To reduce all utensils and cutlery to two of everything

[TheSunnySide]

I am fed up with the amount of cups, plates and utensils being used (mostly by me) in my household of two. I seem unable to rein myself in and think I should just remove everything and leave just two cups, two bowls, 2 plates, two glasses and two sets of cutlery.

We rarely have guests or visitors.

Anyone ever done this?

Eh, when I lived alone, I stuck all my extra plates and cutlery in a high cupboard and did this.

I liked it personally. Everything got washed up whilst dinner was on, then used through the next 24h. Pans got washed up during lunch.

(I lived 200y from work so would come home for lunch).

Happy days.

What?? Don’t get rid of your dishwasher!

Your 10 year old is old enough to be in charge of loading it throughout the day and turning it on every evening after dinner/before bed.

You can empty it in the morning.

Yes, YWBU to reduce things down that far.
We moved into a furnished house abroad as a family of 4. And were given 4 of everything.
I spent my whole day washing up. Couldnt even do breakfast and make packed lunch for the kids without washing up at 7am. It was dire, and I very quickly went out and bought another 4 of everything, plus some extra table knives. That meant weekdays, I would wash a plate, cutlery and glass for my lunch, but everything else went in the dishwasher, and it ran every evening. Weekends it ran twice a day.

So, if you really want to cut down, I'd keep out enough for every meal eaten in the house, and set aside everything else.

I can see both side of this - my 3 kids have a tendency to hoard crockery in their rooms - I’ve trimmed it down to 8 plates, glasses, etc. If I’m dishing dinner and there are no clean plates, I’ve one hidden in reserve for myself - if they want to eat, they need to wash up first. Most days, the plates are now clean and where they should be. That said, I’m really struggling to understand why you wouldn’t just rinse your mug/glass from your first drink of the day every time you want another drink?