SAHMs: do you feel like you're always cleaning your kitchen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a family of four - one in ES, the other in MS - and we run the dishwasher once a week.

Unless your toddler is the size of Honey Boo Boo's mom, I don't understand your situation.

I am being honest here.

How is this possible? We have 4 plates or bowls from breakfast, plus 2 coffee cups and 2 glasses. Lunch means 3 plates and 3 glasses. Dinner is 4 large plates, sometimes 4 bowls, 4 glasses. Plus whatever is used for snacks. Plus the utensils. Plus anything used to make the meals that can go in the dishwasher. I run mine 2x/day.

Do you never cook or eat at home?

What you just described will fit in one load of dishwasher. We do cook at home 3-4 days a week and eat leftovers or out the other days. I do wash pots, pens and cooking utensils with hands as I cook. We don't eat lunch at home thought, but I don't see how it will not fit in one load.

[Anonymous]

You don't have to waste paper plates, people. Just load your dishwasher more efficiently. It's like a puzzle. You have to figure out how the pieces will all fit.

[Anonymous]

I'm not SAHM and my kitchen is constantly being used at least twice a day and clean up with it. Nonstop. Sometimes I take a day off just to clean up the house.

[Anonymous]

DH and I both WAH. Our kitchen is used constantly. And when we had a nanny at home taking care of DS, it felt like it was never clean. Plus we love to cook/grill out/host people for dinner.

I try to look at it as a good thing though -- it means you're actually eating at home and not blowing money on eating out all the time!

[Anonymous]

I feel like my kitchen always needs cleaning, but I'm not necessarily always cleaning it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to waste paper plates, people. Just load your dishwasher more efficiently. It's like a puzzle. You have to figure out how the pieces will all fit.

This. It's amazing how badly some people load dishwashers (including my DH). He'll insist that the the dishwasher is full and must be run while leaving half a sink of dishes...and it takes me less than 5 minutes to get everything rearranged to fit the rest of the dishes with room to spare. But I've had MIL/FIL stay with us often enough to understand where he learned his poor dish loading skills, though. My mom would always make me re-arrange if she thought I'd done it inefficiently...and with 3 kids and home-cooked meals from scratch everyday she only ran the dishwasher 1x/day if that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to waste paper plates, people. Just load your dishwasher more efficiently. It's like a puzzle. You have to figure out how the pieces will all fit.

This. It's amazing how badly some people load dishwashers (including my DH). He'll insist that the the dishwasher is full and must be run while leaving half a sink of dishes...and it takes me less than 5 minutes to get everything rearranged to fit the rest of the dishes with room to spare. But I've had MIL/FIL stay with us often enough to understand where he learned his poor dish loading skills, though. My mom would always make me re-arrange if she thought I'd done it inefficiently...and with 3 kids and home-cooked meals from scratch everyday she only ran the dishwasher 1x/day if that.

Thanks, but my spatial skills are A-OK. I only run mine twice a day because I load my sheet pans, crock pot crocks, pots/pans, blender, etc. in there. I very rarely hand wash so EVERYTHING goes in there.