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

Do you have a dog? My mum tells me that dogs' tongues are antibacterial and you could eat your dinner off a plate they have licked.

In fact YABU for wasting your money on an electric appliance and not investing in a Labradoodle

PS - we are going to my mum's tomorrow night. Guess what, I'm taking her out for dinner....

Tiger, my Grandpa used to tell me that once his son's dog had eaten off a plate he had licked it so clean he'd just put it straight back in the cupboard. I believed him. Actually that is the sort of thing he would do.
No thank you. I have 2 children, not going out and buying something to keep me awake in the night!

I don't have a dishwasher and I never wash up on a Friday night. Or put the washing machine on.

Worryingly, I think it's exactly the sort of thing my mum would do and probably did all through my childhood. I do have a cast iron immune system . Also a bit of a problem with barking when I get excited.

lol, do you also slobber when there's food cooking?

Sometimes.

I am very good at fetching, too.

Poor you I dont even own a dishwasher, i wash my dishes every day

TishTosh, I was waiting for that and do fully deserve it I know It's just once you're used to something it's hard without it

definitely a 1

But think about poor Imisssleeping - if her washing machine breaks, no laundrette for her, oh no it's off to the stream with a basket on her head and a stone in her hand

haha I know twas only joking , i used to leave my dishes to pile up for ages.

Im moving next month and am really looking forward to the fact its got a dishwasher lol.

1. Honestly, if I didn't have DC I would leave the dishes till I was drinking my tea out of a jam jar - and I have a dishwasher.

Oh but if I'm just too darned tired and have a couple of dishes that I just can't bear to wash I put it in the fridge and wash it the next time I need it.

So my track record of not leaving dirty dishes overnight has never, ever been broken. [smug]

megapixels - you put your dirty dishes in the fridge?

respect

sister

Fridge....???????

But megapixels the dishes are still dirty when they are in the fridge.

the lesson here is don't go to megapixel's for dinner, as the bugs are rampant and don't go to my mum's as the dogs have licked the plates clean.

Maybe the dishwasher is the way to go...

Not read the whole thread but maybe a 1 or 2.

Provided you've got enough clean dishes to see you through until Sunday, it'll be a good test for your new dishwasher.

Hide them in a different room if you're worried about what the delivery man thinks - but as you're unlikely to ever see him again does it really matter?!

No they're not dirty. When they're in the fridge it's not a dirty dish but a dish of leftover food you see ;). Just that it's a tiny portion of leftovers.

Or that's how I justify it to myself.
[brazen smile]

No they're not dirty. When they're in the fridge it's not a dirty dish but a dish of leftover food you see . Just that it's a tiny portion of leftovers.

Or that's how I justify it to myself.
[brazen smile]

Ah. I see. The leftover clause. Very green and thrifty. I stand corrected (and will file for future use)

Are they in a tidy pile? If so you can leave them forever.

Slatternly? Pah! You're not even trying, Stealthy. The best slattern story I heard on MN was the woman whose DD lost her ballet outfit. She then found it several months later in their second oven...in the remains of the previous year's Xmas goose!