The morning after

After four days of sweating and heavy lifting and three short nights sleeping on hard ground, you're thinking of three things at one a.m. on a Monday morning: a flush toilet, a long hot bath and twelve hours on an innerspring mattress with crisp, cool sheets.

Do yourself one favor before all that: Toss the sweaty, greasy, dirty clothes in the washer before bed. If the damp mass sits all night festering in a plastic bag on the front porch, then bakes under six hours of hot sun, you'll have mildew a-plenty when you stagger out of bed at the crack of noon.