We noticed this post by Jeff Bredenberg at iVillage last week: Ten Things You Can Stop Cleaning Now. We have no quarrel with some items (People clean soccer balls?) but even though we sense the article was a bit tongue in cheek, we can’t take all the advice to heart. Throw out the shower curtain liner every six months? Sounds wasteful. (Also, you can use old ones as dropcloths.) He also says to stop washing pillows as they take hours to dry — well, unless you put them in the dryer, of course (which, granted, may not work for high-end pillows). Again, throwing out pillows and buying new every six to eight months seems wasteful (and expensive). We were also a little surprised at the “Don’t make the bed” suggestion. Right when we were resolving to make it more regularly! Luckily, Apartment Therapy stepped in with suggestions on how to make making the bed as simple as possible — that’s a cleanup we can live with.

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