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My mom taught me to always wash dishes by hand. She hated dishwashers, because they would leave spots, and that wasn't acceptable. For the longest tine, every dish I washed had to pass her inspection. If they looked anything less than perfect, she would point it out and/or rewash then herself. Eventually she trusted me enough to not double-check, and honestly my eyesight was better anyway.

I have to this day never used a dishwasher.

Now, that's funny

I'd call that more sad than funny, but you're absolutely right. And it's a good thing to sometimes have a fresh look at what seems a given

Still trying to get this discipline down. Seems like all it takes is one or two bad days and then it's fully off the rails again. Keep trying to avoid letting a 10 minute job turn into a 30 minute job. Pretty sure I stretch myself too thin between work and being pretty active in my socials and hobbies.

Never feels like I have enough time to maintain a tidy home.

As someone who lives with just their significant other, also yes.

I'm usually doing dishes with headphones on. But not even music is enough to lift up my morale sometimes

I'm the opposite, though I remember quite vividly flipping out as a young teenager because I hated being assigned the dishwasher daily. I definitely still hate the chaos of it, but having wet/soapy/rashy hands and a sore lower back come with washing dishes and I don't care for that either.

The biggest issue in my household is that I clean the house daily, cook 6 out of 7 days per week, and I load/unload the dishwasher once or twice each day. Yet the following day comes along I almost always find myself hand-washing the damn pots anyway because my wife couldn't set aside ten minutes of her previous day to clean them. It's as though she has a cleaning disability. I still love her, though, and she's a great mom.

I don't mind cleaning freshly dirtied dishes, but dishes that others have let dry in over the past hour? Yeah, that's your problem.

Always leave the workstation in the same state or cleaner than how you found it, and if I have to clean up or fetch dirty tools from the dishwasher then there'll be no cake for you! >:(

That's kinda funny. I'm the opposite. I kinda like putting the dishes away. Everything goes from a state of disarray to nice and orderly. Doing the dishes I have to get my hands wet and potentially touch other people's uneaten food. I'd rather not.

I work 12 hour shifts so my sink becomes an abomination the days i work. But get me stoned and I'll have everything in the drying rack put away and everything in the sink cleaned.

I find washing the dishes far more sisyphean than emptying the dishwasher. I feel like I've gotten out ahead since the dishwasher did the vast majority of the work for me.

Neither of the tasks bother me that much these days though, by the power of podcasts I can accomplish any mundane task.

There's the two dishwasher solution: Have two of them side by side, use up the clean stuff from one and load dirty stuff into the other and vice versa - when the dirty one is full let it run, and after that this is the clean one.

Works like charm and saves a lot of space in the kitchen, no cupboards required.