I’m an overwhelmed mom-of-6 – my simple dishwashing method makes chores so much easier
LETTING dishes pile up in your sink will only lead to stress later on.
Mom-of-six Sharon Johnson posted a video revealing the dishwashing method she uses to help reduce the stress of her day to day life.
LIMIT DISHES
Johnson’s first step of her dishwashing method is to place a limit on the number of dishes you own.
“I only have enough dishes as there are people in this house,” she said.
“Eight dishes for eight people.”
“The same goes with bowls.”
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The busy mom said she does keep extra dishware for when they have company over, but they’re in a hard-to-reach place in the cabinet so she doesn’t just take them out.
“This ensures that my sink will never get too overcrowded with a ton of dishes,” she said.
She said this rule does not apply to utensils as her children often accidently throw away or misplace their forks and spoons, so the more they have the better.
COLOR CODE CUPS
Johnson’s dish limiting rule does apply to cups, but she has a easy trick for making sure you drink out of the cup you chose that day.
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To keep track of your cup, the mom said to color code them using different colored rubberbands.
She said to wrap a colored rubberband around your cup so yo can tell which is yours all day long.
“We just wash them once a night,” she said.
PAPER PLATES
Johnson always makes sure she has paper plates on hand to use when she wants/needs to.
“This saves my sanity,” she said, claiming that she saves the planet in other ways.
DO DISHES
“Every single night, whether there are five dishes or 50 dishes to do, I do the dishes,” she said.
She said she will also fill and run the dishwasher before bed, but if there are exrta dishes in the sink she makes sure to do them.
In the morning, she gives her children the task of unloading the dishwasher.
“Then throughout the day, I can load as I go.”
Many users loved her dishwashing method, saying: “Love it!” and “The paper plates… life saver.”
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“I love this idea,” said another mom-of-six.
“Six kids here and the fight or amount of time it takes my kids to do dishes is more exhausting then just doing them myself.”
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