Anyone not have a dishwasher?

[Madwelshwoman]

Just wondering how on earth can you keep a sink shiny without a dishwasher? I don't have room for one but unfortunately and I can't even remember a time when my sink and/or drainer weren't piled high with dirty/dryingg dishes. Can't see how it's possible unless you spend nearly all of your day surgically attached to either the sink or a tea towel!!!

Carrie xx (with minging sink)

I want one but have no space

I don't have a dishwasher

or a tumbledyrer (well there is one festering in the shed)

or a microwave

I am Swampy

Had one for about 6 months. DH's idea - i was unconvinced. In the space of a week i couldn't remember how i did without one. But after a while i began to feel guilty using it. Then when I found out there were so many things that weren't supposed to go in it at all, I couldn't even see the point. Why use that when i was going to have to wash up a lot of other stuff by hand anyway? So now we are without, and i don't miss it.
Don't have a tumble dryer either - much to the amazement of some of my friends - 'how on earth do you cope??!!'.

My new dishwasher has a 30 minute cycle that uses just Eight litres of water. Eight. I think that fantastic for a pretty much a days dishes. It doesn't dry on that cycle either so it's proper economical.

We don't have one, we could probably just about fit one in if the kitchen was reorganised, but can't afford new kitchen at present. Kerrymum, you are not the first American I have heard accusing the British of not rinsing - I was brought up to rinse the dishes and frankly I think you must have been hanging out with some pretty crusty people, certainly not typical Brits! Who doesn't rinse - come on, out yourselves now!

I have had one for about a month,i don't know why i waited so long. I never thought I would feel such enthusiasm over a domestic appliance.

Oh yuk, remind me never to go and eat in the home of a Belfast native, unless they have a dishwasher [nauseated emoticon]

When I hand wash I don't rinse.

I love my dishwasher, couldn't be without it. First thing I insisted on when we got our apartment in Spain (yes, shoot me) was that a cupboard was ripped out and a dishwasher put in, I'm not going my holidays to wash dishes and I don't think anyone renting should have to either!

Actually that means I've got two dishwashers, but I have no tumble dryers that must balance things up.

we have one, although we don't always use it. It is dead useful though especially when we have visitors.

Don't have a dishwasher, rinse breakfast dishes, wash pots after lunch, then DH does the pots after dinner at night, anything after that gets rinsed and left in a bowl! only takes 5 minutes to wash pots, unless your my DH who takes 1 hour! me thinks he is getting away from the kids

Er no. Have never rinsed. Don't go overboard on the Fairy either.

Are you not worried about the amount of water you might waste?

I dont have a dishwasher either, but it is good training for the children to wash up sometimes.

I don't have one,my husband likes to see me all soapy.

No dishwasher and no rinsing here either. I had never heard of this rinsing of dishes till a similar thread a while ago about washing dishes.

nope not me. nor a tumble dryer.

Imawurzel....you wait until bump arrives - gaurantee you will want a tumble dryer and a dishwasher!

i dont have a dishwasher anymore and i like doing the washing up. I dont rinse, but instead pour a glass of clean water over the rack, just to get any bubbles off.

I am confused - why do you need to get the bubbles off? I sort of encourgae them on my washing up as I think it looks clean

No doubt i will nikki76!! We haven't got the room here. Don't tumble driers really cost to run though?