caangel
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Post by caangel on Mar 16, 2021 4:06:34 GMT
They open it and look. If it looks/smells clean, they know not to put dirty dishes in there. If it looks/smells dirty they know they can stick dirty dishes in there. This. DH or I will usually start the washer when it needs to be run. It's both kids' jobs to put them away and we usually let them know asap that it it ready to be unloaded. My kids actually fight over emptying the dishwasher first. The first person get to decide which half (top/bottom, and half of the utensils) to empty. To make it easy on us we just go by their birthdays. If it is an even day DD gets to go first if it is an odd day DS gets to go first. We do a lot with even and odd, including who "gets" to pick up after the dog vs filling up his water dishes. |
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Post by pancakes on Mar 16, 2021 4:29:17 GMT
It’s just me and my husband (my baby can’t load the dishwasher yet lol) but I also seem to be the only person who knows where things go in our house...and how to load a dishwasher with efficiency.
Unless he’s doing the dishes, which is occasionally, I load the dishwasher every night. Dishes get piled in the sink. I just expect him to rinse or soak them, which doesn’t always happen.
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Post by sbartist on Mar 16, 2021 4:48:34 GMT
Take a magnet (Seahawks) off the fridge and put it on the dishwasher.
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anniebygaslight
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Post by anniebygaslight on Mar 16, 2021 5:42:42 GMT
How does your family know when the dishwasher is empty and that they should go ahead and load their dirty dishes directly into the dishwasher??? They look inside it. #Puzzled. |
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Mar 16, 2021 7:48:01 GMT
The front of ours is plastic so a magnet won’t work. A while ago I read about this system and we’ve been doing it for a while now with some success. ***As soon as the clean dishes are taken out and put away, immediately put dishwasher soap in the compartment inside and close the door.*** We use those little pellets so it’s easy. Now when the family is standing there with their dirty bowl and spoon wondering, “Are they clean? Are they dirty?” all they have to do is open the door and look at the soap compartment. Soap compartment open and empty = DISHES ARE CLEAN. PUT THEM AWAY. Put in more soap and close the compartment door. Soap compartment is still closed = DISHES ARE DIRTY, CONTINUE TO LOAD UNTIL FULL. Once it’s as full as it’s going to be, that last person turns it on. Now that we’ve been doing this a while, DH is fully trained in on the system. It’s taking our kid a little longer to get a clue but she’s not really a detail person. She’s usually the last one to put her dishes in and only half the time will she even remember to turn it on. I love this idea! Thank you for sharing ☺️ |
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Post by gar on Mar 16, 2021 9:00:39 GMT
It's only Dh and me. We look #puzzled
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Post by jeremysgirl on Mar 16, 2021 9:37:20 GMT
I leave mine wide open after I empty it. It's the only way I can get Jeremy to load his dishes. Otherwise he puts them in the sink.
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Post by peaname on Mar 16, 2021 10:01:17 GMT
I leave mine wide open after I empty it. It's the only way I can get Jeremy to load his dishes. Otherwise he puts them in the sink. This is a great idea but I have dogs. We open ours to dry so if the d/w is open and the dogs are not licking plates, it’s clean! |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Mar 16, 2021 10:04:08 GMT
I leave mine wide open after I empty it. It's the only way I can get Jeremy to load his dishes. Otherwise he puts them in the sink. This is a great idea but I have dogs. We open ours to dry so if the d/w is open and the dogs are not licking plates, it’s clean! That is funny! I have never once noticed my dog licking dirty plates. Of course, my dog is super picky about table food. She will eat meat, but won't eat anything else. So sauces and such turn her right off. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2021 10:20:41 GMT
Apparently no one else in my house has the skills necessary to empty one, so I am the only one who worries about it.  Same here. I gave up trying to educate them so I empty it myself now, usually before I go to bed so they ALL know that they can put their dirty breakfast dishes in there ! It was the lesser of two evils. I would rather them put their dirty dishes in there than leave then on the side or empty the dishwasher. |
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Post by monklady123 on Mar 16, 2021 10:32:16 GMT
Around this house it's easy... We don't have a dishwasher.  |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Mar 16, 2021 11:13:45 GMT
Husband and son both seem to lack the discernment to know if the dishwasher is clean or dirty (I do rinse things off before they go in there so it can be hard to tell - ha, why I am I making excuses for them?). They resort to asking every time if I am around to ask. Otherwise, husband washes by hand and son placed his stuff in or around the sink.
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Post by cmpeter on Mar 16, 2021 13:19:07 GMT
We open it and look.
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Post by dewryce on Mar 16, 2021 13:32:53 GMT
It seems no one pays any attention to the lights, soap compartment, cleanliness of inside. It's just open it a crack and put whatever the item is right in the center of the top rack. Many times coffee is dripping down the freshly washed dishes, or it's opened in the middle of the cycle. I seriously don't know why it's so hard, yet it is.  I don’t think it’s that it’s hard, they just don’t care. At least, that has been my experience. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 16, 2021 14:02:24 GMT
It seems no one pays any attention to the lights, soap compartment, cleanliness of inside. It's just open it a crack and put whatever the item is right in the center of the top rack. Many times coffee is dripping down the freshly washed dishes, or it's opened in the middle of the cycle. I seriously don't know why it's so hard, yet it is. I don’t think it’s that it’s hard, they just don’t care. At least, that has been my experience.  And I don’t get it either. |
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Post by candygurl on Mar 16, 2021 14:04:55 GMT
I start it at night and unload it each morning before anyone wakes up. I do like the idea of noticing if the soap compartment is open or closed.
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scrappinwithoutpeas
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Mar 16, 2021 14:57:53 GMT
The front of ours is plastic so a magnet won’t work. A while ago I read about this system and we’ve been doing it for a while now with some success. ***As soon as the clean dishes are taken out and put away, immediately put dishwasher soap in the compartment inside and close the door.*** We use those little pellets so it’s easy. Now when the family is standing there with their dirty bowl and spoon wondering, “Are they clean? Are they dirty?” all they have to do is open the door and look at the soap compartment. Soap compartment open and empty = DISHES ARE CLEAN. PUT THEM AWAY. Put in more soap and close the compartment door. Soap compartment is still closed = DISHES ARE DIRTY, CONTINUE TO LOAD UNTIL FULL. Once it’s as full as it’s going to be, that last person turns it on. Now that we’ve been doing this a while, DH is fully trained in on the system. It’s taking our kid a little longer to get a clue but she’s not really a detail person. She’s usually the last one to put her dishes in and only half the time will she even remember to turn it on. This is exactly what we do - it works well for us. Checking the actual dishes doesn't work in our house, as DH (who usually loads the D/W after dinner) rinses off everything so well that they "look" clean when they're not. So this system is the only one that works for us, and everyone knows to put a new soap in as soon as they finish unloading. |
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Post by workingclassdog on Mar 16, 2021 15:17:15 GMT
How does your family know when the dishwasher is empty and that they should go ahead and load their dirty dishes directly into the dishwasher??? Surely you jest.... My dishwasher even has a clean/dirty light up sign built into it... do you think that is the answer? HAHAHAHA |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Mar 16, 2021 15:34:29 GMT
typically, the dirty dishes hang out in the sink for a day or two (which I hate, personally), before they get put into the dishwasher. But the dirty plastic storage dishes get put directly into the dishwasher. Why does my DH insist on leaving dirty dishes in the sink? I don't know-- the dishwasher is, like, RIGHT there!
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Post by Belle on Mar 16, 2021 15:41:57 GMT
Take a magnet (Seahawks) off the fridge and put it on the dishwasher. I like the magnet idea that many have shared but I don't know where I would find a clean/dirty magnet. It didn't occur to me that I could use ANY magnet. Thank you! |
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Post by Belle on Mar 16, 2021 15:43:23 GMT
How does your family know when the dishwasher is empty and that they should go ahead and load their dirty dishes directly into the dishwasher??? They look inside it. #Puzzled. Maybe the REAL question is, how do you get your family to look inside of the DW to see if it is clean or dirty.  |
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Post by malibou on Mar 16, 2021 15:54:14 GMT
It’s just me and my husband ( my baby can’t load the dishwasher yet lol) but I also seem to be the only person who knows where things go in our house...and how to load a dishwasher with efficiency. Unless he’s doing the dishes, which is occasionally, I load the dishwasher every night. Dishes get piled in the sink. I just expect him to rinse or soak them, which doesn’t always happen. You're not trying hard enough 😂 Start that baby on dishwasher duty asap. A decision you will never regret. |
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Post by gar on Mar 16, 2021 15:54:32 GMT
They look inside it. #Puzzled. Maybe the REAL question is, how do you get your family to look inside of the DW to see if it is clean or dirty. They just know (knew) it's the only/easiest way to find out. It's not like I/women have any magical intuition about it! Really, they'd only put dirty stuff in to drip over clean stuff once, that's just ridiculous. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 16, 2021 15:56:44 GMT
Take a magnet (Seahawks) off the fridge and put it on the dishwasher. I like the magnet idea that many have shared but I don't know where I would find a clean/dirty magnet. It didn't occur to me that I could use ANY magnet. Thank you! And this will only work if the front of your dishwasher is metal that a magnet will stick to. The front of ours at home is plastic, so no magnet. We tried using a Post It Note for a while, but that didn’t work either. |
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Post by bianca42 on Mar 16, 2021 16:04:39 GMT
My family piles dirty dishes into the sink until the glasses on the bottom shatter. I finally ordered plastic tumblers from amazon.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 16, 2021 16:07:36 GMT
Maybe the REAL question is, how do you get your family to look inside of the DW to see if it is clean or dirty. They just know (knew) it's the only/easiest way to find out. It's not like I/women have any magical intuition about it! Really, they'd only put dirty stuff in to drip over clean stuff once, that's just ridiculous.Ha ha ha! Yeah. A normal, rational person would think that. But I don’t live in that world with those people, LOL. My DH has done it multiple times and so has my kid. Not only that but I am constantly, CONSTANTLY, going around my house turning off lights in rooms that no one is occupying, closing cabinet doors that have been left hanging open, pushing in kitchen chairs so the little dog won’t jump up on the table, turning off bathroom fans that would be left to run for hours, closing toilet seat lids so the big dog won’t drink out of them, turning off the tv after the person who had been watching it has not only left the room but actually left the house, closing exterior doors that are left open when the air conditioner is running in the summer or the heat is on in the winter. I swear, some days I think the people I live with have absolutely no sense. Other days I swear they do this stuff on purpose to send me off shrieking to an insane asylum. |
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Post by gar on Mar 16, 2021 16:12:48 GMT
They just know (knew) it's the only/easiest way to find out. It's not like I/women have any magical intuition about it! Really, they'd only put dirty stuff in to drip over clean stuff once, that's just ridiculous.Ha ha ha! Yeah. A normal, rational person would think that. But I don’t live in that world with those people, LOL. My DH has done it multiple times and so has my kid. Not only that but I am constantly, CONSTANTLY, going around my house turning off lights in rooms that no one is occupying, closing cabinet doors that have been left hanging open, pushing in kitchen chairs so the little dog won’t jump up on the table, turning off bathroom fans that would be left to run for hours, closing toilet seat lids so the big dog won’t drink out of them, turning off the tv after the person who had been watching it has not only left the room but actually left the house, closing exterior doors that are left open when the air conditioner is running in the summer or the heat is on in the winter. I swear, some days I think the people I live with have absolutely no sense. Other days I swear they do this stuff on purpose to send me off shrieking to an insane asylum. Poor you! I hope that doesn't include your Dh/partner! My kids had their moments too, certainly  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 16, 2021 16:23:43 GMT
Ha ha ha! Yeah. A normal, rational person would think that. But I don’t live in that world with those people, LOL. My DH has done it multiple times and so has my kid. Not only that but I am constantly, CONSTANTLY, going around my house turning off lights in rooms that no one is occupying, closing cabinet doors that have been left hanging open, pushing in kitchen chairs so the little dog won’t jump up on the table, turning off bathroom fans that would be left to run for hours, closing toilet seat lids so the big dog won’t drink out of them, turning off the tv after the person who had been watching it has not only left the room but actually left the house, closing exterior doors that are left open when the air conditioner is running in the summer or the heat is on in the winter. I swear, some days I think the people I live with have absolutely no sense. Other days I swear they do this stuff on purpose to send me off shrieking to an insane asylum. Poor you! I hope that doesn't include your Dh/partner! My kids had their moments too, certainly  Yes, yes it does. He and our kid are equally guilty, but due to her youth and my own perseverance I hold out a little more hope for her than for him, LOL. He is a little better than he used to be, he used to always leave empty food packages and trash on the kitchen counter directly above the wastebasket in the cabinet below instead of actually throwing it away.   When I finally cornered him and said something about it he said, “Oh, I do that so you know what to put on the grocery list.”  To which I replied, “You mean THAT grocery list, right there on the fridge THREE FEET AWAY?” OMG.  Now we have a joint phone list app for that so that behavior was curbed, thankfully. |
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Post by gar on Mar 16, 2021 16:57:17 GMT
Poor you! I hope that doesn't include your Dh/partner! My kids had their moments too, certainly Yes, yes it does. He and our kid are equally guilty, but due to her youth and my own perseverance I hold out a little more hope for her than for him, LOL. He is a little better than he used to be, he used to always leave empty food packages and trash on the kitchen counter directly above the wastebasket in the cabinet below instead of actually throwing it away.   When I finally cornered him and said something about it he said, “Oh, I do that so you know what to put on the grocery list.”  To which I replied, “You mean THAT grocery list, right there on the fridge THREE FEET AWAY?” OMG. Now we have a joint phone list app for that so that behavior was curbed, thankfully. My dh is way tidier than I am to a point of being annoying. He's learnt now but he used to come into the kitchen when I was cooking and put utencils in the dishwasher then I was looking around for them to use again and they've gone. He also turns off lights when I've left a room but I only leave them on because I know I'm coming back to the room in a couple of minutes But when he loads the dishwasher he just does what's in front of him in and around the sink...for some reason he doesn't look to his right and see the pans on the hob |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 16, 2021 17:17:42 GMT
Yes, yes it does. He and our kid are equally guilty, but due to her youth and my own perseverance I hold out a little more hope for her than for him, LOL. He is a little better than he used to be, he used to always leave empty food packages and trash on the kitchen counter directly above the wastebasket in the cabinet below instead of actually throwing it away. When I finally cornered him and said something about it he said, “Oh, I do that so you know what to put on the grocery list.” To which I replied, “You mean THAT grocery list, right there on the fridge THREE FEET AWAY?” OMG. Now we have a joint phone list app for that so that behavior was curbed, thankfully. My dh is way tidier than I am to a point of being annoying. He's learnt now but he used to come into the kitchen when I was cooking and put utencils in the dishwasher then I was looking around for them to use again and they've gone. He also turns off lights when I've left a room but I only leave them on because I know I'm coming back to the room in a couple of minutes But when he loads the dishwasher he just does what's in front of him in and around the sink...for some reason he doesn't look to his right and see the pans on the hob Ha ha ha! I’m nowhere near that efficient, LOL. My DH gets testy if someone is getting in his way when he’s cooking so DD and I just steer clear of the kitchen until after dinner to jump into that fray. Mine is terrible about not getting pots and pans actually clean, so I don’t care if he skips those because I end up rewashing them anyway. What’s worse is that when he cooks, I happily clean up the kitchen after dinner. But when I cook? Yup, I get stuck cleaning up the kitchen those days too. WTH.  But I’m much more of a clean as I go type cook so there is usually less to actually do. |
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And I don’t get it either.
When I finally cornered him and said something about it he said, “Oh, I do that so you know what to put on the grocery list.” 
To which I replied, “You mean THAT grocery list, right there on the fridge THREE FEET AWAY?” OMG. 
When I finally cornered him and said something about it he said, “Oh, I do that so you know what to put on the grocery list.” 
To which I replied, “You mean THAT grocery list, right there on the fridge THREE FEET AWAY?” OMG. 
But I’m much more of a clean as I go type cook so there is usually less to actually do.