I am not going to wash the dishes tonight!

It's a good practice to wash the dishes that you use while you are cooking! I was doing that when I was a student because I only had one pieve of everything in a shared kitchen. I had one plate, my salad bowl, one fotk and one spoon so I had to use them and clean them up while I was preparing the food! Life was easier back then!

Hello Besweet you are right! I´m an elder member but not as active as many friends. Oh yes you recalled me the morning "after". Yes I can recall how you can feel when you wake up and watch the dirty plates on the sink while preparing a breakfast. I forgot it. I know you don´t like to wash pots, you remember me my mother, she hates to wash pots. So when she eats here she helps us to wash the dishes but she leaves us the pots. And one of my children helps us with the pots. I love to wash dishes making many soap bubbles because I remember when I was 5 or 6 I loved to play with water. I imagine I´m building some fountains, and I challenge myself to set the dirty plates in columns so they can get wet while I wash the rest. Yes! I use gloves, I love to use gloves always and I try to wash with my hands cold, I mean not after being typing or playing piano. I also love to drink my hot milk with coffee or chocolate while washing my dishes, this way I don´t get cold. My husband and my daughter, whom had begun washing dishes love to hear music while washing them. I think that the worst of washing the dishes is feeling alone in the task, because everybody eats and one may begin wondering what would be fair and what unfair about this work victimizing, this is very dangerous. As I tell my children if work were pleasent it wouldn´t be called "work". Best wishes! Blessings Besweet... dainy

Haha :) I like the fact that you are calling it work! I can do the dishes with more pleasure than ironing for example, but it is still unpleasant if they are too many! Also, the water is too cold so I am turning on the water boiler before washing to get warm water or else my hands are freezing and I can't hold the plates! lol I will get some gloves in my size next time because my mother's gloves are too big for me! Thanks for the advice :) This morning I had some help from the family so it was kind of easier! Enjoy your day!

Hi dainy! Thanks for your nice comment :) I think I have never seen you around even though you are obviously an older member here! I haven't been around lately though! I don't like leaving the dishes for the morning either, even though we don't have cockroaches in this house. I just like to wake up and find an empty sink when I am going to prepare my breakfast! Did you use gloves to protect your hands when you were washing them as part of your work? I am thinking about buying gloves because my hands look really bad today. I am sure that in the morning they will have healed though! Have a wonderful day :)

You are a better house keeper than I am. I always let the dishes sit.

Yes indeed, it sounds like you are a great housekeeper blondie! Today I woke up refreshed and I did everything with some help, while I was preparing my breakfast! Thanks for your comments!

My dad feels better but my mother is still sick from the flu. Thankfully, I didn't get the flu yet! I got some help as well yesterday and today I got gloves to protect my hands. I usually do a couple of dishes to help my mother but I never did the full set, so my hands became very dry from the water and the soap.

Must be nice to have a husband that will do dishes!

Yeah, I know that it's not good to leave the dishes dirty in the sink all night! I rinsed them with water in order to leave them in a good condition for the morning. I am happy that I didn't have to wake up so early! You have a great schedule, I know that if you leave them for too late then we get bored so the best time to wash them is after dinner!

Its good you do that, I just cant leave them overnight...

Thanks Laurenlynn! I am certain that we should get a dishwasher soon! It is a great help! I know that if the food dries on the plates overnight then it will be harder to clean them the next day! That is why I rinsed them with water and made sure that they were ready to be soaped. Thanks for your comment, have a great day!

Thanks! I bought a pair of gloves in my size today until my hands heal. I am also applying hand cream multiple times per day and it helps! I can see from the responses that most people do the dishes right after they finish dinner or a bit later, but they don't leave them for the next day! This is a good practice even though it might feel like a burden when we are tired after a long day!

A dishwasher makes things easier, I wish we had one too! I am going to tell my mother to get one, it will be easier for her and for us! Thanks for your comment, have a great day!

I think that doing the right after dinner is the best option! I need to get rubber gloves, my mother had an extra pair but they are too big for my hands and the dishes slip. I usually clean them without wearing gloves but because I am using warm water, my hands get soaked and then my skin feels dry for the rest day.

We really need a dishwasher in the family! It is nice to leave everything clean and tidy and find them in order when you wake up in the morning. It needs some extra effort before going to sleep but then it feels great in the morning! That day my hands felt awful from the soap and the water and I needed to keep them out of the water for a while! Now everything is back to normal!

I didn't wash them that day! lol But now I am getting help from the rest of the family so I do everything on time. Well, sometimes we just need to rest and have some free time before going to bed in order to calm down and prepare for sleep.

Doing housework can be extremely taxing and tiresome. I did dishes when I was living with my parents for 9 years, every night at 7:30pm sharp. My hands would get dry, and I would get incredibly tired of the job. But I managed to work out a system so that I would have a days worth done in 20 minutes flat, that was washing, drying and putting them away. And yes, I did them by hand. This was my chore,and I hated it. Now I live on my own and I get my boyfriend to wash the dishes, and I dry and put them away because I have realized that after 9 years straight of doing them... the part I loathe the most was the washing (especially when they were not rinsed!). But yes, get used to it if it is your chore. You will hate it. But it is a part of growing up. Wait till you live on your own.

I prefer to wash them immediately as well, I like to wake up and see a clean and tidy sink in the kitchen! But this time I couldn't do it, I was feeling really tired and we had a lot of dirty pots which is the worst for me comparing to the dishes and the cups!

Good choice! lol I don't mind washing the dishes, I only hate the pots and the baking dishes. But this time, I have to make different food for my parents who need to have soup every day and another food for me and my brother who is spending some time with us this week! Imagine how many dishes and pots I have to clean afterwards!

Haha! I know :P To begin with, I will definitely help my mother get a dishwasher!