Dirty Dishes in sink or next to sink?

[sms]

Both! When dishwasher is full, the dirty dishes go in the sink, but the glasses go on the counter top so they don't get broken in the sink. One thing I can't stand... old cold dish water left in the sink. blah

 

[Southernmiss]

Dirty dishes in the sink.

 

[AustinTink]

My golden retriever counter surfs. We have to put all dishes in the sink. The left side.

If we order food to go, pizza, etc., there are notes on the oven or microwave - "food is in here" LOL He's so adorable though. I've caught him twice and that look he gives me just melts my heart.

Hahahah... our tiny terrier mix counter surfs also. We have caught him twice as well. One time he heard my husband and son leave in the car and obviously thought I was with them. I walked into the kitchen to find him drinking out of a half-empty glass of milk by the sink. The look on his face was "oh, ****!" I will always remember it. So, now, all dishes get washed right away or rinsed and placed in the dishwasher.

 

[PizzieDuster]

My golden retriever does the same thing! Once, I left 5 pork chops on the counter, i was just about to cook them but had to go upstairs for something. when i came back down, they were all gone! He ate all five!

I learned my lesson after that! I always keep things covered or in a deep dish. BTW I do the same with takeout/pizza, it goes either in the oven or microwave, with a note.

I once left hot dogs STILL IN THE WRAPPER on the counter. Came down, saw the wrapper destroyed not one sign of the 8 hot dogs and found him hiding. He could eat chicken off a plate and the plate is left on the counter. He can drink milk out of a cereal bowl, eat top raman out of a bowl and leave the bowl on the counter It's when they disappear that you have to go look for them. Or, he will wait for me to leave the kitchen and I'm onto him now, when he doesn't follow mommy, he's up to no good.

 

[Sparkly]

Next to the sink. Dirty dishes in the sink means you can't use the sink properly. Or just use a dishwasher!

 

[disykat]

I often have dishes next to the sink, rinsed and stacked ready to go in the dishwasher. The rest of my house is so spotless no one things I'm a slob!

 

[scrapquitler]

While I'm prepping a meal, I keep the sink full of hot, soapy water and as I use dishes they go in the sink to soak. Once we are finished cooking/eating they go in the dishwasher.

In between meals, cups and plates from snacks are supposed to be put right in the dishwasher, but not everyone does it (hubby is worst offender), so things do end up in the sink or on the counter, which I hate because you can see it from the front door. As soon as I see dishes in the sink I stick them in the dishwasher.

I do always run the dishwasher right before I go to bed, and I always empty it while the coffee brews first thing in the morning, so it's easy to keep loading things in there during the day.

 

[fabulousfive]

In the sink for us!!! Looks cleaner that way & I can't stand water spots (or anything for that matter) on the countertop. We have a deep sink & I like to hide the dirty dishes in there until they can be loaded into the dishwasher. Ideally they'd go straight into the dishwasher, but that never seems to happen. At least not in this phase of life!

 

[fabulousfive]

I will not leave dirty dishes. Ever. Imo, there is always time to wash them or put away the clean from the dishwasher. You(general) just choose not to.

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No, we never have time in the morning. I literally spend over an hour a day doing dishes & there's still always dishes in the sink. I just can't win!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

I once left hot dogs STILL IN THE WRAPPER on the counter. Came down, saw the wrapper destroyed not one sign of the 8 hot dogs and found him hiding. He could eat chicken off a plate and the plate is left on the counter. He can drink milk out of a cereal bowl, eat top raman out of a bowl and leave the bowl on the counter It's when they disappear that you have to go look for them. Or, he will wait for me to leave the kitchen and I'm onto him now, when he doesn't follow mommy, he's up to no good.

This reminds me of a story a friend told me once. She lives on the lake and they were about to grill out when a strange dog walked up with a bag. I guess it had found it and ran off with it. When they scared the dog off he dropped the bag and when they looked inside it had several steaks in it. Since they didn't have neighbors close by she took them in, washed them off and grilled them!


I put my dirty dishes in the dishwasher, but if I'm in a hurry or it's full, they go into the sink.

 

[720L]

In the left sink. My mother-in-law HATES this and always comments on how gross it is that I do this!! Sometimes I don't have time to wash them!!

 

[dawnhaze]

Dishwasher? What's that? My dirty dishes go into my sink until I wash them. There's no counter space in my kitchen to put them next to the sink.

 

[DawnM]

Right now I am looking at 2 dishes next to the computer that my teens didn't put in the kitchen, and 2 cups next to the TV that DH couldn't manage to get back to the kitchen either.

In the kitchen, there are dirty dishes in the sink and on the countertop.

We are not neat freaks. Our house is not gross. We live here. My friends come to see ME not judge my house.

So thankful for great friends.



Dawn

 

[Granny square]

Right now I am looking at 2 dishes next to the computer that my teens didn't put in the kitchen, and 2 cups next to the TV that DH couldn't manage to get back to the kitchen either. In the kitchen, there are dirty dishes in the sink and on the countertop. We are not neat freaks. Our house is not gross. We live here. My friends come to see ME not judge my house. So thankful for great friends. Dawn

lol, I know the feeling. Yesterday I was working on business stuff, and the only kid I had home was studying for a physics exam. Dh got home late and unloaded his car. So my kitchen is a mess. It will be cleaned today by me and another child

I put dishes in the sink. Dh on the counter. Dishwasher broke last week and we haven't had time to pick up another.


Should friends turn up, I'd clear a spot and make a cup of tea. Good friends know me just as I know them.

 

[leebee]

There are only 3 of us, and now that DD20 lives at college there are usually only two. The rule is rinse WELL (no food residue) and STACK on the counter to the right of the double sink; dish drainer is on the left side. We have a dishwasher, but only run it about once a week (when it's full) for cups/glasses, plates, bowls, and silverware- we hand wash the pots, pans, cooking utensils, disney mugs, etc, every night after supper. I stack the dishes from the morning (2 coffee cups, a cereal bowl, a couple of spoons) into the dishwasher when I get home from school, and usually keep up with the pots/pans as I cook. DH cleans the kitchen every evening before going to bed, so the kitchen is USUALLY pretty neat regardless of the time of day!

I used to hate the dish routine at my SIL's house. They didn't have a dishwasher, so everything was stacked beside the sink all day. Every night, ALL the day's dishes went into a sink of soapy water and soaked overnight. She'd do them first thing in the morning. I HATED walking into that kitchen with its nasty dish water every morning! (yes I'd do the dishes... but it was GROSS!!)

 

[Granny square]

We'd get gnats if we left foody plates in water. I'm forever bringing them home from the orchard where we get apples.

 

[MIGrandma]

I agree with others, there is NOT "always" time to empty the dishwasher and re-load it, or wash up the dishes that are in the sink. And to "hate going to someone's house that has dirty dishes in their sink/on the counter?"...wow, I can't even imagine giving that a thought when I go to a friend's house.

It's just me and DH so the dishwasher only gets run every couple of days or so. If it's full and I haven't run it yet, then other dirty dishes go into the sink. Or, there are some dishes (wine glasses, huge pans, the coffee carafe, etc.) that I never put into the dishwasher, so they go in the sink until I have time, or MAKE the time , to get to them.

I couldn't care less about a few dirty dishes (now if the counters are filled with them, that's a bit different) and there are other things in life WAY more important than immediately washing the dishes.

 

[Southernmiss]

I'd have to 'guard' the sink snd do dishes constantly to keep it completely free of dishes at all times. With dh and four teens who eat and drop off dirty dishes at all hours of the day and night, we'd all be batty if we lived by the rule of 'there's always time to do dishes, you just choose not too'. THAT would be nuts.

Dishes are done in the a.m. before I leave the house, as I cook, and after dinner.

Dishes are dropped in the sink when people are home and I am not, when kids get home from school and band at varying times, when dh gets home usually after I've made dinner and after dinner there's always ice cream and snacks. I go to bed abt 10 pm. Dh and kids are up after. Theres no way to do dishes as they hit the sink. And dh and kids do help with the dishes and our home is not embarrasing should someone drop by.

 

[indimom]

When I worked from home, I hand washed the dishes after each meal so we never really had any buildup. If we did, they went in the sink.

Now that I work out of the house and am in school full time, I put the kids in charge of dishes. They settled on loading and running the dishwasher each morning before school. But no one unloads those dishes after school when we are busiest. So the dishes build up in the sink and on the countertops until the next morning.

A couple of you have convinced me to try to change that routine to loading as we go through the day, running the dishes at night, and unloading in the morning. Really does make more sense and that's fewer dishes we all have to look at when we're home.

Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[mhsjax]

I'd have to 'guard' the sink snd do dishes constantly to keep it completely free of dishes at all times. With dh and four teens who eat and drop off dirty dishes at all hours of the day and night, we'd all be batty if we lived by the rule of 'there's always time to do dishes, you just choose not too'. THAT would be nuts.

Dishes are done in the a.m. before I leave the house, as I cook, and after dinner.

Dishes are dropped in the sink when people are home and I am not, when kids get home from school and band at varying times, when dh gets home usually after I've made dinner and after dinner there's always ice cream and snacks. I go to bed abt 10 pm. Dh and kids are up after. Theres no way to do dishes as they hit the sink. And dh and kids do help with the dishes and our home is not embarrasing should someone drop by.

What, you mean you don't do dishes at all hours. lol. I am right there with you. I have teens and there is no way I would get up at 2 am to wash dishes. And yes sometimes on the weekend, that eating machine that is my son has a heavy snack. And no I don't want him in there washing dishes after he is finished, he makes enough noise while making his snack.

OH and I guess my kids who get thirsty in the middle of the night should wash their cups out at 2 and 3 am.

My friends come to see me, If I had a friend that got grossed out and thought my house was dirty if she cam to see me and I had a few dishes in the sink, we would no longer be friends. Luckily, I don't have that problem. My friends aren't that shallow.