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How Do I Hide Washing Up Without Buying A New Sink

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EllieOLOfficial · 07/02/2019 17:37

Because apparently that's the only thing you can do to hide your washing up according to Google.

@ Live in a new farmhouse with a new big sink
@ Buy a new big sink
or even

@ Buy a new farmhouse with an old sink just so that you can buy a new sink for your new farmhouse... and then buy a cover to put over your new sink lol.

Because apparently it's better for interior decorators selling someone all that in the new year, than trying to help them save time and money by recommending a new product lol.

No seriously, how do you busy mums hide your washing up when there's too much of it?

I'm sharing a flat with my housemate, and we have a tiny kitchen. It's good enough for us two, but when it comes to putting the washing up on the side until we have time to sort it... (we work like nearly 40-50hrs+ a week on long morn-night shifts in care) it builds up pretty quickly.

We live on pretty much a 'get up when it's dark, go to bed when it's dark' schedule so :/ by the time we come home we do tend to just eat and sleep on the spot.

We usually have a day where we do our cleaning and washing and catching up. But it would be nice to not have a clean house just for one day a week lol. Or to at least pretend we have a clean house by hiding stuff for a while.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

OP posts:
dudsville · 10/02/2019 09:45

I know it sounds crazy but the answer is simple. Wash up on a nightly basis. Take turns. Put your music on and spend 20 doing the washing up and cleaning the surfaces.

SpanielEars070 · 10/02/2019 09:48

Why on earth would you leave it? That's rancid.

If our dishwasher is on, then cups/mugs get washed as they are used. My DC know better than to leave anything dirty stacked up.

Bluntness100 · 10/02/2019 09:54

Just wash up as you go. It's going to take a huge amount more effort to hide it and do it once a week, than to spend a few mins doing it at the end of the day.

I mean who hides their washing up?

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