and on a scale of 1-10 how slatternly is this?

[StealthPolarBear]

Our dishwasher died last weekend and since then I have been washing the sodding dishes all week (obviously). New dishwasher arrives on Sunday and we are out tomorrow. So, how slatternly would it be to leave tonight's dinner dishes until then?? After all it'll need testing with some proper dried on pasta sauce won't it??
Go on, I can handle some 10s

1 - it's the weekend!!! R E L A X...

But then I am a proper slattern...

I'm not a neat freak but I couldn't leave dishes sitting overnight.

10!

But then my dishwasher died a year ago and I can't afford to replace it. So I can be as high minded as I like.

I think, in the interests of consumer satisfaction, that you have a duty not to do the dishes but to save them up to give the new dishwasher a proper test.

Doesn't even register on my radar I'm afraid.

I would have left ALL the dishes until the new dishwasher had arrived.

Yeah a minus 10, would think yabu if you did wash them!!
Just like I wouldn't wash my clothes in a stream if my washing machine broke!

Barely at all, about 2.
But then I have been known to put dirty dishes outside the back door so I don't have to look at them - is that a 10?

u could compromise and "soak" them.ie shove them in some soapy water and leave them whilst u get busy with a bottle of red. thats what i do with the damned things that won't go in the dishwasher. i then go down to the sink the next morning and as well as having a mild hangover have a nasty looking sink.

but its easily dealt with by dh with the kitchen gloves whilst i busy myself with the children. sigh. i love saturdays.

1, definitely. If you don't stockpile some washing up you'll have nothing to test it on on Sunday.

I would have been using paper plates and plastic forks if my dishwasher had died a week ago, so I think you are fine!

1 on my scale too. If I have too many dishes for the DW, then they wait for the next load. My MIL can never understand why I don't just wash those by hand!

1 - well done for doing them all week. When our old dishwasher conked out, I carried on loading it up until the new one arrived a couple of days later

Hide them in the oven.

I did this in a mad 5 minute tidy dash in the summer when MIL came over.

That's not so bad, but what was slatternly was forgetting about it, we lived on bbqs and salads and didn't use the oven for over a week. That was when I found the dishes, and how lovely and green they were

I would just rinse them off, but really it only rates a 2 at most.

When I was at university I would stop washing up a few days before the end of each term and then take them home to put in my mum's dishwasher

acebaby in the style of a riderless horse in the Grand National

"Just like I wouldn't wash my clothes in a stream if my washing machine broke"
you do go to extremes don't you
LetThereBeRock, i kind of agree...hate coming down to a mucky kitchen in the morning
will think about it - alll washing up has to be domne when dd asleep, that migt not be until 10

also ds is running round the house with his light saber (hoover attachment) would it slow him down much if we plugged it in do you think? All the best light sabers suck up dust

I would certainly soak them. From what I remember (sobbing as I type) they don't deal too well with crusty plates.

PMSL at lazylion

ShineOn - OH MY GOD.

Shiney you never use your dishwasher?! and [awe]

Mine is on every evening

HA FourArms I read that as though you said "If there's too many for Dear Wife..."