On 9/24/2010 6:44 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> Chemo the Clown wrote:
>> On Sep 24, 12:36 pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>>> Ugh, I have to have my green and yellow sponges, but I try to
>>> change them often. I know this is a failing in my kitchen
>>> sanitation. Heh. I'll start zapping mine as you do.
>
>> If you ate enough dirt as a kid you'd have a healthy immune system.
>
> One time we went on vacation and before leaving, I did the usual
> thing, took out the garbage so I wouldn't come back to a stinky
> house.
> Return trip wasn't a good one, 7 hour delay in the airport and
> wound up walking in the door at 2:30am. Arrived to a stench that would
> make you think a raccoon died in the house somewhere.
> The end to a perfect day. Argh.
>
> Nope, not a raccoon. I learned my lesson, before you leave for vacation,
> toss the sponge. It seemed fine when I left. There's
> a reason they call sponges Bacteria condos.

How do you store your sponges? When I leave one out for a week it just
gets dry and hard.