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Dirty Dishes...................

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Submitted by Eagle Eye on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 2:37pm

I have told everyone in our house repeatedly that they are all capable of putting their dirty dishes in the dishwasher!

Normally after dinner there is no problem with kids cleaning off their dirty dishes. I have noticed that SS14 will never wash off his silverware, he just leaves those in the sink. :?

For some reason SS cannot figure out that dirty dishes that come about after having snacks or whatever must be put away as well. We came home last night from an outing to find a a few glasses in the sink along with silverware. I told SS right then that he needed to take care of them. Well this morning I find even more dishes in the sink all of them belong to SS14. This just pisses me off! Why does he have to be told every single time??

Well he will be with BM the next two nights so I collected all the dishes from the sink and stuck them on his bed! They will be very difficult to clean because there was milk in cups, cereal in bowls, food on silverware. They will sit in his already stinky room!

I know DH will think i'm crazy for doing this but I'm just fed up with the same old crap!! I thought about leaving them in the sink but that wouldn't work because I like a clean kitchen! I'm at the point now that DH will be buying me new dishes/silverware because SS is too lazy to clean up! I guess DH will have to decide if we wants to spend money on dishes or actually tell SS to clean up after his stinky self!

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Submitted by VioletsareBlue on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 2:55pm

Good for you!
I have repeatedly told SD16 to NOT put dirty towels or bathroom rugs on the floor in front of the washer and dryer. I don't like it. She does it anyway. They get thrown into her room.

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Submitted by Eagle Eye on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 4:12pm

That's a great idea!! Smile We could all have our own plate etc! I'll just get rid of everything so there is no more arguement!!

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Submitted by imjustthemaid on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 4:22pm

We have those plastic cups one with each kids name on it. They refuse to use them!!

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Submitted by dont know what to do on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 3:00pm

What I hate the most is I will cook dinner, do the dishes and kitchen will be spotless. I have to have it that way. I'll go to bed wake up with 6 cups (we have 4 kids) and tons of dishes in the sink because DH thinks the skids need a bedtime snack every single night so then they leave the dishes for me. And it's usually not a snack it's usually a smaller dinner, drives me crazy. The last time I left the dishes all weekend long, I washed my dishes each and every time but worked around all of theirs until finally Sunday DH did them I guess he got the point. I even told him I was no longer a slave they could easily put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher that I emptied.

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Submitted by Eagle Eye on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 4:14pm

I do wonder why everyone thinks I am the dish queen!! How difficult is it to clean up after yourself? One day I'd like to go on strike! No cooking, cleaning or grocery shopping! I wonder what would happen to everyone? haha!! I won't do it because I don't want my BD to suffer but man this is annoying!!

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Submitted by imjustthemaid on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 4:25pm

I tried to go on strike. Everyone left for the day (school, work) and I was left home looking at the mess. Strike didn't last long!!

I am currently staring at a dirty pot on the stovetop that SD15 made mac and cheese in. She offered some to DD so that she can claim DD ate it so she doesn't have to wash the pot. DD said she didn't want any. Now no one will wash it until I finally give in and do it because I will be sick of looking at it!!

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Submitted by kitty1470 on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 3:31pm

Ugh my SO does this...the dishwasher is right beside the sink I don't understand how its so hard to put it in there! He'll put his knife that he spread peanut butter with on the counter and leave it there. Since he does the cooking and I do the clean up after (our agreement), he figures if he leaves his stuff out, I'll just put everything (dinner dishes AND all the dishes from his snacks etc) in the dishwasher at the same time. He thought he was being sneaky.

Nope, I put away any and all pots/pans utensils that were used for cooking into the dishwasher and still leave out his stuff that he used that wasn't for supper.. Same as his kids, I dont put their dishes in the dishwasher..but they are actually better at it than he is.

Usually after he has to look at all his dirty dishes for a few days and realizing he can't be sneaky about it anymore, he finally puts it away. I think he's starting to realize its not getting done on its own. And he's been doing the kids dishes as well..

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Submitted by Helena.Handbasket on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 3:50pm

Happens every skid visit. I don't touch them. I leave them for SO. My SO doesn't like dishes sitting around though.

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Submitted by momof5_1969 on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 6:39pm

I got to the point where I gave up -- I got tired of reminding them EVERYTIME to clean up after they made a mess, that I quit cleaning up and quit reminding them. I would walk into the kitchen after having cleaned it, like all of you, to find it a mess, yet again -- and find myself, yet again, pissed off -- and calling them every name in the book in my mind! So I gave up. I quit cooking for them. I quit going grocery shopping as often as I had been, so they weren't getting the usual stuff that they liked -- lots of complaining in that department, and I quit cleaning the kitchen. Literally!

The dishes would pile HIGH in the sink and I just didn't care! I figured they weren't from me, so what the heck. The mess in the kitchen wasn't from me, so why should I clean it? I would just leave it. Eventually my DH would clean it -- amazingly a couple of times my SS19 would clean it -- I think he did that one time actually, but the rest of the time my DH did it. Yes, he works all day, but if his kids want to be pigs and leaves such huge messes and my DH doesn't want to make them clean up after themselves, then I'm not going to clean up after them and I'm not going to fight them anymore. I simply just didn't care anymore.

But my skids at home are 17 and 19 -- old enough to do something around the house. They think they have it so hard...... puhleeze!!