What this needs is some good music or the radio
I’m usually doing dishes with headphones on. But not even music is enough to lift up my morale sometimes
When I lived in a very small apartment in a very large city, I quickly learned to clean as I cook. A few dishes can take up all the counter space when there’s so little to begin with. Since then I’ve moved to a smaller city and a larger place but I’ve taken that habit with me. Now when I’m done cooking I only have a few dishes left and a sink of hot water to wash them in. Took some planing and a few mistakes to figure out how but I think it is a skill I should hold on to.
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.
It’s always interesting to see random activities highlight how different people’s lives can be. As of the time I’m posting this, half of the comments mention a dishwasher.
I’ve never been in a house with a dishwasher, and literally just realized I couldn’t tell you if I’ve ever seen one, outside of a screen. To my perception, they’re like a magical tool that supposedly exists… somewhere. Maybe.
That’s not a complaint, and not really noteworthy. I’m pretty sure most of humanity doesn’t have one, after all. I just think it’s funny when you stumble into another bubble, inside your bubble.
I know that I, too, enjoy things that don’t seem real to someone else. Even being able to read this post is a privilege. Now, that’s funny.
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
i don’t entirely mind doing the dishes, cleaning is relaxing to some degree. but emptying the dishwasher drives me fucking nuts, puttering around the kitchen opening all the drawers knowing it’ll get dirty again within the day
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.
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.
As someone who lives in a house of 11 people, yes
As someone who lives with just their significant other, also yes.
