To think a bottle of washing up liquid should last a year

[Kinsters]

This is dredged up from ages ago but I'm wondering AIBU to think my parents are the odd ones? Is it me that's strange?

I moved into a new place and bought a new bottle of washing up liquid (just normal stuff). My parents came to visit me about 4 months after I'd moved in and in that time I had used about 1/3 of the bottle. They stayed for three weeks and by the end of their visit the bottle was almost empty!

Now it's 10 months later and I'm just getting to the end of the second bottle (ie the replacement for the one my parents went through so quickly). Who is the weird one here?! Are we both at opposite extremes of the washing up liquid scale?!

A year? How big is the bottle??

Its weird how yours lasts so long. I put a squirt in the water but also use it on the sponge to create more foam

Iggly it's just normal like 800ml if I remember correctly.

Dementedpixie I don't fill a bowl with water so maybe that's where the saving is. It just seemed such a dramatic difference!

Do you have a dishwasher?

Did you mean a bucket?

A bucket full of washing up liquid should last a year.

Do you have a dishwasher? A bottle of washing up liquid lasts ages here but we try to hand wash as little as possible (lazy 😄). My mum and step dad seem to wash a lot more by hand than we do, I don't think my mum trusts dishwashers 😄

We are a family of 5 with no dishwasher....I wash up about 4 times a day 😑 I go through a 1000ml bottle in about 6 weeks...

I don't have a dishwasher, a family of four and a bottle lasts me 2 weeks max. It's a little weird to still be pondering this after such a long time.

Have you forgiven your parents yet?

DelphineWalsh no dishwasher. We don't have much washing to do though I guess. Usually only three metal pans, four bowls and two plates per meal. I don't really cook so no roasting dishes etc. But when my parents were here it was the same just with two extra plates!

Do you have a dishwasher or not cook much?

Having to wash up for three people will increase the use more than you realise. But even so I say your parents squeeze the bottle more than you!!!

I think you can't be washing up often if a bottle of washing up liquid lasts a year! Do you mainly use a dishwasher?

Do you live alone? It's much easier to leave one plate/set cutlery from breakfast and dinner and wash in a small bowl each day than it is to manage a family of dishes for each meal.

My husband squeezes tonns of the stuff into the bowl, which annoys me as a small teaspoon size works fine if you give the water and soap a good swirl with your hand.

SmileyClare I'm not sure it's forgivable! I don't know why it's stuck with me. I keep thinking about it though and wondering who is "normal". Seems like it's them 🤣

YABVU. What do you use, a third of a drop each time?

You don't cook?

I go through one every couple of weeks. Not sure what I'm doing wrong tbh.

A bottle lasts me about 3 weeks

If you don't fill a bowl with water, where do you put the washing up liquid?

And if you don't cook, what do you eat?

Blimey! Two of us here, plus three animals whose bowls etc. need washing twice a day and we get through probably a bottle every 4-6 weeks.

Do you not wash up much?

Are you only using half a drop each time?? There's no way a bottle should last you nearly a whole year if you're washing up 3 times a day. I would be wondering if your dishes were actually clean.

We definitely use a lot more than that but the quality of washing up liquid has declined quite a bit. We've always used Fairy but struggle to get a decent foam and when we do it dissipates in a few seconds so a complete waste of money. I've started using one the dish matic things that you fill up with liquid which is a bit better but we're still going through a lot more

Surely this is a wind up?

Bernadette I don't live in the UK and get food delivered every day for dinner. It comes in a metal tiffin box. So I get three dishes like veg, curry, steamed fish etc then just make rice to have with them. It's heavenly.

But I still did that when my parents were here!

Nackajory I don't fill a bowl with water. I put all the plates and bowls in the sink and put water in the bowls/on the plates. Then I use one squirt of liquid on whatever I was first and that seems to last the whole lot. Probably uses more water though.

I am fascinated that you don’t put water in a bowl/sink, never mind washing up liquid. Are you just rinsing things under the tap? Sounds a bit grim!

Pamelaaaaa the liquid just goes on the dish or whatever and then ends up on the sponge.