CJB > wrote in :

> previously in rfc, Wayne > wrote:
>
>>
>> <Sigh!> I wish I had more time...not that I'd spend it doing the
>> dishes.
>>:-)
>>
>
> I know!! Time is everything. I rearranged my life a few years
> ago (right after 9/11, in fact) to reclaim as many moments of it as my
> own. There's a weird kind of ownership in using my time doing my own
> dishes instead of stressing about a client or somebody else's
> problems.
>
> The other part of it is that I can micromanage my kitchen by doing my
> own dishes. I'm a bit of a control freak. Too many times in the past
> I'd have my husband or a housekeeper put something in the dishwasher
> that didn't belong (like my knives) or stack my depression glass berry
> bowls in a bad way. Stuff that I didn't want to get mad about, or
> petty over, so it made my life easier to just do it myself!
>
> Usually I leave the pots for my husband to do. Especially the cast
> iron or bigger pots. Cause I get tired after a bit, with the lifting.
>
> -Claudia

I totally understand. I am controlling and anal-retentive...what a
combination! We're only a family of two and I do most of the cooking.
Unless I know for sure that there's nothing in the load of dishes that
I'd worry about, I don't permit my other half to load the d/w. He has
also been threatened within an inch of his life about not putting my good
knives, Zeroll ice cream scoop and spade, and assorted other "special"
items in the d/w. In over 12 years he has never made a "mistake". :-)
I wash the pots and pans in the d/w, as well.

The only dishes I don't put in the d/w are my mother's good porcelain
because they are around 60 years old and have 24k gold trim which is not
overglazed...it would disappear in the d/w. Fortunately, they are rarely
used.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

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