To think these domestic things make sense and I’m not being lazy?

I by no means spend my life cleaning, and thankfully can afford a cleaner, but I love to cook and obviously do lots of day to day jobs. But you are wasting time and energy by using these 'hacks'.

Once you have washed and peeled a carrot (please say you do this) then it takes seconds to slice and you are then saving a significant amount of time to steam or roast or boil because you have cut it. I find the dishwasher thing quite ick to be honest. It's an enclosed space so you could have milk from a porridge bowl in there dripping and congealing along with plates and cutlery you're going to use. And the clothes horse thing must be mentally exhausting. It's nice to put away fresh and clean clothes and they have a better chance of keeping that lovely fresh smell rather than just be left within the home until the next wear. In saying that, if these things make you happy or that you feel make life easier for you then carry on!

So you’re putting in mugs and glasses into the dishwasher which are presumably dripping onto clean stuff below? It takes less than 5 minutes to empty the dishwasher. And I say that as an extremely lazy person.

I couldn't live like that but each to their own I guess.

1. It takes ages to boil an unchopped carrot. Its a waste of energy and with a whole one you can get soft outer & a hard core which I don't like. You are cutting either way to eat it and its more energy efficient to cut it before cooking.

1. I do not always need to run the dishwasher. I do not want to run it for only 4 dirty mugs & 3 small plates and everything else clean. Its very wasteful of water and resource. Its also unpleasant on a hot day leaving smelly plates & pans next to clean things.

1. I have far more clothes than will fit on one airer and wear very different things on different weeks. A smart outfit would be sat there taking space for weeks. It does not make for efficient management of space or energy usage in managing how you run the washing machine or drier.

These tasks take almost no time.

So what if you use your big saucepan for dinner on the first night, dry the dishwasher off in the evening, it's clean in the dishwasher the next morning, you make scrambled eggs for breakfast, you put the dirty raw egg bowl in the dishwasher, egg drips on the clean saucepan. You want to use that saucepan when it comes to dinner time but it's got raw egg on it?!
This is really not hygienic. It takes a few minutes to unload a dishwasher in the morning, then you can put the dirty stuff in there throughout the day and set it off again at night.

Carrots you do you, I'd waste a lot of carrot and don't you ever use them in dishes rather than just whole boiled carrots?

Drying rack, I wouldn't because I don't like clutter but if it's just you and your dc and you don't mind looking at it no harm no foul.

This genuinely sounds like harder work and more headspace than the 2 minutes it would take to de-stack.

These things don’t sound much like life hacks, it sounds like you have a clothes horse out all the time and dirty cutlery spooning the clean stuff! Not my cup of tea personally but I like a tidy house and to know my dishes are definitely clean. Not for me.

The only thing I found a bit hmm was the dishwasher, so you have clean and dirty in there at the same time? I hope not....

Otherwise, YANBU - You have the room for clothes - I wish I did! - snapping veg is perfectly fine, I do that sometimes if I want to eat a chunk of cucumber, for example. I'm obvs not skilled enough to do it with carrots cos I cant seem to snap off the very end (pls peel carrots cos I don't know that the issue with pesticides in the skin has gone away).

Washing the shower cubicle is one of my issues - I give it a spray with no rinse stuff. The next time I use it I do rinse everything down then get in! I will give the hose and spray head a clean when I'm showering too 🤣🤣🤣. I've no mould or pink bacteria so it works....

I wouldn't like say a cup that had beaten egg in it even in the dw with clean plates, even if not touching

I think that's just a bit silly. I'm pretty sure salmonella isn't airborne.

I do think in the West our obsession with cleanliness and aesthetics has gone too far, so I personally find people like you refreshing, OP.

Sounds like more of a faff to me!

Who wants to scrutinise the dishwasher each day to work out which side is dirty/ clean, so you don’t end up dripping weetabix milk over clean pans?

Who wants to eat a carrot which looks like a horse has been at it- plus a whole carrot probably takes about 3 times longer to cook than if it’s in slices/ batons- and you’ve probably wasted a load of the carrot by not just slicing the end off.

The clothes thing- I cannot tell you how many attracted would need (family of 6) and how much damp this would cause if we never used wardrobes, plus in the summer we use an outside line so it would get rained on most weeks after a day or so.

Hold the book deal OP!

So the dirty stuff drips on the clean and you rewash any clean that hasn’t been used?

I have two dishwashers, so there's always a clean one and a dirty one. I struggle to see how it would work with one.

It does all make sense. Sounds like you've just optimised your life in a way that works for you. I wouldn't do this, but I think it's more tolerable than people who just like to make extra work for themselves because they have nothing more interesting to do with their free time, so they just spend their whole life cleaning. The kind of people who iron baby clothes.

I don't get the carrot stuff - Don't you peel carrots anyway? So what's the effort of trimming the end when you're already peeling them?

Dishwasher I can understand, emptying it is the reason why I don't like dishwashers, this is so tedious. However, I wouldn't like to mix clean and dirty, feels a bit weird.

Clothes mmmnope, I put as much clothing items on hangers as possible but it goes straight into the wardrobe where it's hidden, really don't like when clothes are on display in my bedroom, I need a very minimal environment to sleep properly.

You need two dishwashers for your system to work, I’ve heard of people doing that before. You take things out of the one that has just run, use them, and then put them in the other one. When that’s full you run it, and then start filling the other one.

I used to have a lodger years ago who subscribed to the OP’s school of thought. He used to iron five shirts on Sunday evening, leave them hanging in the living room, and take one to wear each day. I kicked him out because I got sick of my living room looking like widow Twankey’s laundry.

You are not being economical. You are being lazy. I could never live like that. I am by no means a perfectionist, I just have standards.

I have heard advice to have 2 dishwashers -or ones with 2 drawers? So you move stuff from one to another.

I am lazy so I could do it but dirty cups with drips would drip onto clean plates below.

My question is why snap the end off at all? Why not just cut it up on your plate?

The dishwasher is grim. Do you keep it closed during the day? If you do, does it not smell? If you don’t, do you get flies in your kitchen?

I have a maid/personal assistant who does all this time consuming stuff for me. That leaves me time to peel the odd grape, pour the odd glass of champagne and lie on the chaise longue whether I have an attack of the vapours or not. Great life.

I have way too many clothes to keep them on an airer and the airer takes up too much space so my clothes go in my wardrobe, and I empty the dishwasher because otherwise you forget what's clean and what's dirty and there's nothing worse than grabbing a pan or something to use and finding it's dirty. I also can't picture snapping the end off a carrot, it sounds really hard to do.

However, I don't think there's anything wrong with the way you do any of it.

Surely "lazy" means you are not fulfilling responsibilities and it's affecting others. Whether you put your t-shirts on an airer or in a drawer has no impact on anyone else.

No thanks to all of it.

Clothes - fine if you have the space
Veg - you eat a carrot whole? Or multiple breaks?
Dishwasher - ewwww

Sorted! Get yourself a horse OP. Carrot chopper and clothes horse.