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

Snapping carrots like that? Wow. Can you rip a telephone book in half?

😂

I'm going to channel my dear old gran (rest her soul) and just say: don't be such an idle bugger! 😂

Also, I don't believe the carrot thing at all - which does call into question the veracity of the entire post tbh.

The dishwasher thing is so weird. I cooked fresh chicken tonight and the thought of putting the knife I used in with clean utensils makes me feel a bit ill….

I think of myself as lazy and a bit of a slob but on days when I've done a lot of cleaning I like the way everything looks, shiny, tidy, smells nice. You must waste a lot of carrot by snapping the ends off and if I dried my clothes indoors on an airer they'd smell musty and so would the room.

I do the same with my tea mug. I use the same one for the day then it goes in the dishwasher at night.

Absolutely nothing wrong with what you're doing.

Well I imagine in this ideal world you gradually move from clean to dirty, the dirty gets full, goes on and becomes clean. The one that was for cleans is now for dirties . Hopefully the whole washing up eco system is in perfect balance. I haven’t done the maths mind!

I’d never manage that, mine is like the washing machine- if it doesn’t go on every day there’s dishes (and laundry) everywhere!

Where do the dry clothes go when you need to dry the next load of washing?

I’m a bit slovenly in the housework department but the dishwasher thing really is grim and you shouldn’t be mixing the dirty and clean.

If it’s only you and your daughter I can see why the drying rack for clothes might work so that wouldn’t bother me other than it just being in the way all the time. The carrot thing I can’t work out as I’ve never snapped a raw carrot nearly at the end- I’ve snapped a very long one in half but they’re normally so hard I can’t work out how you’d just snap a few cms off one.

If I lived alone I might follow your dishwasher habit, but I wouldn't use anywhere near enough stuff to stick it on everyday so would have to see how that went. Top shelf stuff dripping onto bottom shelf would be my main issue.

I wouldn't do the clothes thing because I like my clothes in my bedroom for getting dressed and wouldn't want to see a clothes horse out all the time. If my bedroom was right next to a utility room, or I had a walk in wardrobe with good ventilation, I might. Makes a lot of sense to me.

The carrot thing I do unless I'm already chopping other veg. If the knife and board are out, I find cutting faster.

I don’t have a dishwasher and don’t have space to keep my clothes on a dryer the whole time so can’t relate to that. I like to wash and put things away so things are clean and tidy.

The carrots, I can relate to and improve upon. When I was single I used to eat a lot of raw and minimally prepared food as it seemed a lot easier to simply eat raw carrots, beetroot, cheese, nuts etc straight from the fridge than chop it all up to make elaborate meals with. Raw veg is more nutritious too. I cooked too but enjoyed those minimal meals when I had them. My bf now likes to always have proper meals which I find a bit stressful as it’s a lot of work to do this everyday.

@Apileofballyhoo surely you just end up with crumbs everywhere if you don't use a plate?

It’s easier to chop and I don’t cook my carrots whole? I chop the ends off then chop them off.

The dishwasher thing sounds a bit gross as it sounds like you have a mix of clean and dirty in there. The dirty stuff would make the clean stuff dirty especially if there’s something dirty on the top shelf and clean on the bottom.

The washing of clothes thing wouldn’t work for families as it would take up a lot of space.

I live with only one other person and we still fill a dishwasher of dirty stuff most days. I work from home so anything used for breakfast, lunch and dinner will be there. If I'm cooking something with multiple pots or bowls used then the dishwasher fills up so easily. How can you have space for everything if there's clean stuff stored in there?

And yes I would find it hard to tell the difference between a dirty and clean plate as I rinse before putting them in the dishwasher and I have matching plates.

This isn't a hack- it's making things more difficult!

My work has 2 dishwashers one that's to be filled while the other is being cleaned. Works so well! But most houses don't have space for two dishwashers! If I haven't had time to empty the dishwasher in the morning we just put the dirty dishes in the sink until I get round to it.

Sounds really weird to me but you do you if it makes you happy.

The dishwasher does not make sense to me. As your child gets a big older and you start getting them to help I don’t think it would be safe. Children will not understand cross contamination.

The clothes thing i kind of get. Do you have a separate private space for the laundry? If not then doesn’t it get in the way?

Because even with three of us the dishwasher does not need to go on every day. What a waste of water and electricity. No wonder the planet is fucked

OP, I'm far from being a domestic goddess but putting dirty things back into the dishwasher with clean stuff is grim even by my standards. Even if you keep things that have been in contact with raw meat seperate (which is good anyway!), surely things like bits of milk and cereal, coffee mixed with your saliva, blobs of butter and jam, little bits of cheese etc are inevitably going to fall onto the "clean" plates and potentially sit there for hours with bacteria multiplying, and then you take one out and use it! It doesn't sound very hygienic.

It's also terribly wasteful. You'll be using far more water and electricity than you need, running the dishwasher every day unnecessarily. Do you really not have anything better to do with your money than pay more than you need for your utilities?

Do what you like. I don’t necessarily do those things (def not the dishwasher as it’s illogical — you’d have dirty and clean crockery in together) but they have no impact on anyone else so why discuss them?

I don't have a dishwasher, or a spare room to dedicate to permanent clothes airers, and I cannot snap a raw carrot with my bare hands.

Anyone who thinks emptying a dishwasher or putting clothes away is “work “ is clearly a seriously lazy person 😴

I'm with you. Except I bite the ends off the carrots rather than snapping them. Never thought of the dishwasher thing though - sounds like a great effort saving trick!

This just all sounds like a grubby scruffy house to me.

What about flies in the hot weather? Are you rinsing everything well before you put it in the dishwasher? Do you empty your bins?