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Melba's got it. If you're having a dinner party, of course you don't bring out the old things, but if you're a busy family and dinner happens to be relatively non-messy, why not use them again?

After spaghetti nights, yeah, they'd go in the washing machine. After broccoli and chicken breasts, maybe hold off for another day or two. This is clearly an issue of taste--where your gross-out boundary is, how messy your napkin gets in a meal--and that's all super personal.

The key is the mismatched set, so you know whose is whose and don't end up using your brother's napkin.

Totally love your new sofa. And I'll never get over the volume of haters on the web who'll make you defend this kind of thing.

My mother has a very enthusiastic key lime tree, so I frequently get boxes of limes in the mail. Epicurious's key lime pie recipe is perfect--I freeze the juice in an ice cube tray and thaw them out to make summery southern pies in the dead of New York City winter! And because I'm a tinkerer (aren't we all?), I add gingersnaps to the graham crackers mixture for the crust.