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

Also I cut the end off the carrot because I then cut the rest of the carrot up. It’s hardly extra effort. Do you peel them???

Also worth noting that I am a total grot and approval of your dishwasher usage doesn't count for much

So do you run your dishwasher half full of clean stuff? That seems pretty inefficient. The clean/dirty thing bothers me too. I guess if you rinse it’s probably ok, but I’d worry about a dribble coming out of something when I put it on the top each and going all over everything on the bottom. Also I use different cooking pans/trays every day so need to rejig the dishwasher arrangement dependent on what I’ve cooked.

Perhaps for 1 person, it could work, but I think it’s probably inefficient and not super shiny clean!

Dishwasher is the kind of thing I would do but OH would have an episode

Clothes, fair enough

Snapping carrots and cooking them whole though. Sounds fucking prehistoric.

I don't think you're grim, OP. I thought you would have some convention-defying tips that would shake us to our core, make us see the world anew. Sadly though, I just don't see how it could work in practice - it's more work to shuffle things around in the DW, it's wasteful not to cut the minimum off the carrot.
The clothes airer I like, but you would need several for a family and where do they go?

How can this work? You take out a clean thing, use it, and then MAKE A SPACE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DW to put it back in dirty? So, you move other stuff around each time?

Also, what I about big things that you don't use every day, do they live in the DW forever?

I bet the rest of your house is even grimmer

Op cba to chop the top off a carrot, I can't imagine an awful lot of ironing goes on

Well I usually peel carrots then either slice, or chop into sticks. Don’t they take longer to cook whole?
dishwasher only on every couple of days and could not cope with dirty and clean in it.
Always put clothes away as husband would have a fit.

I don't peel vegetables either. The skin has fibre and other nutrients. They are washed and cooked, which is good enough for me.

chemical residue from crop spray!!

Modern life is a never ending ingestion of micro plastics and ‘chemicals’- some more harmful than others. I don’t have spare energy to devote to worrying about it.

do you know what the person or persons who handled the fruit and veg you have just bought was previously doing?!

Nope. I don’t know what the people in cafes have been doing, or in the bakery either. I also don’t have spare energy to worry about that. Stuff gets cooked, not a right lot is going to survive being hit with steam or roasted for 45 minutes.

I have had food poisoning twice in my 40 years- once from a dodgy kebab shop (that was campylobacter- origin confirmed by public health), and once from a chain pub type place (entire family met for dinner, everyone got ill)-

No one has ever been ill from something coming out of my kitchen- and I have people round multiple times a week (this week 7 different guests will have been here for food, that’s a fairly normal week. They always come back, despite the piles of clean washing everywhere and the unpeeled vegetables!).

The dishwasher and clothes I can totally understand working for a 1 adult household like yours.

Similar snapping veg where it works, although I have never cone across carrots which are more easily swappable by hand so cutting by knife would be easier for that example.

None of these would be practical or even feasible for a larger household though, which is a key consideration.

I don't like waste so prefer to slice off the tip of the carrot. If you're cutting it on your plate instead, how are you saving time? You're just doing things in a different order, increasing the cooking time and doing your cutting with a less sharp knife. You still have to cut them for your 3 year old, why not do it all at once? It's just inefficient.

I don't use the same pans and crockery every day. I wouldn't want to leave baking trays in the dishwasher getting washed over and over despite being clean as they will wear out quickly. It takes two minutes to empty the dishwasher.

Can't get worked up about the clothes.

None of what you do saves time or effort. Pointless post.

I do the airer thing. All the clothes I currently wear are on it. Mixture of wet and dry-try to keep them separate as much as possible but they all dry at some point so it doesn't really matter. Then pick whatever clothes have fully dried that day off it lol. Anything else is too much faff. I absolutely am lazy though 100%. Which is difficult when you have OCD!

These "hacks" sound more work and stress than just doing it properly to me. Thought you were gonna say you don't bother ironing or making the bed and then I'd have been with you 😆

The carrot thing is weird and I didn't realise carrots could be snapped. I buy quite large ones so doubt it's an option. Also wasteful I imagine?

Dishwasher- how does the dirty not drip on the clean? What happens if clean stuff is still in at end of day, Do you wash it again?

Airer - fair enough . Wouldn't work in our house of five but yes it's easier.

I don't iron. Clothes go straight in wardrobes, people can iron them if they want

I opened this thread expecting some amazing timesaving chore hacks and I'm very disappointed.

Your "domestic things" only make sense if your kitchen is so enormous that the distance between the chopping board and a knife is hardly manageable, and your dishwasher is several minutes' walk away from the cupboards. Otherwise it makes no sense whatsoever. But if you do have a kitchen large enough that you need a scooter to get across it, well done (I suspect that may be the case if you have an entire room to use as a clothes drying space as well - many people don't).

What really intrigues me is how weirdly proud you are of these lame solutions - I get a real rebel vibe there.

Anyway, to answer your question, most other people surely don't do the same because see above.

Meh OP whatever works for you is fine. I am very laissez faire myself and only really put things away (dishes, clothes) because of DH. If I lived alone I don't think I'd bother.

Well I hope you buy everything organic or wash everything thoroughly before cooking as if not you will be consuming a heck of a lot of chemical residue from crop spray!! 😱 Also if you're lucky enough to be able to buy loose veg and not prepacked then do you know what the person or persons who handled the fruit and veg you have just bought was previously doing?! General advice these days is to either scrub or peel!! 🙄

We don’t peel carrots (or potatoes, mushrooms, apples when cooking or parsnips). Avocado might be the only thing we peel!

I have always kept my eggs in the fridge, and have never read any advice not to do so - in fact quite the reverse.

I sometimes think I must be the odd one out for preferring to wash dishes by hand - then I see the large amount of dishwashing liquid for sale in the supermarkets and decide that it can't just be me!

When cut up smaller they cook quicker and use less energy

Yes, I agree you can smell the detergent and the crockery feels weird. I was pleased to read your post as I thought it was just me!! I've also had to put things through again as they haven't cleaned properly the first time (I've used them at work, which has given me even more reason to never want one), and I've seen mugs with writing on the front which has worn off in a short time. Horrible things.