Same thing here, I just left out enough glasses for each family member and then put the others away.
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When my two DS's were little, we bought fun, plastic tumblers in their favorite colors - green for one and blue for the other. They used those tumblers any time they wanted a drink, except for meals when I put out real glass glasses.
It was always so nice that they always knew exactly which tumbler belonged to them.
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a month later:
this is till working perfectly.
everyone simply washes up a glass or cup as they go.
it is an absolute lesson in limiting supply to control mess!Posted 1 year ago # -
We have so much glassware, I don't even care if DH uses a new one each time. I just wish he would put them in the dishwasher after. He's so good about most things!
Re: sneaky cats who want YOUR water: I had to resort to one of those coffee/tea cups that has its own lid. A pretty porcelain one.
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@jbeany How about getting a glass water bottle? Reusable, but no metallic or plastic taste to the water. :)
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I'm glad it's not just me that has problems with the cat stealing your water! I think my cat actually prefers sticking her little face (she's just a baby still) into the glass to drinking out a bowl. One of my friends bought a wide plastic glass just for their cat and put it on the floor in a different spot to the water bowl so he has a choice, not sure if it just encourages him to think its ok to drink out a glass though. My kitten also loves it if you accidentally leave a tap dripping, she'll sit and drink from that, too.
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Oh, bluegreen, it took us months to break our kitten of demanding that we turn on the tap in bathroom sink for her...... good luck. :)
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I got lidded porcelain cups in Chinatown, as DC broke several of my mugs trying to drink my coffee. She also likes herbal tea, especially mint. As soon as we turn on the shower she's in there too. The fact that our drinks are ours is the most compelling reason for wanting them, I think. MASTERY.
Have given some thought to reducing the number of glassware/cups as we go through so many in a day. I use bottles for water but DH leaves glasses and mugs everywhere.
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@detroy: I have been doing this for years but not only with drinking glass but also with coffee cups or plates.
Me and my wife just have our separate areas on the counter where we keep those things, so that helps us to remember better.
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I am also planning on putting some dishes up, I am sick of doing the dishes and then having a whole sink full again the very next day or even the same day. Its fine if I get to them every day but sometimes I get caught up with homework and can't deal with it. My boyfriend refuses to wash a fork or plate, he'll just grab a new one. He even went out and bought a whole new set of silverware b/c we didn't have enough forks, when really he's to lazy to wash one if they are all dirty. We have like 6 forks, knives and spoons, we don't need another set of 20.
there is just two of us, we don't need that many dishes.Posted 1 year ago # -
Colored rubberbands have been a miracle in my kitchen. Each of my three children are assigned a rubberband color. When they use a glass, they slip the rubberband and presto, the glass is marked. When it is time to wash the glass, slip the rubberband off. It also works as a gripper for the slippery glass.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I'm chiming in late here, but what if you had each child decorate (there are paints for glass that are dishwasher safe) his/her own glass and then use that one all day? We painted glasses for my niece at her bridal shower - great craft activity and I use one (I received as a door prize) all the time!
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i am revisiting this re: teaspoons.
i culled a lot, but still have about nine hundred (it seems).
my husband makes tea and coffee all day long (for which i am grateful) but he uses a new teaspoon every single time.
some evenings, i feel as though i am washing up the entire cutlery drawer.
damned if i am not going out there right now to hide a dozen of them.....it worked with the glasses and cups.Posted 9 months ago # -
bandicoot,
We seem to run out of teaspoons too quickly, but having one on a saucer with the tea pot inner basket means the tea one gets reused. You could hide all but two from him!
Regarding the apparent quantity you have, are all the missing teaspoons gathering at your place? We'd always blamed the Borrowers for reducing our spoon collection.Posted 9 months ago # -
i loved the borrowers when i was little!
but no, it isn't random teaspoons.
it's a short story...the husband's aunt gave us her wedding silver, when we got married.
a modest but complete set for six people, of coronation.
within 18 months, we had lost a teaspoon.
i went hunting for the pattern and found absolutely miles of it on ebay.
not just a teaspoon, but loads of other things! cake slices! tomato spoons! sugar spoons! butter knifes! master butter knives! huge serving forks! tablespoons! (i am a little obsessed with tablespoons) iced tea spoons! jam spoons! pickle forks!
so, i added to the set. and in bidding on a few unusual things that i really wanted, i wound up with loads of partial sets as well.
in the end i had settings for an army.
so, i have culled everything back to a normal size (8).....except for the teaspoons....because it was the teaspoons that started it all.
and there are a LOT of them.Posted 9 months ago # -
Tablespoon obsession! I resolutely hung onto some inherited big epns ones for 15 years until I finally found a suitably large stainless steel tablespoon that I can put in the dishwasher and then I bought 4 and the worn out epns are in the scrap metal bin for a tip run.
I must admit to owning some specialist cutlery, cake forks and the like because occasionally proper tea with cake is done and it needs the correct tools. I have let go the inherited fish cutlery, coffee bean spoons and the teaspoons collected from many places as souvenirs. DH insists on eating spoonable food with one of two silver christening spoons he has, so he often has to wash them for reuse as I refuse to pander to this special behaviour.Posted 9 months ago # -
I collected several little American coin silver teaspoons ca. 1830s by different makers -- that is, until the prices soared. I love to use them for my cups of tea throughout the day. All part of the pleasure of owning the spoons are using them and washing them and polishing them, as I continue to appreciate their charm and craftsmanship with every handling. They live in an antique American spoonrack made of hickory wood, which I inherited from my mother. I love owning things that are both useful and beautiful.
Posted 9 months ago # -
We have a family of 4 (2 adults, one 3-yr-old, one infant), and place settings for 8. That gets us through breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner of a single day, since my son uses the smaller dessert plates for meals. We have 8 of all the flatware (except teaspoons! what is it with teaspoons? we only have 5...), 6 "tall" glasses, 4 "short" glasses, and 4 "beer" glasses.
I use a tall glass for my water, DH uses a "beer" glass (it's kind of a V-shape), and we use the short glasses for everything else. We have 8 coffee mugs, since we both drink coffee, and I also drink a cup of tea in the afternoon and another in the evening.
My mom always told me to only have twice as many place settings as you have family members. That way you can get through two complete meals, but there aren't enough for people to make a huge mess.
We also do dishes every night, and on days when I do a lot of cooking (cooking ahead, making bread, or just preparing an evening meal that's a bit more elaborate than our usual tacos or soup), I do an extra load in the afternoon before supper. I grew up in a house when dishes were washed twice a day - in the afternoon after school and after dinner. My mother couldn't stand waking up to a dirty kitchen, so we were taught to completely clean the kitchen every night (wipe down the stove, counters, table, sweep the floor, wash everything that must be handwashed or doesn't fit in the dishwasher).
The one habit my husband is trying to get me to learn is to load my dishes instead of just putting them in the sink. Hard to break years of just piling them in the sink when I didn't have a dishwasher, though!
Posted 2 months ago # -
I bought an insulated travel water jug from wal-mart. I fill it up every morning before work, and it lasts until after lunch when I need to fill it again. It doesn't sweat - only some condensation. It's nice to use on the weekends when I'm busy doing house chores. Fill it up and go. Water stays cold and it won't leave a ring if I forget and put it on anything that's wood.
Posted 2 months ago # -
Unplug the dishwasher and assign every household member a night when they have to wash up, dry up and put away everything before they go to bed.
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