Dishwasher duty {Day 12}

Today's tasks:

- Clean the dishwasher

- Declutter/organise the bathroom cupboard

- Make a habit of checking your diary before you sleep

- Take the rubbish out of your car

Okay, so the dishwasher. Let me introduce you. This is our dishwasher:

Now to let you in on a little secret. We have never used it. And we never will. We have been using it as storage space:

This is where we keep our plastic containers. Quite honestly, for us, it is quicker to wash things than to run the dishwasher. Also, it would probably mean putting the dishwasher on only every few days and I don't really like that feeling. Did I mention I also loathe loading and unloading the dishwasher? No thank you.

So I made a decision to relocate these plastic containers into an actual cupboard today.

See this cupboard? I've decided that this cupboard is perfect for plastic containers. I'm planning to buy a thing for the other doors that are together so that Luke can't get into them when he is on the move (which will be really soon! The other day I caught him unplugging the antenna from the TV). Someone suggested that there can be one cupboard that's safe for the kids to get into if need be. Plastic to me seems pretty safe. My Mum calls it the Tupperware cupboard... even if it's not actually tupperware!

This is what was in the cupboard:

Pots and pans and clanging things! They obviously didn't stack well so now....

They stack perfectly in the dishwasher!

Luke even 'helped' me out in this process:

So now, here lives the plastic containers. Look how nicely they are stacked!

In the process I found some cool things. Check this out! This is a microwave egg cooker. I bought it for hubby as he loves eggs.

Here is a container I wrote on in permanent texta once. It says "wash before eating".

Now onto the bathroom cupboard, I had actually already done this close to when I moved in:

I have boxes in the cupboard so 'stuff' isn't stringed everywhere. There's a box for Hendrik, a box for me, a box for electricals, and a box for spares (we do all our supply hopping in Indonesia once a year.)

Cleaning the car can wait - I want to wash and vacuum when I have an extra pair of hands!

As for the checking the diary before I sleep, oh how I should do this! I forgot I had a lady coming to look at the silly smart meter attached to my TV. She was coming at 4:00pm and at 3:30 I decided to go out a coffee. 

While I was sipping away I got a call from the lady, "where are you? I need to use your toilet!"