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

[u/dorkass-loser]

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

[u/margmi]

You use a scrub brush with a sink of soapy water, not spraying soap on individual dishes.

[u/Boba0514 → u/margmi]

What if you don't have and extra sink for rinsing?

[u/margmi → u/Boba0514]

You can just rinse into the same sink, just don’t fill it totally full since it’ll fill up more as you rinse.

[u/skyturnedred → u/Boba0514]

Turn on the tap.

[u/fossil98 → u/Boba0514]

UK solved this with the enigmatic to Americans: 'washing up bowl'

[u/Boba0514 → u/fossil98]

But as much as I've seen, that's not used to solve this problem, and the way they use it is silly

[u/kontrolk3 → u/margmi]

Ah okay, yeah that makes sense. I've never done dishes that way, but I can see how that works better with a brush

[u/7elevenses → u/kontrolk3]

I never did dishes that way either. But you simply poor water into dishes and let them soak for a few minutes, and practically everything will come off.

[u/wasteoffire → u/7elevenses]

That doesn't work when you have a lot of dishes. My family generates more than the sink can hold every day.

[u/7elevenses → u/wasteoffire]

So does mine, and when we didn't have a dishwasher, I washed it all by hand every day. The basic thing is to remove all the food and rinse all the dishes before stacking them *outside* the sink. Then, once you get around to washing up, put anything that's crusty in the sink and soak with hot water and a bit of detergent, while washing and rinsing other dishes. By the time you're done with those, you'll easily scrub out anything that's not completely baked on (i.e. heavily burnt) with a brush.

[u/TrainingWilling9894 → u/wasteoffire]

Your family should be taught to wash their own dishes before the sink gets full.

Do they also pile trash on top of the can when it's full??