cybercat wrote:

> "Kathleen" > wrote in message
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>>Janet Baraclough wrote:
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>>>The message >
>>>from Kathleen > contains these words:
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>>>>Woolstitcher wrote:
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>>>>>"Billy" <Hereiam@hotmaildotcom> wrote in message
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>>>>>>Does anyone have any secrets on how to keep your dish cloth from
>>>>>>smelling "sour" in the hot humid summer months?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>You can nuke a dish cloth for 60 or so seconds when wet. It's the last
>>>>>thing that I do before I go to bed. I fold it in 1/4's and nuke it.
>>>>>I take it out in the morning. It can be taken out right away ... I
>>>>>just
>>>>>don't do it that way (it's too hot).
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>>>>GOOD GRIEF! It's a freakin' dishrag! Use it, throw it in the hamper,
>>>>get out a clean one. If it stinks it's dirty with food, bacteria, mold.
>>>>I'm no clean freak but it's not like you have to take out a loan to buy
>>>>enough dish clothes to last between loads of laundry. Why use stopgap
>>>>measures on something that cheap that you RUB ON YOUR DISHES?
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>>>
>>> Can we just define "dishcloth" please, before the flamewar?
>>>
>>> Is the OP talking about a large dry cotton rectangle used to dry and
>>>polish clean washed dishes..
>>> Or, a small wet fibre rag used to clean dishes in the sink, wipe
>>>round the sink etc.
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>>Does it matter, if it's been used to the point where it's actually begun
>>to STINK?!
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> I use sponges. I hate dishcloths.

And exactly what tasks do you consider "sponge-worthy"?