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Dude, for real. Folks: do not take your dishwasher for granted!

This so much. Don't have a dishwasher currently and I spend upwards of 20 minutes a day in front of the sink. Makes my shoulders hurt hunching over like that all the time

Getting a dishwasher was one of the things that has improved my quality of life the most. Even a crappy, cheapo dishwasher like mine will make a big difference.

Yeah, in my student single flat, I didn't had a dishwasher for quite some time.

Couldn't keep up in any way, although this shit kitchen wasn't even up to really cook something big, but hand washing every little thing, really put me off cooking for quite some time.

I think, I re-used the same set of plate and knife for years, just because I didn't want to use up more dishes, that I need to wash...

I got a countertop dishwasher last year, best 300 ive ever spent. looking forward to having a real dishwasher when I eventually move!

When you start to level up in life, invest in a mid-tier or above dishwasher. Man that thing has changed my life. We had a dishwasher but it started leaking and caused water damage on the floor. That was a whole headache. Went to buy a new one once the floor was fixed, turns out I had a very basic, entry level dishwasher. It wasn't terrible (until it leaked) but upgrading to a better one, oooh baby, this thing cleans and dries like a dream! Ah such a midlife thrill acquiring an effective dishwasher.

I read this while procrastinating about cleaning the kitchen

Naturally

I go commando because I just have no underwear while wearing two different socks. They will find me keeled over like this eating in a restaurant. Kitchen dirty of course.

I also don't care.

This was very frustrating for me when I went through it. I was in a growing phase, trying to get my life on tracks, and I HATED that I could never have all my clothes I love to wear washed while still being able to wear them. Obvious, I know. But it really wasn’t something I had encountered before, because I never really cared about keeping things tidy.

It’s funny that once you decide you want things tidy, you realize they never truly will be.

You can clean up all the cans, but you will crack another.

You can do all the laundry, you gotta wear it

You can clean the plates, still gotta eat off of them

The phrase is used to shame people for taking amy breaks at work, which is why people tend to hate it.

Cleaning as you go (if time is available) does result in a lot less work at the end and more about efficiency than laziness. For meals that create a lot of dishes, having someone else clean as you go is even better than puttibg it all on to cook!

It's one of the reasons I hate having one person cook and the other clean

the incentives are misaligned, and it just breeds bad habits and reckless cooking IMHO. If you do both cooking and cleaning, you'll hopefully learn to clean as you go.

Mine isn't usually spotless because when it's time to eat it's time to eat, but I always clean as I go. Everything I do in the kitchen starts with a piping hot sink of soapy water.

Yeah you gotta do it straight away or very soon after. I try to wash dishes as we go but anything left, if we're watching TV over dinner or whatever, I pause that after we eat and go wash the remaining dishes. Otherwise they aren't going to get done

My wife hates this philosophy, but when I’m done cooking and ready to plate, the kitchen is spotless.

You know, I'm firmly of the philosophy that a big part of being a good chef is sweeping up behind yourself as you go. Minimizing the volume of cookware and number of appliances I use is also important.

But come on, dude. You're not wiping splattered oil off a hot stove unless you're a masochist. That cast-iron isn't getting touched until it's had time to cool down.

The call is coming from in the house.

You got hard water?

That was my thought. If you take your take out to the couch directly you don’t need to clean the kitchen. #life hack

Have kids and an incontinent cat, and despair.

When I cook I follow the restaurant kitchen principle of cleaning as you go, meaning constantly clear your workspace and clean your essential tools so they're immediately ready. When you get an inspiration to cook, nothing deflates it like finding you have 20 minutes of work to do first, or that the special utensil or machine you only have one of needs soaking to get the crusty dried crud off it.

Get one of those car window cleaners, The kind they use at the gas station with the wiper blade on one side and the scrubby sponge on the back. Use it in your shower every time after you shower. Scrubby side first wiper side second. It literally takes 30 seconds to scrub down everything and while it's never completely clean it never gets groady.

Treat your grout with bleach. Spray the wall wipe the bleach off the tile itself The grout will absorb it a little bit and it'll keep mold from forming.

If you have a glass shower door you can treat it with rainx the same way you would do your windshield. It's not get any appreciable muck on it for weeks. It is unfortunately a fair amount of work to apply the Windex properly.

Get stainless steel cleaner to clean stainless steel. It really makes a difference.

The oxalic acid in Bar Keeper's Friend will remove tarnish from copper with zero effort. It can also remove burned on food to an extent.

If your range hood is covered in grease and dust, pour olive oil all over a paper towel and use that to wipe off you hood first. Then use a soapy rag to clean off the oil.

Slightly damp magic erasers will remove almost anything from painted drywall. You can do the same spot about four or five times usually before it needs to be repainted.

Don't use a steam mop on luxury vinyl plank. Only use a spray mop and neutral pH cleaners specifically designed for flooring. Definitely not fabuloso.

Remove the baskets from your dishwasher once in a while and scrub the insides down with the magic eraser.

Clean your dishwasher filter every time you run it, or be prepared to replace the pump every other year.

Take your shower heads off and soak them in CLR if they start spraying water in strange directions.

The absolute best life hack I have is the 5 minute rule.

If I see something that needs doing I ask one question, “can I do this in less than 5 minutes?” If the answer is yes, I do it.

Over time I’ve realized how many things I used to put off and let pile up because I didn’t have the time and how many of those things take less than 5 minutes, less than 2 minutes.

It’s amazing how many things you can do in basically no time. I used to put off so much, I won’t empty the dishwasher because it “takes too long” takes about 2 minutes. I won’t load the dishwasher because it “takes too long” takes about 2 minutes. The counter is messy but it would take forever to clean it, nope, 3 minutes.

I think it’s a good hack though because it works in 3 different dimensions

• First, and most obvious, you do whatever thing you’ve identified will take less than 5 minutes.
• Second, and less obvious, once you start doing this you find the number of times you need to stop and clean all afternoon going down greatly. It just changes the relationship you have with cleaning (or at least I had with cleaning). Cleaning time used to be this block I would set aside and dread, but now even when I need to stop and do the things that take more than 5 minutes there aren’t 100 5 minus tasks also piled up in the way.
• Third, and maybe least obvious, it helps you really gauge how much work stuff is. I don’t know why I thought unloading the dishwasher was some big ordeal, it takes 2 minutes tops. The longer I use the 5 minute rule the more things I’ve thought to try to see if I can do in 5 minutes. And it’s not like I’m speed running these chores. A lot of the things I put off and let pile up just aren’t that much work if you do them when they need doing.

So that’s my cleaning life hack. It has completely changed the way I think about cleaning. It’s not something I stop and do and dread Saturday because I’ve got to do a big clean of the kitchen. My kitchen is always pretty clean now and on Sunday I spend 30-60 minutes mopping and spraying everything down for a nice squeaky clean.

Living in a nice clean place also rules.

You can get them to if you're clever enough.