash the stuff.

Part of being a grownup is learning to enjoy living responsibly.

[tomjen3]

I love how everybody tells you as a kid that you must do so and so, but that when you grow up you can decided.

Then you grow up, and they start telling you "part of being an adult/grown-up is X" or "you have to do Y" or else.

No, fuck that shit. I didn't waste 18 years as a minor just to have random people tell me what to do and I can see that the blog author hasn't either.

Now I will go and fill this apartment with playpen balls.

[khafra]

Part of the cost of disposable dishware may be externalized. But except for that, the environmental impact of throwing away dishes after one use differs from the environmental impact of buying and disposing of detergent and using energy to heat water and rinse dishes only by the difference in cost between the two methods.