Why didn't I think of that??
A guy commenting on Scott Adam's (Dilbert) blog posted this idea...
He must be a genius! I don't even have one dishwasher, I have to envy Scott's...
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get a second dishwasher!
You have just had a meal with friends, and have sink full of dirty dishes to show for it. But, your dishwasher is full of clean dishes. So before you can even deal with the dirty ones, you gotta hassle with putting clean dishes away. And you are just temporarily moving dishes to the cupboards, since they will soon become dirty themselves. How much productive time is lost moving dishes to and from temporary storage? Possibly as many as 1-2 whole MINUTES a day. It comes to 12 hours a year, which is almost enough time to watch all 3 (count em!) extended version dvd sets of the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, or 12 more hours of sex (c'mon, which do you think is really most likely to happen?)
Break the cycle! Install a second dishwasher, and when the dishes are clean, LEAVE them there--it is your new dish storage location, too! Now you just cycle the clean dishes out of the dishwasher directly to the table, etc., and then back to the other dishwasher. Run it, it has the clean dishes and you reverse directions. Just alternate between dishwashers. All you need is a post it note to move back and forth to indicate dirty/clean dishes, and you are money!
This is my plan when I get out of this rental house and into my own. I will let you know how it works out!
He must be a genius! I don't even have one dishwasher, I have to envy Scott's...
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get a second dishwasher!
You have just had a meal with friends, and have sink full of dirty dishes to show for it. But, your dishwasher is full of clean dishes. So before you can even deal with the dirty ones, you gotta hassle with putting clean dishes away. And you are just temporarily moving dishes to the cupboards, since they will soon become dirty themselves. How much productive time is lost moving dishes to and from temporary storage? Possibly as many as 1-2 whole MINUTES a day. It comes to 12 hours a year, which is almost enough time to watch all 3 (count em!) extended version dvd sets of the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, or 12 more hours of sex (c'mon, which do you think is really most likely to happen?)
Break the cycle! Install a second dishwasher, and when the dishes are clean, LEAVE them there--it is your new dish storage location, too! Now you just cycle the clean dishes out of the dishwasher directly to the table, etc., and then back to the other dishwasher. Run it, it has the clean dishes and you reverse directions. Just alternate between dishwashers. All you need is a post it note to move back and forth to indicate dirty/clean dishes, and you are money!
This is my plan when I get out of this rental house and into my own. I will let you know how it works out!
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