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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

[goss]

Ha! That last option reminds me of a late uncle. His wife left him and their 2 kids when they were quite young, and being completely non-domestic, instead of just doing the laundry, he'd go BUY MORE CLOTHES for the kids when everything got dirty. Seriously.

[ratcreature]

Wow. I could not afford that solution, but even if I had the money to spare I find shopping for clothes and household goods not very pleasant at best and stressful at worst and it takes quite some time too, so it wouldn't make things better.

[goss]

Heh, same here. :b

I remember my cousin mentioning that his dad would like go to Costco and just get whole packs of tshirt/underwear/etc. He worked really long hours and the kids had to fend for themselves a lot. :/ When my cousin got old enough to learn how to do his own laundry he took over that responsibility, thank goodness. *shakes head*