Our glasses, plastic ware, flatware, and dishwasher have developed a persistent white residue from the minerals in our local water. We’ve tried in vain to scrub it off and had resigned ourselves to the fact that everything would be cloudy until they all broke and had to be replaced. Then one evening I had one of those random conversations with an out of town friend and learned that she had had the same problem and there was a simple fix! Run the items through the rinse cycle of the dishwasher with a bowl of white vinegar on the bottom rack. We did this and it really worked! Our glasses were particularly bad so we ran them through twice. Clear glasses just in time for our holiday get-togethers – hurray!