October 2010 Weddings
Megan & Chris
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Random Question - washing dishes
So as I keep complaining about, we have a broken pipe in our house, and therefore, cannot use our kitchen sink, dishwasher, or clothes washer.
This means that we eat Subway or Chick-fil-a for pretty much every meal, which is not only unhealthy, but also totally boring. The reason for this is that we couldn't clean our dishes in the kitchen sink if I were to cook something at home.
Chris' best friend thinks we should wash dishes in the bathtub. I, on the other hand, think that is totally disgusting and would never be able to eat off of /cook with that dish again.
So my random question is, if you were in our situation, would you wash your dishes in the bathtub?
Megan & Chris
Re: Random Question - washing dishes
Just wanted to say I warned you this was random.
I was just talking to a friend about it and she agrees with me...so that's what made me think to post it.
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Yes. I mean, if your tub is clean and you wash it out after the dishes, I don't see the problem. It's got to be more annoying to eat fast food all the time.
Maybe you could buy some sort of smaller tub to use? This is random, I know, but we bought a kitty litter tray to use when we bathe Jack. Something like that might work. (Provided you can forget it's a litter tray.)
Edited to add: could you use the bathroom sink with some sort of bucket system?
I like this idea. I wouldn't do it directly in the tub. Althuogh I guess if I were desparate enough, I would wash holding under faucet in tub (but not setting dishes down in tub itself or filling up the tub with dishwater).
You poor things! When will it be fixed?
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I was going to suggest what a pp said, what about the bathroom sink? I certainly wouldn't want to wash messy dishes in there, but if you make a sandwich or something, how dirty can the plate get, ya know?
I don't think I'd wash a dish directly in the tub but like others have said, you could have a bucket to wash them in and then rinse them under the faucet in the tub.
ewww, I would never even take the dishes near the bathtub. the thought of that makes me sick
I'd figure out a way to use another sink with a tub or something as PP suggested.
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This was us when we moved in to our house a couple years ago. Only we had no running water in the washroom either... our neighbor was kind enough to let us use their washroom for relief and bathing and if nature called in the middle of the night it was a walk down the street to the 24-hour coffee shop. Just be thankful you still have running water in the bathroom
So we loaded up on paper plates and BBQ'd for the 3 weeks it took for things to get finished. We also kept a plastic bin (storage tupperware) for washing utensils, cups and other small things and filled it up next door. If you don't have neighbors like ours you could always boils water and use the bin method.
Good luck and I hope that pipe gets fixed soon!
Yeah, just get a big rubbermaid tote, wash it out with bleach water, then go to town. It'll sit in the bathtub nicely, and you can rinse the dishes with the shower nozzle. :-)
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ETA: Obviously I didn't mean you had to use the bleach water to wash your dishes. LOL I'd personally just wash out the tub before the first use, with bleach water.
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Reading all of your responses makes me realize that I AM a little unbalanced! Ha!
I was just telling my friend that at my parents' house, my mom won't allow us to wash our hands in the kitchen sink - we have to go in the laundry room or bathroom. So this is where I get my issues...and why there is a separation in terms of which rooms I will do specific tasks in.
My friend also said washing dishes in the bathtub is kind of the same as Kramer making a salad in the shower.
I should note it's not just that we can't get water out of the kitchen sink, we also cannot let water drain down the pipe...because the pipe is cut in half under the sink. Ugh.
Hannah - we are waiting on insurance to call us with the plumbing report. It's been more than two weeks, and the fix will take at least a week, probably more, once we can get them out. During the time they are fixing it (since we won't have plumbing at all), I will live with my parents and Chris will live with our friend who lives around the corner...which totally sucks. I just want to get it all done so life can be normal again...and I can quit stressing about it, and worrying that Carter won't be able to come to his own house
Megan & Chris
Thank you! This makes me feel a little better! For me, though, it's doing it in the bathroom in general...
Megan & Chris
Oh boy! I definitely couldn't live without SOME kind of water in our home. I applaud you for getting through that!
We definitely have loaded up on paper plates and plastic utensils. I still eat my peanut butter toast or cereal for breakfast every morning. It's just cooking that we can't do. We go to my parents' house every few days to do laundry and have a healthy, homecooked meal.
Megan & Chris
Ew. I don't like the idea of taking things I eat on in and out of the bathroom at all, let alone washing them in the frikkin tub (directly or not). Skeeves me out.
I guess I'd be using paper products and go against my trying to be green for a little while instead.
We were without water for 2 or 3 days last year, after the main reservoir in the area had a rupture. It was a boil-water order, so we could still shower, thankfully. But I refused to wash dishes with it, and we couldn't cook with it. I about lost my mind. So I'm not sure how you're doing it.
Yep. This is our thought exactly. Even grilling - we would still have to have a way to clean the spatula.
It's not that our bathtub is dirty or anything (in fact, we don't even use the shower in our hall bath)...it's just that in my brain, that's where you bathe, not wash dishes you eat out of. And my brain is unfortunately not capable of separating that.
Megan & Chris
I'm doing it by complaining...almost constantly. Haha!
The worst we've been through was after Hurricane Ike. We did not have electricity for ten or eleven days. Because we have a septic system, and it filled with rainwater from the storm, we couldn't run water or flush toilets. I washed my hair on the back patio with a hose, and took sponge baths. That was way worse than this...but everyone in Houston was dealing with the same thing, so somehow that made it better. And to not give myself so much undeserved credit...I stayed with friends who got their power back after four or five days until ours came back. So I only lived that way for four or five days, not ten or eleven, like my husband who would not leave home.
Megan & Chris
Yick.
Well, when everyone is equally smelly, it's a lot easier to cope with.
My ILs were without power for 2 weeks after the big ice storm a couple of years ago. They had a small generator, so they were able to suffer through, but I told my husband there's no way - I would have been living it up at a hotel somewhere
Our lease was up at our rental house and we closed a month later than expected because somebody dragged his a$$. When we accepted the countered offer we were depending on that month to get everything in order before actually moving in. Unfortunately it didn't happen that way and our landlord already had new tenants lined up to move in, we were lucky and actually closed the day before our lease expired. So it was move in or be homeless.
I clean my tub very....unregularly lol, so for me it would be gross!
Eww!!!! There is no way on earth I would ever wash my dishes in the bathtub! For two reasons:
1) Urine and feces bacteria spray all over your bathroom when you flush the toilet. (I always close the lid before flushing, but I cannot guarantee everyone who uses the bathroom always does that.)
2) Feet! I hate feet, they are disgusting, and dirty, and gross. And they walk all over the bathtub floor. Washing dishes in the bathtub is equivalent in my mind to licking my feet. Yuck!
Sure, I am a germaphobe, and you may not have a real problem with cross contamination if you wash your bathtub thoroughly first, but I could not get over the grossness in my mind.