To think my dishwasher might be the best thing ever?

[Keletubbie]

I never thought I needed one. I hate washing dishes. But so does everyone else.

I won some vouchers for a department store just before Christmas and could see myself spending them on ridiculous shit in the sales, so instead I bought a dishwasher. And it's bloody brilliant.

The sink is empty. The drainer is not stacked like the leaning tower of Pisa. I've made a curry, a cake and banana bread yet my kitchen looks clean. I don't have to stand at the sink after everyone else has sloped off to digest their dinner.

Has anyone else been totally blown away by something so simple/obvious?

Oh no Miaow! Half of the reason I'm ok putting up with it is that I know it'll be over soon, I can't imagine being halfway through and having no idea what's going to happen next. Luckily ours is only fitting, no major building work (tiles off and replastering is the worst of it). Although for a few hairy hours last week it did look like some extremely disruptive electrical work (involving pulling up floorboards all along the length of the upstairs) needed doing! Thankfully the electrician was about as keen on that job as I was on him doing it so he's thought up something easier, if less elegant to get it done now.