No one around here wants to do the dishes

[ChickenAlgebra]

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

Never bribed my kids. It's a chore, whoever is the "victim" for that chore that week gets stuck with it. It's part of making a house work.

Granted, I have flat out EVIL rules I've been told by "experienced" parents.

Kids get to use 2 sets of dishes a day - breakfast/dinner. They want to eat between, they wash their own plate/cup/whatever. Dishes are done at night.

A kid decides nope, I ain't washing dishes, I take away that first rule and make the kids get a new dish every time.

You get your assigned chore until YOU do it and make up for the number of times someone else has to do your chore times 3.

It's shockingly effective to make 3 sinkloads of dishes in one night to make up for one person deciding to slack.​

 

[Avalon1984]

Very inventive but very sad. Thank Goodness we have a dishwasher at work, people here are just as lazy.

 

[Fierlin1182]

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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.

I do my own dishes, they used to try get me to wash the cooking pots too, that's what I meant.

 

[ChicksterJo]

We've always had a dishwasher but I don't know how to use it

I've always washed dishes by hand, and it bothered me the first time when my SO and I lived in an apartment together for the first time and he said, "Just leave the dishes there and we'll wash it all at once tonight." I was mortified; I always had to wash my dishes right after I used them - and I blame this entirely on my parents!

If I were at your house I would be the first one to break. I'd be washing everyone's dishes, just because it would bother me to see them sitting there! I like a clean kitchen

 

[arabianequine]

So did the dishes every get done?

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

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Want to come for a visit????

 

[the Pollo Loco]

Ms.FuzzyButts :

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Want to come for a visit????

tell me when you can come so I can hold off on the laundry...

 

[redhen]

I have a sink full of dishes right now...
Oh well, they can wait till hubby gets home from work.

 

[mc08daniel]

ROFL this thread is great! Funny thing is this week I have not cooked one meal, nor have I washed one dirty dish....I have worked or had a dr's app....my hubby doesnt have a job right now, and most of the time I am stuck with having to feed and water all the animals too....

 

[ChicksterJo]

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Want to come for a visit????

tell me when you can come so I can hold off on the laundry...

Yes, my SO totally takes advantage of that fact!!