From Sept 2008 onwards, for one year, I was staying alone. So I had to do all basic things like cooking, washing etc. on my own. Initially I had just 1 set of dishes (1plate, glass, etc). So I had to wash them everyday after the meal. Slowly as I got more comfortable with the place, I used to wash them before cooking the next meal. And after some time my room got accustomed to having an unwashed set of dishes. So I thought to buy another set of dishes to get rid of this daily pain. Things went on pretty well for sometime untill I realized that my room now usually has two sets of unwashed dishes.