The Oxventurers (Outside Extra) D&D podcast is creative and good. I’ve been working my way through their back catalog. That said, I have minimal dishwashing as I use a paper plate until it falls apart (when I lived with my parental units we’d initial our plates so we could tell which was ours), and minimal silverware.
@Star2236 Yes If they are not cut up or badly soiled I will do the same. BUT I am the only one that would used them! I would NOT hand them out to others!
@Mandamm I’d never reuse paper plates either. I do reuse paper towels though. When I wash my hands, I’ll dry them with two paper towels, and then that clump goes to the dining room table to be used as a napkin.
Well when the kid lived at home she did the dishes. One evening she informed me she did all the work around the house. So I made a list of every single thing that needed done in the house for both of us including things like earn a living, pay bills, go to school, do homework, feed cats, etc. I then put those things on the list on daily, weekly, etc. and she had to pick X number from each list.
She, surprisingly, chose dishes (those same dishes chore she bitched about where she did “all the work around the house” where that conversation initialed me doing this to begin with) along with cleaning the bathroom she used (another complaint item prior) except the toilet. I asked her why not do that too and she informed me it was gross (as was taking care of the cat dirtbox - she had also chosen to make sure the cats were fed and had clean water).
That gave me good information as the consequence for her forgetting something important that I needed to drop off at the school or if she missed the school bus, she owed me twice the time it took me to drive to school and back in doing whatever task(s) I chose for her to do. Now I knew which ones to choose. Way more effective than what she had to do prior. Very quickly I was back to having to clean those things myself as she had miraculous time management and memory improvement events.
Of course there was the day she didn’t do the dishes. And didn’t do them the next day. So I said, "Take as long as you want to do the dishes. When you are done you can do X (whatever she wanted to do instead of dishes - typically play basketball in the street with the boys). Then she’d sit in front of the TV. I’d turn it off. Again I’d say, “Take as long as you want to do the dishes. When you are done you can do X.”. I hid a set of dishes for myself.
When we were out of dishes I made spaghetti for dinner. She comes to dinner and wants to know what she was supposed eat off of. I told her get a cat dish, eat off the table using her hands, not my problem. Stomp stomp stomp off to the kitchen do was a set of dishes for herself. Never had that problem again (although if the boys were outside I did have to check the oven for dirty pots and pans.) :Laughing:
Now I do mine when the sink gets full or sometimes just rinse off what I just used depending on what it was used for. Don’t listen to anything.
I do dishes while looking out the window to the south yard. There is always a show to watch. Rabbits, Quail, other birds of multiple species. Occasionally a Coyote will traverse the area leading to an evacuation of all other animals. It’s comedy, drama, action adventure unfolding every day.
Am usually cooking. Everyone else does the dishes post dinner. The restaurants I worked in didn’t have dishwashers until service so we always cleaned as we prepped. It’s been immensely helpful later in life.
Ever since I picked up a personal dish washing machine ($300), even though I have to load it with water manually (electric kettle), buy powdered soap (if it’s cheaper than Cascade), and either do some pre-scrubbing or clean the filter every few weeks, having the extra half-hour a day really adds up. I’m getting in extra typing time! (I still miss the calm zen of scrubbing and drying though; somehow I like cleaning dishes and hate cleaning clothes.)
@pakopako
When the kids were little (35 plus years ago) we were fortunate enough to win an auction bid on a portable dishwasher from the local high school home ec department. Looking at it it didn’t look like it had been used more than a dozen times. I think we ended up paying $15 for it and used it for a number of years before we put in a built-in. That was a joyful day for both our kids…
Let the dishwasher do its thing
@Cerridwyn ^ This.
…listen to my wife complain about how much work she has to do.
@hchavers So surprise her and do the dishes yourself. I’d bet you’d get praise instead.
@Kidsandliz the poll questions ends with the pronoun “I”.
@hchavers well yes and it is how “I” avoided doing the dishes. (Have to do them now as kid is grown).
I don’t do dishes. I don’t cook. I eat out.
I use compostable bowls, plates, utensils and cups for the little that I do eat at home.
@ratman How do you afford it?
It doesn’t really cost that much when you’re by yourself.
@ratman I have been in eat out only mode from time to time.
/showme Anthropomorphized rat eating at restaurant while dismayed humans look on.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “Anthropomorphized rat eating at restaurant while dismayed humans look on.”
Since the dishwasher takes care of washing the dishes, I do whatever I need to do right then.
The Oxventurers (Outside Extra) D&D podcast is creative and good. I’ve been working my way through their back catalog. That said, I have minimal dishwashing as I use a paper plate until it falls apart (when I lived with my parental units we’d initial our plates so we could tell which was ours), and minimal silverware.
@Wireball_ Why not use one normal plate that you initial and wash? Then it’d last forever.
Thinking about trashing the dishes & getting paper plates &. plastic ware
@mycya4me
My grandma used to wash those bc she was cheap
@Star2236 Yes If they are not cut up or badly soiled I will do the same. BUT I am the only one that would used them! I would NOT hand them out to others!
@mycya4me
Oh I hope she didn’t hand us her used and washed dishes lol. I’m sure she only did it with her hers, ours always came out of the bag
@Star2236 what She???
@Star2236 @mycya4me Her grandma.
I’m old fashioned. I listen to local radio stations.
Sometimes when I cook I use the time to also wash the dishes… There aren’t That Many, and I would NEVER reuse paper plates… BLECH
@Mandamm I’d never reuse paper plates either. I do reuse paper towels though. When I wash my hands, I’ll dry them with two paper towels, and then that clump goes to the dining room table to be used as a napkin.
Well when the kid lived at home she did the dishes. One evening she informed me she did all the work around the house. So I made a list of every single thing that needed done in the house for both of us including things like earn a living, pay bills, go to school, do homework, feed cats, etc. I then put those things on the list on daily, weekly, etc. and she had to pick X number from each list.
She, surprisingly, chose dishes (those same dishes chore she bitched about where she did “all the work around the house” where that conversation initialed me doing this to begin with) along with cleaning the bathroom she used (another complaint item prior) except the toilet. I asked her why not do that too and she informed me it was gross (as was taking care of the cat dirtbox - she had also chosen to make sure the cats were fed and had clean water).
That gave me good information as the consequence for her forgetting something important that I needed to drop off at the school or if she missed the school bus, she owed me twice the time it took me to drive to school and back in doing whatever task(s) I chose for her to do. Now I knew which ones to choose. Way more effective than what she had to do prior. Very quickly I was back to having to clean those things myself as she had miraculous time management and memory improvement events.
Of course there was the day she didn’t do the dishes. And didn’t do them the next day. So I said, "Take as long as you want to do the dishes. When you are done you can do X (whatever she wanted to do instead of dishes - typically play basketball in the street with the boys). Then she’d sit in front of the TV. I’d turn it off. Again I’d say, “Take as long as you want to do the dishes. When you are done you can do X.”. I hid a set of dishes for myself.
When we were out of dishes I made spaghetti for dinner. She comes to dinner and wants to know what she was supposed eat off of. I told her get a cat dish, eat off the table using her hands, not my problem. Stomp stomp stomp off to the kitchen do was a set of dishes for herself. Never had that problem again (although if the boys were outside I did have to check the oven for dirty pots and pans.) :Laughing:
Now I do mine when the sink gets full or sometimes just rinse off what I just used depending on what it was used for. Don’t listen to anything.
I do dishes while looking out the window to the south yard. There is always a show to watch. Rabbits, Quail, other birds of multiple species. Occasionally a Coyote will traverse the area leading to an evacuation of all other animals. It’s comedy, drama, action adventure unfolding every day.
Wish that they had a dishwasher, either another person, or a machine
Am usually cooking. Everyone else does the dishes post dinner. The restaurants I worked in didn’t have dishwashers until service so we always cleaned as we prepped. It’s been immensely helpful later in life.
Wake up from the bad dream.
KuoH
Ever since I picked up a personal dish washing machine ($300), even though I have to load it with water manually (electric kettle), buy powdered soap (if it’s cheaper than Cascade), and either do some pre-scrubbing or clean the filter every few weeks, having the extra half-hour a day really adds up. I’m getting in extra typing time! (I still miss the calm zen of scrubbing and drying though; somehow I like cleaning dishes and hate cleaning clothes.)
@pakopako
When the kids were little (35 plus years ago) we were fortunate enough to win an auction bid on a portable dishwasher from the local high school home ec department. Looking at it it didn’t look like it had been used more than a dozen times. I think we ended up paying $15 for it and used it for a number of years before we put in a built-in. That was a joyful day for both our kids…