To wonder why it's so difficult to put dishes IN the dishwasher?!

[AmIGoingMad]

Seriously! It's there in the same place its always in. It's nowhere near full. So why oh why leave dishes scattered around the work surfaces even though we have a teeny tiny kitchen with hardly any work surface?!
PUT THEM STRAIGHT IN AND DON'T LEAVE THEM AROUND EXPECTING ME TO!

And while we're at it- why not just put things back where they belong? Yes- we use them often so they should be accessible. But left out everywhere is really not helpful as I can't find a thing!!!!

Oo it feels good to get that off my chest without starting WW3 at home!

Hooray! I'm not the only one who has this. But - would it be acceptable for me to kill DH if he doesn't stop helpfully carrying his dirty plates into the utility room and putting them on top of the open dishwasher which is half full of dirty plates?

WTF can't he just put them IN it? Because I then go in and spot them - and have to lift them off the top and put them in it!

(And he genuinely looks surprised and hurt when I complain about this - because he thinks he has done me a favour by carrying HIS dirty plate in there!)

i solved this by calling who ever left their plates etc back to the kitchen and making them do it (3 teens in our house) they soon learned, now if you can tell me how i get someone else to empty the bloomin thing i would be eternally grateful

In my case it's difficult because I don't have a dishwasher. But if I did I suspect that no-one but me would ever load or unload it anyway.

It's also that early stage with a toddler and a newborn which probably means that I get so much more annoyed than I would do otherwise. But still... it's really not that difficult or time consuming!!!

Same as youmeatsix.

It's an annoying and time consuming tactic, but effective. Have been known to call them back a second time if they don't stack their dishes properly too. It's the only way to avoid becoming everyone's lackey!

I think it probably comes from the same place that makes it hard to put dirty washing IN the basket, not on the floor by the side of it...

Oh I don't know. Sometimes I get so unreasonably fucked off with the utterly inept way DH has loaded the dishwasher that I'd rather he just left them on top. Makes me itch with anger.

Ha! Rocky. I was about to say, it's worse when it's been loaded in the shittest way imaginable, so much you wonder if a blind fox with no spatial awareness or knowledge of gravity wandered in after ripping the bin bags open in your garden and did it.

I wont allow DH to do it as i am sick of opening it after it's been on to find a glass laying sideways and cracked on the bottom shelf and 2 plates on top of each other face down balancing on the cup spikes. All the surfaces still covered in dirty dishes because the dishwasher was too full to fit them in

Ooooo in this house too! Not to mention scraping the food in the bin....Perhaps we should just leave leave all the doors open & let the foxes have a free meal...

YANBU.

But I just went in the kitchen and realised I have no one to rant at today and it's a bombsite... of my own making.

I can feel a midnight blitz coming on.

Thank you for shaming me.

It's not that it's difficult to put things in there, it's that it's even easier not to.

MrsSippy me and DP have just had that exact conversation.

He was perplexed.

Then he came out with 'well I might wear those socks tomorrow'

NO.

we so have this problem! dishes next to the dishwasher, shoes next to the shoe rack and most irritating leaving socks wherever he happens to be at the time!!!

oh and don't get me started on his complete inability to wipe down the chopping board after making toast!!

wooooo, I feel better now!!

I don't put anything into our dishwasher, although that is by request of oh who has complained that I have no concept of efficient stacking

We don't have a dishwasher, but I suspect the equivalent in our house is the inability of anyone to put their dirty clothes inside the laundry basket rather than on top of it! Every morning I get up to a big pile of clothes ON TOP OF THE LAUNDRY BASKET LID!!!!!! Aaaargh!

I feel a bit better getting that out.

This seems to be providing therapy!