Make Unloading the Dishwasher Easier!

Everyone has their own preference when it comes to household chores, you probably enjoy some marginally more than others and you probably have some that you just all together hate.

For myself the thing I dislike most is emptying the clean dishes from the dishwasher. I used to say I could fold laundry all day long, load after load, just to avoid emptying the dishwasher even once. Now all that has changed ... this quick trick has changed the whole experience.

So you’ve emptied everything and now all you have left is a jumble of silverware that needs to be picked through … (this was always the worst part for me, can’t I just be done already?)

So here’s what you’re going to do:

By sectioning out compartments for forks, knives and spoons you are going to make unloading a lot easier . . .

what I do is take the first third for spoons, the middle for forks and the back third for knives, (see picture).

That way when you go to unload you simply grab all the spoons and drop them into their spot in the utensil drawer.

You can customize this to fit your needs too. For example, in my family, we generally use more spoons than forks or knives, so spoons get an extra compartment. I also put all of my larger utensils in the first slot so those can be easily grabbed and thrown into the caddy on the counter where they belong.

You can also take this a step forward and zone out your dishwasher a little bit.  For example, in my house we have all of our glasses in a cabinet to the right of the dishwasher and all of our ceramic mugs and bowls to the left so what I have started doing is loading all the glass on the right and the ceramic stuff on the left, that way when I go to unload it everything is already on its respective side with dishes of the same kind!

I know what you’re thinking … but this really isn’t that hard to do once you get the hang of it. It may take your family a little while to catch on, but don’t give up on them, if my family can learn to do it, trust me, yours can too.