Aibu or does everyone do this?

[Toddlermayhem]

People putting dirty spoons, cups, plates on my clean draining board. It really drives me up the wall.

I wash up and put cleans things onto the CLEAN draining board, so why do I want the used dirty stuff plonked on there?

Yet everyone go visits me seems to do this, they have a drink they put their dirty cup on the draining board, eat a meal, dirty plate on the draining board.

Is this only me?

YANBU. Dirty dishes go straight in the dishwasher, or the bunker above the dishwasher if it's already running ready for the next load, never on the draining board.

Well, at least they take the stuff into the kitchen and don't leave the cups and plates littered about the house

I'm guilty of passive aggressive muttering concerning any teabags that anyone puts in my sink.

I mean it makes a mess and the compost bin is BLOODY RIGHT THERE fgs.

YANBU btw.

Yanbu, this would annoy me too

Oh gosh I think I'd rather they just left the cups and plates than putting them on the clean draining board.

Don't even get my started on teabags.

Yanbu. I can't fathom why people do it, but they do.

Erm, I put dirty dishes/spoons/whatever in the sink (don't have a dishwasher as I don't mind washing by hand) ready to be washed.

I have one of those plate/dish rack thingies that sits on top of the draining board so it wouldn't be quite so annoying in my case.

I don't have a dishwasher but put dirty items into the washing up bowl.

We have a dishwasher so the most obvious place is in there. I also keep a washing up bowl above it to chuck dirty stuff in if it's already running.

I don't even mind dirty stuff been put in the sink because I can wash it by hand.

By why the draining board, that's where you stack the clean stuff so I don't want it covered in crumbs and food gunk.

Makes as much sense to me as putting your dirty clothes in with your clean washing.

Being

I have a rack on my drainer so stops dirty stuff being dumped there

This is why I always say "I'll take your plate/cup". Otherwise they faff about putting them in the wrong place.

Allthewaves I've got a rack too, they push it aside and dump the dirty stones ff there, or even put it on the rack

I might make a sign.

I dont have a dish washer. It annoys me when dirty things get put in the sink and then the user goes out for 5 hours!! This renders the sink unusable by everyone else. Pisses me off so much. fine to leave stuff on the side and get back to it... but don't clutter the sink.

Kill them and we'll supply the alibi.
It's the kindest thing to do.

You need new friends.

We have a dishwasher so the most obvious place is in there

As a visitor I wouldn't open random kitchen cupboards looking for a dishwasher or put something in it as it could be full of clean dishes and waiting to be emptied. ..it depends what kind of visitor really! A sister or really close friend or a health visitor or workman?

Dirty stuff left on the draining board however is daft. Just put it in the sink.

Dont have a dishwasher so I find everyone just puts things on the side or in the sink all higgedly piggedly. Annoying

I used to know someone who apparently existed on black coffee. Cup after cup of the stuff.

Every. Single. Cup, they would take a clean spoon, stir their coffee and place the dirty spoon on the draining board. By the end of the day there would be a bloody chain of the things stuck down with dried coffee.

One day all the spoons, apart the one they had already used that morning, just vanished. So peculiar....

Just as strangely, once coffee-person learnt to rinse their spoon, all its friends came back too.

This is my husband, in laws and even my own mother who are guilty of this heinous crime.

It could be worse, they could put the bowl/plate/cup in the sink piled high as if it's a modern art installation for added interest they might even leave half eaten food in it

I hate the used teabag left on the work top. Apparently mil some people leave it there to be re used.
I've had to relent and put a little saucer next to the kettle for her brown seeping mess.

My exMIL stained my lovely wooden worktop by continually leaving used teabags on it, despite the teabag dish right next to the kettle

Arrgh I think she's my mil now Cakefortea

YANBU but why not just tell them where to leave their crap?