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?!

Plastic washing-up bowls are an abomination but so is washing up under running water. As for squirting washing-up liquid on the sponge, are you all quite, quite mad? Full sink of hot water, liquid in the sink as you run the tap. ::bangs gavel::

No idea how long our bottles last, I don’t keep a spreadsheet.

Sounds great op!

But deeply un-British. Here it seems important to create excessive foamy suds, in a deep bowl of water, so that all dishes washed therein can then dry, unrinsed, coated thickly in bubbles.

If I didn’t have a dishwasher, I’d get through a bottle month.

We don't have a dishwasher, cook most days, a normal sized bottle of Fairy lasts probably 2-3 months! Shit supermarket washing up liquid goes much quicker.

definitely must be to do with the hardness of the water. The difference between eg London and South Wales is startling, in terms of how long the suds last. And you don't want loads of soap because then you have to spend much longer rinsing everything

Ugh, washing up in a bowl filled with water instead of under the tap just makes me think of showers vs baths. One makes you clean, the other stews you in filth.

We have a dishwasher, still using a sample bottle from NCT goody bags (my youngest is 12).

I go fairly easy with the washing up liquid, but we don’t have a dish washer and I cook a lot from scratch (only a family of three) and a bottle lasts us 6/8 weeks at most. I can’t imagine one bottle lasting us a whole year!!

I didn't realise I used washing up liquid with such reckless abandon until now

I've been in this flat a couple of months and I'm on my second bottle of 340ml. I live alone and have been wfh for the last 3 weeks or so, but not cooking for every meal. So I suppose I'm one bottle a month whereas you're one bottle a year, albeit a bigger bottle!

"The difference between eg London and South Wales is startling, in terms of how long the suds last."

I have EXTREMELY hard water where I am, but it still doesn't explain why I use SO much more than OP.

Me too LilacPebbles
I've never even thought about it before, its washing up liquid, not melted gold.

"Plastic washing-up bowls are an abomination"

Nope. If you haven't got a double sink it's the only way to be able to throw dregs down the sink when you've got dishes in there.

" but so is washing up under running water. "

I do this, but I catch and use the water too. It's efficient because it washes and rinses at the same time and I can then leave to drip dry.

Ugh, washing up in a bowl filled with water instead of under the tap just makes me think of showers vs baths. One makes you clean, the other stews you in filth.

Good grief. There is no need to be so hysterical.

The dishes we don't put in the dishwasher, get scraped and rinsed first, so they aren't very dirty when they get put in the washing up bowl to be washed, then they get rinsed afterwards. Sometimes the only way to get something clean is to steep it in soapy water.

How do you manage day to day living if you think having a bath is stewing in your own filth?

I am never so dirty when I take a bath that I end up stewing in my own filth. I am not a coal miner

What's the mumsnet chicken??

We've been using the same big bottle of Fairy for at least 6 months now - we do have a dishwasher but also do some washing up every day (kid's bottles & cups, couple of pans that can't go in the dishwasher).

This food delivery service sounds great and I'm very jealous!

@PolytheneHam

What's the mumsnet chicken??

A normal chicken that some MNetters can feed a family of four on a Sunday, plus a curry on Monday, sandwiches for Tuesday and a hearty soup for Wednesday.

I go through a bottle every month or so ish, though I did notice an uptick in the amount of washing up liquid used when my mum was helping out when I broke my ankle. Man alive that woman can power through a bottle of fairy.

No way could I make one bottle last a year.

I live alone and even I wouldn't be able to make a bottle last me a year. Maybe 3 months-ish?

Ok so you eat out and never wash your dishes up.

or
You have disposable plants and only wash up for birthdays and Christmas?

YABU

@LilacPebbles

I didn't realise I used washing up liquid with such reckless abandon until now

Me too and I have a dishwasher so only use for none dishwasher items ....what carefree and reckless individuals we are

What's the mumsnet chicken??
Chicken that does the washing up for you while you have a cuppa.

@Reborn2020

Ok so you eat out and never wash your dishes up. or You have disposable plants and only wash up for birthdays and Christmas?

YABU

She gets her meals delivered

I'm intrigued by this food delivery and the fact you said "don't get to choose". How on earth does that work? It sounds a somewhat restricted diet with very little variety or am I missing something? Given the huge number of dishes made from combinations of so much meat, fish, fruit, veg, pasta, grains etc I would find it very difficult to eat mostly - or a variation on theme - the same food for dinner each day (possibly showing my ignorance of Asian food) and yes I do realise that for many people a bowl of rice and some veg is not only a staple diet but for some, a luxury. However OP doesn't sound like she's in this category. May be digging myself into a hole here, I simply find it a bit odd not to have variety!

@MrsMomoa
Did you mean a bucket?