Washing up

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Wash as you go.

 

[Profpointy]

It's not just the convenience, a dishwasher is more hygienic than washing by hand.

just get the dog to lick the plates clean, then back int the cupboard; job done :-)

 

[Sara_H]

I was trying to set up a poll but couldn't work it out!

Need your help to solve a domestic!!! Not going to tell you too much because I don't want to influence your comments.

How many times should the washing up be done every day??? Doesn't matter who does it, just how many times? e.g. once, twice, after every meal...and why would be useful.

thanks (or not!!!) in advance,

Russ

If you are having these kinds of domestic disputes you need to get a dishwasher.


Then you can argue about who's turn it is to empty the dishwasher instead!

 

[slowmotion]

Used to do this when I flat shared in the early 90's.

I shared a flat with three other slobs when I was twenty four. One evening, we cooked a casserole in a cast iron pot. The food stuck to it like glue. After several bottles of wine, an argument broke out about the washing-up, and each of us claimed that the casserole dish was not their responsibility. We put some water in it and left it. Two days later, one of us had the brilliant idea of leaving it out in the overgrown back garden. The feral cats of Shepherds Bush did the needful over the next three weeks, and it ended up spotlessly clean.

 

[alicat]

Wash up every week, whether I've run out of pots or not.

 

[Profpointy]

just get the dog to lick the plates clean, then back int the cupboard; job done :-)

Actually, hillarity aside I can't really see much point in dishwasher. some people have already said they don't wash saucepans, and In my limited experience they can't clean burnt on curry pans or whatever, and by the time you've scraped the plates, put everything in, and emptied it after, you might as well have just done the washing up yourself.

 

[swee'pea99]

Load dishwasher throughout the day, on at bedtime; small amount of non-dishwasher stuff (frying pans, wooden stuff, good knives) washed up at end of day.

 

[summerdays]

I hate doing the washing up or dishwasher. So mostly I let it pile up throughout the day and then load it in two chunks - before and after tea (actually I leave after tea to Mr summerdays). However if camping it gets washed after every meal. Mr summerdays and myself have differing views on mugs - I will reuse the same one throughout the day, but I often find it has made its way to the dishwasher.

 

[Easytigers]

Ok..back story is this:
I work full time (and at least one day at weekends), wife left work to look after the kids when they were born. Eldest is in school full time and little one in pre-school in the mornings.
Wife's thinking is that when I get home, it's her time off so I cook and put the kids to bed etc. She washes up but refuses to do it until the morning. I hate this for two reasons:
1. The house stinks in the morning of what we cooked the night before
2. There's no work top space and often we've run out of plates etc for breakfast
Sorry for the life story but am I being unreasonable to want her to wash up after tea???

 

[Easytigers]

Oh btw it's a case of can't cook won't cook...she's both! So her cooking is out...we've both agreed its safer that way!

 

[asterix]

Whenever I need the sink clear for cleaning the bike of course.

 

[summerdays]

Depends I always seem a little tired then and just want to take things easy.

Can't say on the smell front as we don't leave them overnight - mr summerdays won't even leave party glasses plates etc overnight, I help him load the dishwasher but knowing that I would leave it to the morning If it was just me.

As for running out of plates ... I found with a dish washer I had to get more bits as they would be in the dish washer - especially knives and teaspoons.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

If you want something done at a particular time then you either do it yourself at that particular time or delegate it to someone else to do at/by a particular time; otherwise, it'll get done at a time the other person wants it done. In marriage, you can't really delegate tasks and set timescales (well, I suppose you could, but it would not be too healthy a relationship) so it sounds as if you either do it yourself or wait...

 

[alans]

I have a dishwasher and throw everything into it. When full turn it on. Job done.

Same here.A Bosch.
Beforehand I was the dishwasher

 

[swee'pea99]

If you want something done at a particular time then you either do it yourself at that particular time or delegate it to someone else to do at/by a particular time; otherwise, it'll get done at a time the other person wants it done. In marriage, you can't really delegate tasks and set timescales (well, I suppose you could, but it would not be too healthy a relationship) so it sounds as if you either do it yourself or wait...

Hard to argue.

A bone of contention in my, and I'd guess many other relationships, is differing thresholds. My missus sometimes grumbles at my failure to tidy up, to which I always respond that it's because I never see anything remotely near 'untidy', at least by my standards. I'd be perfectly happy to help tidy...but she always gets there long before I would. Because it's 'untidy'. (It isn't.)