Do you know anyone who considers a wet sink ' messy ' ?

[perfumeri]

And has to wipe it dry after each use ? We are talking kitchen sink, as well as bathroom sink ?

Are you like this ?

My mother is like this and it drives me insane, as she gets mad if you haven't completely dried the sink after each use.

Of course, food in the sink is gross. A dirty sink is gross, but a sink with just some left over water drops in it ? It's a bit much, surely ?

Or is this a common thing ?

Well said!

Do you mean drying the top of the sink or the inside of the sink?

My sink is, I believe, waterproof. So ...

Our sink is generally full of scraped off residue from the burnt toast, a thick layer of drained cabbage, various soaking oven dishes, bits of plastic recycling, and wet paint brushes. In order to dry the sink I’d have to deal with all of that first, so no, I don’t dry the sink. Mumsnet is mental.

I dry the draining board but that's it.
I'll be forever drying sinks otherwise, life is why to short for that.

This is an eye opener! It has never occurred to me to do this. I have realised, though, that one of my colleagues does this at work. I've seen her do it but never really realised what she was doing - I think I thought she'd done it accidentally or something. I think she may have also looked exasperated on one occasions when I then put something in the sink and turned the tap on. I remember at the time I was trying to work out what had happened to cause that expression as I had no idea!
The sink looks no better or worse after she has dried it, just drier!

To be honest it takes seconds, so I'm not sure what all the faux outrage is about. I don't expect anyone else in the house to do it but when I've used the sink or I see it when it's been used I do quickly wipe around the top part and taps (not inside the sink) as it prevents water stains and yes it does like tidier. It's not a huge job, I use a micro fibre cloth that I keep in the bathroom for wiping down the mirrors or whatever.

It doesn't make me a weirdo or a saddo or 'having too much time on my hands' just because other people don't get it. I know someone who is so obsessed with cleanliness that they wash their skirting boards daily. That's not for me but I wouldn't be rude about it. Each to their own.

I came on go say airlines too.

People who are saying they dry after every use - do you have a full time job, young children and responsibility for all the housework? When you’ve got a crying baby or a toddler who’s been quiet for a bit too long, or a report to write for the morning while also cooking dinner and arranging an MOT, do you literally still stand there and dry the sink? Because if you do, I don’t think time functions the same for you as it does for me.

Agree with this.

I do quickly wipe around the top part and taps (not inside the sink)
But that's the entire point of the thread isn't it? That people are drying the inside of the sink. Which is completely ludicrous.

The top part and taps sure, water can pool there and cause problems. But the inside of the sink is designed to hold water.

OMG! You keep the kitchen sink drying cloth in the bathroom??! Mind blown.

It’s like some kind of metaphor for the futility of life…..

If I remember correctly from home ec you wash up, dry everything and put it in the cupboards, then wash and rinse the sink and bowl and use the tea towel to dry the bowl and sink. There was a different towel to dry hands and these towels must never be confused. Kitchen roll also has a purpose but not drying stuff or you get told off for wasting it. Its true purpose is never explained. Everything goes in the wash after.

Presumably this is either for commercial kitchens or dates back to a time of three meals a day and no snacks or drinks between meals as I would spend half my life drying the sink after every toddler snack and refil of water. Not to mention all the tea towel washing.

I will sometimes use the sponge to shove some of the water back into the sink if it has gone everywhere but I don’t dry the sink. I also only have 1 tea towel at a time and use it to dry my hands if needed (or…shh…end up wiping them on my jeans)

My cleaner washes and dries my sink and it looks lovely when she does.

I don’t. But I do dry any dishes and wipe the draining board down at the end of the day.

I dry the sink after use because otherwise the cats get in and play "chase the droplets". It also prevents that weird staining you get from water marks.

It takes less than 30 seconds.

Fair enough if you don't want to do it or can't be arsed, but let's not pretend it's a task that takes hours of time or thought. It's wiping a tea towel over a surface.

Yeah, me 😂

I know someone like this and I make sure I wipe it dry before I finish with clean toilet paper, they have ocd. I feel sorry for people who are like this, must be stressful. Thankfully I don't give a fuck 😂

This is my mother too. Sink and shower must be completely dried after each use (& yes she also has ornamental towels!)

Guilty. Love a shiny sink.

Learning that some women think it’s essential to dry a sink after use - and (in another thread) ban people from standing on their bedroom carpet in socks in case it leaves ‘sock bits’ on it - really makes me wonder about all the threads were women moan about being exhausted because their useless husbands who don’t do enough around the house. How many of them, I wonder, have insanely high and obsessive standards of housekeeping?

This would drive me crazy.

I wipe the sink due to hard water. Can't stand all the white dots! I have always kept a clean house though ever since I can remember. I couldn't live with a messy person.

A friend had a housemate who complained he was messy. When he asked how, not drying the sink after each use was one of the issues raised.

My Home Economics teacher in the 1980s used to make us do this - wash up and dry all the dishes from whatever we had made, then use the tea towel to dry the sink before putting it in the wash. I though it was unhinged at the time, still do.