I knew someone with two dishwashers. It was brilliant! She'd run one and unload it at her leisure while filling the other. She said she got the idea off someone who had only enough dishes to fill the dishwasher and would just store them in there (although the more I think about that, the more confused I get...did they just run it if they used up all the plates, for example, and re-clean the bowls?), and she saw that and thought, "what you really need is two of them" Of course, it helped that she had enough money to design her own kitchen with two dishwashers!
Anyway, what I've been thinking on this thread is that one might think they're 'not counting' disabilities/illness, but do you really know who that affects? Our house is occasionally as the OP describes (although any poo is down below the waterline, and this is only when things have gotten really bad). My DH has a chronic illness, but only two of his very closest friends know. I am currently battling quite severe fatigue, but only one friend and two supervisors at work know. Anyone else, I suppose, would just think we're lazy.
I also am very, very bothered by mess and too much dust makes me ill which is a disaster, because if I do fall ill, I am sick for months. So I have strong incentive to keep things clean. But sometimes it really just gets on top of me (DH tries to help when he can he really stepped up this weekend! But he just can't manage much). And once a little mess gets started, it spirals out of control -- I start to get ill, I'm less capable, I do less, I get more ill, etc. I've picked up a new plan, which actually seems to be working, which is to clean beyond my ability at any sign of cold. For example, this weekend I had a bit of a sore throat, and so I even though it make me nearly vomit with the effort, I cleaned both bathrooms and the kitchen (all told, probably less than 2 hours cleaning, but it was far beyond my ability). DH hoovered for me while I lay on the coach and moaned that I had to get up and keep going, but kept falling down whenever I tried. I'll crash this week, and probably lose some hours at work, but that will only be a few days, which is better than months sick.
I also get very clumsy when I am tired, so it can sometimes be fairly counterproductive to try to, for example, do the dishes, because I'll end up spending all my energy on cleaning up the broken dish I dropped on the floor and have done nothing more than put two things in the dishwasher. It's better to let it go a bit longer in the hopes that I can find a time I can actually accomplish it.
This thread is making me feel like I'll never make friends :( I'd been feeling like I can't because I don't have the energy to socialise. But now I see I'd have to clean first. There is no way I could do both.