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We were always welcome to use the kitchen sink to wash our hands before meals, as long as we didn’t get in the way of the cook. In my current home (with five children), there is one hall bathroom upstairs,

My husband and I are intensely divided over the appropriateness of using the kitchen sink to wash one’s hands for anything other than food prep. I grew up in a house where the bathroom was all the way across the house from the kitchen.