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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

I have a dishwasher.  Don't use it.  It is still here because if we sell, 
then you really have to have one now a days.  I hate them.  The time it 
takes me to scrape dishes, load the dishwasher and unload the bloomingthing 
is just about the same time it takes me to wash them.  Besides, the way I 
wash dishes, not only do I save on electricity, I also use less water.  Now, 
I know this because it was another one of those things the kidlets decided 
they needed to do as an experiment at out old house.

~~sigh~~  I should have been paid like the Science guy cause I have 
certainly been part of enough science projects <g>

Lynda
The press corp is fact-adverse but very fable friendly.

----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: EarthNSky
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>
>  I've got a decision to make about a dishwasher.  When we moved here
>  almost 11 years ago, there was no dishwasher, so I handwashed.  About 8
>  years ago, we got a dishwasher and it was great because it was an easy
>  way to clean up the milking mess and sanitize bottles.  Last Christmas
>  the dishwasher too a dive, and I've been handwashing every since.  I
>  save my evening dishes to wash in the morning because the warm water
>  helps my fingers and hands loosen up.  It is like therapy.  I understand
>  what James is saying about scything and exercise.  Obviously dishwashing
>  is not scything, but it is therapeutic.
>  So today I had my friend here and we were canning-see my blog for
>  details, and she very sweetly, decided to wash dishes for me in between
>  projects.  She thought hand washing was a pain in the ass and made a
>  comment that when I get my dream house I would have a brand new
>  dishwasher, to which I replied, "maybe".  I am so torn on this silly
>  issue of whether or not to put a dishwasher in my dream house.  I'd like
>  to keep the electricity using appliances to a minimum.  I'd like to have
>  the added cabinet space.  I like the theurapeutic spa massage of the hot
>  water in the mornings.  On the other hand, having a dishwasher would
>  allow me to spend more time with family and visitors and less time in
>  the kitchen.  I could easily heat and hold canning jars.  It would be
>  nice to use a machine every once in a while...like a luxury.
>    It is really stupid to obsess over a dishwasher.  I have a clothes
>  washer and dryer.  I have a refrigerator and two freezers.  The
>  dishwasher just seems like a lazy woman's way out, which is definitely
>  not true.  If you have well water, you still have to dry the water spots
>  off the dishes, so there is nothing lazy about it.   I don't know that I
>  buy the argument that they use less water than hand washing.  Hand
>  washing is a personal thing and people do that differently.   I guess it
>  all boils down to another item that uses electricity.
>
>  In my dream home, which is an earthsheltered home with the kitchen on
>  one side of the front(south-east facing passive solar design) I will be
>  taking a minimalist approach in an open design.  A dishwasher just
>  doesn't fit in the plan, but perhaps by the time I am 10-15 years old(in
>  my 60's, that dishwasher might look like a great thing.  Oh well.
>
>
>  There is always technology. The question is, how much of it do you
>  choose to use.  Do you write with a pen, or a pencil, or do you even
>  write at all anymore?
>
>
>  Bev
>
>
>
>
>  Gene GeRue wrote:
>  >>>> Don: Let me start this by saying I am a gear head, I like
>  >>>> machinery.
>  >> James: Let me start by saying that I detest machinery and would
>  >> gladly live in a world without it.
>  >
>  > I find it ironic that this discussion, replayed several times over
>  > the last fifteen or so years, is conducted using machines.
>
>  -- 
>  Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the ocean's depths, MY son is
>  protecting your freedom on the USS Key West, currently deployed
>  somewhere in the Pacific and/or Indian Ocean.  Go Navy!
>  EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
>
>
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