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?!

I bought a huge bottle of Fairy from B&M when we moved into this house in May 2019. Didn't have to buy another until April this year, bought a normal size one and it lasted a month. Bought another huge one, and it's barely gone down! So it can be done. We do have a dishwasher and I usually cook from scratch but I only don't put my pans, or chef knives in. Maybe the occasional nice wine glass.

I also never fill the sink, makes me boke. Just wash everything under running water with a brush. Usually squirt a little WUL on the brush, it'll last a pan and a bit maybe. If it's really dirty, I'll soak it with a squirt for a couple of hours before rinsing it out under hot running water, and scrubbing it with the brush and more WUL.

I'm not sure I manage a year, but you use a lot less if you apply it to the sponge, not the water. Some people go through loads and then the water is annoyingly soapy.

I have no idea, but I am a water into the bowl person, never realised that that was the improper way.

My sister lives in Berkshire, when she visits my parents in the Midlands she forgets, squirts half a bottle in and wonders why the bubbles are reaching the ceiling.

" I simply find it a bit odd not to have variety!"

I eat the same foods mostly because I'm fussy and reliant on what I can find in my local shops that I like and that are easy to prepare. I noticed at work that some people have the same or similar sandwiches/soup/salad every lunchtime. Others have the same thing for lunch every Sunday...

I buy the 450ml cheapy and it lasts about 4 months. I rinse, turn water off, soap all the dishes with a sponge scourer, then rinse the soap off. Like a shower without leaving the water running, rather than a bath. Couldn't possibly wash up in a bowl of soapy water and not rinse.

I have been using this 1 litre bottle since August. 1 or 2 bowlfuls of washing up per day. Just me.

I have a dishwasher and use a bottle about every 2-3 weeks, use it to soak roasting tins etc

Are you in a soft water area? That will make a huge difference to how much you will need.

TL;DR

It's not the passage of time that uses up washing up liquid. It's how much is used in washing dishes.

HTH.

According to Which? One bottle (800ml) of fairy liquid cleans 12000 plates. The fairy advert shows them putting one drop of liquid on the sponge to wash a whole sink full of plates/dishes.

I buy the 1 litre ones and use at least 2 per year and also use a dishwasher.

I don’t know, but can you tell my other hand who seems to squeeze half the bottle in the sink to wash two plates.

Well if you dont cook, then yes it probably will last a year.

I don't care about the washing up, I want to know more about your food delivery

I can't speak for the OP, but I have lived is SE Asia.
Eating out is very usual in many countries- for those that can afford it- but even if you are approaching basic Western wage you are rich. Also using cooked food to take home.
Very cheap, breakfast places open at 4am, easier to grab a bowl of noodles or get dinner at a night market.

We have a dishwasher and I still get through about three 450ml bottles a year

This is going to be like the Munster chicken isn’t it? People who work full time in a hotel kitchen washing pots and are still using the 500ml fairy liquid they got for their 10th birthday...

I get through loads.

Mumsnet chicken, not Munster!

Sorry if this sounds rude but who really cares they use lots you use very little each to their own.

For what it’s worth I do think yours is the weird situation not theirs. Although fairy lasts much longer. Cheap washing up liquid is finished in no time

I want photos - I'm really jealous!

OP please tell us more about the food deliveries!

Can you make choices? If you dislike something?

I would really appreciate this at the moment, I love cooking but have the Covid19 blues about thinking about it!!

Good God you must never cook. I replace my bottles every month at least!

Nanette Newman is that you?
I remember those ads too! The little boy kept asking his mum for the empty Fairy Liquid bottle so he could make a rocket with it, but it turned out to be a very long wait... but the mum was happy as she saved money and had oh such nice soft hands

We use a dishwasher for most stuff, which means our bottle of washing up liquid usually lasts quite a long time ... until it suddenly vanishes and we find DD has been using it to remove the latest dodgy hair dye!

Oh goody a 'how little I can use each time' competitive post😂

I could tell you lived in Asia from how you wash up. No one in Asia uses a washing up bowl. That’s a U.K./Western thing.

I don’t use a bowl either, I never know how it helps. We generally use a dishwasher but wash delicate glasses just straight in the sink

I’m UK by the way