She’s not wrong about the clean sink! It’s the only thing I retained from my attempt to follow Fly Lady’s guidance. I just scrub mine with Comet every week or two, and squirt some chlorine-based cleaner around the rim of the drain to fight the stains that gather there.

After 21 years of home ownership, I’m out. I’ve bought 3 and sold 3 and now I rent a townhouse condo and whenever I see piles of bags of mulch in front of Home Depot, I think, now THERE is something I never again need to worry about. Because if I do buy again it’ll be a condo in a building with a concierge and a pool…