I need to have a chat with y’all about dishwashers.
Some background: our dishwasher broke at least two years ago. We spent months training 5 tween/teenage girls how to wash up. It became part of their initiation into the real world: pull your weight sunshine, that’s what will get you on in life. There’s no ‘i’ in team etc etc…
It worked a treat: they sorted out their own system of a washer and two dryers, a put awayer and someone to oversee the whole operation. Perfect.
But partner fussed…
He fussed that it was him who was doing the lion’s share of the washing up (vaguely true). He fussed that his hands were suffering (Fairy Liquid claims can go and take a running jump, because that stuff is EVIL!) He just generally fussed.
Now, I am a master at ignoring a fuss. Teenage girls ‘fuss’ about bollocks a lot of the time. Students in my Taekwon-do classes ‘fuss’ and partner fusses…I can spot a ‘fuss’ at a hundred miles and divert it to Mongolia with a well rehearsed brush off.
However, partner’s fuss went on and on. Until, thanks to Tesco Clubcard vouchers, he insisted on buying a new dishwasher.
ON THE PROVISO THAT HE STOPPED FUSSING!!
Now, the new dishwasher is installed. (After a huge stress over plumbing…are you sure you don’t want to pay the extra £10 for them to plumb it in, I innocently cleverly asked?)
Ok. So this morning, as I appeared bleary eyed and slightly hungover in the kitchen, partner leaped on me (metaphorically) and said: I don’t like the way the cutlery basket is on the right hand side. I need it on the left.
Now, here’s the thing. I don’t give a shit about the dishwasher – for me our house ran well without it. I don’t give a crap about baskets and I don’t give a flying fuck which side they are on. So, I am looking at my partner like he is an alien.
Then comes the stacking…oooh (suck in of breath)…you don’t want to put that there…
Actually, I do want to put that there, because it’s a dirty plate and it goes where the fuck I want it to go AND you know what…NOBODY DIES when I put it there.
NOBODY DIES…
Or do they? Because I have heard this fuss before, from my ex father in law: you don’t want to put that there…
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…DISHWASHER STRESS!!!
You see, you are so bloody wrong, because I really, really, ACTUALLY do want to place that bowl right there. Partly because I know that, for the rest of the entire evening, it is going to annoy the hell out of you…yes, that one bowl is going to ruin your entire evening, because it is is the ‘wrong’ place.
We have had the dishwasher for 3 days. The jury is out. The girls are still filling the sink with luxurious, bubbly, hot washing up water, because they keep forgetting that we have a dishwasher. Partner is still fussing, but his fuss is diverted to stacking strategies. I am sitting on the fence…but one more comment about how to stack that bloody dishwasher and…
Hee hee Himself insisted we got a DW too, personally I’m not keen on the whole ‘leaving dishes in there until it’s full and not being able to find a clean flippin spoon for breakfast because they’re all in the DW’ thing! Plus we pretty much have to clean the blimmin dishes BEFORE they go in, madness. I also put the basket on the ‘wrong’ side once and Himself commented he wasn’t happy about it there, urgh it must be a man thing- nothing better than worry about!! Took him 3 days to get over me changing the bedroom furniture around while he was at work
Hahaha! I’m feeling your pain! Definitely a male thing. I love your bedroom furniture comment!
It’s the opposite way round in our house, my husband doesn’t want a DW, says we don’t need one. I tell him he’s only home two days out of seven and doesn’t realise the ball ache of washing up several times a day. I’ve insisted on a dishwasher for Christmas. ☺️ #KCACOLS
For Christmas?! When the kids were little we had one and it was a life saver, but now that they can do their own washing up I wasn’t so bothered! I hope you get one, perhaps not as a Christmas pressie though! Thank you for commenting.
Ha ha ha. This made me smile – we don’t have a dishwasher but both our parents do and both fathers in that equation fuss about dishwasher stacking and it not being done correctly!! Men hey….
should of added #kcacols
Well I thought men hey too…until today! From the comments I’m receiving on this post, women are EASILY as fussy and anal as men! I’m disappointed ladies…! Thank you for commenting.
Dishwasher wars are both hilarious and real! Isn’t it amazing how they’re pretty much all laid out the same way in terms of racks but everyone has their own dishwasher vibe? My husband puts glasses on the top shelf THE RIGHT WAY UP! Nonononononono…. really funny post for #KCACOLS
I know! This post has sparked more debate than any of my others! Thank you for commenting and sort that husband of yours out!
We’ve never had a dishwasher and couldn’t have one as it wouldn’t fit in our kitchen! Kinda glad we haven’t now haha x #KCACOLS
Better off without it! 🙂
I can’t wait til my kiddo is old enough to start helping with the chores haha. All the dishes are left to me, and our dishwasher broke a couple of months ago. I really hated doing them by hand at first, but now it doesn’t bother me so much. Hubs would have a cow if he had to do all the dishes by hand, haha! #KCACOLS
He needs training up! Thank you for commenting 🙂
LOL the dishwasher should relieve all of the stress!! I have my boys unload the dishwasher – they are 6 & 9. They haven’t graduated to loading it yet. There is a bit of a technique to it but everyone does it their own way. #AnythingGoes
It should relieve stress, but I have to say that judging by all the comments this post has generated, it is the one thing that could cause divorce! I agree, each to their own. I think that the way we stack a dishwasher may well reflect our personalities!
I’m fine with washing dishes by hand as well but it was also my husband who insisted on getting a dishwasher, I think men are just lazy to do the dishes themselves, don’t they?! lol Although when we have visitors around, it can be helpful when I’m tired and can’t be bothered to wash dishes, so I just dumped them in. It can be handy sometimes I suppose. #KCACOLS.
It is true that dishwashers are brilliant with a crowd. As for men being lazy…well… Thank you for commenting.
we have a dishwasher but nobody seems to want to ever empty it, so I’m up to my frigging elbows in suds almost every day anyway #anythinggoes
This is exactly the point I made to my partner…lets see what happens here!
Haha brilliant! I love my dishwasher. Like serious can’t live without you love. However my other half seems to prefer to wash up and often forgets we have it…thankfully we don’t engage in the stacking arguments, because that never ends well. You are right – nobody died 🙂 These arguments always happen when stacking my parents’ dishwasher though and every time I run off in a rage and tell them to stack it themselves! #anythinggoes
So many people have mentioned their parents in the comments to this post…lets not turn into them! Thank you for your comments.
This is SUCH a random post and it made me laugh out loud. We don’t have a dishwasher but did at my parents’ and I was a bit OCD about where things went, otherwise they didn’t want properly, dontcha know?! #kcacols
According to partner you have to wash things before you put them in the dishwasher, or they don’t wash properly… Beam me up! I’m glad it made you laugh Thank you for commenting
I am so relieved to know that these types of fusses happen in other households too!! Love it! My dishwasher is old and crappy, still works though, we just have to clean everything before we put in the dishwasher. Oh the little things in life 😉 #KCACOLS
Funnily enough I have just replied to a comment saying that partner seems to think we must wash things first ffs – it’s brand new! So I feel your pain! Are they really worse the fuss?!
I have a dishwasher and hubby and I have never argued over stacking. My son on the other hand says we are lazy for getting it, but he doesn’t want to wash up! Teenagers!
#KCACOLS
Ha! Funnily enough my teenagers kept washing their things up for a week, because they forgot that we actually have it!
Hahahaha! This made me laugh a lot! How much stress can a dishwasher cause? I think hubby needs to be the dishwasher stacker from now on, then he cannot moan 😉 Thanks so much for linking up to #KCACOLS We really hope you come back again on Sunday xx
Well, judging by the comments I have received, I reckon ‘dishwasher hell’ could be cited on divorce papers! Thank you for commenting and I’ll be back 🙂
Haha, I love this post! It really made me smile and sounds like a day in my house. Thanks for linking up to #AnythingGoes, Janet
Thank you 🙂