Does anyone else have this sort of system?
Something 'weird' or gross happens with your dishes and you have to set them aside for 'extra' washing or attention? Like for a month? This is what I call rehabbing my dishes.
We have a lovely rehab program here at OCD Camp Shades. Dishes usually show up with moldy food or other disaster, and due to the fact that I can't stand waste (as in throwing these things out), I have to rehab them and gently bring them back into the wild.
That is my current group of patients up there.
I can tell you what happened with each of them. The white plate accidentally got caught up in it. A vigilante. An Angel saving other dishes from the trash and the fertile mind of mine that sees germs currently unknown to science on them. It only serves as a holding base for the rest of them.
The clear pyrex bowl is a victim of lentils hanging out in it for a good number of days (probably close to 14 of them) outside of the fridge. With curry. I'm afraid of lentils and legumes when they are out of the fridge. They do weird things, things with gas. I don't know what they are emitting but to me it has to be hazardous.
The clear pyrex bowl is a victim of lentils hanging out in it for a good number of days (probably close to 14 of them) outside of the fridge. With curry. I'm afraid of lentils and legumes when they are out of the fridge. They do weird things, things with gas. I don't know what they are emitting but to me it has to be hazardous.
The tipped over plastic spongebob cup is from about a month ago when Humanling was sick and used this cup.
The mini glass with spoon in it was found under my bed, about 2 months after use. I think there was soda in the glass and the spoon was found suspiciously close to an old jello pudding cup after Humanling's boxing round with a seizure. She had a migraine on that weekend and I was happy she'd eat anything at all and probably lost the spoon and pudding cup in the excitement.
Last but not least, I could really use that lid. I have one lid in use now and would love to have the other one available. However, with my old kitchen set up, there was a catch all for things that fell off my stove that wasn't convenient to pick those things back up from. A month ago or so, after about five months of things falling back there, I finally pulled them all out....including this lid. It may have had a spot of food on it but I'm not sure. It looked like bird poop (one of my top five fears) but that is just the powerful negative part of my imagination, trying to mess with my strong positive side.
Rehab conditions usually go like this:
Item has been sitting around in a Putrid state.
Master of Rehab Program finally stops ignoring item and rinses it out then places it next to the sink with water and soap in it.
After an undetermined amount of time, item is rewashed (always with paper towels and soap).
Item is finally trusted to go into the sink amongst the active population that is in circulation.
Item is washed day after day with paper towel until the program director finally decides it is now a harmless citizen and throws it into the dishwasher with the active population.
From there the item never leaves the ride, but stays on for multiple rounds in the dishwasher as new loads are activated.
Item finally goes off the sabbatical and is reunited within the cabinets, ready for use!
Easy!
Anyone else have some nutty system they want to admit to?
7 comments:
haha - i have a lot of systems... im not sure how NUTTY they are!! LOL - i think they make a lot of sense!!! at least to me!!!
but this is probably the nuttiest... i have a thing about orphan socks... i save them ... for an indeterminate amount of time... probably about six months longer than i should... before i can bear to part with them... usually en masse...
Nope. I sure don't. I have a dishwasher (lucky me) and if it doesnt come out clean the first time, it goes back in for the second time - if its still not clean after that it goes in the garbage. I HATE having dishes in the sink, Its someting my parents instilled in me from an early age - but I hate washing dishes too... lol
Birdpoop is one of your top 5 fears? I've never heard of that before!! Well, hopefully its not on any of your dishes! lol
I don't think I have any nutty systems like that.... I probably do, I just cant identify them because I think Im normal! hahhaha I will have to ask my friends! lol
Alright THANKS GUYS for letting me hang as a lunatic here.... =))))
And T-Guy ~ YES! I am paranoid about bird poop landing on my coffee while I walk outside or on my face somehow. I wouldn't be someone who could enjoy lying in the grass without an awning....
I like your system - quick and easy! I moved all the items out of the sink for now and they are on a Ross and Rachel "break" as they sit *near* the sink, looking very *clean*.
Annie we never wear a matching pair in this house. =) My daughter is pointed out as the kid in school who proudly displays her non symmetrical wares and then when mom took me to buy new boots the other day, I pulled off my existing decrepit boots and there were two very different socks. Mom sighed and said "You haven't changed."
I have to admit...I have a similar routine, though not as complicated. I take things out of the fridge, get brave enough to deal with what is in it..the unidentifiable stuff goes either in the toilet, or in plastic bags which go into the garbage, double wrapped so the blob does not escape from the bag. I have a few traumatizing mold stories to tell...the dough oranments attack in 1968, and the pea soup horror in 1978, and the stink bean disaster on my counter at school. I wash them many times outside and then inside the dishwasher, till I can't remember what the dish looked like with the moldy substance, and I will just put it back in circulation.
lololol. xxpatti o
What I love about you Patti is that sometimes I think you are me in the future. That we're the same person and the universe accidentally penciled us into the same plane at the same time....
LOL - the stink bean disaster!!!!
"program director," "a Ross & Rachel break," "orphan socks (me too, annie!!)" HAHAA!!
With the Hotcakes & Sausage at McDonalds, I used to have to eat them only one way;
1)Stack the three hotcakes.
2) Put a butter pat between the a-bottomost and the middle, and
b-the middle and the topmost
3) Let the butter melt (help them with knife if the pats were rock hard cold)
4) Cut the stack into eighth wedges (by cutting them into four quarters then cutting each quarter into eights.
5) Cut the sausage patty the same way
6) Eat the pancake wedges with a wedge of sausage in such a combination that the last three wedges will have a sausage wedge each.
I think step 6 involved trigonometry, but I SUCK at math so I can't explain it.
OH! I forgot a step!!
4a) Drizzle syrup over the cut pancake wedge stacks so that the inside of the stacks are exposed to the syrup as well as the top pancake.
"Just try to make me go to rehab
I won't go, go go."
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