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

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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?

@CounsellorTroi

Why would you need to put a colander in the dishwasher? You don't eat out of it or cook in\with it. It's just for washing/peeling veg.

I shake up parboiled baked potatoes in mine, to get the edges all fluffy.

*roast potatoes, not baked

Now I get why some people run it 3x a day.

Also colander doesn't really get anything stuck to it if it's washed right there and then. But hey. We all do things differently depending what suits us.

@Bookaholic73

I wish! I run mine at least twice a day!

Me too

At least twice a day, sometimes three times. Family of five and I cook a lot.

Those tablets would last us years. We put it on once every few months just for those days when we've used a lot of pots and bowls for Christmas, birthdays etc. Wash up by hand daily. We wouldn't have a dishwasher if it didn't come with the place we rent.

They may (or may not) be correct but unless there was an * next to the six months with some fine print saying 120 tablets based on average use they are breaking advertising standards rules.

About 3 times a day, family of 6

Family of 4,every other day

Family of 6 once a day, twice if I'm cleaning the oven shelves or doing a maintenance cycle.

Er, twice a week?

No wonder the environment is going to shit with so many of you running your dishwashers twice a day!

Every day have slimline one

We have a slimline dishwasher that we run every other day but there’s only two of us and we do often get a bit of a backlog so could probably do with running it more often. Yanbu but I think I would have tried to find out the actual number of tablets included if it was a big selling point rather than just a bonus.

@changerr

Er, twice a week?

No wonder the environment is going to shit with so many of you running your dishwashers twice a day!

Running a full dishwasher is more eco friendly than washing up by hand.

Ben and Marina Fogle have four dishwashers! www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/who-needs-four-dishwashers-me/

Twice at the moment with 5 people at home.

Family of 4, probably put the dishwasher on about 9-10 times a week.
We cook from scratch every night, the kids have lunch pots which almost fill the top shelf most nights.
Then if I have a day where I bake a lot it needs an extra load.

Once a day usually. Twice at weekends when everyone is here for all 3 meals or if ive been batch cooking or baking

Pretty sure I read that hand washing uses 6-10 times as much water as dishwashing.

Twice a day, sometimes 3 times if I'm baking or doing a lot of cooking. I do put everything in it though, I absolutely can't see the point of haivng a dishwasher and then doing all the pans etc by hand.
That is absolutely not 6 months' worth of tabs, OP.

I run my dishwasher once every few days - but I am on my own now as the DC are at uni. If I left it any longer all the food would be hardened on. When there was 3 of us it was probably the same frequency but we wash up pots and pans by hand.

Family of 4. Every 2 to 3 days. I don't put pots and pans or glasses as I wash these by hand. Reuse mugs for tea. Am amazed people use it multiple times a day, or even daily!

We only run ours about 3 times a week but there are only two of us so it takes a while for it to be full.

There's 4 of us, and I'd say maybe 5 days a week. Definitely not every day.