Draining boards are for draining

[IvorBiggun]

Scintillating I know, but draining boards are for putting your freshly washed items on to dry. They are not for used tea bags, dirty cutlery, discarded mugs (the dishwasher is right fucking THERE you lazy fuckers), bits of scrunched up, dirty kitchen paper or any other filthy detritus.

I may have spent all day fishing crap off my clean washing up while catering to the whole world and his lazy arse dog. WHY do people do this? So unreasonable

Happy Christmas 🍷

This is my pet hate too.

I've started threads about this before but didn't get many replies, it doesn't seem to bother most people.

I'd put dirty plates and cups anywhere but on the draining board. The draining board is for the clean things only.

My DP do this (we're at theirs) and also put cleanly washed items on the other side of the sink where dirty items are stacked up ready for washing. Drives me mad!

I’m going to take the silence as validation that I’m utterly correct and my family are weird, draining board abusing aberrations.

X-posted with the replies

yanbu
bastards

I add half empty cups of (previously) hot drinks on every surface. leaving rings on furniture.

merry christmas!

I want to know why people do it. I’d no more put my shoes on the worktop than I would put crap on the draining board.

Yy to the cups! The irony is I provide coasters (or sorts) and the key offenders are Monica Gellers in their own homes about mugs and coasters.

It’s like they come to my house and just cut loose.

Gah the teabags! I have people who do this. I don't understand why they can't just put the teabags in the bin. It's right there!

YADNBU! I don't understand it either! My DS1 did it once however, he won't do it again after I gently explained that that was for the clean things and that if you start putting dirty things there that the clean things will need washing again and thankfully he also understood the logic.

However, others don't seem to understand it. Drives me mad.

Draining boards are for playing jenga in this house.

YABU, draining boards are for polishing and looking at. Never shall an item be placed there unless it is immediately being dried and put away. The board must be empty and spotless at all times

I thought this was going to be about people drying with a tea towel vs air drying on the draining board. Yes, draining boards are for drying. I also can't understand people using a dirty tea towel to dry freshly washed crockery / cutlery.

I agree and dirty dishes should also not be placed on the worktop right next to the clean dishes as some of the drip drying clean dishes might overlap onto the worktop and it is the wrong side of my mixer so I don't notice them when filling the dishwasher

Come the revolution the draining board abusers, mug ring makers, dirty tea towel wielders will all be up against the wall.

One vowel and so much upset. In or on..... Maybe it is just us that has a dishwasher under the draining board.

What the actual flip?! I’ve never heard or seen of a draining board being used for any of that crap. I’m disgusted.

My pet hate at work is teabags and spoons in the office sink.

The spoons I can maybe charitably pass on because they might wash up in the sink at home. But WHY the teabags? What possible benefit could be achieved by putting them somewhere they don't belong, look gross and have to be moved from later? The bin and dishwasher are literally right fucking there.

Ivor you are not alone
I punch re-educate anyone who leaves tea bags on the sink or draining board in my house because they have to walk past the fucking bin to do it.
I just leave the draining rack up all the time as a defense mechanism.

I'd much prefer tea bags in the sink, from where I can remove them to the compost bin. Much better than picking them out of the general waste bin. So maybe other people aren't sure whetehr you compost/recycle your tea bags?

Yup, scumbags.

There is also a special place in hell for the people who balance newly washed, wet things on top of dry, previously washed items instead of just putting the dry things away first.

Some cryptocurrency miners use dish racks for their computer equipment. Now your teabag stories don’t seem so bad.
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I resorted to throwing away the stuff that was left there yesterday. Plastic pots with food and half a jar of perfectly good jam.

PoffertjePlease my dh does that! Starts washing up and bunging wet soapy stuff all over the previously dry clean stuff that needs to be put away! I start shrieking "wait! Wait! Just put the dry stuff away or next to the drainer before you bung wet stuff on top!".

He's been doing it for 8 years and can't see why I get annoyed?!

Though he did understand my annoyance that when he prepped and cooked dinner today, he stained the wooden SERVING board and brand new wooden spatula purple thanks to the red cabbage We had perfectly good, non-porous, dishwasher safe plastic alternatives.