“So everything is grouped in our household. So large plates go at the left end. Small plates go here. Toddler quick plates go in the back. All of our cups start on the side and kinda move their way in. Generally, the side is just bowls or glasswares that need to get washed. And then cups and random tall things just go at the bottom. We're pretty particular about silverware. All of the like silverware goes in a spot. And, really, the reason for all of it is so that as soon as it's done, everything can be emptied really quickly and really efficiently. And it only takes us a few minutes to empty the dishwasher. We just make stacks, and boom. Everything is done.”

“I would say it would be the sign because there have been many times where, a load is clean and my husband will add dirty dishes to the clean load where it hasn't been unloaded. So there's been a lot of confusion with that, which is why I got this sign so that everyone is on the same page. But then it does lead to some discussion because sometimes my husband forgets to update the sign. So this is kind of still work in progress, but something that I like to always have it accurate and up to date.”

“I would say probably determining if it's clean or dirty. It's kind of funny because I'm going to flip this forward. I went as far as one time I made a magnet and then I I bought a magnet and one side says dirty and the other side says clean and no one ever remembers to flip it including myself.”

“Yeah, I talked about this previously, but I got this sign because my husband would put dirty dishes in the rack when there were still clean dishes. So we just had this sign as a universal form of communication to identify dirty or clean.”

“So some dishwasher rules I have is that more delicate fragile items go on the top, such as Tupperware, espresso mugs. Those go on the very top load, anything that with more plastic than we're concerned about. Things on the lower load are the silverware and larger bowls and plates. They always go there. And then on the outside of my dishwasher, have this sign that says dirty or clean. So I always make it a thing with my husband to indicate which, I guess, status it is in to always reflect, whether there are dirty dishes or if there are clean dishes.”

“we'll sometimes well, if we're lazy, if we leave stuff in here and let it go through another load as we add other items that are dirty. So we'll keep, like, clean items instead if there's, like, only a few things left because we usually use the dishes out, you know, clean dishes throughout the day instead of putting the whole thing away, sew up and leave some in there if we we need to load it and just let it pour them through again so they get, like, double or sometimes even triple clean. So that's pretty funny.”

“That when it is not being used to clean dishes, it is being used as storage.”

“So like I said, I'll normally put some sheet pans that I don't really use that often, and then I'll put these lids to different pots in there just because they take up more space if I try to put them with the pots that they belong in. And then this thing down here, apparently, it's supposed to keep certain items, like, warm if you've used the oven with the stove, I use it for storage as well. So I put a lot of my pans down there and especially the long sheet pans. I put that down there in that area. Sorry that my stovetop is a little dirty. I have to clean it. But yeah. So those are the things that end up living in here when I use it as storage just like longer sheet pans that can't fit down here. And then the tops, the lids for pots because I put my pots actually in here. So I if I am gonna run a load, text me about couple seconds, less than a minute to take out the things that I've stored in there because I don't store a lot. Usually, things just on the top rack. So I take them out. I put them here on the counter, and then sorry. I put them here on the counter. I run the load. And then once the load is done, I go ahead and clear it out. And so these I won't put them in tonight because I just ran it. But tomorrow when I come back downstairs, I'll put them back in there.”

“Yes. When I unload, I typically start with the bottom rack and work my way up. That is so any water from the top racks don't go onto the dishes on the bottom. They're already removed.”

“There's nothing really so much like that. I think I mentioned, we have a sort of running joke that my wife likes to unload the bottom first because the top can get the bottom wet. But I always say that if you pull out the top carefully, it doesn't get the bottom wet. But this is, a little little running joke in our household. Other than that, no surprising or typical thing, I would say.”

“It sometimes may stay loaded in a complete cycle a couple days before we actually unload it or someone may put something dirty in an already clean load that is yet to be unloaded.”

“Typically the light is still on when the load is completed but if somebody opens it up and sees that it's clean and closes the door the light goes off. So the next person who does it, it would be safe to assume that it was dirty because the light was off.”

“So there was a couple items that I flipped over initially. Like, I flipped over this bowl. I flipped over my lid. Obviously, I think those need to dry a little bit more, but I don't intend on hand drying them. I intend on just leaving them in here for about another hour. And then if they still need to dry, I'll leave them set in our regular dish strainer as long as is needed.”

“Okay. Just opened it up. I had to pause it really quick because it's still warm and it kinda hit me with a burst of hot air and fogged my glasses. So I usually start with opening the half drawer first because do I usually? Well, that's what I did today. I don't know. There's a little bit of water in the bottom of this cup because it has kind of a rim. So usually I just take it and turn it upside down. Some of these utensils are still kind of warm, so I'm going to take them out and just place them in my drying side of my, that is very very hot. The drying side of my sink. And I'm gonna pull this out and unload some of the plates. So they are still very, very warm. Typically, we wait until the next day to unload. Oh, very hot. I'm just gonna do a couple of these at a time instead. They do seem pretty dry, which is nice. Just very hot. Couple of different types of plates here. So they all all the plates seem to be really clean, shiny, not really any spots.”

“Yeah. Like, I just had rearranged these bowls because they were, like, sitting up like this. Three of them were sitting on top. So I had to pour the water out, put them back like that. Pour a little bit of water that was out. Back in the hand dry. Just gonna let them sit because I don't need anything cooking right away. By tomorrow, it'll be dry when I'm ready to use them again, so I don't really need to I feel like everything's clean enough. I usually tend to rinse off things before I use it anyway, so they'll be fine.”

“I dry a lot of my dishes in the dishwasher, especially if we have guests over. And so I think that is a funny thing that most homes don't practice”

“I definitely need to hand dry everything, especially if I don't want spots left on the glasses. Let me see this. There's still residue left on here, so I will have to re, hand scrub this part.”

“Definitely plastics. Plastics are holding a lot of water right now. They are dripping in water.”

“I would say this top rack is always kind of a little hack. I find that with the Tupperware, I'm always having trouble placing the lids in appropriate way where it feels like it's being cleaned appropriately. So I kinda stash them in these individual slots here, but just the way they fall or, like, are angled, sometimes they aren't cleaned very well. I would say another hack is this Swedish dishcloth. I kind of lay it flat on this kind of kind of middle division here that is flat. But, again, I'm not totally sure it's gonna be cleaned a 100% well, but this is kind of the only solution I have for placing it there.”

“If somebody puts pet dishes or pet stuff in here with the rest of my dishes, I probably will run the dishwasher again without those things.”