When our dishwasher started leaving more dishes dirty then clean and we realized that we'd have to stop using it, I wasn't sure how we were going to get by. We run the dishwasher everyday and still do a sink full of the pots and pans that didn't fit in.
Then it hit me that this was actually a blessing in disguise I have been wanting to teach the kids how to hand wash the dishes for a while, but because of the convience of the dishwasher, we hadn't taught them yet.
That all changed this month.
The 3 older kids each have 2 dishwasher days a week where they empty and load the dishwasher. They thought they were going to get out of dishwasher duty when the dishwasher died, but no sorry kids that didn't happen.
Every evening the kid in charge of the dishwasher that day hand washes the plates, bowls, plastic cups and silverware and loads them into our GIANT dish dryer- aka the dishwasher. Mom or dad then finish the rest. Then the next morning that days dishwasher kid empties the dishes in the dishwasher and the cycle starts over.
So far it's still a fun thing to wash the dishes and since we haven't had them do all the days dishes it hasn't over whelmed them yet. We had a plate that already had a thin crack in it get a big chunk broken off. That was a great learning lesson for that kid, and when all the others saw it, they also realized that they needed to be more careful and not hit the plates on the sink.
It's amazing how much cleaner our kitchen has stayed since our dishwasher died. Since we are already at the sink with the kids, it makes it easier to just finish everything up right then rather then waiting "until later" which half the time didn't happen.
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