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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Dishes (we have no dishwashing machine)
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Just an aside on dishwashers -- our family had one when I was younger, and to this day I don't see how they cut down on the amount of work being done significantly. By the time you load them all in, add the detergent, etc, it's not that much more effort to wipe each one down with a cloth and be done with it. The dishwasher can't handle heavily soiled dishes like pots and pans anyway, so you still have to run a sink and scrub them. Why not wash them all by hand and be done with it?
Growing up, we were all expected to pitch in. We had a rotating list of chores that needed to be done every week, and so we'd take turns vacuuming, dusting, cleaning the bathroom and so on. We also switched off on doing the dishes nightly, and us children were doing our own laundry by the time we were teenagers. I didn't particularly enjoy these things at the time, but it did stand me in good stead as an adult.
Magpie had a roommate in college whose mother did everything for her when she was young, even cleaning her bedroom for her. Magpie tells horror stories about that girl involving things like week-old dishes. I feel bad for her, since she's clearly never learned to take care of herself. Eventually she's going to end up on her own with nobody to do it, and will most likely live in filth.
And to expand on my above post, Magpie gets out of cooking for the same reason thirdsun does. The girl once burned minute rice in the microwave. And not just burned as in blackened, but burned as in
set on fire. To this day I don't know how she managed it.
So I cook. She did the dishes and cleaned up when I was working, and now that I'm not I take on that too. Honestly, it can get a little tiresome, but then again so can an eight hour shift.
I instituted this change myself, because it didn't seem fair to expect her to come home from work and then clean up after me. She was actually against it initially, but accepted it before too long.
She helps me out with the laundry occasionally, and that's pretty much as far as my expectations of her go at this point. I am thoroughly domesticated.