Leaving things 'to soak'

[MrsCorbyn]

A roasting dish might need a little time to soak before washing up. Perhaps a pan where food has been allowed to burn. But a plate!!? A saucepan you boiled pasta in? A sodding tea cup??!

These things will not benefit from being left on cooling water for a sodding day because someone is too bloody lazy to just wash things up as they go. Just wash it up you lazy bastards and then PUT THINGS AWAY!!!!

AIBU?

Yanbu.

Left in*

Is this the woman that is giving you grief in the shared house?

I think this is covered in your other thread about your annoying flat mate?

YANBU. My dp does this, it drives me mad!

Yanbu

However I am a lazy bastard who does this

Is this your pig of a housemate?

Yanbu.

I have one who leaves things to "drain" too. usually when there's lots of other stuff that needs washing up. yet when by half ten it's not done and I need the stuff to pack the lunches in so start to finish it all off, I'm the one who hasn't given him a chance to do it

Yes it is but also by the boys who are usually decent and will after 24 hours then wash up. It's something I've seen in all every shared house I've lived in though so not just about devil troll.

Maybe I'm the problem and have to high standards of kitchen decency? Starting to wonder.

Too * . Christ, the horrors are now affecting my grammar :(

Yanbu Mil take note,poor fil is always the victim of her leaving this to soak

Things to soak ffs!

I do this because I'm a shit multi-tasker. I will start the washing up, scrub scrub- won't come off. Oh well, let it soak, I'll just write a couple of pages and then put on the laundry, realise we need milk, off I pop to get it, come back, start helping a child with home work, finish the paper I was working on. Let's make dinner then- where is the blue saucepan, I thought I'd done the washing up- oh, hang on...

Could this be what's happening?

As soon as dinner is over husband washes the dishes and I dry them.......then our evening starts. I can't relax if there are things in the sink, it ruins my enjoyment when I'm trying to Mumsnet or watch GBBO

My husband does this. A roast pan full of drippings doesn't "soak" - at least not after the water has cooled.

YANBU - DP and I have a housemate that does this and it drives me dotty. Surely easier to just wash it but nope, he'd rather leave something that doesn't need soaking sitting on the side full of water.

Yanbu

Mil does this except these things are left 'to soak' for days

This is one of the arguments I have with my dh. He leaves things in the cold dirty washing up water which reeks in the morning. I'm not opposed to soaking if the worst sort has been removed and it is left in really hot clean water with washing up liquid in it, but that isn't what happens. Drives me nuts.

YANBU. DP does it. Fucking idle.

Dirt not sort above.

My PIL always, always, put about a centimetre of cold water in their mugs after they've finished a cup of tea. Then leave them on the counter for ever.

We have a dishwasher, they just won't use it :(

Oh Lord, YANBU. MIL washes dishes from the whole day in the same greasy, cold water than she ran for her breakfast dishes. Ick.
Leaving a roasting pan for example to soak in some hot, clean water with liquid in is very different from slinging a saucepan in a sink full of cold, dirty water.

My dh does this, leaves things to soak, forever.

I think you should email Jeremy Corbyn about this and get him to raise it at PMQ. I know half of Britain wants an answer to this.

YANBU. What infuriates me more is that we have a bloody dishwasher under the effing sink! This is my teenager though, not my DP.