Do any of you do this????

“I find myself being lazy around the house sometimes and look up and all the dishes are dirty.

So, what do I do? I run to the gear closet and use my lexan utensil set to eat with and my nalgene bottles to drink from and my cooksets.”

“Sorry, binks. I don't go quite that far.”

“No, but I do throw all the crap in the car, drive to the lake, hike in a mile or two, watch the sunset and/or moonrise, chug a beer, fire up the xtreme stove and make coffee... watch the stars for a few hours then walk out and drive back.

There's a name for it... it's ah...

damn. I've turned into a picnic-er.”

“Don't worry binks, those are my dishes. I am in college so I have an excuse!”

“I couldn't do that.

Reason: if I look in the sink and see it filled with dirty dishes, there would be no point going to the gear closet.

Reason: the dirty dishes in the sink would be my nalgene, lexan utensils etc... Who the heck uses real dishes / cookware??”

“It's okay, Binks, I do that on occasion as well. I definitely don't have a neatness gene.”

“I thought it was just me. Of course after all my gear is dirty i finally wash everything in the dishwasher.”

“I don't have the gear to use...but when the dishes pile up...that is what teenagers are for!!!”

“sorry no teenagers yet.”

“Good...put it off as long as you can!!! LOL”

“I hate washing dishes more than anything, always have. I try to use paper plates and plastic wear as often as I can!

Once I was washing a glass and it broke, slicing the skin over one knuckle. It bled like crazy and I couldn't get the flap to stay down. So I went to get stitched up and my 5 year old son got to watch the whole thing. Walking back to the car he told me he didn't want to be a doctor anymore, lol. He said when they were washing it out he almost threw up.

I hate doing dishes. And housework in general sucks.

o(:}”

“HUm tumtatum, la la la!

Dang, ya got me!”

“Paper plates dude. Toss them when used.”

“I tell one of my kids they need to load the dishwasher.”

“I wash all dishes or put them in the dishwaher as soon as I am finished eating......I hate dishes in the sink.”

“Jello Fog is a female!!

No man washes dishes after eating.”

“Dishes?
You want a salad? Cut a head of lettus in half, pour dressing on one half and eat over the sink.
Who needs dishes?”

“LOL @ Navi!!!”

“Can you say "Hardees"?”

“Hah, tell me about it!






I really feel good, when I get all the dishes washed. It happens about once a month. But, after Friday, I can no longer use work as an excuse.”

“Jello...is that true...are you a girl frog?”

“twigeater - I'm with you. Dishes and folding laundry are my least favorite chores. YUC”

“I always do dishes after my wife fixes a big dinner for company. Its easy after a few glasses of wine or a few beers and some tunes are blasting.”

“Agreement in our house. If you cook you don't do dishes. Works most of the time, and I cook 5-6 days a week! :-)”

“It drives me freakin' nuts to have a pile of dirty dishes! Put them in the dishwasher or wash 'em up I say!!!”

“Hey, how come my wife is the one who leaves all the dishes in the sink? We don't have a dishwasher so we just do em as we go, but it seems shes been a slackin”

“I've been domesticated. In our house - whoever cooks dinner gets "dishes clemency." I used to hate dishes when I was young, but now it's more of a strong dislike.

Nowslimmer - what's up on Friday? Retirement?

Ass far as weird gear related practices - I build little cook fires in my backyard and boil water for coffee on some weekend mornings.”

“you all don't have a dishwasher?
I hate doing dishes, but that's what the dishwasher is for. clean them before loading them into the diswasher? why?
hey, or how about the disposible stuff? that works. No more dishes!”

“i eat out of the fridge or over the sink like navi,and one bowl meals that i rinse after use...rinse the blender after breakfast smoothie...
...mostly at the end of the week i have all glasses and mugs in the sink...wash em on saturday...when i take a bath..lol...
jes jesting about the bath part~~~~~~~~~”

“My dishwasher went into a coma a few months ago --- I was nearly buried in an avalanche of dirty dishes, LOL”

“Unloading the dishwasher is my least favorite chore. Putting laundry away is a close second.

Binks, you need to hire a maid to do those dishes for you!”

“hate doing the laundry more then anything.

yeah, bb, I have a sister who could use a little $$ while she is visiting. Don't you need a maid?”

“It's funny......i have piles of clean clothes laying around but i hang all my backpacking clothes up immediately...”

“Well, I have to say that for the first time, I share Jello's philosophy (No offense, Jello). I have a thing about dirty dishes too. And I'm not a female Treebeard either. Just ask Maple. Oh, and Maple dear...
Did you see the part above about the person who makes the dinner getting dish cleaning clemency????”

“nope. i like doing dishes, and laundry!”

“Jello Grog could be a guy. My dad never uses the dishwasher. He washes the dishes as soon as he can and dries them and puts them away. I try to do this when my family visits him because I can see that he is getting stressed out.”

“Lyndy, you just touched on a subject for a whole other thread. Things you do that you normally wouldn't do just because it stresses out your parents/family when you visit. My dad is the same way - real anal about some things. You have to do it his way, or the house becomes unhappy real fast!”

“I thought Lyra would've trained the monkeys to clean the house by now...”

“Actually my dad is so much more relaxed now than he was when I was growing up. Talk about tension! But the dishes have always been an issue.

When I was in college, people use to crack about what a neatfreak I was. I had to give is up once I got married, or there would have been wreckage. Now that the kids are getting older, I am trying to get things a little more orderly.”

“my monkeys just mess mess mess......

























when do kids start minding?”

“"wreckage," Lyndy? that's cracking me up!

the monkeys are spoiled little brats, Tilty-poo.

luckily, my parents aren't neat-freaks...they're neat without freaking out about it, though.”

“Well it depends on what method you use for persuading. Without spankings, it is a real challenge to get the kids to mind. It gets a bit elaborate, and works better when they start getting significant homework, because they are starting to get the whole "life is not always a beach" concept.”

“i never got spanked, and i always did my chores! probably because i'm a little anges.”

“angel!!”

“Since most of my friends have problems getting the kids to do their chores also, then I guess that you were an angel, Lyra!”

“Would somebody please explain what neat means?”

“oh, my mom definitely had lots of trouble getting all of us to do our chores. we always did them though...eventually.”

“Same here binks, piles of clean laundry in my room, outdoor clothes neatly in their very own closet. I LIKE having all the dishes done and put away, I just hate doing it. geez, I'm such a slob! However, I'd work on the wood pile 'til the cows come home...”

“Geobeet, you could make it a research project, like the kids get at school. Do a search on the internet, take books out of the library, arrange to interview Martha in the Big House, and watch some old Felix Ungar/Oscar Madison shows.”

“Is anyone here really good with clutter, because that is what I can't seem to control. I love it when there are piles of clutter all over the house, and my husband will pick up one piece of paper and yell to me from another room "Do you need this letter or can I throw it out?" So that I can yell back "Do you need this magazine or can I throw it out?" As you can see, we never seem to make much progress on the clutter.”