We have never eaten in the living room, only the kitchen or dining room (maybe because we are a family of 7 and don’t have enough seating in there). Due to the size our our family, we usually eat on paper plates, at first so I’d only have to run the dishwasher once a day, now with 4/5 of us, I can run it every other day. Our kitchen garbage gets taken out 3 times a day. Since I do laundry daily, nothing is ever worn more than once. Not once in their lives have my kids worn a pair of pajamas twice (until they got to college).