My husband and I have been married for going on 10 years, and in that time, we have never lived in an apartment with a dishwasher. This was okay, until we had a child, and then another child. . .
And now, I find myself washing dishes and filling up the dishdrainer 3 times a day. The monotony! The tedium!! So, yesterday, we went shopping for a dishwasher, and we found a floor model on sale. The regular price was $639, but it was on sale for $449. We used part of our tax refund to buy it.
Dragging it up two flights of stairs was, well, probably amusing to watch, but once we got it up there, I loaded it within an hour and ran our first load. Ahhh, the bliss. This morning I emptied it and started to put in the new dirty dishes. Ahhh, more bliss.
I am sure doing dishes with a dishwasher won’t always be this fun, but right now I am enjoying my not-so-frugal purchase.
A good point about a dishwasher is they are more sanitary and help with the disinfecting of dishes and cups when there are small children in the house.
Enjoy!!!!
I’d be enjoying that purchase, too! Right now my husband and I are in an apartment without a dishwasher, with a very tiny sink and hardly any counter space…so I feel like I’m washing dishes constantly. I’m so relieved that we’ll be moving shortly after our first baby arrives this summer! I can’t imagine not having a dishwasher with kids around who are actually using dishes.