[quote author="Nude" date=1258167434][quote author="Cubic Zirconia" date=1258149416]Brings up the question: Who does the dishes in your house? I end up doing them anyway in our house. Partly because I have to intervene when the dishwasher is declared full with handful of dishes and space optimization is not according to my standards. Same goes for stuffing up the fridge. Everyone in the house seem to think that the fridge is full while I see space...</blockquote>
In Theory, one person does the cooking and the other does the dishes. We don't have any slave labor (children not yet old enough to revolt) so we try to split chores evenly. However, we don't live in theory and since my early retirement went permanent, I do most of the dishes and most of the day-to-day cooking. My wife puts away the clean dishes from the dishwasher in the morning and any pots and pans that were left to dry in the dish rack. I also do the grocery shopping, vaccuum, hose down the bathrooms, and take out the trash. Right now, I am sitting at the dealership getting our car serviced while back home a pork roast cooks in the crockpot.
Back when we first bought the house, we had a small dust up about the dishwasher which ended with an education for my wife on the proper way to load one, as well as a piece by piece explanation of what does and does NOT go in one. To date, we haven't sacrificed a single plate, glass, or plastic item to the Dishwasher Gods, nor have we clogged up the drain. You're not the only one with appliance OCD.</blockquote>
I have major appliance OCD, too. Dishes go in the dishwasher a certain way (or not at all) . We're approaching one year in our house and I don't think my boyfriend has loaded or unloaded the dishes more than five times. It used to bother me until I realized that I was more bothered when he did load or unload the dishwasher. There's nothing worse than looking for something when I'm in a hurry to prep food and I can't find it.