PSA: If you left the pots, pans, and kitchen knives, YOU HAVE NOT DONE THE DISHES.

[Anonymous]

If you’re the person in the couple that never does the cooking and can barely boil water, please take note. You cannot claim to have finished doing the dishes if you left ALL THE POTS, PANS, and KITCHEN KNIVES strewn all over the counter. The fact that you finally picked up all fifteen of the effin glasses you left all over the GD house does not entitle you to a medal, and truthfully, does not count towards “cleaning up after dinner” Just effing clean them!!!!! Especially since you know that we don’t have the space in our kitchen to buy duplicate pasta pots etc bc you just cahnt. JUST WASH THEM!!!!!!!!

End rant

[Anonymous]

You should get a divorce. You’re too high strung.

[Anonymous]

You should at the very least *talk to* your spouse/partner rather than pointlessly ranting on here.

[Anonymous]

Dishwasher. Dull knives sane life

[Anonymous]

Agreed, of course.

But sometimes people are weird about dishes. My spouse gets mad if I do an entire kitchen full of dishes, if there are a few items on the drying rack and I don't first put those away before putting other dishes to dry over there. Most of the time it's an accident -- I get going doing dishes and loading the dishwasher and then move to the dishes that need to be hand washed and don't realize there's 3-4 items on the drying rack. Rather than stop what I'm doing, dry my hands, and put those items away before going back and finishing the dishes, I just put the clean, wet dishes in the rack and figure those 304 items will dry again and be put away when the pots and pans are dry.

He freaks out and claims that what I'm doing is not *really* doing the dishes because I'm neglecting to put away like two knives and cutting board first. I disagree.

Sometimes people are weird about this stuff.

[Anonymous]

Also wipe the kitchen down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also wipe the kitchen down.

+1000. If there are spills on the counter, food or food wrappers out, etc, you aren't done.

[Anonymous]

I hear your pain, OP.

[Anonymous]

Team OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agreed, of course.

But sometimes people are weird about dishes. My spouse gets mad if I do an entire kitchen full of dishes, if there are a few items on the drying rack and I don't first put those away before putting other dishes to dry over there. Most of the time it's an accident -- I get going doing dishes and loading the dishwasher and then move to the dishes that need to be hand washed and don't realize there's 3-4 items on the drying rack. Rather than stop what I'm doing, dry my hands, and put those items away before going back and finishing the dishes, I just put the clean, wet dishes in the rack and figure those 304 items will dry again and be put away when the pots and pans are dry.

He freaks out and claims that what I'm doing is not *really* doing the dishes because I'm neglecting to put away like two knives and cutting board first. I disagree.

Sometimes people are weird about this stuff.

I agree with OP (though I am more likely to be the offending party than my DH, haha) but your DH is insane

[Anonymous]

You need to be having this conversation with whomever didn't wash the pots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dishwasher. Dull knives sane life

+1 We got a house with a dishwasher, then we started putting everything in the dishwasher. This was a huge percentage of our fight topics when we first started living together and then got married.

[Anonymous]

If it can't go in the dishwasher, I don't want it in my kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Agree with Op. Do all the dishes, pots, knives, etc.

[Anonymous]

My DH doesn’t wash the “weird” stuff like cheese graters or water bottle lids and will do everything else and leave those at the bottom of the sink like I won’t notice.

He also doesn’t put away “weird” stuff- like anything that he doesn’t interact with daily. We’ve lived with the same kitchen for 12 years but he’s acts like it’s a confusing Airbnb that he’s never cooked in. The funny part is that he truly thinks I don’t notice. How can a man who runs a bajillion dollar P&L be so dumb?