Washing Dishes Might Have Just Gotten Easier


Blog / Friday, July 25th, 2014

It’s no secret that I don’t like washing dishes. Ask my girlfriend. I think I’m great at washing dishes. I know this because I worked for a couple of years in a few different kitchens and I was really good at washing the industrial dishes, like really good. For one of the jobs, that’s all I did and I could run the dish room by myself during peak meal times if I needed to, but it wasn’t something I liked to do. I like being good at washing dishes more than I like washing dishes.

On any given day, I either have a sink full of dishes, or I’m spending an hour washing the dishes. Then, after they’re washed, I find more to wash but since I meticulously organize them, there’s no place to fit the newly found dirty dishes. It’s a mess.

In college there was one year that my apartment had a dishwasher, and it was glorious. Dishes were still procrastinated, but they were done simply. I should point out, before my mom chimes in, that we did have a dishwasher in the latter years of growing up and that, according to her, I never loaded it and only emptied it when I was told to, in my defense, that’s all true. But the one in the apartment. It was the most satisfying apartment year of my life, and I haven’t had that since. Not even in Ukraine!

Fast forward to two days ago. Wait a second, is if fast forwarding if we weren’t really moving through time already? I was just mentioning jobs in the past…so maybe? Anyway, yesterday. I drove into my apartment complex parking lot and saw this by the trash:

Dishwasher
Portable dishwasher in the trash?

Admittedly, this image wasn’t taken by the trash. This picture was taken in my apartment after I had single-handedly hauled the beast into my apartment. Pro tip: dishwashers are really heavy.

But I have a dishwasher now. Granted, I haven’t gotten it to work and I don’t know if I will, but I have a dishwasher. I plugged it in and tested it, the electrics work on it. I hooked it up to the bathroom faucet (because it didn’t fit nicely on the kitchen faucet) and I flooded my bathroom floor. It wasn’t because of the dishwasher, it flooded because the water was spraying on the bathroom countertop and there’s a poor seal between the countertop and the faucet.

I later looked up a manual on how to use it and it turns out I need a special adapter for my faucet. That’s why it never fit. So once I get that, I think I’ll be able to really test it. If it still doesn’t work after getting the adapter, there’s a maintenance number I can call. If maintenance is too expensive, maybe I’ll try selling it as-is on Craigslist. Maybe I’ll jump the gun on buying an adapter and getting it fixed (if it’s broken) and just sell it on Craigslist. That would make washing dishes more tedious but I’d reclaim the space in my apartment and have some extra spending money for just pulling a beast out of the trash.

Any way I break it down, it looks to be a win for me.

What would you do with a dishwasher from the trash?

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