How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes

Oh I've definitely feigned inability to get out of doing things! lol. Dishes aren't one of them, but clothes washing, ironing and clothes hanging are definite examples! My favourite though is the old - "But you do it SO much better than I can!" or "It tastes so much better when YOU Make it!"

My mother tells a story from her childhood that goes like this: Her parents had gone out for the evening with her uncle or something. She had to stay home and wash the dishes and watch her younger siblings. Her father was pretty sadistic, and it was a fair or some kind of event that she would have loved to have gone to, so as she stood there washing the dishes she was thinking all sorts of resentful thoughts and ended up shoving the washed dishes into the cupboards without drying them. Well, when her parents returned, her father and uncle went to get a bowl of ice cream for themselves and he pulled out the wet bowls. She did not get out of having to do that again because of her sloppy job though. He went into her room and woke her a$$ up and made her pull all the dishes out of the cupboard and re-wash and dry all of them. No wonder my mother was so phucked up. I'm pretty sure I've done half-a$$ed jobs before, just to get it over with, but I don't remember ever getting rewarded for it either. I love that book title. That sounds like a pretty cute poem too.

i have no other option other than do the dishes,i have to be careful not to drop any dishes,as it would mean more expense for me.

seeing i am the only one that dose dishes hummm no I wash an even when i drop one just sweep it up an go on to the next

That's Cute. I remember that book. No, I've never done that but it sounds like a good way to get out of doing something! lol! It's nice to go through old boxed up memories, never know what you may come across. The best are those things that really take you back, the memories you can just feel coming alive again. Hopefully they are happy ones. :)

I loved his books when I was a child. He so beautifully captures the world through the eyes of a child. I'm sure I did that a lot when I was a child. I think my husband does that still today, but this technique has not been helpful in adulthood.

Intentionally. No never. I've dropped a few carelessly and have heard a mouthful when i was a kid. Have always been extra careful after that. But better to wash the dishes then having to buy new ones every now and then isn't it ?

I haven't ever done that but my kids sure have and still try to! My son and daughter with the dishes will do it half-a$$ed and gets really mad when I call them on it too! They will either not do them good or use a lot of dish soap and that makes me upset as it is a waste. Luckily they only do them normally very rarely or I would go nuts!

[i]Hi Anne, Cool quotes! In my experienced, I always break some glasses by accident but not because of dropping it but just hit it in the faucet, careless! lOL![/i]

I know of someone that hates doing dishes so they purposely do a crappy job on them so that they won't be asked to do them again. I was raised that if you have to do something, you do the best you can and you might as well do it right the first time so you don't have to do them over. I remember years ago, one of my cousin's did dishes and her mom (my aunt) found a dirty dish in them and she then pulled EVERY SINGLE dish out of the cupboards...tons of dishes and made my cousin wash and dry every one of them!! She was washing dishes for hours. It was terrible but I know for a fact that cousin still double checks every dish she washes. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

Hi SaintAnne, I have been out of town and could not hang out here (going away again for a few more days, too!), but stopped in briefly to check on things and saw this discussion. Although I have never done a poor job in order to escape work may people I know do that on a regular basis. It is more my style to simply say I am not going to do that, and get out of it that way. It p*ss*s people off, but the opinion of people who want me to do things I don't want to do is not anything I'm much concerned about anyway. Take care, and I hope to be back to pester you soon. Ann

Nope, but I did come up with something that works well for me. I have a small fan that swivels back and forth. I plug it in and turn it on medium, point it towards the strainer. The strainer is turned so that the sides of the dishes is towards the counter top. The fan dries the dishes as I wash and rinse them. This leaves no spots and uses little electricity. Yes, I am lazy but, I don't have to worry about drying or used wet rags everywhere. ** Peace and Love gets you through everything in Life **

i didn;t read that book and don;t know about the tip u told which that book has. i doubt that when we throw the dishes on the floor ,the dishes can damage and how is it possible to be in a good condition. after cleaning, i will dry dishes, by putting fan which is there on my ceiling. then there will no spots on dishes after dried.

who would ever do that??if you dont want to do the dishes you can just leave them there and let it rot in fungus and all and after some days throw it out in garbage..saves you a hell lot of cleaning too coz you dont have to find broken pieces of dishes....lol....:)