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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where does the "one glass for each person a day" sit when not being used, and what if you drink milk from it but later want water? Do you wash it by hand?

If everyone is putting their dishes into the dishwasher after a meal, how do you deal with haphazard loading that wastes room?

How do you handle the hook near the door for coats if you have different coats for different types of outfits? (Pre-COVID I had a dressier wool coat for work and church, a parka for groceries, a Carhartt jacket for yard work, etc...)

If you're cleaning the shower while you're in it, how do you handle the fumes that mix in with the steam?  I feel like the chemicals will make me sick but I can't avoid them if there's steam.[/quote]

In our family, the glass is either with the person using it, or it sits beside the sink above the dishwasher if it’s not being used at the moment. They all go in the dishwasher at the end of the day. Takes one minute. We don’t actually have a strict one glass per day rule, but that’s generally how it works out. If I have a tea glass and I want milk, I just give it a quick rinse.

Everyone knows where the dishes go in the dishwasher — it’s pretty logical. If the kids put them in a less-efficient spot and the dishwasher is getting full and there’s no room for my dish, I may take 20 seconds to move some things around.

We have hooks near the back door (ours are inside a closet door in the kitchen) for coats. We keep the most-used ones there on a seasonal basis — rain jackets in the summer, fleeces in fall, down in the winter. We all have lots of coats — some of the more frequently used are in a closet that is not particularly convenient to the outside door, but still on the first floor, and we have the less-frequently worn ones (dressier, heavy parkas, etc) in our rooms.

I think think most people who clean while they’re in the shower are using a soap mixture, and not toxic stuff, but if I’m going to use something stronger, I just get naked, clean the shower, rinse it down and then take my shower.  Whether you’re clothed or not doesn’t seem to make much difference in terms of what you’re breathing?

I don’t mean this to sound snarky, but you’re overthinking this. The point is to do what works for you and go with the flow, instead of against it. If it doesn’t work for you, don’t do it. I’m the pp whose husband kept leaving little things on the kitchen island so I got him a covered storage dish for his things.  Where do your coats end up?  Figure out a place to hang them near there. My kids don’t take food to their rooms (I never told them they couldn’t, it’s just not something they do) but if dishes in their rooms were an issue, I like pp’s solution of having a tray in the hallway.  Figure out how you can make what’s happening work for you.

Also, you have to be willing to invest a little bit of time in getting cooperation from others in the family. If you don’t think the kids are loading the dishwasher properly, take some time to show them how and explain why it makes sense to load more efficiently. At first, it takes more time to teach kids to do their own laundry, but the payoff is huge. [/quote]

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