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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

[elf]

I have a rule: if I have to wash something because we're out of dishes, I have to wash at least two extra things.

Not "two per thing I need" (or I'd just dodge around them or decide that no, really, I can eat cereal out of a coffee mug), but if I have to wash a bowl & spoon, I wash two extras. Two more spoons. Or a coffee cup and an extra bowl. Or a spatula and the dessert plate that were in on top of the bowl I wanted.

Often, this means I spend a few minutes washing half a drainer of bowls and cups and silverware; it's somehow easier to do if I tell myself it's okay to stop after two things. And sometimes, I'm tired and I stop after two.

[ratcreature]

Yes, I do that sometimes as well, pick a middle road between doing all the piled up dishes, and just doing one piece I need.