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What's the most notable skill a GF or BF taught you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My ex (though really his mom i guess) taught me you can just run a half empty dishwasher. I grew up without a lot of money, so we weren't running the dishwasher until it was full (big family, so pretty often). But when you're one or two people, it never fills up so I was just hand washing dishes, hating my life. They ran the dishwasher every night no matter how full or empty it was. At 9pm, the dishwasher started. It's stupid to say it changed my life, but now I just run it whenever I want. I also run my washing machine all the time and folding half loads is so much better, I no longer hate laundry.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My wife was like this when we met. She also grew up more poor than me. I still see her washing a lot of stuff by hand that should be in the dishwasher. Old habits die hard. The unspoken agreement is when we run out of a utensil, or get down to one, we run the dishwasher.

One thing my mom taught her through me is not putting good kitchen knives or any wood through the dishwasher.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Also, wood utensils, cutting boards, etc. need oiling. Just cheap mineral oil should do.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

It’s like 3 gallons of hot water and a bit of soap.

Should cost less than 0.50¢