why wear white?

One of the things that I have been having trouble keeping clean is all of the white trim around our home. We were lucky enough to have oak cabinets, but the painted white trim around all the windows and doors gets filthy, and is difficult to clean. We have the six-panel white doors, too. Outside, we have white trim around the house and at the soffits, etc. It's a little bit like wearing white clothes - they look great at first, but as soon as you wear them outside you irreparably damage them in some way. Either you get a stain, or you sit on something, and your crisp white appearance is never the same. Sure, you could bleach the heck out of them, but then you damage the integrity of the cloth little by little. Houses are the same way. I can keep power washing over and over again, until eventually the paint starts to peel and it is ready for another coat - a coat of paint that it wouldn't have needed if I wasn't power-washing it so often. What a pain!