Eating food requires dishes. Dishes require washing. With the dishwasher out, the whole meal process starts coming undone in reverse, working backward from the sinkful of dirty dishes it would produce. What if the three-part meal got trimmed back to two? What if we just got takeout? What if we just kept the takeout in its grim black plastic clamshells? What if I heated the leftovers in foil and just ate them off the foil? What if the half of the household that likes a little condensed milk in their tea got by without, rather than having to open a new can and decanting it into a jar and having to do that extra amount of washing? Every spoon counts. - from the Indignity Newsletter, by Tom Scocca and Joe McLeod