Once you take an economic view ...

Dear Mr. Marcus,

The best line in your article was the one about your ability to tolerate NPR being inversely proportional to your economic literacy.

Once you take an economic view, you might want to consider whether perfection is the only sensible standard of housekeeping. You could decide to reduce the frequency of some tasks. The first reductions have the most savings with the least drop in quality.

Thus if you go from daily to every other day, you save 50% of the cost. You'd have to go from "every other day" to "never" to save the other 50%.

Jason Fane