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?!

None of what you do saves time or effort. Pointless post.

I don't like waste so prefer to slice off the tip of the carrot. If you're cutting it on your plate instead, how are you saving time? You're just doing things in a different order, increasing the cooking time and doing your cutting with a less sharp knife. You still have to cut them for your 3 year old, why not do it all at once? It's just inefficient.

I don't use the same pans and crockery every day. I wouldn't want to leave baking trays in the dishwasher getting washed over and over despite being clean as they will wear out quickly. It takes two minutes to empty the dishwasher.

Can't get worked up about the clothes.

The dishwasher and clothes I can totally understand working for a 1 adult household like yours.

Similar snapping veg where it works, although I have never cone across carrots which are more easily swappable by hand so cutting by knife would be easier for that example.

None of these would be practical or even feasible for a larger household though, which is a key consideration.

chemical residue from crop spray!!

Modern life is a never ending ingestion of micro plastics and ‘chemicals’- some more harmful than others. I don’t have spare energy to devote to worrying about it.

do you know what the person or persons who handled the fruit and veg you have just bought was previously doing?!

Nope. I don’t know what the people in cafes have been doing, or in the bakery either. I also don’t have spare energy to worry about that. Stuff gets cooked, not a right lot is going to survive being hit with steam or roasted for 45 minutes.

I have had food poisoning twice in my 40 years- once from a dodgy kebab shop (that was campylobacter- origin confirmed by public health), and once from a chain pub type place (entire family met for dinner, everyone got ill)-

No one has ever been ill from something coming out of my kitchen- and I have people round multiple times a week (this week 7 different guests will have been here for food, that’s a fairly normal week. They always come back, despite the piles of clean washing everywhere and the unpeeled vegetables!).

I don't peel vegetables either. The skin has fibre and other nutrients. They are washed and cooked, which is good enough for me.

Well I usually peel carrots then either slice, or chop into sticks. Don’t they take longer to cook whole?
dishwasher only on every couple of days and could not cope with dirty and clean in it.
Always put clothes away as husband would have a fit.

Op cba to chop the top off a carrot, I can't imagine an awful lot of ironing goes on

I bet the rest of your house is even grimmer

How can this work? You take out a clean thing, use it, and then MAKE A SPACE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DW to put it back in dirty? So, you move other stuff around each time?

Also, what I about big things that you don't use every day, do they live in the DW forever?

I don't think you're grim, OP. I thought you would have some convention-defying tips that would shake us to our core, make us see the world anew. Sadly though, I just don't see how it could work in practice - it's more work to shuffle things around in the DW, it's wasteful not to cut the minimum off the carrot.
The clothes airer I like, but you would need several for a family and where do they go?

Dishwasher is the kind of thing I would do but OH would have an episode

Clothes, fair enough

Snapping carrots and cooking them whole though. Sounds fucking prehistoric.

So do you run your dishwasher half full of clean stuff? That seems pretty inefficient. The clean/dirty thing bothers me too. I guess if you rinse it’s probably ok, but I’d worry about a dribble coming out of something when I put it on the top each and going all over everything on the bottom. Also I use different cooking pans/trays every day so need to rejig the dishwasher arrangement dependent on what I’ve cooked.

Perhaps for 1 person, it could work, but I think it’s probably inefficient and not super shiny clean!

Also worth noting that I am a total grot and approval of your dishwasher usage doesn't count for much

Also I cut the end off the carrot because I then cut the rest of the carrot up. It’s hardly extra effort. Do you peel them???

Running a dishwasher every night for you and a three year old is horrendously wasteful. You must have more money than sense 🤣

Perhaps she has more money than she has time and energy?

We don’t struggle for money- not that we are rich but we don’t have to worry about how often we run the dishwasher.

However, I’m disabled- I have a genetic condition, M.E and fibromyalgia- I’m a wheelchair user and dealing with crushing fatigue and pain all day every day.

I also have a disabled and chronically ill child I have to home ed- meeting his needs takes all my energy and then some!

My carer has to work full time and do everything in the house, plus all the shopping and cooking, plus any personal care for me (washing, dressing, feeding me, dealing with medication etc) that I can’t manage.

Like fuck does she care if our clean clothes are worn off the dryer or out of a wardrobe before she runs out of the house at 7am to get to work by 8 🤦‍♀️.

Its interesting how much thinking things are ‘grim’ and ‘lazy’ is just privilege from people who have the wherewithal to do extra work.

The clothes thing I could live with if I couldn't see them. Wouldn't work for me with three adults not everything would fit. Do you never dry clothes outside? If you do where do you put them when they're dry?
The dishwasher thing is grim. If you emptied it when it's done you might not need to run it every day.

I have similar approach for dishwasher when living alone. Take what I need for breakfast and lunch out clean from machine (why put it in the cupboard for only a few hours???). Eat, rinse, stack tidily by sink. By end of day dishwasher is half empty and I've saved 50% of the unloading work. Can then fully unload and put dirty things in all in one go. Only works if living alone though. For two or more people living together I always empty fully. Time and motion studies would show a big saving I guess with all that putting things away in different cupboards, taking the same things out again at different points during the day, multiplied over many years.

Oh, and I also multiple stack on the table, direct from the dishwasher, so that evening plates are put out in morning, then lunch plates on top, then breakfast plates on top of that. Use and remove these layers during the day.

But you are still emptying it fully before putting dirty things in. Which op isn't doing.

It is lazy to me. However I don't live in your home so it isn't an issue. You do you.

Your dishwasher system is overall more effort if you have to check every time to see if something is clean. It’s what a 2 min job to put away? I like to start the day with an empty dishwasher and then just add stuff throughout the day. AND then put on before dinner prep.

I don’t have the wherewithal to do more work, but not turning my dishwasher on every night doesn’t actually take me any time or effort, funnily enough. I could afford to run it every night, but it also about the waste of resources, not just my own money.

Presumably you don’t have 5 people living and eating 3 meals a day in your house, and cooking separately too?

Or you are able to wash up as you go?

Or have a dishwasher big enough that it isn’t full by the end of the day, and you can fill it as you go for 2 days?

also about the waste of resources

In the grand scheme of concerns in the world, I’m not going to worry about the effect of my family having clean plates each day.