Your Day of The Week

Every family has their plumbing concerns.  The plugged up toilet.  The leaky faucet.  The time you forgot you were filling the bathtub up and it overflowed.  The loose hose on the washing machine.  The time you had to purchase a water heater replacement.  Everything, plus the kitchen sink.  Aaah... the kitchen.

I have always teased my children that the reason I had seven kids was so that I would have one kid to do the dishes each day of the week.  And that is exactly what we did with the chores.  Each one would choose their day of the week, according to their commitments with soccer practice, basketball practice, dance, piano lessons, theater rehearsal, etc...  On this day, you were responsible for ALL the dishes of that day.  Basically, keeping the kitchen clean was your responsibility.  By the next morning, EVERYTHING should be washed and the kitchen clear for the next siblings wash day.  If this was not accomplished there was a stiff penalty.  You had ALL the dishes for the following day as well.  And the person who had that day, did nothing.  The kids were very strategic.  They knew who was most likely to falter.  I won't name names, but the minute this person would choose their day, for example Tuesday.  The wise children immediately would want to claim Wednesday, knowing full well that they may get a lot of days off!

Now having the children do the dishes was great because they really learned how to keep the kitchen clean.  And they worked hard at it.  The got after each other about leaving dishes all over the house, or using multiple cups throughout the day, and not rinsing their dishes when they were done.  I didn't have to nag.  They nagged each other.  But the one draw back was their haste in getting their dishes done and our disposal took the brunt of it.

Why go to the garbage can to scrap a plate when you have this contraption that grinds up anything?  So they thought.  It is safe to say they have also learned that the tiny baby spoons won't make it through the disposal.  Chicken bones will break up, but it doesn't sound pretty.  And the remains of an artichoke, leaves and all will definitely break the disposal!  And now that most are married and living on a budget, they remember this when it comes to their disposal.

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