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?!

I do this with my sports clothes as there's always some just dried and I need them daily/every second day so I just grab them from the clothes horse.

Foe the rest tho I don't think you're actually saving yourself anytime or energy. DW is done in the time of a song on the radio. I wouldn't like say a cup that had beaten egg in it even in the dw with clean plates, even if not touching, and I am far far from particularly house proud. The veg thing is saving you nothing but adding to your energy bill.

To answer your is it unusual question, I would say yes, very.

There you go. You live alone with a very young child. Do whatever works for you.

I love the faux moral outrage of ‘OMG I can’t begin to imagine how you clean your loo’

tell us, OP, are you a proper parent or one of those make do sorts whose children don’t come home to a freshly baked cake every Friday 😂

hm.. there are probably many things I don't do because of "what's the point" argument but nothing on your list, I'm afraid. Carrots are notoriously time-consuming to cook. As my French friend used to say "if you want a quick dinner, take time to chop your carrots". I am not sure if this is a French saying but she is not wrong.
I don't have a dishwasher but if I did, I don't think I would take your approach. Seems more time-consuming to me.
And I don't like visual clutter so clothes are being put away, albeit it may take me some time to "build up" to it. Not my favourite job.
Things I do do, which I am sure many will find equally horrifying - I get out a knife in the morning to do my breakfast and this knife lives on my chopping board and is being used throughout the day for all other cooking without washing.
I don't rinse my tea cups. I use the same cup for the whole day and then wash it up the following morning and start again.
I don't iron my bedsheets.
I don't flush the toilet at night (if it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown - flush it down). This is mostly because of sensory issues.
I think this is probably as far as my horrifying habits go.

Heavens alive. Won’t someone call social services!

I have a better system, I get my horse to chomp the top off my carrots. Nice clean bite. Although sometimes she takes too much off the end but I can't expect her to do it for free...

The dishwasher situ is revolting. I could maybe get my head round stacking dirty dishes on the side until you’ve used everything in the dishwasher but mixing loads is properly disgusting.

it also makes no sense because what if you use the cheese grater one day and the potato masher the next and the frying pan one day and two saucepans the next. Eventually you must get full and have to take some of the repeatedly cleaned things out.

your carrots must be a) horribly old and floppy and b) boiled to oblivion

clothes is weird. Do you literally only have two outfits? Don’t you ever iron? Or enjoy the extra space when the clothes rails are put away?

I am one of the most slatternly people I know,and the dishwasher is my job, but storing a mix of dirty and clean crockery in it is too far even for me.

I don't intentionally use drying racks as storage but I'm happy to leave dry clothes there indefinitely (until they need to be used by the next lot of laundry), and then I'm happy to put the clothes away. DP and I will often just take what we need as and when in the intervening time.

Snapping carrots doesn't seem to me to save any time versus slicing them but I suppose it depends how you're cooking them. Evenly chopped carrots = evenly cooked carrots.

No sorry you’re grim. Wouldn’t want to eat dinner at yours. Grubby dishes and bendy carrots.

I like the idea of "If you want a quick dinner, take time to chop your carrots" as a French saying. I'm imagining them applying this wisdom sagely to every life situation.
Perhaps that's why the guillotine was such an important feature of the French Revolution.

I loathe house work and don't do anything unless necessary but come on just empty the bloody dishwasher in the mornings. I love to hear other people's life hacks but these aren't that 😆

I discovered cooking carrots whole keeps all their flavour so I'm with you on that one

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The dishwasher thing sounded awful until you said it’s just you and your 3 year old. I think with any more people, smelly dirty crockery next to the clean stuff would be a bit too unappetising.

I am lazy person, but I still empty the dishwasher every morning so it can be filled throughout the day and cleaned at night (typically goes on once a day but if there is enough room I can maybe stretch to 2 days.) my issue with your method is that I live with a husband, who wouldn't be too pleased at having to work out which plate is clean and which is dirty. Don't you often accidently use dirty stuff? How does this work with cutlery? What if you need to use a more than one big pot for cooking? Does all your dish-ware fit in the dishwasher at once?

Carrots I don't see an issue with.

As for the clothes- my husband also does the same thing as you and it drives me crazy seeing a clothes horse with dry clothes on sitting there for days on end. (I'm not putting them away for him though!) I don't have a spare room for the clothes horse- it's in my kitchen so gets in my way. I put clothes away when they are dry, even though it's my least favourite chore.

I seen a quote once that said "Never put off a task that will take less than 5 minutes."

Sorted! Get yourself a horse OP. Carrot chopper and clothes horse.

Clothes - fine if you have the space
Veg - you eat a carrot whole? Or multiple breaks?
Dishwasher - ewwww

I have way too many clothes to keep them on an airer and the airer takes up too much space so my clothes go in my wardrobe, and I empty the dishwasher because otherwise you forget what's clean and what's dirty and there's nothing worse than grabbing a pan or something to use and finding it's dirty. I also can't picture snapping the end off a carrot, it sounds really hard to do.

However, I don't think there's anything wrong with the way you do any of it.

Surely "lazy" means you are not fulfilling responsibilities and it's affecting others. Whether you put your t-shirts on an airer or in a drawer has no impact on anyone else.

No thanks to all of it.

I have a maid/personal assistant who does all this time consuming stuff for me. That leaves me time to peel the odd grape, pour the odd glass of champagne and lie on the chaise longue whether I have an attack of the vapours or not. Great life.

How can people not remember which pan they used at 7am, by 7pm at night? Who is really mistaking a dirty plate for a clean one?! We have white crockery so it’s obvious which has been used

My question is why snap the end off at all? Why not just cut it up on your plate?

The dishwasher is grim. Do you keep it closed during the day? If you do, does it not smell? If you don’t, do you get flies in your kitchen?

You are not being economical. You are being lazy. I could never live like that. I am by no means a perfectionist, I just have standards.

I have heard advice to have 2 dishwashers -or ones with 2 drawers? So you move stuff from one to another.

I am lazy so I could do it but dirty cups with drips would drip onto clean plates below.

You need two dishwashers for your system to work, I’ve heard of people doing that before. You take things out of the one that has just run, use them, and then put them in the other one. When that’s full you run it, and then start filling the other one.

I used to have a lodger years ago who subscribed to the OP’s school of thought. He used to iron five shirts on Sunday evening, leave them hanging in the living room, and take one to wear each day. I kicked him out because I got sick of my living room looking like widow Twankey’s laundry.

@UpUpUpU because the end can be grotty