To think these domestic things make sense and I’m not being lazy?

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There are various things that I do at home that just make sense to me and I can’t understand on a domestic level why anyone would put themselves out further? This has come up in a conversation with friends who found it hilarious and ridiculous that I do this. I can see the funny side (sort of!) but surely others do this too?

Carrots… I just snap the ends off by hand and put them in the pan rather than chopping with a knife. Why use a knife when you can snap it off?! Same for other veg where it works.

The dishwasher… why empty and put in cupboards? With the exception of mugs, I never ever empty the dishwasher as I just take what is needed then when it’s dirty put it back ready for the next wash?

Clothes… hang them on the two clothes airers and never put them away. I don’t have loads of clothes so that probably helps but literally why put them away?! They are in the spare room perfectly accessible once dry.

There’s other things but this is the general idea. I just don’t get why you would make more work for yourself? Surely others do the same?!

Lol at boiling a whole carrot. Maybe chuck a head of broccoli and cauliflower in there while you are at it.

@KreedKafer ah thanks for that. I never thought about religious reasons restricting contamination of food.

It's to save you from having to empty the clean pots into a cupboard and stops you having dirty pots hanging around the sink waiting to go into the dishwasher when you haven't got round to emptying the clean pots out. Makes sense to me as my son is supposed to empty the clean pots so it invariably waits for ages whilst dirty pots are piling up in the sink and on the table.........but sadly I haven't got the room for two dishwashers!

Ops method sounds rather wasteful of electricity and water as with only two people the dishwasher wouldn't need to go on every day if she wasn't rewashing clean pots along with the dirty 🤷‍♀️

You are a genius OP. I tried both the dishwasher thing as well as leaving clothes in the basket after I was exhausted having my baby, unfortunately it never quite worked for me. But I'm happy to hear someone has nailed this.

This thread has cheered me up enormously. I love the idea of dinner in the OP’s house: 3 giant half carrots & one whole turnip served with sausages still strung together on a beautifully clean white plate (wait, is that an egg-stain on my plate?). No matter, after a glorious evening discussing the OP’s other charming eccentricities, I would depart to the hum of the dishwasher, knowing that the Christmas eggcups were being washed for the 300th time

Nah that's boke. Bits of food deteriorating next to plates and utensils you are gonna use. That's a health hazard

Oh ok, I didn't realise this. I tried not emptying the dishwasher as I didn't see the point of just putting them in the cupboard to then be used again. But it doesn't really work as then the dirty dishes pile up and there are usually some items you won't use all the time. The two dishwasher idea might be an idea though ... 🤔

Why not just pile the dirty stuff in the sink until you've used all the clean items?

And do you not peel carrots?

This post made me laugh 😂

Can’t get worked up about the clothes but personally it would annoy me.

The carrot thing… a bit weird and lazy but whatever.

the dishwasher though! It is sooooo wasteful to re wash clean stuff. I also find stuff left in the dishwasher doesn’t properly dry and I think it smells weird (we had a man come and look at ours and it’s fine, DH says he can’t smell it but I defo can)

… if you are re washing clean stuff in the dishwasher every night what’s the harm in dirtying one extra knife for the sale of chopping some veg?

Surely you’d hit capacity at some point with the dishwasher? All the pots and pans and cutlery etc eventually be in there. I’m calling bullshit.

It's lazy, and disgusting having a mix of clean and dirty items in the dishwasher.

This is what I was going to work out but someone else has

So you spend on avg 17 MORE HOURS a year boiling whole carrots than if you'd chopped them

And c£100 MORE A YEAR as you run your dishwasher daily (with a mix of clean and dirty plates). As well as reducing its lifespan

Doesn't sound very genius to me OP!

Would you not think then to try and change then ? By sharing people are saying they think is wrong, that they cant get their heads around why you are doing it this way ? Its not saving you any time or providing you any benefit what so ever, start empty dishwasher every morning and put away the dishes - get the kids involved. Then look up cooking carrots properly on google, spend a day getting on top of the laundry and put it away. Make the room a more useful room. You will see the benefits straight away

Is it not more effort to wipe the sides around piles of dirty dishes? I suppose if you have loads of counter space with lots of space to prepare food or a separate utility room that would be different. I put the dishwasher on each night, then unload the dishes each morning whilst waiting for the kettle to boil. Dirty dishes just get put into the empty dishwasher throughout the day. Same with the clothes airers. Everything gets put away when it's dry and the clothes airers taken down to make it easier for the robot vac to go around the room.

The carrots thing, which end are you snapping off.

And why not just cook the whole carrot, even less wasteful. You say you chop them on the plate so no bother to chop either end off when it's on your plate.

I’m still trying to work out the dishwasher thing 😆 don’t your dirty things on the top drop on your clean stuff underneath? You say you put the dishwasher on every night but what if you don’t use all of the clean stuff in that time - do you wash the clean stuff again!?

In theory it could be the 364th time if you visited on Christmas Eve…..

The barbecue skewers would be on about their 100th cycle by then.

And another question for OP ( still waiting for an answer about how you clean the toilet BTW)

But at what point do you clean the dishwasher filter crud? I can only do that when my dishwasher is empty. Am I missing a trick?

If I put my morning coffee/tea cups in the dishwasher, the dinner plates on the bottom rack would get drips on them.
Or I might pull out a spoon for a cup of tea and there is yoghurt on it from my breakfast.
I don't always use the same pans, so the clean ones need moving to make space for dirty ones.

Great that you have a whole extra room for drying clothes/walk in wardrobe. Most of us won't have that and need the space the airer takes up!

YABU for eating carrots which are the devils vegetable.

Also, YAB wasteful running the dishwasher every day when some of the things in it are already clean. Just run it when it is full of dirty staff and put the things away.

Clothes airer as a wardrobe sounds like a plan but a bit of a waste of a room. Effectively your spare room has become a walk in wardrobe but not in a Desperate Housewives/millionaire sort of way.

I am not great on hoovering etc (too hot yesterday, sat in garden instead and dead-headed a few roses and pulled up stinging nettles which get everywhere!). I put clothes away - ironed if necessary - because leaving them on the airer is a) untidy and b) where am I putting the next lot of washing?

I am alone from just recently, so tend not to immediately empty the dishwasher but do so throughout the day, cups and bowls first. I would never put dirty dishes in with clean ones, health hazard, smell hazard and the clean dishes will need washing again; altogether a really weird thing to do.
Breaking vegetables up is not so weird, I guess, depending on the veg in question. I tend to break fresh cauliflower florettes (but not brocolli, too difficult) and fresh mushrooms if I want chunks rather than slices or quarters, but a knife is much, much easier for anything else. How do you break up potatoes or onions? To break carrots they must be a bit floppy? And breaking them 'where they break' is deeply wasteful. So they are only a £1 a bag, but someone grew those carrots and one owes respect to that effort by wasting as little as possible. Also, they may be cheap to me, but a pound is a lot of money when on a small budget - as some people are in these times of escalating costs (mainly driven by profiteering by energy companies IMHO).

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That's a bit OTT. As long as you do not keep eggs in the fridge it is perfectly ok to crack them, for example, to put into a cake. Temperature reached even to soft boil eggs is enough to kill any salmonella on the shell.
If you keep eggs in the fridge that's different - moisture accumulating on the egg when it come out of the fridge means salmonella could be passed on. (For US readers, in the UK it is illegal for eggs to be washed before sale and they must not be kept in chill cabinets in shops - this is to prevent salmonella infection - and eggs should not be kept in domestic fridges for the same reason).

Run dishwasher every evening. Empty in the morning - takes 2 mins. Load up with dirty throughout the rest of the day and switch on again in the eve.