Are you the kind of cook ...

I live alone so I must be my own boss. It´s not easy all the time as the boss is sometimes very lazy!

Generally speaking, most of the time we really run out of dishes is when the roommate falls down on her other job - unloading the dishwasher when its clean... I'm only about 5'1 and she's closer to 5'10 so she gets to put the stuff she takes down away - I can stuff more into the dishwasher...

I still think that I´d love to have that Bewitched´s nose

I don´t like dirty dishes either. I have a break after cooking but I will not leave my kitchen dirty untill the next day. Having a dishwasher helps a lot as all I clean are my pots and pans.

We have an old small house and while I won't say we couldn't have a dishwasher in our kitchen, the only place we could fit one is under the sink and we have other things under there - soap, pine sol, plastic bags etc. The thing is, it's supposed to just be my girlfriend and I but one of her kids had to move in with his girlfriend so we do have both pans and dishes. The thing is, she showed me a way she does it that makes it goe real fast. The dishes are in the soapy water. Have the water running and instead of cleaning one dish then rinsing it we wash the dish, put it on the right sink, grab another, wash it, put it in the right sink letting the water rinse all of them. That way you are continuously just washing instead of stopping each time to rinse. Then we put them all in the dryrack. I don't know how good I explained that but basically, we don't need a dishwasher.

I did not have a dishwasher until about 14 years ago, when I had a back surgery. The dishwasher really helped then and now, because I cannot be long time standing in one place before my back starts hurting.

Congratulations! I try to do that, but there are many things that catch my interests. But I love to cook and I do that well so when I have company, my friends are willing to help me with what I don´t like.

I used to live alone until I got sick, a couple of months ago, and I got some help at home for some hours. She does most of those jobs during the week but on weekends I tend to leave the emptying of the wishwasher to my daughters when they come to visit me.

LOL!Sure, I'll be there!

You are very welcome to my home, friend. I´m the king of person that makes her guests work. I cook and you clean up. How about it?

I understand you perfectly well. I do some cleaning as I go along, but it seems there´s always a lot more than I can do. I usually wash enough pots as to fill the sink rack. I leave the drying to the guardian angel with a dish towel over them. Then I come again a long time later, to put away the washed pots and wash some more. I have tried the Samantha nose, but I can´t even move the darn thing, even if it´s not as beautiful as hers.

I'm glad we're simpatico, dear heart!

I don´t like the mess I leave in the kitchen but I usually don´t know where to start. So I clean a couple of pots to have a clean concience and do the rest later.

I wish I had a maid: I have a long list of things I would not do any more at my house!. I had a maid when the children were little and my husband was alive. Then we could afford help. Now I do all the work at home. Some of it I like (like cooking and gardening), some I loathe. I love to cook but I don´t like to clean up later. Yet it is my job and noone will do it for me

The nose didn´t work for me either! If I had the power, I sure would put it to work. At this right moment I made a very nice meal. I have a boy (not SO young anymore) that is helping me with the raised beds and I feel I must feed him properly. But I´m not acostumed to cook at this hour so there are the dirty pans and here I am, posting.

I wish I was like you. Contratulations! You have overcome your lazy tendencies. I haven´t yet and I am too old to change my ways. I did what you did when there were more people living with me. But I guess I have learned bacd ways by being alone.

I don´t need Samantha´s nose for ironing, friend. I decided a long time ago that I would not iron anything. No, you are not asking too much. We all should have Samantha´s nose

I´m a widow and I live alone. I was a lot neater when my husband was alive. Now I´m afraid I say who´s going to notice? and relax more than I should.

I don´t like dirty dishes for a long time either. I have a break after cooking with a coffe but I will not leave my kitchen dirty for a long time.

When I have guests and don´t want to miss out in the conversation I fill the sink with lukewarm water and a little bit of detergent and dump everything there until the dinner is over.

It is a sensible thing to do, but I get involved in my cooking and start to daydream while I do it and somehow pots and pans start piling up. But I don´t leave it until the next day because I like my morning coffee without interferences.