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Do you wait until the end of the day to do them at once?
I really hate waking up to a messy kitchen in the morning, so no matter how run down I feel, I always need to have my kitchen all clean before I can even go to bed.
During the week with the kids in school, I can get away with just doing them at night after everyone is in bed, but on the weekend I may need to do dishes twice depending on how much cooking or baking I've been doing.
I wash dishes once a day usually in the afternoon. It's part of my cleaning routine. Lately the sink has been overflowing by the time breakfast is done.
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Beth, Mom to:
Noah, Jayde, Sydney, RJ, Becca, Sebastian and Weston
Depends on the day if I have spare time in the day I'll do it I have to do them by hand if Ryder is awake because he tries to climb in the dishwasher. So I usually wait until the end of the day and do them all then if Dh is home he puts away while I wash.
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Kristina SAHM of Janessa 14, Xandria 12, Thayer 11, Alorah 9, Nathalia 7, Malayna 5, Sawyer 3 and Ryder 2 Make a pregnancy ticker
Wash dishes by hand several times a day. I hate a dirty kitchen too, but often my darling teenagers will put dirty dishes in the sink after I have gone to bed.
I have a sink that is almost always full. No dishwasher and even with paper plates it over flows.
I went on strike once and it fazed no one. The only person loosing their mind was me, after a week and a half I caved. I just could not take it anymore.
4&5 do dishes after bfast, 2&3 after lunch, 1,2,&3 after dinner as that is when floors get swept, swiffered, etc. no dishwasher. I hardly ever do dishes nymore. I one kid isn't here, someone is assigned to take his place.
My kids unload the dishwasher and each is assigned different nights to do the dishes. I do the morning and afternoon dishes. The dishwasher gets run after lunch and dinner.
I hate waking up to a dirty kitchen, but it does happen on occasion. I usually make sure it's all done after supper, during the day I don't care so much, but there's no one around so it stays pretty clean.
Dishes get done after every meal. I rarely do them - we have "kitchen teams" that rotate each day - after each meal assigned team washes, drys, puts away dishes. Puts all food away, washes tables and counter tops, and sweeps the floor.
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~Lisa, homebirthing, homeschooling , homesteading mama. Married to my beloved for 18 years, raising a big brood of children on a little farm in Southern Michigan.
Mama to:
Nick, 17
Abby, 15
Gabe, 13
Isaac, 11
Mary-Kate, 10
Sam, 8
Henry, 7
Molly, 6
Mark, 4
Greta, 3
Cecilia,1
Josephine, born 6.11.12
Wash dishes by hand several times a day. I hate a dirty kitchen too, but often my darling teenagers will put dirty dishes in the sink after I have gone to bed.
I have a dishwasher and tbh I try to make dh or the sitter fil/empty it-I HATE that job and can't wait until the kids are old enough to do it
I'm not opposed to leaving the dirties in the sink until I run out of something and am forced to wash-nothing is done by hand here
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“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway...let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”
“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.”
Dishes are put into the dishwasher after every meal, what needs to be hand washed gets washed right away ( I hate a messy kitchen ) and I run the dishwasher once a day ( usually when I go to bed and it gets emptied in the morning )
Since my only child old enough to be of any real help with dishes is gone several nights a week for sports, youth group, and school activities, Im pretty much on my own. And with 5 kids under8 I am usually too tired in the evening to do much so most of the time I do the dishes in the morning while the kids are eating breakfast. That way the babies cant climb in it while Im loading.
