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Does anyone else not have or want a dishwasher?

77 replies

pedilia · 02/04/2008 14:08

We had our new kitchen fitted at Christmas and everyone that comes round keeps asking why we don't have a dishwasher

I hate them and don't want one, reason enough!

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PotPourri · 02/04/2008 15:21

I didn't wnat one, but it came with the house, But was broken. Eventually when I got my bonus we got a new washing machine, fridge freezer and dishwasher. I expected it to change my life, as everyone had been telling me it would. But TBH it didn't. I have found that I need to work in a different way, and need tonnes and tonnes of crockery and cutlery. It is FAB when having visitors though, as there are tonnes of dishes at once and I can just stack them in the dishwasher and they are 'gone' instantly. In fact, if the party is big enough I can stick it on while we carry on chatting etc, and they just need put away at the end of the night. am slowly being converted to them, but it has taken a year at least. I still often do the dishes in the sink, espec if dishwasher is full of clean dishes that would need to be put away before I could put the others in!

I love the steamy smell from them though, but then I have an odd obsession with water/steam adn cleaning products when pregnant, which would explain it.

PotPourri · 02/04/2008 15:24

I don't have a tumble drier and until recently didn't have a microwave. I don't want a drier, even though I use nappies and they could do with an occasion soften up, and the microwave, I use only for baked potatoes. That is pretty handy though. But I didn't miss one when I didnt' have one for all those years

DrNortherner · 02/04/2008 15:25

I do not have a dishwasher or a tumble drier.

eternalstudent · 02/04/2008 15:30

I am getting a dishwasher as soon as we 'do' the kitchen. I can't wait, all I seem to do is wash dishes. More time for beer drinking DD and DH

BionicEar · 02/04/2008 23:27

I have a dishwasher... it's called my DH!

No room for a real one in our house, and no desire for one either!

Maidamess · 02/04/2008 23:30

I have been without a DW for 5 years. I am getting one on Saturday. I am very excited! No more fairy, or marigolds for me!

madamez · 02/04/2008 23:36

I haven't got one, and have never had one. Current house is rented so it wouldn't be up to me anyway, my former home was a small flat with only me in it. Now there's only me and DS, and I wash up about once a day or every couple of days if we've eaten dinner elsewhere or it's been a one-pan job.
I did rejoice in the washing machine that is in this house (in my flat I'd had one of those you put on the draining board and stick the hose onto the tap) and I get quite silly about my washing line. The washing machine has a tumble dry facility that I don't use because I'm afraid of it: washing gets stuck on my elderly hotrail or (DS' clothes) on the hanging airer in the bathroom if it's winter or rainy.

Mind you, I've never owned a sofa, either. Never either had the space for one or felt the need.

Countingthegreyhairs · 03/04/2008 14:53

Crikey. If there was a fire, the first thing I would rescue would be my dishwasher (after dd of course )

We cook alot. Baking is hassle-free when when you can bung all the mess in the dishwasher afterwards. It's a godsend when dh cooks too (he uses every pan in house).

In fact I'd have two machines if I could afford it. (A friend of mine has two and she hardly has any kitchen cupboards. She just alternates stacking/washing between them.)

I didn't realise they were so environmentally unsound. Our water bill went down dramatically once we bought a dishwasher. Thought they were more efficient than washing by hand in fact ....

SaintGeorge · 03/04/2008 15:34

An 'A' or 'B' rated modern dishwasher is now generally accepted as more environmentally friendly than washing by hand.

Only run when full, scrape only, don't rinse first and don't use the drying cycle if you have the option.

Washersaurus · 03/04/2008 15:36

My dishwasher acts as a storage area (tis always full of either clean or dirty stuff), my kitchen is so small it would disappear under a pile of washing up without it.

You don't know what you are missing not having one, honestly

ruty · 03/04/2008 16:18

yes the drying cycle has a lot to answer for. If i ever buy one I'll go for one where the drying cycl is optional.

madhairday · 03/04/2008 16:48

I love my dishwasher. It has made a huge difference to my life. I never have to scrape/rinse either, they just go in at get clean. it's fabby and I've no idea how I lived without it

Pinkchampagne · 03/04/2008 16:56

I have just had a new kitchen fitted too, and don't have a dishwasher. There is just the boys & myself in the house, so doesn't seem worth it - I just wash up as I go along.

lucykate · 03/04/2008 17:07

we don't have one, or a tumble dryer. our kitchen is only a year old and yes, people think we're odd too for not having fitted one. we've never had one so just didn't think to, don't mind doing the washing up by hand

CountessDracula · 03/04/2008 17:08

God I would have 3 if i had the space
you are all maaaaaad I tell you

IorekByrnison · 03/04/2008 17:10

I don't like them either and we haven't got one. There's something about loading and unloading them that I dislike even more than washing up.

CountessDracula · 03/04/2008 17:11

Ah well if you have two you don't bother
you just take it out of one clean and when dirty put it in the other

IorekByrnison · 03/04/2008 17:20

lol at 2 dishwashers. That's madness surely?

Iota · 03/04/2008 17:29

it's essential to have lots of crockery and cutlery, so that you can wait until the dishwasher is full before setting it off.

when ds1 was going through his grated chedder phase, I acquired 3 cheesegraters.

madamez · 03/04/2008 18:01

What other stuff do people not have that is generally considered essential to living like a proper modern civilised person?

I haven't got:
A dishwasher
A sofa
A car
A man
A telly that's less than 15 years old...

IorekByrnison · 03/04/2008 18:20

a house

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 18:21

we don't have one.

we live in rented accommodation.

i had one in the US and i do miss it, tbh.

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 18:22

i don't have a house, either.

or a sofa - it's the landlord's.

or a TV at all - it's the landlord's and she lost the remote to it so you have to get up to adjust the volume.

FourPlusOne · 03/04/2008 18:33

We are about to move house and will have one when we get our now kitchen fitted. I can't wait. Didn't mind not having one when we were just a couple, or when DS was a baby, but now we have 2 children I feel like I am constantly washing up and the kitchen always looks messy as there is always stuff on the draining board or waiting to be dried. The kitchen is small enough anyway and constanntly looks cluttered.

We try and be 'eco friendly' so will get an energy efficient one, but I think it would be better than the huge volume of hot water I go through every day just washing dishes.

Have a washer drier though and never use the drier part of it. Would not miss it if it was an ordinary washing machine.

collision · 03/04/2008 18:34

we dont have a microwave or a stereo

we just got our DW and I wouldnt be without it now.

no TD either but clothes dry over the bath in a day!

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