AIBU to think that most people who have a dishwasher run it once a day?

[SomethingNastyInTheBallPool]

We bought a new dishwasher recently. It was heavily promoted as coming with six months' supply of Fairy dishwasher tablets. The tablets arrived yesterday and there are 120 of them. That's not six months' supply in this household, as we run the dishwasher every day. AIBU to think that wouldn't be half a year's worth in most other households?

I rang the manufacturer to query it and was told that it was six months' worth based on "data and surveys". Hmmmm. I'm not going to take this to the highest court in the land, obviously, but it does seem a bit crap. AIBU?

@DollyDoneMore most of our cooking is done from scratch thank you 🙄

We don’t wash pots/pans in the dw so only twice a week for us. YABU

Once a day during the week, quite often twice a day at weekend.

I run mines twice a day non school days but I'm lazy and everything goes in the dishwasher including pans. I'd leave a pan for a couple of extra cycles before I'd handwash it.

Mine goes on about once a month, if that The tablets would likely outlive me

OP, try cutting your tablets in half and double your supply

I read that tip somewhere on MN, tried it and it's true, half a tablet cleans as well as a full one.

I think those putting it on infrequently are either not eating or mythical mumsnet chicken eaters .

So we have a household of 4- breakfast alone is 4 mugs, 4 orange juice glasses and 4 water glasses and a variety of plates- dd1 has cereal and toast, dd2 has fruit in a bowl. Then if they are at school and it's an evening meal that's 4 large plates, 4 pudding plates, more mugs and glasses. That's without the prep stuff (boards for chopping, bowls to store stuff in etc). At a weekend it's even worse with lunch stuff.

There are occasions when we eat out that we don't need to put it on but it's rare. I also shove toothbrush cups and soap dishes in regularly too.

Some pans go in as well, it depends but often we can't fit them in!

I run mine on average every 2 days (3 of us) but daily at weekends. I think 120 tablets would last me around 6 months but definitely not a year!

Minimum once, mostly twice

Twice a week but I live on my own and have enough mugs and plates so I dont need to wash them too often

Oh, I handwash chopping boards and pans as they take up too much space in the dw. And wine glasses as they don't fit in the dw!

2-3 times a day here, and always full. Lots of cooking and baking, dog bowls twice a day.

Once a week pre lockdown, about once every 4-5 days now.

There's two of us and it's a decent size. We don't use a fresh mug or glass every day, and we have 8 dining plates and 8 bowls, plus about a dozen small plates. The small plates get rinsed off quickly rather than go in the dishwasher for lunch usually.

(we do laundry at about the same frequency)

No wonder people complain about housework if they're doing it that much.

I mostly run twice a day. Thats 60 tabs a month. That's ridiculous.

We use it every 2 to 3 days. We are 2 adults and 1 baby.

If you have two kids and/or people eating at home during the day yes you need to run it daily.

When we were only 3 people and DH ate lunch at work 120 probably would have lasted 6 months.

Not all dishwasher owners have kids at home!

@thecatsthecats

Once a week pre lockdown, about once every 4-5 days now.

There's two of us and it's a decent size. We don't use a fresh mug or glass every day, and we have 8 dining plates and 8 bowls, plus about a dozen small plates. The small plates get rinsed off quickly rather than go in the dishwasher for lunch usually.

(we do laundry at about the same frequency)

No wonder people complain about housework if they're doing it that much.

We don't use a fresh mug or glass every day

Sorry, what? Do you drink from the tap?

OP - I’d go on Twitter and ask them for more on principle. It’s one thing to say 120 tablets, but if it’s 6 months supply then you should expect 6 months supply.

At least once a day here, twice a day at weekends when we're all at home

Once, occasionally twice

Twice here. Three times on the weekend.

[quote DieSchottin93]@DollyDoneMore most of our cooking is done from scratch thank you 🙄[/quote]
Ok, so I don’t get it.

Yesterday, for us, 4 x breakfast things (4 x plates, 2 x bowls, 2 x mugs, 3 x glasses, cutlery), 3 x lunch things (3 x plates, 1 x chopping board, 1 small pan, 1 grater, cutlery, 3 x glasses), 4 x dinner things (4 plates, 3 x dessert bowls, 2 saucepans, 1 colander, 1 mixing bowl, 1 chopping board, 1 baking tray, 4 x glasses, prep knives, serving spoons, spatulas, cutlery, 3 x mugs), various mugs through the day, 1 lunchbox, 1 Tupperware box...

More than enough to fill a dishwasher. Do you wash up lots by hand?

OMG. We use ours 2-3 a day!

We don't use a fresh mug or glass every day

Sorry, what? Do you drink from the tap?

No, we use the glass or mug we used the day before, briefly rinsed.

And yet we survive. Feel free to recoil in horror, but it's not actually dangerous, or even the dreaded 'manky'.

Waste your own time washing everything you like

(Fun bonus horror - I don't use any form of soap to wash in the shower 9/10. Brisk rub down of a loofah and fresh water rather than wasting resources lathering up. Only use soap when I've been excessively grimy.)

Didn’t RTWT but @SomethingNastyInTheBallPool I’d drop Which? magazine an email suggesting something like this for one of their features. They love that kind of stuff. And if it’s a widespread thing to advertise a supply of something which actually won’t last as long as advertised, then it should be exposed as bad practice!