previously in rfc, Wayne > wrote:

> 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.
>

Yeah. I had some small dessert plates (from my husband's great aunt) that
were gold trimmed. Somebody (can't remember who, or maybe I've blocked it
so as to be able to still love them!!! ha) put one of the plates in the
microwave.

The gold snapped, sparked, smoked, and turned black!