I was so bad at keeping on top of washing my dishes in Uni that I absolutely decided to have exactly 1 plate, cup, mug,and each cutlery. Can’t have more dirty dishes than you have dishes.
Been travelling in an RV for a while now. Family of 3. Have 3 forks, 2 knives (because adults cut the kid’s food) and 4 plates since you need somewhere to put food off the BBQ that isn’t someone’s plate. It’s glorious. So easy to clean up.
This is the way. Friends think I really like this one bowl. Truth is I like an empty sink, so I force myself to wash it by only owning one bowl.
Just don’t leave them in the sink and you can do the same with multiple of each, saving you the wash up. Just out them straight into the dishwasher. Saves energy, water and time.
I just recently got rid of 90% of my silverware and over half my plates and bowls for this very reason
He never has dishes
That’s more than enough. I’ve survived for long with just a knife and a fork. A good knife works as a second fork.
We’re a family of three with a 19 year old, so our cutlery drawer looks just like this unless we ask him to bring all the dishes from his room.
He’s 19 years old, and you have to ask him to bring his dirty dishes out from his room because he is leaving them all in there?
Dude I’m 38 soon and I have to bring dishes in from the WFH office once in a while. Watching some YouTube during lunch or whatever. Then back to working. Then family comes home and it’s up out of the chair to start dinner and whatnot, sometimes the dishes get forgotten and left behind.
Yeah, I can understand that. That’s normal. But a 19 year old eating alone in their room so much, and collecting all of the dishes in the household, so the family has none and has to actively seek them out and ask for them is what’s odd to me.
Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make it sound like that 19 year old isn’t poorly raised. They definitely are poorly raised. I just meant to say I’m not too far off myself. 😅
No worries, I think a lot of us have these periods in our lives where we neglect stuff like this at times. Just the 19 year old living at home and hoarding dirty dishes seems to hit different when they need to be asked to bring them out and they’re still living with their parents.
HAHA TEENAGERS AMIRITE
F’realz
That struggle is real and universal! We found utensils buried in our back yard, at a friend’s house… it’s nuts!
Been there done that
Seems inefficient having to wash everything every time? Not sure. But it would irritate me to have to do that rather than doing more, once, at the end of the day.
I just rinse them and use a bit of hand soap, so it takes like ten seconds. Personally, I usually prefer that over spending an extended period of time washing the dishes, because my neck starts to hurt, since I’m too tall for the kitchen sink.
To each their own.
My other half has to do every dish even if we don’t need to, I do everything when there’s enough for a full load in the washer. She’s happy to have nothing needing to do, I’m happy to have the satisfaction of the efficiency of doing the most work in the shortest time.
We’re all different.
Sometimes you need more than one teaspoon during a meal? Say if you have soup and tea and hate to eat soup with the tablespoon.
Did they borrow these from a restaurant. I just find it more menacing to just buy 1 of each, searched online and I can’t find a single reasonably priced utensil set that only sells 1 of each in the set.
In some Europe countries the all Chinese shops offer that option
Dollar stores sell singles
Walmart sometimes sells utensils individually in store, they’re loose in bins with a little plastic price barcode attached
2 words: Thrift. Shop.
I mean it at least forces you to do your dishes
I did this for a few years and it was amazing.
as a single dad living with one teenager kid, the two plate strategy was a total game changer.
I’ve got 2 of everything just in case. Dirty dishes can’t pile up if they don’t exist.
Also to support any surprise guests!
You underestimate some of us
You underestimate yourself. You’ll get this.
I have a giant stack of plates. So they can go into the dish washer after I use them. Same thing with boxer shorts and the laundry.
I was given so much stuff when I bought my house. My one aunt had a shopping addiction and just gave me all of the kitchen shit. I live alon and my house is too small and laid out too weird for me to comfortably have guests. Idk what to do with everything, so it just stays in a cabinet. I don’t want to throw it out because it’s nice, but I have no use for it
If you can’t sell it you might be able to donate it to a thrift store.
It’s all he needs
you can honestly get by with just a spoon. need a butter knife? use the spoon handle. need to jab something? just scoop it instead. need to cut something? just cook it a little more so it gets soft
premature optimisation
It happens sometimes.
That would make sense, it’s the only ones iv ever bought so I wouldn’t know
