Comments on: How to Stay On Top of Dishes Without Losing Your Sanity

By: Kalyn Brooke

Kalyn Brooke — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:06:47 +0000

In reply to Brenda Flores. Brenda, yes rubber gloves make a huge difference! Hopefully you find it helpful!

By: Brenda Flores

Brenda Flores — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 14:11:08 +0000

I’m a senior I never used to let my Justice pile up like I do now when I was young I did all my cleaning my dishes everything was always so nice and neat and spotless now that I’m older I don’t have the energy or the ambition to do anything but I’m going to try some of your techniques and I’m going to try your dish soap and I’m going to try Club rubber gloves and see if that won’t help

By: Kalyn Brooke

Kalyn Brooke — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:06:44 +0000

In reply to Emma. Ugh, that does sound hard! I would work on delegating some of the chore to others in your family - even a 5 year old can learn to help. Get some plates and bowls that don't break easily and put them to work!

By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 08:31:31 +0000

We don’t have a dishwasher and I do the dishes after every meal for our family and then let them dry on the rack and put them away when I make the next meal. I feel like I spend 3 hours a day doing dishes . We won’t be getting a dishwasher until new house in a years time . I hate it . I buy paper plates too but always still seem to have so many dishes .

By: Kalyn Brooke

Kalyn Brooke — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:05:37 +0000

In reply to Laura. It's still crazy to me how fast they can pile up if we don't stay on top of them. I think I may need to adopt your multi-sponge approach. Right now we just use one sponge but it can get nasty pretty quickly dealing with the caked on food or cleaning a frying pan that was used to make scrambled eggs.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 13:39:29 +0000

Yes yes yes! I do most of these now and you’re right, it saves SO much time – my husband actually got me started on several of these when we got married a year ago. Although I’m a pretty neat person, letting (rinsed!) dishes pile up was my weak point. We wash all dishes after dinner that weren’t taken care of while cooking, leave them to dry overnight, and then unload while making breakfast (and then wash our few breakfast dishes right away).

I hadn’t thought of #5 and #6, but a similar thing I would add is multiple sponges – especially for those (like me!) without a dishwasher. We use a soft “non-scratch” sponge for most dishes, the green “heavy duty scouring pads” for stuck on food, and a stainless steel sponge (“steel wool”) for stainless steel pots & pans.