July 18, 2022

Ok, it’s the beginning of week two. For this week, I’m going to start running the dishwasher every night. You might think that I don’t run the dishwasher every night because it’s not full enough. But nope, it’s the other reason: we’re just too lazy and let the dishes pile up. See?

That’s the before. Note that we didn’t run the dishwasher last night, and also that’s probably more than one load’s worth of dirty dishes. Ugh. Sometimes I don’t even make dinner because I can’t find enough clean dishes to cook. (And yes, the trash bag is sticking out of the cabinet because it is too full to fit neatly inside – ooh, maybe I can add that to the habits list!)

If we run the dishwasher every night consistently, one of these days, the dishwasher will not be full enough, and even then we will still run it at night. That’s to avoid the backlog that a 3-hour dishwasher cycle creates in the middle of the day. Plus, one of my other habits I’ll adopt later in the year is to empty the dishwasher every morning. Then, ideally, we will be able to fill the dishwasher as we go, and it becomes a super easy task to start a load before bedtime. Good habits = easier life! Wow, is that really how that works? We’ll see…!