No one around here wants to do the dishes

[sourland]

ray's two cents :

I don't do the dishes anymore

My parents used to bribe me with a dollar, but now I have a job so why get my hands dirty for a dollar

Maybe because you still live there and it would be nice to help out a little bit?

 

[flgardengirl]

LOL at the first photo in the thread!!!
We all hate the dishes around here as well.

I have a bunch of teens close to the same age and they all hate each other's kind of music. One likes country, one likes rock, and the other likes J-pop.
Soooo the rule around here is, whoever's turn it is to do the dishes, gets to listen to thier music in the kitchen as loud as they want! You'd be suprised at how they love to turn up thier music and knowing it makes the others mad ...so they kinda like doing the dishes lol.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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Maybe because you still live there and it would be nice to help out a little bit?

What Sourland said. Why should they bribe you? If you are the one dirtying up some dishes why should your parents do them? Are your parents not working too? Sheesh.

 

[sourland]

Once upon a time

way back when I was a working man, everyone insisted on leaving our break room a mess. Dirty pots, pans, and dishes all over the place. One day I scooped up everything, garbaged bagged it, and threw the lot into the dumpster. When my actions were discovered, staff 'rescued' the stuff, cleaned it, and became responsible break room members.

Guess they did not want to eat out of the cereal bag.

 

[the Pollo Loco]

just clean as you go... in other words, when you're done with your plate,spoon, glass, etc wash it up!!!!

 

[EweSheep]

I don't mind doing dishes but my daughter loves to get all sudsy up, play in the bubbles. I only let her wash the non breakable ones, like the skillet, metal pans, forks, spoons, knives (not sharp ones) and a few ceramic glasses.

Now if my metal pans can get that clean, I may have to buy that Saladmaster metal cleaner..I just can not get them as clean as I want them to be.

 

[angie3881]

I have been blessed with a DD who has loved to do dishes since she was 8. If there are dishes to do, she just does them. I don't even have to ask her. She is 17 now and works close to full time and goes to school every day. Still on her only day off every week, she will do the dishes if they need done.

However, in the midst of my wonderful blessing I have also been cursed with 4 other children who wouldn't know how to clean a spoon if it spoke and told them what to do. They are the ones with the dishes growing mold in their room that the "good child" has to scrape clean.

They also stand at the fridge with a confused look on their faces and wait for milk to come out of a magical cow instead of walking out to the garage and getting a gallon out of the spare fridge. "Do we have any milk?" they will ask obviously hoping for me to respond with... "I really don't know. Let me go out to the fridge where it has been for the last ten years and check on that. If there is an extra gallon there, would you like me to go ahead and bring it in for you?? I mean, since I will be out there checking on this matter anyway..."

I shouldn't be so hard on them... they do other things really well... ok, not so much. I'm shutting up now.

 

[SallyF]

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I worked in an elementary school, and a lot of us brought our lunches. Several staff members would leave their dirty dishes in the sink, just like they did at home, I presume, and then would forget about them. I used to go in every afternoon just before school was out, and throw away anything in the sink. After they found their nice casserole dishes and plates in the garbage, they started dealing with their dirty dishes before they went back to the classrooms.

 

[sourland]

Some people just have to learn the hard way.

 

[Imp]

I used to hate doing the dishes. Would put it off as long as possible.

Then had a dirty catfood bowl get flyblown.

Ripped out the entire kitchen, put in a new one with a dishwasher. And never, ever let dishes set again.

Imp