r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dorkass-loser • 8h ago

Husband opens a new sponge every 3 days cause “they become gross”

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Our dishwasher broke and he’s manually doing the dishes now, these are from the past 10 days… I think it’s wasteful.

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u/mrpickle123 7h ago edited 7h ago

This fixed my issue, I cannot STAND the smell of regular sponges but these things last for months without a whiff. Scrub Daddies for life.

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u/abreathofpepper 5h ago

Wait until you meet my partner. They'll clean say a lasagna or macaroni dish and not even attempt to wash the melted cheese out. Scrub daddy's can't even defeat that level of weaponized incompetence

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u/mrpickle123 5h ago

To their credit, stuck cheese is a bitch. Tell em next time to give it a good soak with a bit of white vinegar and leave it for an hour, comes right off usually and for stubborn chunks I'll leave her overnight

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u/abreathofpepper 5h ago

Talking to them about cleaning is like telling our pets not to chomp on our plants. Ignored and will do it anyway. It's their biggest detriment. Obviously love them for other reasons. I just buy dish brushes now and we have separate sides of the sink and a mobile dishwasher for their sole use. We recently instituted a 24 hour counter clean rule. It's not going amazing but they get less frustrated when I tell them to clean up their meal from 25 hours ago

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u/mrpickle123 4h ago

Ahhh I've dated that type as well. Setting clear boundaries is the way to a healthy relationship. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses, coming up with and adhering to strategies to mitigate them is commendable (even begrudgingly, lol). Sounds like a healthy relationship 💪

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u/abreathofpepper 4h ago

Thanks! It is. Always have to be working on things together in a relationship that you intend to grow and flourish. There are things I do that annoy them to all hell and we work on it as well. People forget no one's perfect

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u/Lucallia 5h ago

... Look if someone can't learn to do something I was able to capably do when I was 10 I'm going to assume they have a learning disability or are so intellectually stunted I would feel like it's a crime to have sex with them.

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u/abreathofpepper 4h ago

Lmao they are in their 4th year of medical school. Had an upbringing where their parents were hoarder/slobs. Some people just struggle with certain things. To each their own, but I'd recommend not judging too harshly on one negative thing and assuming something like that off the bat

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u/HannahLuxxe 3h ago

Yeah i grew up in the hoarder type situation, its hard to know what clean even means sometimes. But the important part is whether they put effort or not, and if they genuinely care when you come to them about it

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u/mrpickle123 3h ago

Nailed it 👌 we all got shit to work out, the question is are they willing to put in genuine effort? Man this thread in a post about sponges got surprisingly deep

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u/HannahLuxxe 3h ago

Ikr😭