How long is it acceptable to leave the washing up?

[Diamond Dog]

Crikey! Does anyone actually DO that?? Drying up never happens in our house!!

Same here - It's what a drying rack and drainage board is for!

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Ive chucked stuff in the bin before now

 

[Dr_Herbz]

Where's the "When there's no room for new food" option?

 

[zora]

I'm one of poor bluey's tormentors who likes to do the washing up done straight away / at the end of the evening because of

a) the mouse
b) I'd much rather do it in the evening when there's people sitting around and chatting in the background and entertaining me
c) I much prefer walking into a fairly clean kitchen in the morning to have my coffee and jam sandwich rather than into a place that looks as if two anaesthetised alcoholic donkeys have been surprised by an earthquake mid-sesh (never mind coming home from work in the evening and having available space and pots and pans to cook dinner)
d) I don't understand the logic of leaving the washing up overnight/for a couple of days because surely you can only do that once - the first time you've moved into a new place; after that you'll have to do 2/3 days old washing up every day?

 

[feyr]

overnight, because i often cant be bothered once i have sorted the kids out, cooked, tidied sitting room etc so i do it first thing next day

today i started, then decided to leave pans to soak

 

[meems]

I much prefer walking into a fairly clean kitchen in the morning to have my coffee and jam sandwich rather than into a place that looks as if two anaesthetised alcoholic donkeys have been surprised by an earthquake mid-sesh (never mind coming home from work in the evening and having available space and pots and pans to cook dinner)

hold on, this "comedy" analogy seems to bear a suspiciously close resemblance to reality...

 

[geminisnake]

You must have an old sink if you need to do that.

You can still buy sinks with plugs. I bought one in January. Our plug has no chain coz it is the old plug. Have you seen the price of new ones?
Hubby sometimes does the dishes at night and sometimes the next day.

 

[pogofish]

Our plug has no chain coz it is the old plug. Have you seen the price of new ones?

EH?

Two new plugs & chains were @£3 for me a couple of weeks back.

 

[geminisnake]

EH?

Two new plugs & chains were @£3 for me a couple of weeks back.

Well the ones in Focus weren't that price or I woulda bought one

Never thought to look elsewhere right enough

 

[foamy]

I like washing up

see, i thought i like washing up for its therapeutic quality but onw i have a dish washer i dont miss the back ache from standing at the sink (which was too low) and having my fingernails break all the time from being in and out of water all day.

it would be nice if my housemates could see their way to putting the crockery they use in to the dish washer instead of the sink right next to it although part of me likes doing the dishes 3D tetrus puzzle of stacking it all in the dishwasher

 

[psycherelic]

NOTE TO EVERYONE

Simply filling up your pans and dishes with water, and leaving them to 'soak' for days and days is not washing up.

If anybody ever does this again in any kitchen of mine I will hunt you down and kill you with maximum prejudice.

But setting fire to the kitchen REPEATEDLY while claiming it's cooking is ok???

 

[Firky]

I like washing up

Hate drying though

I hate washing up but I don't mind trying, we had quite a good deal going on