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I Love to Cook and Hate the Dishes!

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Date: 11/26/2004 Topic: Cleaning > Dishes  
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Always keep a fresh dish pan of sudsy water to clean your cooking dishes while you cook, incorporate your style of cooking and cleaning at the same time, then when your baking is done so are your dishes! Multitasking can be multi-relaxing!

By Kate
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By darween (Guest Post)
I find that when i dread doing dishes the most is when the drain is full of clean dishes waiting to be put away first.
I don't mind washing dishes as much as i do putting away the clean ones!
When i had a dishwasher, i hated unloading it.
(for that i learned to use a large plastic tray to stack similar items and then carry to the cabinets. i could make maybe 3 trips instead of dozens).

The idea to have clean soapy water while you cook is a good suggestion but i find it is too distracting while i'm cooking, i'd rather wait and do them all at once later.

Sometimes when it's just soooo hard to get motivated to wash a load of waiting dishes, i've found that if i wash my hands first and leave the suds on them, then pick up the first dish to wash, it gets me started more easily.

Also, when dishes are set down on the counter in any ol helter-skelter way, it looks like an awful lot more dishes than it really is!
Stacking like-with-like compacts it all into a small more manageable job.

Plus, i recently went thru my entire kitchen and purged 5 large boxes of duplicate & unused dishes.
We only have 2 hands, one mouth, four stove burners, so i kept out no more than 2-4 peices of like items.
Now instead of grabbing another clean dish every time i need one, i automatically wash the ones i use and it's ready for the next use.

I've gone from having enough dishes & paraphnalia to start my own restaurant, to having barely enough to fill a suitcase!

And it serves our needs just perfectly, i don't miss ANYTHING i purged, and cleaning up in the kitchen is a quick breeze now with less to clean.

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By swatie (Guest Post)
At least when you have dirty dishes, there has been food on them to make them dirty and praise God for the food!

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By gurth (136) Profile Contact
I always remind myself and my children that the dishes are a sign of God's abundance and loving care. The same goes for cleaning the home and putting away the groceries He provided.

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By metroplex (261) Profile Contact
My mother always taught my sister and I to wash up as you go along.

That way there are no piles of dishes to face.

I found that this really works for me. Now if I could only convince my husband.....

:) Smoochie!

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By Stephanie (Guest Post)
I think this is excellent advice. I know that there are many other people out there who would wind up with molding dishes, growing all colors of the rainbow! I have made several life-style changes with the help of friends and the Lord. I am finally learning to love myself. I encourage whoever is reading this, ... you CAN do it. Depression plays a huge role in this and I know Jesus can help you if you call on HIM!! Blessings on your new adventure.

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