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AIBU?

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In thinking this isnt normal?

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laptopdancer · 04/12/2011 12:58

I seem to have to wash up at least 8-10 times a day (or DH does). Its not the washing so much that I have a problem with but Im thinking the constant use of plates and cups is a bit out of hand.

It seems that no sooner is my sink clear, there is another cup and plate on the side. We never seem to have a time when NO-ONE is using something from the kitchen. I hate dishes by the sink (or in it) and it just alwsys looks like no-ones washed up but you can guarantee soeone just has not 5-10 minutes before.

Is this kind of kitchen traffic unusual?

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ouryve · 04/12/2011 17:00

That's what venetian blinds are for.

cat64 · 04/12/2011 17:33

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tunnelmaniac · 04/12/2011 18:02

just get the buggers to wash their bloody cups out after them. I have a phantom leaver of half-drunk glasses of water in my kitchen. bloody infuriating. and, what's with the doing the washing up but leaving several random wine glasses on the table? or putting your dirty plates by the dishwater BUT NOT BLOODY WELL IN IT!!!
Calmed down now. breathes deeply and slowly looking forward to the day when they leave home and I can go and mess up their kitchens

scuzy · 04/12/2011 18:07

euw not washing them for 2 weeks? sure jaysus thats making more work for yourself they surely have to be steeped and soaked and scrubbed. no dishwasher would do that!!

how much delph etc do you own that you can survive 2 weeks without washing anything??????

valiumredhead · 04/12/2011 18:09

Environment - BINGO!

As you were

ChippingInNeedsSleep · 04/12/2011 18:12

This is what I miss about having a dishwasher! Like you I hate anything on the side with a passion, it's annoying not having the dishwasher to hide all the dirty ones away! You need to get yours sorted out!

scuzy · 04/12/2011 18:12

oh god there are more of ye. thats rank!! wash the feckin things or get help doing them!!!

StealthPolarBear · 04/12/2011 18:12

random, you basically need to assume that once you have cleaned your dishwasher arms, that you will be cleaning the whole kitchen.

Unscrew the arms and then just whack them as hard as you can in the sink. A toothpcick can help to guide stuff out but you can't get in and get stuff out. I have the same problem with sweetcorn. I assumed I was missing a trickk and they came apart in some way but we had a guy round to fix it once and he did the same!

Do that, clean filter, clean all gunk around edges and seal and then run one of those cleaner things - will be as good as new

picnicbasketcase · 04/12/2011 18:13

Even when you do have a dishwasher, no bugger actually puts dirty plates inside it, they just get left on the worktop above it until some fool (ie me) comes along and clears them all away. In my house, anyway

valiumredhead · 04/12/2011 18:14

They do in my house if they know what's good for them!

JaneBirkin · 04/12/2011 18:15

Look, when you are forced to live in my house you can wash up your own stuff as much as you like. In the interim don't call me rank!

My house, my mess. My magnificently tiled bathroom while the dishes wait for someone unskilled to come along...

JaneBirkin · 04/12/2011 18:16

Oh and golly, next time you move, move to somewhere with the kitchen at the back, and no one will veer know if you wash up or not! Genius

Trills · 04/12/2011 18:18

I find that unwashed dishes are very patient, yes. They just sit there. They don't DO anything. They don't complain.

scuzy · 04/12/2011 18:19

lol your kidding about keeping them in the bathroon right? RIGHT?

JaneBirkin · 04/12/2011 18:20

No, I don't keep them in there. I keep myself in there, flat out trying to get the tiling done. The dishes are at random places around the house, some in the kitchen, miraculously, and I haven't got time to do them.

MN is my equivalent of coming up for air

I will be grouting again in a minute.

JaneBirkin · 04/12/2011 18:21

[could do with a husband]

scuzy · 04/12/2011 18:22

right ok ... so your building and renovating and this is only in the last 2 weeks you havent washed up??? oh thats totally different thought it was the norm.

piprobincomesbobbobbobbinalong · 04/12/2011 18:41

Wash up 3 times a day (after meals). The in between stuff can wait and you'll be saving yourself the cost of using and heating several sinkloads of water unnecessarily. It will also be better for your hands (or if you use gloves, you will get through fewer pairs).

JaneBirkin · 05/12/2011 09:20

No it is normal here. I'm always building and renovating, well, for the past few years,

actually getting fed up with being told it's not Ok. It's fine. It's how we live and I accept it and so should you.

MoreBeta · 05/12/2011 09:24

We have a rule.

Everything goes in the dishwasher once it comes off the table and immediately the dishwasher is full it goes on.

We only put it on once a day on average though. We never bother drying anything - just gets put back on the shelf. We have cheap white crockery and glasses so we dont care if it gets chipped.

aldiwhore · 05/12/2011 09:31

I used to have this problem years ago, even with a dishwasher, then I smashed or gave away everything that was a duplicate.... so ended up with 4 mugs, forks, spoons etc., and it worked a treat. (Though there was still never a full rack of clean things, the mess sink side wasn't bad at all).

I need to do it again.

Our posh dinner service NEVER gets used and I may well, this very afternoon take all duplicates and put them in the shed for if we have guests.

DrCoconut · 05/12/2011 12:42

All this talk of washing up, hidden cups, mould etc is reminding me that I should go and give DS1's room its weekly excavation rather than mumsnetting while DS2 is asleep.

randommoment · 06/12/2011 07:37

Came back to this thread hoping for a miraculous answer to the rice problem, only to discover there wasn't. Off to find a screwdriver, thanks Stealth. If anyone hears a lot of swearing coming out of a kitchen in Wiltshire you'll work out where I live!

usualsuspect · 06/12/2011 07:41

I have a teenage son ,need I say more

inmysparetime · 06/12/2011 07:57

random if you're taking the arm off anyway, try putting the rice bit in boiling water and leave it for 15 mins. Surely that would boil and hence soften the rice?
OP make them wash up if it bugs you that much. Does it not bother you that your drainer is always full of drying dishes?

My DCs are 10 and 7, I pay them 20p a time to empty and fill the dishwasher, they fight over who gets to do it (but they have no idea of the true market value of work)

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