Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Soaking dishes - just laziness disguised, right?

54 replies

Darkmodealways · 14/11/2024 21:56

This just infuriates me so much!

Just gone to go to bed and the sink is full of tonight’s dishes that are ‘soaking’. Eg dishes left for me to wash up in the morning! My teens were meant to have done the dishes earlier.

My DH is actually the worst for this, he eats soup every day for lunch but refuses to do it in the microwave so leaves all the saucepans piling up ‘soaking’ until I relent and wash them up.

Its just laziness masked as being ‘helpful’, right?!

OP posts:
Darkmodealways · 14/11/2024 22:04

We have a dishwasher! I don’t like putting saucepans in it though.

OP posts:
SensibleSigma · 14/11/2024 22:01

It is in that case. A pan that won’t come clean with a quick wash does need a soak, but that’s not what you are talking about.

Saschka · 14/11/2024 22:00

I have to say, a dishwasher was life changing because I no longer play “washing up chicken” with DH until we run out of plates.

Now I just need some way of automating cleaning a bathroom and mowing the lawn.

Thevelvelletes · 14/11/2024 21:59

Yip indeedy.

Swipe left for the next trending thread