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First rule with wives (or at least the one's you want to keep) Never take anything from her kitchen to your shop.
I know she has great knives just right for scraping gaskets, all sorts of neat containers for holding bolts, and the only vacuum cleaner on the place that works, but don't do it.
Second rule is to buy as dark a shade carpet in the house as you can get away with, and plan on having it cleaned every six months - I my house I live in fear of tracking grease onto our white Berber carpet!
We are converting to wood flooring - expensive, cold, uncomfortable, noisy, and hard on our old dogs (traction) but worth it to me.
Clint...you got the first rule right...but missed on the 2nd rule.
2nd rule is never take anything from the shop into the kitchen (ask me how I know the dishwasher is NOT for cleaning parts).