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[ratcreature]

Like many other people, especially those without a dish washer, I'm not fond of doing dishes, and due to me lacking in discipline the dirty ones pile up, and I get to the point where no clean plate/fork/mug... is to be found when I need such an item to prepare and eat the food I want. And yet this does not always result in me just doing the dishes. So I'm curious about others.

Poll #5895 (not) doing dishes, how do fellow sloths cope?

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How do you cope with a lack of clean dishes/cutlery?

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I never let my dirty dishes accumulate to such an extent in the first place.
15 (28.3%)

Once it's come to that point I give in and just do the dishes.
32 (60.4%)

I invite over someone who I know can't tolerate the sight of piled up dishes, and hope they'll volunteer to (help) clean up.
4 (7.5%)

That's what the reserve stash of paper plates and plastic sporks is for.
10 (18.9%)

I go out to eat elsewhere.
8 (15.1%)

I switch to eating food that can be prepared/eaten without the dishes/cutlery. (Or eat things that way regardless of custom.)
14 (26.4%)

I wash the single plate/fork/mug/whatever I need and leave the rest.
22 (41.5%)

If still possible I use related items that are clean if not ideally suited (e.g. all forks are dirty so I make do with a cake fork, or use a large plate instead of a small one etc.)
24 (45.3%)

I try to find a used item that might still be reasonably clean enough to be used again without washing it.
9 (17.0%)

I buy new dishes/cutlery.
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[tassosss]

This is me! And my roommate!

So, our problem is that once the drying rack gets full, then the dish cleaning is done for the time being. Yes, we could dry with a towel but that never seems to happen.

So the full sink is now mostly empty but then there's probably pots on the stove and random dishes on the counter. Then you get hungry and since there are some clean dishes, you use them - filling up the sink again. Rinse and repeat so to speak.

Every two or three weeks, one of us will clean all the things. It usually goes with grocery shopping which we also kind of fail at.

Today I am actually trying to tackle all the dishes since I have to grade papers to. So grade three papers, wash dishes until the drying rack is full. Grade more, clean more. It doesn't always work out (and may not today) but at least I'll have forks.

[ratcreature]

Yes, this sounds very familiar, though I think presence of a roommate might shame me into neater behavior than I exhibit while living alone, when I don't need to show consideration. I know that my cleaning got better even by merely having rats as pets, because they are sensitive to respiratory issues from dust (you would think rats could cope what with them being vermin in the wild, but apparently not).