Is there a better alternative to sponges? *Warning: OCD/Rant*?

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I have a weird freak out thing about sponges. If it's fallen in the sink which has dishes in it... and has been there for more than ten minutes, I have to throw it away.

I have obsessive compulsive disorder. Which I've learned how to control very well to be a normal person, but at the same thing some things just freaking gross me out like sponges.

I added it up and I spend 4 dollars a month on sponges... which doesn't sound like a lot but 4 dollars x 52 dollars a year= $208 on sponges.

After ten years that's $2,080 alone spent on sponges. (That is a NEW CAR.)

I tried sham-wow but everytime I wash them they get little lint balls on them (you can't dry them or they tear) and it freaks me out. My husband wants to try wash clothes but I don't know, especially with as many pots and pans as I scrub. (I bake, and I cook, A LOT.)
I meant 4 dollars x 52 weeks a year.. lol
I also meant washcloths. (Don't chase two cats off the counters eight hundred times and write at the same time.)
 
I've read that you should microwave a sponge for 2 minutes after you are done using it (once a day). Make sure the sponge is wet, as a dry sponge could catch fire! This is supposed to kill 99.9% of all bacteria in the sponge.

I do this, and I use the sponge until it starts to fall apart. This really gets rid of my phobia about dirty sponges. I have also thrown it in the dishwasher for the same reason. You can use washcloths, but the laundry is not going to kill 99.9% of the bacteria.
 
Dishwasher cleans cloths and sponges really well. They come out with no odour at all.
 
I use washcloths, and they seem to work fine. I wash the dishes because of my OCD. My wife doesn't wear her glasses when she does it, and does everything "real quick". I have to rewash most of them anyway when she does it.

P.S. I'd like to know where to get a new car for $2000.....
 
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