How Often Do You Wash Dishes? (Particularly Your Daily Beverage Cup.)

[Texasgal]

Dishwashers are divine. Without one my kitchen would look like a Stephen King novel.

 

[CarriePie]

Uhhh...
I do rinse it out with hot water...

I gotta admit, this is about all I do. I don't want to lose the flavor of my thermos mug!

 

[ocean]

Some time ago, I was a bit distressed to learn that a guy friend only washes his coffee cup once every one or two weeks, while still actively using and drinking from it every day.

Would the cup washing coincide with a shower he might take? I'm thinking this is worth 2 eyebrows being raised and not just the one.

And does he let the dog lick his plate clean?

Sorry. Probably not what you are looking for but the yuck that elicits is beyond

 

[ATSTD]

I used to wash them all the time.

My mother started complaining how I wash dishes and very often, would stand behind me, judge me and continue to verbally assault/critique me. Eventually, I gave up on helping out with the dishes and rarely ever do them, unless they are mine. There is only so much disrespect I put up with.

 

[zeroturbulence]

I wash dishes everyday. My daily beverage cup only gets water, has a lid with a hole for a straw and I use a straw with it so it doesn't get washed everyday.

 

[Smoke]

Dish washers seem like way more work than simply washing a dish after you use it. Food typically comes off a lot easier immediately after using it too. I mean, prerinsing the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher is doing 85% of the cleaning already.... May as well do the last 15% instead of loading the dishwasher, inspecting that they were thoroughly washed, and putting the dishes away. No thanks.

 

[Magenta]

I rinse my coffee cup out every day... and wipe down the spill trails on the outside, too .

No soap is used in either endeavour...

But, oh! Doing dishes is a whole 'nother conversation!

I wrote a poem about it... dishes and fishes...

*clears throat*

If dishes were fishes they'd lick the plates clean
Needing no water in basins to rinse per routine
To get rid of all traces of gravy 'n' poutine

Not that I'm a lover of such French fried spuds
But I needed a rhyme or this poem'd be a dud.



And dishes are doozies, the doing, the mess
I really detest them I freely confess.

Much rather I'd have fishes swimming in my sink
To ponder and muse on and help myself think
Of the mysteries profound and the awe life us brinks
Instead of dishes piled up and causing a stink.



To go swimming with fishes - of mammalian species
Is dreamed of by many and this ain't no deliracy!
Nor drummed up by those in the making of seaspiracies
To lay bare the horror of fishy atrocities

Oh, no, so I'm told these dear fishies do bear
All manner of discomfit empowered to snare
Their flesh although scaly and meat bony within
There still are those, yes! Who with fish long to swim.

And just think of it, fam, if dishes were fishes
The delicacies beyond even outlandish wishes
Would be served up daily alongside spud knishes
Though caviar and sushi they'd sure hope were bishes!

 

[seoulsearch]

Dish washers seem like way more work than simply washing a dish after you use it. Food typically comes off a lot easier immediately after using it too. I mean, prerinsing the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher is doing 85% of the cleaning already.... May as well do the last 15% instead of loading the dishwasher, inspecting that they were thoroughly washed, and putting the dishes away. No thanks.

I totally understand what you're saying.

I prerinse my dishes too, because I'm not interested in trying to clean out a gross, gunked-up dishwasher filter full of leftover, rotting food.

I use the dishwasher solely for sanitization (and keeping the dishwasher in working condition.) I only run it once or twice a month and then handwash in-between.

I've found that as much as I scrub some things, like certain coffee cups, the coffee pot, greasy residue, etc., they don't get as sparkling clean as in the dishwasher. So I eventually just run everything through now and then for a good thorough cleaning.

Maybe I'm just a little paranoid, lol.

But yes, I've definitely gotten by just fine when I haven't had a dishwasher either.

 

[ATSTD]

I used to wash them all the time.

My mother started complaining how I wash dishes and very often, would stand behind me, judge me and continue to verbally assault/critique me. Eventually, I gave up on helping out with the dishes and rarely ever do them, unless they are mine. There is only so much disrespect I put up with.

I think it is funny that I’ve worked as a steward, at Disneyland, in four different restaurants (Blue Bayou, Carnation Cafe, Club 33 and Red Rose Tavern) and I’ve worked as a general dishwasher at a pizzeria restaurant (Wise Guys Pizzeria) and my mother, who has never been a professional dishwasher in her life, well maybe bar tending, thinks I’m doing it wrong.

 

[seoulsearch]

I think it is funny that I’ve worked as a steward, at Disneyland, in four different restaurants (Blue Bayou, Carnation Cafe, Club 33 and Red Rose Tavern) and I’ve worked as a general dishwasher at a pizzeria restaurant (Wise Guys Pizzeria) and my mother, who has never been a professional dishwasher in her life, well maybe bar tending, thinks I’m doing it wrong.

That's quite an amazing resume.

I'd love to go to each of them but know they're way out of my league, lol.

Which was your favorite?

And how did you like working at Club 33, since I've read it takes $25K-$100K just for an initiation fee, then about $13K -$30K per year in annual dues?

I once worked in a retail store near a retirement wonderland with all kinds of people who seemed to think the world owed them something because they had money. (The most entitled-acting populations I've ever worked for are those that have money, or think they do, and those who don't have anything and think the government should pay them to exist.)

I can't imagine working at a place of that kind of caliber. You must truly be the best of the best, to be picked for something like that.

I'm certainly not saying all wealthy people are like that but my experience with the general population has been traumatic enough, let alone those of elite whale status.

Did you see a lot of famous people there?

 

[Lynx]

I rinse my coffee cup out every day... and wipe down the spill trails on the outside, too .

No soap is used in either endeavour...

But, oh! Doing dishes is a whole 'nother conversation!

I wrote a poem about it... dishes and fishes...

*clears throat*

If dishes were fishes they'd lick the plates clean
Needing no water in basins to rinse per routine
To get rid of all traces of gravy 'n' poutine

Not that I'm a lover of such French fried spuds
But I needed a rhyme or this poem'd be a dud.



And dishes are doozies, the doing, the mess
I really detest them I freely confess.

Much rather I'd have fishes swimming in my sink
To ponder and muse on and help myself think
Of the mysteries profound and the awe life us brinks
Instead of dishes piled up and causing a stink.



To go swimming with fishes - of mammalian species
Is dreamed of by many and this ain't no deliracy!
Nor drummed up by those in the making of seaspiracies
To lay bare the horror of fishy atrocities

Oh, no, so I'm told these dear fishies do bear
All manner of discomfit empowered to snare
Their flesh although scaly and meat bony within
There still are those, yes! Who with fish long to swim.

And just think of it, fam, if dishes were fishes
The delicacies beyond even outlandish wishes
Would be served up daily alongside spud knishes
Though caviar and sushi they'd sure hope were bishes!

Bioengineered fish that live in a bucket
And clean every dish, whenever you chuck it.
The more you leave on the plate, the more the fish grow
Until one night the dinner is fillet of sole

Actually I have seen this in a video game called Prey. The second one on a space station, not the first one with the native American. If you go exploring enough you eventually find out that all the bathrooms on the entire station flush into a big tank full of sisak eels. When the eels get too big for the tank, they are harvested and made into eel sushi.

 

[ATSTD]

That's quite an amazing resume.

I'd love to go to each of them but know they're way out of my league, lol.

Which was your favorite?

And how did you like working at Club 33, since I've read it takes $25K-$100K just for an initiation fee, then about $13K -$30K per year in annual dues?

I once worked in a retail store near a retirement wonderland with all kinds of people who seemed to think the world owed them something because they had money. (The most entitled-acting populations I've ever worked for are those that have money, or think they do, and those who don't have anything and think the government should pay them to exist.)

I can't imagine working at a place of that kind of caliber. You must truly be the best of the best, to be picked for something like that.

I'm certainly not saying all wealthy people are like that but my experience with the general population has been traumatic enough, let alone those of elite whale status.

Did you see a lot of famous people there?

If you want to see my full resume, check out (https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/sts1988). I literally took all day updating it this week. I went from getting 15 impressions in a month, to like 6000 in just a few days over night. Who knew you had to completely fill out everything on LinkedIn to get any attention. Before this week, I think I only had three education experiences up, no licenses or certificates and only like 18 experiences. Now it’s like quadruple that because I literally put everything I’ve ever done or received.

I guess people do only believe what they see, which is sad.

I would say, ‘Blue Bayou’ was my favorite restaurant to work at, just cause I loved the sound of the artificial swamp animal noises, the artificial night sky and the smell of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Plus, it was my hire on location. I knew almost everyone there, so it was fun. The only famous person that I heard eating there, while I was working, was sadly the famous male porn star, ‘Ron Jeremy’.

At the time when I worked there, I lived in Huntington Beach, California, literally a block away from the Huntington Beach pier. I was only 20 years old and living with an ex girlfriend at the time, whose uncle owned the properties there.

When I worked at Club 33, the cast of Tropic Thunder was there but usually, when I would work there, you had a lot of snobby people. The great thing about working at that location, is once it was the end of the night, I’d get to take home a bunch of already cooked filet mignon, to share with my ex and her friends at the time.

My least favorite place to work, was Carnation Cafe, only cause you had to wake up super early to get there and start prep work. Plus, I didn’t have a car at the time, so I would take a bus from Huntington Beach or my ex girlfriend’s car.

My most previous position at Disneyland, was at Red Rose Tavern, where they wanted me to become a steward trainer but I literally thought I was made for something else, even though my last name ‘Spence’ means “Steward”

 

[ATSTD]

If you want to see my full resume, check out (https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/sts1988). I literally took all day updating it this week. I went from getting 15 impressions in a month, to like 6000 in just a few days over night. Who knew you had to completely fill out everything on LinkedIn to get any attention. Before this week, I think I only had three education experiences up, no licenses or certificates and only like 18 experiences. Now it’s like quadruple that because I literally put everything I’ve ever done or received.

I guess people do only believe what they see, which is sad.

I would say, ‘Blue Bayou’ was my favorite restaurant to work at, just cause I loved the sound of the artificial swamp animal noises, the artificial night sky and the smell of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Plus, it was my hire on location. I knew almost everyone there, so it was fun. The only famous person that I heard eating there, while I was working, was sadly the famous male porn star, ‘Ron Jeremy’.

At the time when I worked there, I lived in Huntington Beach, California, literally a block away from the Huntington Beach pier. I was only 20 years old and living with an ex girlfriend at the time, whose uncle owned the properties there.

When I worked at Club 33, the cast of Tropic Thunder was there but usually, when I would work there, you had a lot of snobby people. The great thing about working at that location, is once it was the end of the night, I’d get to take home a bunch of already cooked filet mignon, to share with my ex and her friends at the time.

My least favorite place to work, was Carnation Cafe, only cause you had to wake up super early to get there and start prep work. Plus, I didn’t have a car at the time, so I would take a bus from Huntington Beach or use my ex girlfriend’s car.

My most previous position at Disneyland, was at Red Rose Tavern, where they wanted me to become a steward trainer but I literally thought I was made for something else, even though my last name ‘Spence’ means “Steward”

My LinkedIn page causes so much energy for LinkedIn now, that they tell me that they now have to constantly refresh my page, just so it’ll work properly lol

 

[Tazzo]

P.S. The poll answer about baiting mouse traps with peanut butter and not solid gold (aka cheese) is for @Tazzo, in reference to her posts in the Sweet Tooth thread going on in Miscellaneous.

You baited me! I was thinking of picking that one, only because of the peanutbutter in the trap But it could happen at the same time my trap catches something I wash my dishes (although I seem to have, finally, mouse proofed my attic so well, there will be no critters lurking around my traps, or dishes..).


I love that my kithen sink is clean and empty when I come to to kitchen in the morning... but it is not the case all the mornings, few spatulas and other dishes that I cannot wash in the dishwasher have a party in there usually. Then there is the task that I would have to first empty my dishdrying cabinet before I wash the dishes by hand.. For somedays, that it too much to ask

It also depends on the week, what my work shift is for the week, and all the other stuff I have to do, how often I am going to do my dishes. Sometimes my dishwasher can run two times a day, and other times few times a week. I have slimmer version of the regular dishwasher, I could have had the regular one, but I would have had to sacrifice my double sinks just to have that, no way!

For the only rinsing with water is only for my coffee cup at the summer cottage, there is no way there that I am heating up the water and wash the dishes everytime (we use paperplates so we don't have do huge amount of dish washing at the end)! At home, I can just pick another coffee cup, eventho I have my favourites that run out first..

 

[LifelongLearner]

Hey Everyone,

Some time ago, I was a bit distressed to learn that a guy friend only washes his coffee cup once every one or two weeks, while still actively using and drinking from it every day.

Now, I'm not trying to be judgmental, but I would personally be afraid of getting sick from some kind of bacterial infection.

But to each their own, and if something works for someone and does no harm, then I say keep on drinking from that same old crusty cup!

As singles, we sometimes get to slack on a few domestic chores, putting them off for much longer times than if we had a family. When I moved into a place that had a dishwasher, I quickly realized that in order to make use of it, I would have to actually own enough dishes to fill it up!

Having battled with stomach issues on and off, I make sure I wash all the dishes I use every day. I usually don't like leaving dirty dishes overnight, because I hate the idea of things growing -- or feeding -- off them. True story: I once walked into a friend's kitchen, then yelped and ran right out because I heard an unmistakable, "SQUEAK!!!"

For whatever reason, in this household, no one washed the dishes until every last one was used -- and therefore, they just set up a mouse trap on the counter to catch anything that ran by. By time I had the misfortune of walking in, not one, but TWO mice had been caught -- in the same trap.

ACK.

I'm not meaning to judge anyone, but that's just NOT for me!!!

* How about all of you?

* What is the catalyst that make YOU decide it's time to wash dishes? (Or at least, your morning coffee cup.)

This, of course, is a question for everyone, not just singles! Everyone is welcome to answer.

* Do you have family members you wish would do dishes more often? Who has the responsibility in your house of making sure they are washed?

* Do you use a dishwasher or prefer to wash by hand?

Just for fun, I'm going to post a poll with multiple choices and visible answers.

We may not be airing out any dirty laundry here (we'll save that for another thread ,) but how about exposing all of our dirty dishes?!

As a still recovering CLEAN freak, i hear you sister! My children also experienced the horror of freezing their posteriors off at times, cos of course the house had to be thoroughly aired daily, even if it was 6 C below.
Heh! One of the luxuries of being old is i'm less inclined to go on a mission now.

 

[cinder]

Well when I'm on routine, my dirty dishes get washed by hand first thing in the morning. But my cup only gets washed weekly or when it has something messier than tea or water in it.

 

[Sanders]

Lol!

Thank you for reassuring us that the rodent living in your house was not a family member.

My Dad worked at a grocery store and he's told us some hair-raising tales of taking the garbage out to the dumpster -- and encountering rats the size of cats.

I'm pretty sure if I encountered a rat like that, I would let out a scream heard 'round the world -- then promptly pass out -- or die of a heart attack right on the spot.

Same for me!!!

 

[Sanders]

I am the sole chore person for this household and the sole chair person also! Ha!

I prefer the days dishes to be done before the next day. I never enjoy facing a mess when starting the day but it does happen and only I have to face it. But it does happen sometimes and that's quite ok too!

The one story on this string of the mouse trap on the counter, oh no.....no thanks...... I'd be sleeping in my vehicle that night and pleading for help from neighbors!!

I like a more minimalistic life style.

 

[ATSTD]

We had a giant mouse issue in my house, up until about two weeks ago. We discovered this new spray, the is pet and human friendly; we spray it all around the house and I think they all left cause I haven’t heard, nor seen them since.

Usually our cat catches like 3 a day but there are none to be found anymore.

 

[stilllearning]

Oh dishes.......I am going to go back in the way back time vault and quote myself from Jan 2022 about dishes and cups in particular.

"Reckon I am the typical or the generalization for single guys. 14 years ago when my ex and I divorced, she just wanted gone. So she made no claims and she let the court know I could have the house, the kids, and the dogs. So for 14 years I have been hearing from my mother, sisters, Aunts, nieces, and my friends wives.

That ya sure can tell I am single cause have no pictures on the walls. As well as for 14 years they shake their heads cause my drapes don't match my furniture. My furniture don't match my carpet. My silverware is a hodge podge of 4 different patterns. While I have all china type plates all my cups are plastic and do not match the dinnerware. With some of those plastic cups saying Taco Bell, McDonalds, Subway, and other fast food names on them.

For 14 years they have been letting me know I should get remarried. I am convinced they only do so cause they are all OCD and when they visit my home, that all the mismatch sets off their anxiety.......LOL"

Once upon a time I was married and in a matter of months will be so again. This time in between I have remained "that" single guy and rarely have to wash a cup because I drink straight from every container, milk, juice, 2 liter, you name it.

The bright side for my ma, sisters, nieces, and aunts when they come to my home for a holiday meal or a SB party. They will no longer feel the need to bring their own drinks. They can drink from the container in my ice box and know it is safe because once again I have adult supervision.........LOL