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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%)

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[shadowvalkyrie]

I do the dishes as soon as it becomes necessary (i.e. exactly because no cutlery's left). Unless I'm really stressed out, that is, in which case I do it the next day. But every other week, it's the roommates turn to do them, and that means that by Wednesday there is no clean cutlery left and there won't be any till Saturday or so. But unless more than, say, 70% of the dishes were produced by me, I don't see why I should be doing them in her week. So I stir my tea with cake forks and suchlike. (But I NEVER reuse something dirty, though I might in a pinch, if I could be entirely sure it was mine. Cleaning just an item or two seems annoying and inefficient and wouldn't occur to me.)

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I can see that kind of roommate trouble happening.

Reusing dirty dishes I do mostly with things like tea mugs, or plates on which I've just had prepared a sandwich and such, that didn't get that soiled to begin with, so it is less gross than it seems...