What's your dish-washing point?

Well, I guess the first question should be, do you even wash your own dishes? Or does your mommy do it?

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

Answers

I just wash the dishes if there are any in the sink. Drives me nuts. :)

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

Shut up, mama's boy. :)

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

am i the only one whos heard of a dishwasher?? ;)

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

no dishwasher here. I cook, I HATE doing dishes. My boyfriend's idea of cooking is hotdogs and he LOVES to clean, so needless to say, I don't do dishes.

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

I can't stand for dishes to be unwashed... we have a dishwasher, which makes it a lot easier. I do, however REFUSE to wash dishes if they are put in the sink with stuff still on them, unrinsed, etc... my husband learned this lesson the hard way as he "EWWWWWWWWED" while washing dishes he put in there with pizza crusts that got all wet and soggy (WTMI, sorry)... we haven't had THAT problem again since!

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

Rinse and clean and then dishwasher...

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

I'm sort of a passive dishwasher, since I live in a dorm....I either stack my dishes together out of sight, or else I fill them (like cups) with water and let them sit until I have a bunch. Or until I go home, and then I have my mommy wash them in the dishwasher.

At least I don't bring laundry home....

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

My dad does all my dishes. *hangs head*

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

do the dishes? do what with them, exactly?

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

dishwasher? dishwasher? What's that? Oh right, modern technology. I wash dish in direct inverse proportion to locality of my parents. (Yes, still at home).

EG if they're not home, I don't do the dishes. Since I have a double sink, a truly impressive amount of used stuff can pile up.

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

You take your dishes home and not your laundry? Silly.

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

I DON'T do the dishes. Ever. I refuse to do dishes, even at my job (i work at a bagel place where it is in the job description...) I haven't had to do the dishes and I've been working there for 6 months. I DON'T DO DISHES.

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001

Yeah.....cuz I do my laundry here......cuz it's free....

-- Anonymous, February 06, 2001

yeah, we have a dishwasher too. I just stick all dirty dishes in there, nice and neatly. mom usually is the one to turn it on since it's not usually full till she notices but I put em away sometimes.

and I just had to mention - katie, yo! I have the same limit with the butcher knife/butter thing. ugh. that's awkward to deal with. I sometimes would just wipe off an old one after rinsing it if I was really lazy though.

-- Anonymous, February 06, 2001

In a perfect world the dishes wouldn't be done but once or twice a week after someone had cooked (real cooking, not reheating), BECAUSE the dishwasher would be empty and we could all thoroughly rinse out our own dishes and load them into the dishwasher so all we would really have to do is add soap and hit start. And then rotate who empties the dishwasher.

*sigh* I can always dream, right?

My breaking point is usually 1/2 to 3/4 full sink.... After that it's ewww. This week was off for me because I was very busy running to Hampton every 5 minutes.

-- Anonymous, February 06, 2001

I hate seeing dishes in the sink. Especially since, having just moved out, we have a very limited supply of pots. As in ONE POT. So, logically, the dishes need to be done every day in the ol' Watsonian Dominion.

-- Anonymous, February 06, 2001

Every day? What the fuck? Buy some more pots, you cheapass. :)

-- Anonymous, February 06, 2001

I will... soon... um, Katie, can I, like, borrow about 50 bucks from you? I need to buy some pots...

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

This is why you go to your parents and whine. "Wahhhh... I need some pots... I'm tired of having to light a fire under the toilet just so I can boil some macaroni."

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

Jeremy, you cheap ass, I'm with Katie... Hell, even my roommate n' I have three pots and we haven't even gotten around to buying ice trays yet...

My dish point is when the sink is about 2/3 full... my roommates point is anything in the sink at all... needless to say, I"ve yet to do any dished since moving... tehehe...

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

'Cause I'm living in university halls, I only have 2 bowls, 2 plates and 2 complete sets of cutlery, so I do the dishes every day. So my breakfast bowl sits in the sink full of water until the evening, when I wash it up along with whatever other mugs, plates etc I've used during the day. At home, it all goes in the dishwasher. Bree, I get your point. I do my washing here if I'm going to be here at the weekend, but if I'm going home I'd definitely take it home because it costs like £2 to wash and dry it here. But that's the only reason I take it home. If it was free to do it here I wouldn't bother.

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

LOL...you guys are lucky! I still live at home, and my mom freaks when there are like, 2 plates and a fork in our sink. She'll come home and go, "JOANNA!!!! Why weren't these DONE? You know I can't stand coming home and seeing a sinkful of dirty dishes."

To which I respond, "MOM...2 dishes hardly constitutes a sinkful...secondly, i just got home from work too."

I guess 20 years at home have been 20 too many, huh> =)

-- Anonymous, February 07, 2001

Hey Katie, what happens when the mold welds all the plates together?

-- Anonymous, February 10, 2001

My mom basically washes the dishes and does most of that stuff all of the time. I'll chip in every so often, but that's about the extent of it. HOWEVER, when I'm living with my boyfriend, I see me doing the dishes. He'll cook, I'll clean.

-- Anonymous, February 13, 2001

i never wash dishes. i just break them and throw them away and buy new ones when i am out.

-- Anonymous, February 14, 2001

If we could all just invest in country china this wouldn't be a problem.

Country china: hick for paperware.

-- Anonymous, February 16, 2001