How many times do you ....

[DizzyGirl]

Same as deedub.
Once a day, if that. I hand wash stuff nearly every night, thermie, kids lunch boxes, all plastic items, pots & pans etc.
After washing thses things, I then use the water left in the sink to rinse all our dinner dishes.
As we are running low of water in the tank I have to be extra careful with water usage. I am also fussy about what goes in the dishwasher. It is mainly cutlery (no sharp knives), plates, bowls, mugs and glasses. Anything else gets handwashed.

[judydawn]

Boy those commercial dishwashers sure don't waste any time bluesed 

[fundj&e]

DG dont they say the dishwasher uses less water

[DizzyGirl]

Yes they do Uni, but I will not do a load unless it is full. Same with my washing machine.

[fundj&e]

me too, i know ppl that will run the washing machine for a few items

[gertbysea]

With the price of our water rates here I am very frugal except when it come to my bath.

Gert

[fundj&e]

i know what u mean gert, i have to have the water running when i brush my teeth

[astarra]

I'm guilty of the nice deep bath waste of water too...
As for dishwashers: I have 2 dish drawers but I only usually do 1 dishdrawer load/day for the 5 of us, I dont put my TM bowl in but do put the butterfly and spatula in. If I do alot of cooking I might do 2 loads a day or 3 loads in 2 days, but that is one of the huge perks of cooking in the TM - way less washing up!!     I also put it on before bed and empty in first thing in the morning, I am seriously grossed out by dirty dishes on the bench, so I love having the 2 dishdrawers...so much so that when we did our new kitchen (last July) my dishdrawers were the only thing I determinedly kept, there was no way I was going to 1 dishwasher...

[Halex]

Yes Uni she does keep people in jibs, bless her.

I am a bath  girl, everynight I soak  in my hot bath in the winter, lots of foamy bubbles, sometimes a cuppa tea & sometimes a glass if wine

H

[cookie1]

We don't own a dishwasher. DH is ours. We wash up after ever y meal and I usually do a pre dinner wash up. If I am cooking I will wash up too, but with the TMX there is not really a lot to do.

[droverjess]

Bath girl here too.
Dishwasher always full when used.

DH just been away 2 days and what a difference so I ran dishwasher less. The number of mugs he uses in a day plus 2 breakfasts, lunch, little tea and supper makes a huge difference. LOL

[mcmich]

My DH handwashes dishes and bless him I think he is certified blind cos they are fricken fiilthy when I go to put them away.

 

Once a day or every second day. If I don't have full load then I just put the rinse cycle on.

[EmeraldSue]

When we first got married, we had a rule that if one person cooked, the other would do the dishes, and vice versa. However, over the years, this has changed to one person doing all the cooking (me) and the same person doing the dishes. Occasionally I will come home and find a stack of clean and partially wet dishes on the bench top (which has not always been cleaned) as he has "unloaded" the dishwasher. He seems to have forgotten what a tea towel is for.
It gets worse too, I was away for one night last Saturday, and he obviously emptied the dishwasher whilst I was away. My DD pulled two plastic cups out of the cupboard this morning, and in the bottom of the cups was a jelly like substance that was going mouldy. Eew! He admitted that perhaps he had put them away. I don't know if he got the clean dishes mixed up with the dirty ones, and put some dirty ones away, or what. I'll be checking the cups, glasses etc before I use them!

[fundj&e]

its funny now, but you must of have been 

[CreamPuff63]

ES it sounds like a conspiracy so he doesn't have to worry about being landed with the dishes again cos he's clearly showing signs of not being up to the job