How often do you run your dishwasher and how large is your family?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a family of 4 and run ours every night.

+1

[Anonymous]

Family of five and I run it daily

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The title says it all.

We are currently a family of three and we run ours about every 1.5 days. It feels excessive and I’m just curious what other household usage looks like.

Family of 4, 2 in college. When the kids are home, every day/every other day. With just the 2 of us, more like 2xs a week

[Anonymous]

I’d say about every 1.5-3 days on average. We are also a family of 3.

[Anonymous]

Family of 6, I run it every evening. I also choose to hand wash most plastic (I’ve been phasing it out, but we still have some), and some of our water bottles/mugs are hand wash. If I didn’t do that, I’d probably need to run it more frequently!

[Anonymous]

I run it when it's full. Sometimes when I make a dish that uses a lot of dishes, I might run it more than once a day.

I try not to have any dishes ever building up in the sink because it makes the kitchen unusable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 people. About 5 times per week. I run it in the “short” cycle and things get perfectly clean. That’s my way of trying to make it a bit more eco friendly.

My dishwasher uses more water and power to get the load finished quicker. You may be using more unless your brand is different.

Oh no! Rats! Ugh.

[Anonymous]

We’re four. We run it 2-3 times a day. Usually in the fast program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once a week. One human and 2 dogs.

One human, one cat. Every 2/3 days or so.

[Anonymous]

Family of 3. I run it every night because when I don't the routine gets thrown off and things snowball in the kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Just DH and me. At least once daily, twice per day on weekends when I’m prepping for the week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a family of 4 and run ours every night.

+1

Between kid messes, cooking even quick stuff etc it's full each day. I WFH so I do use a bunch of cups, make lunch etc as well.

Also I wouldn't want to leave dirty dishes in the sink longer than a day.

[Anonymous]

With three of us every 1.5 days is right— I was always trying to decide if it’s full enough to run but then if I wait it runs out of space…

With 2 of us it’s just every other day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The title says it all.

We are currently a family of three and we run ours about every 1.5 days. It feels excessive and I’m just curious what other household usage looks like.

Family of 4. 2-3 times per day. I cook everything we eat. We also have lunch boxes and daycare stuff which add 1/2 the top rack.
Weekends are prep dishes.

[Anonymous]

Family of 4 and daily. We don’t have a ton of extra plates, cups, silverware etc so I can’t imagine not washing daily