I love my wife and all, but Jesus Hercules Christ...

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Originally Posted by plugboots

Autowash.

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That is miles beyond brilliant! Well done, Sir!

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Originally Posted by bennymac

I've mentioned this in here before but my friends have a two drawer dishwasher - so you can be running one drawer and still loading dishes into the other. Not great if you're trying to put big giant pots and pans in there but for everything else it seemed like a good idea - smaller loads done more often.

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My cousins have 1 of those. They have a big house on Cape Cod so lots of freeloaders about in the summer/fall. They run around like nuts trying to keep the kitchen spotless. The 2 drawer DW works for them. We had one, a fisher and playkel, and I didn't care for it. As you said no big pots and both drawers don't equal 1 load in a regular DW.

If there is room for 2 go for it-highly recommended. We put 2 in the last house, one by the main clean up sink and the other in the island which typically only got used for holidays or when wife was baking. The problem w the island location is the mess is visible from everywhere. Ideally they would be either side of the main clean-up sink w a pull out garbage on one side of the sink base cab. DW-Garbage-Sink-DW

In our ongoing remodel we kept the kitchen compact so just one this time around. It's only 2 of us now and we're retired so we have more time to either do dishes as we dirty them. We moved far away from family so we aren't the hub for holiday dinners any longer.

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Originally Posted by warthog

So how was it your fault? Cause we know it was.

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I’m sure the sound annoys her


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Christ you guys are bitchy today. Mind if I join?!

See this?

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This is a child proofing switch that only allows electricity to pass through for just 30 minutes once you activate it. This is currently used to power our toaster oven, since she left it on (high, the temperature, not her) and left for work on multiple occasions.

I'm a little more relaxed now.

We have one of those 30 minute switches on our toaster oven. Good thing to have in general, given that toaster ovens are cheaply made and with the potential to be a fire hazard.

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Originally Posted by Thaleia

Christ you guys are bitchy today. Mind if I join?!

See this?

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This is a child proofing switch that only allows electricity to pass through for just 30 minutes once you activate it. This is currently used to power our toaster oven, since she left it on (high, the temperature, not her) and left for work on multiple occasions.

I'm a little more relaxed now.

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Do they make those for gas range burners?

My wife, being the enigma that she is, habitually unplugs the toaster after EVERY slice. She has never failed, in decades together.

I wonder, secretly, if she has burned down a house in her past. But I thought wiser of asking her about this one, and just focus on the DW stuff

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Originally Posted by Skistack

So this is timely.

Saturday I install a new vent hood over the range, the little fan in the microwave / vent hood combo was not getting the job done. Let the wife know that this thing can move push alot of air, so you need to crack a window to let in replacement air or it won't work well.

Today (that would be 2 days later), I walk down for dinner and the first floor is filled with smoke (burned spicy sausage!). The vent is on low speed, no window cracked.

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I recently did a 400$ -ish range hood upgrade where i got the new Samsung hood/micro and frankly the fan in that new unit is just adequete and less than I expected looking at the thing

BUT I did get some extra counter space by relocating the Micro to above the stove

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Originally Posted by warthog

So how was it your fault? Cause we know it was.

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He did a half-assed job installing it and didn't supply make up air for it in a reasonable way. Seems pretty cut and dry that this one is his fault.

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Originally Posted by dannynoonan

My wife, being the enigma that she is, habitually unplugs the toaster after EVERY slice. She has never failed, in decades together.

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Yet another reason to get a 30-minute plug switch: She doesn't need to unplug it, and you don't need to replug it. (And while you're at it, pick up a switch for your porch lights that calculates what time sunset is, yay technology for addressing potential minor household complaints.)

I sold a gal some mercury's still in good shape for a very fair price, i think I even let her take them home to bond with

I know She has never used them so i askd her more-recent-than-the-boots-hubby wtf and he said I'm not going to talk to her about that

those boots are another 5 yrs older so should i offer her half of what she origginaly gave me ?

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Originally Posted by bobz

Yet another reason to get a 30-minute plug switch: She doesn't need to unplug it, and you don't need to replug it. (And while you're at it, pick up a switch for your porch lights that calculates what time sunset is, yay technology for addressing potential minor household complaints.)

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I turn off lights in my house no less than 30 times a day. And I turn on no more than 1.


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Originally Posted by Art Shirk

I turn off lights in my house no less than 30 times a day. And I turn on no more than 1.


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I discovered X10 switches and controllers 15 years ago for that very reason. Almost every light is now controlled by a master timer; so simple.

^^ Huh, my wife is the one here who's always making a fuss about turning off lights. Hey, I stepped out for a bit, who cares if the lights are on, they're 10-watt LEDs.

Wow. Just wow. Buy the pussy, keep the sanity. You all put up with inordinate amounts of fucking full on moran for what again?

This is like a birth control thread on steroids.

Eh, I don’t let any of this stuff bother me too much. She gets to complain about me walking around with wet hands and leaving (energy efficient) lights on, I’m continually amused by the thermostat behavior, and we take turns dealing with the cats.

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Originally Posted by bobz

Eh, I don’t let any of this stuff bother me too much. She gets to complain about me walking around with wet hands and leaving (energy efficient) lights on, I’m continually amused by the thermostat behavior, and we take turns dealing with the cats.

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I would throw the fucking cats and toaster ovens out the door on the first occurrence. Along with the dull knives and second dishwasher.

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Originally Posted by bobz

Eh, I don’t let any of this stuff bother me too much. She gets to complain about me walking around with wet hands and leaving (energy efficient) lights on, I’m continually amused by the thermostat behavior, and we take turns dealing with the cats.

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I would throw the fucking cats and toaster ovens out the door on the first occurrence.

I have had 3 gf's of quite respectable times (9 years, 11 years, 6 years) who have tried to tell me that I was not coming to my bed and to sleep on the couch.

In each occasion, I flat up told them to write the check for the month, for that nightly privilege, then picked them up and said here is the fucking door. GTFO.

Only 2 resulted in them getting pulled over on their extremely pissy way out.

I always did bring a pillow to the couch for them though.

Walking around with wet hands? WTF WTF is that? You guys are fucking desperate.

^^^ You drunk? Wtf?

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Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive

^^^ You drunk? Wtf?

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Wet hands? WTF? I skied from 8:30 to 2:45 and I'm on my first beer after doing my dishes the old fashion way. Gearing up for another Tuesday without a wife, a dishwashing machine, or someone bitching about pillows, or anything remotely fashionable. But I'm an old dentist, so I took a nap in between, wherever it suited me, but I did 2 home deliveries of meals to seniors because I made too much and got that in right before my zzz's and I didn't receive one single BITCH. And I didn't have to pay for the overpriced catering at the ceremony.

The wet hands thing is more an in joke in this house than anything else. Since you asked. Twice.

And, as has been very well covered by now, no need to throw the toaster oven out the door, when Belkin makes a handy timer switch for $10.

I will grant you though, a wife insisting on two dishwashers would be far too much to bear. But as it turns out, she called all the major shots on the kitchen remodel, and she pretty well nailed it. Including only one dishwasher (which I mostly don't use).

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

I would throw the fucking cats and toaster ovens out the door on the first occurrence.

I have had 3 gf's of quite respectable times (9 years, 11 years, 6 years) who have tried to tell me that I was not coming to my bed and to sleep on the couch.

In each occasion, I flat up told them to write the check for the month, for that nightly privilege, then picked them up and said here is the fucking door. GTFO.

Only 2 resulted in them getting pulled over on their extremely pissy way out.

I always did bring a pillow to the couch for them though.

Walking around with wet hands? WTF WTF is that? You guys are fucking desperate.

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I bid $37 for the wife just to see her bent over the kitchen island.

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

I have had 3 gf's of quite respectable times (9 years, 11 years, 6 years) who have tried to tell me that I was not coming to my bed and to sleep on the couch.

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I actually don't think it's normal for people who live together and fuck to fight so much that one of them feels they cannot sleep in the same bed as the other person. You got it 3x, that's some bad luck soldier.

MTM, I love you man, but you hanging out in a marriage thread scolding everyone else for being ridiculous in how they deal with their spouses and lives is pretty fucking funny.