Omg no. Fuck. Not me. I hate this so much. My husband, brother in law and grandmother do it. At least my grandmother was on tank water for almost my whole life so saving water is ingrained. Haven't seen BIL do dishes enough to say but the other two don't change the soapy water when it gets dirty. It's disgusting. Even if their soapy water was clean, it's still soapy and gross. I've had soapy tasting drinks while my husband was on paternity leave because I let him do some dishes. Some had visible grime still too. 🤢
I soak in soapy water if needed and/or rinse in hot running water, then empty the water and wash in a sink of new piping hot water (the above two love washing in lukewarm water), rinse in more piping hot water and drip dry most of the way (bought a dish rack that was a great investment) and then a new clean tea towel for drying - a linen like smooth cotton one for glasses and other smudgeables and a Terry cotton for all else - I go through up to 5 tea towels a day between dish washing and hand drying. Leaving wet for a long time grows more bacteria then a clean tea towel but I have seen people use some feral days old wet ones.
I could go on...
HOW DID YOU KNOW THIS WAS SUCH A PET PEEVE OF MINE???!?!?11!?
Cunt 1 points 1 year ago
Omg no. Fuck. Not me. I hate this so much. My husband, brother in law and grandmother do it. At least my grandmother was on tank water for almost my whole life so saving water is ingrained. Haven't seen BIL do dishes enough to say but the other two don't change the soapy water when it gets dirty. It's disgusting. Even if their soapy water was clean, it's still soapy and gross. I've had soapy tasting drinks while my husband was on paternity leave because I let him do some dishes. Some had visible grime still too. 🤢
I soak in soapy water if needed and/or rinse in hot running water, then empty the water and wash in a sink of new piping hot water (the above two love washing in lukewarm water), rinse in more piping hot water and drip dry most of the way (bought a dish rack that was a great investment) and then a new clean tea towel for drying - a linen like smooth cotton one for glasses and other smudgeables and a Terry cotton for all else - I go through up to 5 tea towels a day between dish washing and hand drying. Leaving wet for a long time grows more bacteria then a clean tea towel but I have seen people use some feral days old wet ones.
I could go on...
HOW DID YOU KNOW THIS WAS SUCH A PET PEEVE OF MINE???!?!?11!?