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Anyone not have a dishwasher?

148 replies

Madwelshwoman · 06/05/2007 17:29

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)

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squidette · 06/05/2007 23:55

cece - i am not sure! i just do . I think it came from when i used to use fairy/strong liquid that the glasses and mugs still tasted of bubbles.

cece · 06/05/2007 23:56

But it just evaporates off doesn't it? Oh well I have been eating off plates like this all my life... too late to change now... At least they are clean. I actually don't like the saltiness of plates that have been cleaned in a dishwasher ... That is Yuck!

MrsSpoon · 06/05/2007 23:57

Nice soft water in Scotland, no need for salt.

Nikki76 · 06/05/2007 23:58

Well, DS was born in the May, so we were lucky to have good weather and could hang outside etc and in the winter, if there was anything we didn't need right away, I would just put it on the airer in the living room as very warm with heating etc. The tumble dryer is mainly for when DS has had one of those weeing/pooing on everything days and needs something dry asap so thats helped to keep the cost down. Always handy to know its there though iyswim?

The dishwasher was a bit of a luxury I'll admit but I'm only 5ft 2" and was so big I couldn't stand for more than 10mins without aching etc and hated having the dishes pile up during the day - I was always in eating!! lol!

cece · 07/05/2007 00:01

I love my tumble dryer though. Use it all through winter... but use line in the summer months (as long as it is not raining for more than a day!)

essanel · 07/05/2007 00:06

I made a deal with dh last year on holiday (in Florida with dishwasher in villa) that if dh got psp then I would get dw as we were re-doing kitchen. We had to sacrifice a cupboard to get one (don't regret it just chucked a whole load of tupperware which didn't have matching lids anyway ) and I LOVE IT ... i sometimes stroke it as I walk past........ i am so sad!!!

Nikki76 · 07/05/2007 00:09

Essanel - they are lovely things though! Espec when you have family over and instead of being stood at the sink washing endless cups, you just load away then go and mumsnet!!! Also makes kitchen looks good as you can tidy away all dirty dishes and look a domestic godess instead of lazy slattern! lol!!

rabbleraiser · 07/05/2007 00:13

I've never had one. Never had the room, but I don't yearn for one.

I've got a feeling that the climate-change fanatics will be targeting them next anyway. I'm not an easy convert to this new religion, but jeeez, they must push out some energy, not to mention all the 'products' you use to clean your dishes.

My guess? A dishwasher will be non-PC in less than five years.

Nikki76 · 07/05/2007 00:15

My dishwasher is one of those that use less water, less energy etc....also, because we only load once a day, I'm actually using less water than if I were doing a couple of manual dishwashing runs a day and then rinsing the soap off....

Nikki76 · 07/05/2007 00:15

Not to mention energy conserved when I sit down instead of washing up for hours.....

Gobbledigook · 07/05/2007 00:16

Never had one and no desire to have one really. There are 101 things I'd rather spend my money on.

rabbleraiser · 07/05/2007 00:16

Did the manufacturer tell you that?

Nikki76 · 07/05/2007 00:18

lol! No, Dh is very big on energy efficient stuff so he did all the research.....

Having said that, wonder how much energy is pumped out by him using X box all eve and my on the PC mumsnetting.....

BonnieDarko · 07/05/2007 00:18

Dishwashers, tumbledryers, irons etc are the work of the devil.

(sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss)

essanel · 07/05/2007 00:21

i agree Nikki - i'm sure it was during the water shortage last year that they said modern dishwashers do use less water than manual dishwashing. I also stopped using steriliser for ds and put all bottles etc in dishwasher. I love the smell of the dishes so clean! Also it does help kitchen look tidy with minimal effort....cook dinner place pots/pans etc in dishwasher, eat dinner place dishes in dishwasher (dd 4 yrs is a dab hand at loading the cutlery -not the knives i hasten to add)switch dishwasher on and enjoy nice glass of wine whilst standing back to enjoy clean tidy kitchen!!!

MamaMaiasaura · 07/05/2007 00:22

no dishwasher, tumbledryer or microwave here. Hope to get a dishwasher at some point, but always find other things to spend money on.

KerryMum · 07/05/2007 00:29

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Blackduck · 07/05/2007 07:25

No dishwasher here (MIL keeps offering to buy me one - I DON'T want one...), no tumble drier either.....

DoorstoManual · 07/05/2007 07:45

We just bought the Bosch 46E, it is great. It has a quick wash programme and it is only about 20 minutes long, but if the dishes are not very dirty then it seems to do the trick.

zookeeper · 07/05/2007 08:09

I would get rid of my dp before my tumbledryer (wraps arms around it protectively)

aDad · 07/05/2007 08:11

no dishwasher
no tumble dryer

zookeeper · 07/05/2007 08:13

don't really get dishwashers - isn't it just as quaick to wash the dishes by the time you've scraped the food off?

aDad · 07/05/2007 08:14

that's how i see it

zookeeper · 07/05/2007 08:17

On hliday in Sapin I noticed that a lot of places had units hanging over the sinks with palte racks inside so the dishes could drip-dry into the sink - like an out of sight draining board - I think that's a brilliant idea - no drying up and no mess!

I must get out more

speccy · 07/05/2007 08:22

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