If it makes you feel better, a good chunk of the population let’s dishes pile, don’t take their bottles in, put off chores, etc. until it moves over to that urgent column! My neighbor doesn’t take in his bottles until it’s 6 bags deep, but he’s fortunate to have a huge storage space to keep them out of sight
Hah yeah, my edit earlier was to add the “in some places” part. I selfishly meant the US