Do you have a dishwasher?

Gloomendoom

jetplane wrote: »

Fast forward four decades and my family (including me) have become champions at ignoring the beeping sound at the end of the cycle, each silently hoping someone else will empty it

Ours is inside a cupboard in the kitchen which renders it virtually silent in use and effectively muffles the beeps.

Not that it makes any difference because it's my job to unload it, beep or no beep.

gunsandbanjos

I've got one and would replace it in a heartbeat if it broke down.

cbrown372

I too would replace if mine broke down. Don't use it every day so I rinse the place before putting in the dishwasher and it has to be stacked MY way :cool:

missbiggles1

cbrown372 wrote: »

I too would replace if mine broke down. Don't use it every day so I rinse the place before putting in the dishwasher and it has to be stacked MY way :cool:

If not doing a load that day, I rinse mine in the dishwasher (just a tip):))

sillyvixen

I don't have a dishwasher, but I do have Mr sillyvixen (that's why I married him). I do however wash up the kitchen gadgets as he does not understand them! more training needed I think.

Tigsteroonie

We treated ourselves to a dishwasher when we moved 18 months ago, before then Marley had been laboriously washing the pots by hand. He's the expert in loading it, the most I do is add a mug or spoon occasionally

We wouldn't be without it now ... we washed littl'un's plastic booster seat in it last week!!

Lunar_Eclipse

Got one, it is used.

It's not brilliant though, takes hours and my everyday favourite dishes can't be washed in it (which DH disapproves of entirely, but I'm all about the pretty.)

I also need to retrieve things and hand wash them from the dishwasher, so I usually hand wash everything, as I go. I feel like I'm forever washing dishes!

30% of people on this thread don't have a dishwasher. I don't know anyone who doesn't have one personally, though admittedly I don't know many people who live alone.

The common thing I've never had: a tumble drier.

ibizafan_2

I'd take a tumble drier over a dishwasher any day. I wouldn't want to be without one in the winter months, although I suppose that what you've never had, you don't miss.

Pollycat

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

Got one, it is used.

It's not brilliant though, takes hours and my everyday favourite dishes can't be washed in it (which DH disapproves of entirely, but I'm all about the pretty.)

I also need to retrieve things and hand wash them from the dishwasher, so I usually hand wash everything, as I go. I feel like I'm forever washing dishes!

30% of people on this thread don't have a dishwasher. I don't know anyone who doesn't have one personally, though admittedly I don't know many people who live alone.

The common thing I've never had: a tumble drier.

TBH, this sounds such a pointless faff that I'd rather do without one.

missbiggles1

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

Got one, it is used.

It's not brilliant though, takes hours and my everyday favourite dishes can't be washed in it (which DH disapproves of entirely, but I'm all about the pretty.)

I also need to retrieve things and hand wash them from the dishwasher, so I usually hand wash everything, as I go. I feel like I'm forever washing dishes!

30% of people on this thread don't have a dishwasher. I don't know anyone who doesn't have one personally, though admittedly I don't know many people who live alone.

The common thing I've never had: a tumble drier.

I've had a tumble dryer a couple of times, I've even got an old one now in the garage. It gets used once a month at most and then only overnight. Terrible, wasteful things they are.