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

Would you not think then to try and change then ? By sharing people are saying they think is wrong, that they cant get their heads around why you are doing it this way ? Its not saving you any time or providing you any benefit what so ever, start empty dishwasher every morning and put away the dishes - get the kids involved. Then look up cooking carrots properly on google, spend a day getting on top of the laundry and put it away. Make the room a more useful room. You will see the benefits straight away

This is what I was going to work out but someone else has

So you spend on avg 17 MORE HOURS a year boiling whole carrots than if you'd chopped them

And c£100 MORE A YEAR as you run your dishwasher daily (with a mix of clean and dirty plates). As well as reducing its lifespan

Doesn't sound very genius to me OP!

It's lazy, and disgusting having a mix of clean and dirty items in the dishwasher.

Surely you’d hit capacity at some point with the dishwasher? All the pots and pans and cutlery etc eventually be in there. I’m calling bullshit.

Can’t get worked up about the clothes but personally it would annoy me.

The carrot thing… a bit weird and lazy but whatever.

the dishwasher though! It is sooooo wasteful to re wash clean stuff. I also find stuff left in the dishwasher doesn’t properly dry and I think it smells weird (we had a man come and look at ours and it’s fine, DH says he can’t smell it but I defo can)

… if you are re washing clean stuff in the dishwasher every night what’s the harm in dirtying one extra knife for the sale of chopping some veg?

This post made me laugh 😂

Why not just pile the dirty stuff in the sink until you've used all the clean items?

And do you not peel carrots?

Oh ok, I didn't realise this. I tried not emptying the dishwasher as I didn't see the point of just putting them in the cupboard to then be used again. But it doesn't really work as then the dirty dishes pile up and there are usually some items you won't use all the time. The two dishwasher idea might be an idea though ... 🤔

Nah that's boke. Bits of food deteriorating next to plates and utensils you are gonna use. That's a health hazard

This thread has cheered me up enormously. I love the idea of dinner in the OP’s house: 3 giant half carrots & one whole turnip served with sausages still strung together on a beautifully clean white plate (wait, is that an egg-stain on my plate?). No matter, after a glorious evening discussing the OP’s other charming eccentricities, I would depart to the hum of the dishwasher, knowing that the Christmas eggcups were being washed for the 300th time

You are a genius OP. I tried both the dishwasher thing as well as leaving clothes in the basket after I was exhausted having my baby, unfortunately it never quite worked for me. But I'm happy to hear someone has nailed this.

It's to save you from having to empty the clean pots into a cupboard and stops you having dirty pots hanging around the sink waiting to go into the dishwasher when you haven't got round to emptying the clean pots out. Makes sense to me as my son is supposed to empty the clean pots so it invariably waits for ages whilst dirty pots are piling up in the sink and on the table.........but sadly I haven't got the room for two dishwashers!

Ops method sounds rather wasteful of electricity and water as with only two people the dishwasher wouldn't need to go on every day if she wasn't rewashing clean pots along with the dirty 🤷‍♀️

@KreedKafer ah thanks for that. I never thought about religious reasons restricting contamination of food.

Lol at boiling a whole carrot. Maybe chuck a head of broccoli and cauliflower in there while you are at it.

The only people I’ve ever met with two dishwashers are orthodox Jewish families who stick to exceptionally strict kosher rules about certain food groups never being allowed to contaminate each other. When we were househunting in our area we saw lots of properties with kitchens that had two sinks, two ovens, two fridges and two dishwashers. Unfortunately in a normal sized house that often meant an odd layout and/or the surprise presence of a washing machine in the living room or on a landing.

Are you buying carrots the size of your little finger or what? A large carrot, whole, would take fucking ages to boil and snapping the ends off one would be harder work than just slicing with a knife.

The dishwasher thing - and I speak here as someone who generally gives very few fucks about housework and isn’t particularly hygiene conscious - is gross.

Clothes airer - I mean, do what you want, but I’d find it really depressing to be looking at laundry all the time and in any case I’ve got too many clothes for them all to live on an airer.

You are absolutely entitled to do what you want in your own house; it’s not affecting me so I can’t get worked up about it. It doesn‘t, however, ‘make sense’ and it absolutely is lazy - I don’t really get why you don’t just admit it and own it. I do/don’t do a lot of domestic stuff out of sheer laziness, but I don’t try to tell people my way makes more sense, and I’m more than happy to admit I’m lazy; I don’t see it as a moral failing so I don’t feel the need to dress it up as efficiency (or indeed make it my entire personality).

OP, I am afraid you are a bit of a slob.

I suspect what you described is just the tip of the iceberg. I wouldn't want to live with someone like you.

My dad does this, I have to restrain myself from rearranging it
Mine is heavy ambient stuff to lightest ambient then heavy frozen/fridge to lightest ambient frozen/fridge. So in order of packing that bread and salad ends up on top

My dad < tips entire basket so salad is under tins >
I nearly hyperventilate

Sweet Mary mother of Joseph the dirty and clean plates are mixed!!?? That is abhorrent!! Honestly I couldn’t eat somewhere if someone did this. I wouldn’t even want a cup of tea at your house OP. We couldn’t be friends.

Why do people have 2 dishwashers? Do they have no cupboards? Or is it just due to having a big family?

I don't get why you'd have one for clean and dirty either, the dishwashers must be alternated and have both clean and dirty dishes in them at some point.

Please will someone explain it to me like it is 'Why we have 2 dishwashers for dummies'.

Thanks in advance

100% they think it's grim and are laughing that you think it's normal behaviour!!

You are misunderstanding, she doesn't pile it up in the sink/on the side, she puts dirty in with the clean!! 🤣

Do you live alone?

Dishwasher wouldn't work, hubby empties as soon as he's up.

Carrots, don't know how you do tgat with fresh carrots. Ours are usually cut into buttons.

Clothes drier. Put in ironing pile or away as soon as dry.

You are weird. For the carrot thing it’s much easier to bite the ends off that’s what I do. Dishwasher your way is going to be a lottery when you pull out an item if it’s clean or dirty. I’ve solved this by having one of those catering dishwashers which basically kept running all the time so I can be sure the dishes in it are likely to be clean. Electric and water bills are a bit high though, I guess that’s just the price I pay for being a genius. Clothes I just chuck the dirty ones out, the space I save by not having a washing machine or dryer I use to keep up a good stockpile of new items.

The clothes thing fair enough, no harm done! with two young kids we constantly have an airer up so I can see this would save time.

The carrot thing I personally find weird to be honest!

The dishwasher thing I find weird and unhygienic.