bottle cleaning madness

i've got some bottling i need to do (f'rinstance, my bottomless keg. i may just admit defeat and bottle it). i have maybe 2 clean bottles, at most.

i've been reading the homebrewer's answer book and he suggests that I soak my bottles in a detergent prior to sanitizing. he emphasizes that sanitizing needs to be preceded by a real "cleaning" otherwise sanitizing will be ineffective.

so that's what my bottles are doing now, about 40 of them, soaking in 10 gallons of water mixed with a little dishwasher soap.

after that, i plan to spritz them with my faucet-mounted bottle spritzer, then soak them in 10 gallons of bleach solution (concentration TBD). i have obtained a 45-er bottle tree, where the bleached bottles will be stationed for drying, after which they'll be capped with tinfoil and closeted until needed.

it seems like a lot of work, and it's why i hate bottling (actually, i hate bottling regardless of the bottle cleaning/sanitizing process, i hated it even when i did very little to sanitize) and besides "trying something new" i didn't come up with any good reason that i'm doing all this. then i remembered my multiple batches of gushers and realized that no matter how "easy" my previous bottle cleaning methods were, they were likely ineffective.