So, What Would You Say the Percentage Is....

95% of the time the kitchen is cleaned up afterward and dishes put in the dishwasher. By me. The other 5% the dishes are left in the sink because of one reason only: the dishwasher is full with clean dishes and my husband has not put them away yet. On those evenings, he'll generally empty the dishwasher in the morning, and put the dishes in.

But the counter tops are always wiped down, no matter what.

We both work full-time and have one child (6 yo)

Added: I like to "clean up" as I'm cooking so the mess isn't tooooo bad afterward. Something my mom taught me.

I put away left overs, but I don't do dishes until the next morning. My mom would die, her kitchen is completely clean every night. I'm a SAHM, with a 2 1/2 year old and pregnant with twins, but I've been this way since I've been on my own, working or not. Dishes can wait, time with husband and daughter can't.

We've been eating out way more often than we should lately. But when I do cook, I put any leftovers away and then either leave it on the counter, sink, or if I'm really in the mood, straight to the dishwasher. I do a load in the dishwasher every 5 days or so. There's only two of us and I am big on one dish meals. Never had a problem with bugs and I don't have any pets.

Oh, and I work full time and have a 5 year old. Cooking and cleaning are not my favorite things to do!

I leave it often. Every night in fact. I'd rather leave dishes in the sink, and play with my kid...then obsess about a mess. We utilize our evenings as time spent as a family, there is no reason a mess can't wait until tomorrow. There is no way I'm using the precious few hours we have together every night, to worry about something silly as a mess. I am home all day, every day. My son gets a ton of time from me. It makes more sense to take out time during the day to clean, and not steal from family time at night.

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I'm seeing bugs being mentioned a lot. I have never ever, not once in my life...experienced bugs coming out from leaving dishes in the sink simply overnight!! Seriously, not once!

The bigger the meal the greater the chance dishes are left. I try to anticipate bloating and the laziness that follows and empty the dishwasher but sometimes they are an unpleasant surprise in the morning.

I know that I always feel better when the kitchen is clean before I go to bed, but I don't think it always gets that way. I know I always feel the urge to bake when the kitchen is clean. I would say that 90 percent of the time I do just the bare minimum and then walk away and leave the rest. I will usually load the dishwasher and run it and then put away any leftovers and then I am done. I try and get the kids to at least stack their plates from the table into the sink, but that doesn't always happen either. I do the cooking, but DH will help sometimes when I have a bad day or can't think of anything for dinner. I have 7 children ranging in ages from 16 to 16 months.....the oldest can be a big help when her teenage attitude doesn't get in the way. I stay at home and we hardly ever eat out. I would love to be the one that says that my kitchen gets cleaned all the time.....but I am not a perfect person and that is my imperfect life.
J.---SAHM of 7

75% of the time, it's left in the sink and then dishes pile up in the sink until we run out of bowls or spoons (those are always the first things to run out!) probably in about 2 days. then my hubby either washes or puts it all in the dishwasher and runs it while I'm at work.

I work FT and hubby is currently unemployed. I usually cook and hubby does the dishes. We try to get things put away the night of but it just seriously never happens. After cooking and playing with our son and just vegging (we HAVE to veg for our sanity), dishes just always falls low on our list.

I cook and clean while I'm cooking, meaning if I use a measuring cup etc. it goes straight to the dishwasher. . We eat at home most nights. I stay at home, wife works full time. We have a son 11 and daughter 6 that live with us.

I always put left overs away, and soak pots and pans. I do the dinner dishes the next morning, while my guys are eating breakfast...

100% of the time it's only partially done. We feed an average of 6-8-10 people between daycare and family. We have 3 meals and 3 snacks daily. Add a few drinks, baby bottles, and the food dishes for 5 cats, 2 dogs, and 3 bird cages and 8 birds total... Hot soapy water is always in the sink. I'm a stickler about clean counters. Dishes rinsed and stacked inside of big buckets. If the whole kitchen is done, it's maybe for about 20 minutes during the end of nap time and we have a snack as soon as they wake up. We wake up with snack dishes from the night before and we feed an army for breakfast. We also have before school children that arrive and leave before the daytime kids. So we feed breakfast to 2 groups of children.

It makes me tired to think about it :)

Theresa:

Just because I'm a SAHM doesn't mean I don't work.

I do NOT leave a mess in the sink. I swiffer my kitchen floor every night after I get the dishwasher started.

I have two boys 9 & 11. And Bob. I cook dinner almost every night. Wednesday night is Family Night and we make pizzas....play the Wii or watch a movie.

My men are off for Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts so I need to walk the dog and get stuff done...

i will 'fess up. i rarely clean up right after lol. sorry mom! :o) usually i put the food away and then "get around to it".

i work ft, my hubby works ft, and we have one son who goes to preschool/daycare. he's 5. i am ALWAYS the cook (except when hubby is unemployed - up until today! - he cooked maybe 1/3 of the time...lol. now it will all be me.)

we do takeout maybe once or twice a week when things are good. lately it has been less, obviously...dollar menu would have been a big splurge but we haven't even done that lately. i am dieting too which kinda puts a damper on fast food...

I'm notorious for never cleaning up. I would say that I cooke probably about half of the month, of course my son barely eats table food so it's just for me that I cook most of the time. I've been increasing my cooking lately as I introduce him to more table foods. Of those times that I do cook I would say about once-twice the month do I actually clean it all ENTIRELY. I usually at least rinse the dishes, but I don't have a dishwasher so they do not get throughouly cleaned. Once a week, usually on Saturday during one of the nap times, I actually clean the ALL the dishes and wipe down the counter tops. I put them away the next day. I hate to admit this, but it is very true lol

I am a single mom, who works full-time, with a 10 month old. My son does not have overnight visitation so I have him every night. I usually get home around 6 with my son and it is immediately cook, play, bath, and bed time. All this happens in about a two hour time frame so I'm wiped by the end of the night! But, I would rather spend the time with my son then worry about the dishes :)

My kids are 5, 3 and 2 and I have no help and hubs is never home. I'm no big chef, but I do prepare almost all meals at home. I dont' currently work, and have to budget accordingly. Our kitchen is small, and any "stuff on the counter" takes over the whole space.

Up until a few weeks ago, I OFTEN walked away and left the mess. And paid dearly, of course, with way more work. I did this because the dishwasher was broken, and the only alternative was standing at the sink ALL DAY and doing the dishes all day long....which I often did, but there was still a new pile at night to do or walk away from and face in the morning. And on days where I didn't do dishes all day, the pile was so huge, I would walk away, go out to dinner, and spend money we didn't have escaping the dishes...but only 'til morning, and there they were....

BUT NOW WE HAVE A NEW DISHWASHER!!!! So I never leave the mess :) Even if I'm bone tired, after the kids go down, I will rinse and put ALL the dishes into the dishwasher and run it before bed, and wipe down the counter (I MAY leave a couple of pots soaking in the sink for morning, or I may do those). Otherwise, I'd have to run the dishwasher in the morning, and it runs really looooong, so that would screw me for breakfast and I'd end up having to do them by hand....

Thinking of how hard it USED TO BE to stay on top of the dishes motivates me to stay on top of it. Every morning, I unload the clean dishes and rinse and put new dirty dishes in there all day long, leaving the counters fairly empty and functional for the first time in over a year....I am forever grateful for that damn dishwasher! Ever since child number three, the dishes have been just a little too much for me to handle....until now ! :)

I am terrible. I clean up in the morning. I am exhausted after the long day. So I do them in the mid morning.

I always clean up after meals. If I don't clean up, I'm scared of getting bugs. Also, trust me, my untrained dog (yet amazing) would be leaping on the counter tops licking the plates........lol

If it doesn't happen before I sit down... it's not going to happen until the next day.

I usually cook (by myself or with my son... he's been helping since he was a toddler). Finish cooking. Go sit down for 10 minutes and read/ shake the stress off. Come back. Clean up. Serve.

If I'm in a rush, or it's food that needs to be plated instantly... the kitchen waits until the morning.

That's been the norm for 9 years. In that time I've been a full on SAHM, full time and part time working mom. Like I said... my son's been helping since he was old enough to stir things (1 or 1.5? Not walking yet.) He's MUCH more help now. I cook the vast majority of the time... but every once in awhile (once or twice a year on average) I go on strike and we eat sammies and cereal and takeout for a few weeks.

Our dishwasher broke about 1.5 years ago (no money to fix!). At this point, if I was given the choice of a working dishwasher or mindblowing sex... I know I've "grown up"... because I would choose the dishwasher. I miss it. I really, really miss it!

Hey Theresa I missed you! I hope you have been on some FAB vacation :)
I'd say it's half and half, I do most of the cooking and cleaning, and we rarely get take out (I am a SAHM after all) but if there's something good on, and I have poured myself a particularly nice glass of wine, I will sit down and watch TV with my girls (Glee, Modern Family, Parks and Rec) or something even better with my hubby (Jon Stewart, swoon!) and I will let the dishes sit and deal with them in them in the morning, over a BIG pot of coffee :)

This is the one room I cannot leave a mess. I have an almost 4 yr old, a two year old and one on the way.

The dishes are put in the dishwasher, tables washed counters wiped down, and floor swept every night. Now the rest of the house can look like a tornado went through it. but my kitchen needs to be clean otherwise I'm in a bad mood in the am--just gets to me. Granted I don't empty the dishwasher that night if I had to run it. It usually wakes the kids with all the clanking of the dishes, so I wait until after breakfast to empty and then reload.

My hubby works from home so there is ALWAYS a mess. He is just a messy guy. Our daughter (who is 5) is not so bad, she likes to help me clean up. There are days when I am tired or decide to watch TV instead, I know it will still be there later or in the morning.
I don't think I could leave it too long, I like the house to stay clean. And yes there are times when my hubby calls the stove the pizza box holder.

I cook almost every night of the week and re-invent left-overs. In short, there are dishes/pots every night plus breakfast dishes, etc. I cannot remember ever leaving dinner dishes overnight. I do wait until I'm done cooking to empty dishwasher and then I load all the dirty stuff into it. I can't say I put the clean dishes I've taken out 100% of the time, but I don't like leaving dirty dishes in the sink all night. Just can't face it in the morning. I give the counters a quick wipe down but I don't always clean the stove every day. I give that a good cleaning a few times a week. I'm married, 45 SAHM with 12 yr old daughter and wonderful husband who usually puts the dinner dishes in the sink and sometimes loads the dishwasher - but, honestly, I'd rather he spend time with our daughter or maybe throw a load of laundry in - which he's pretty good at.

i only do the dishes right then when it is a major cooking day.
otherwise they sit in the sink a few days, then i handwash, then i supersanitze/wash in the dishwasher.

As long as there are clean dishes in the cabinet for cereal in the morning, I have no problem leaving dirty dishes soaking over night! I'll empty the dishwasher and reload while the kids all eat breakfast.

I cook every meal we eat at home, and we eat at home all but about one night per month. We leave the dishes more than half the time. Hubby gets home at six, dinner is around 6:30, the eight month-old goes to bed around 7:15 and the four year-old around 7:45. By the time we have both kids down for the night we are both totally over the idea of doing dishes. Sometimes one of us will do them, but more often I clean up in the morning.
We are in our early thirties, have two boys and I work part-time outside the home.

I grew up in a house of seven, not the largest by far, but big. We all had activities and were eating late plus homework and other chores. In my memory, the kitchen was ALWAYS a mess.

Since I've had my own home...for the past 9 years, I can count on one hand the amount of times I've left the kitchen NOT done. And by that I mean a few dishes in the sink. I am like the other mom's and can't relax until I know it's done.

I do it.
I hate it.
Sometimes I get help from Husband. When he realizes I am bitchy about the full sink. And wonders WHY I am in the kitchen 3 hours at a time cleaning up.
I do dishes about 15 times a day.
Geez.
I don't even like the dishwasher.
Once in awhile, about once a month, I just leave it.
Ugh.

I have 2 kids. 5 and 9.
Am a SAHM.
Hubby cooks. Sometimes. He CAN cook well.
We get take out... hardly.
I cook from scratch, every *damn* day.
Can you tell, its not love at first sight?

I've done it once in a blue moon. I don't know what the percentage is (how many days per blue moon :) ), but I'll say 1% of the time. 'Cause I hate coming back to those dishes in the morning!

We cook most nights. There is my husband, myself and our son (8).
My husband cooks two nights per week--the days I work, because I get home later than him.
We NEVER leave the dinner mess til the next day and it's almost always cleaned up right after we're done eating.
Mostly I do it. I would say mu husband does it 20% of the time BUT he always leaves O. thing not done--the table unwiped, a pot "soaking", etc! LOL

98% fully cleaned every single thing before I sit down, 2% I leave it until the morning.

UGH! My husband comes home late most nights. Reheats dinner and then it's just left. I then clean it up the next morning and always feel guilty about it. I also make a point of cleaning up what I can as I go so then sometimes I feel I'm cleaning all the time which really isn't the case, it's just split into two chunks.

We eat most meals at home and we both work full time. We do the dishes about 95% of the time after dinner. However, I do struggle with the actual straightening of the kitchen. It seems like no matter how much I wipe down, it still doesn't look clean. I also struggle with clutter in the kitchen since we have such a small kitchen....

Almost every night! I scrape plates in the garbage and rinse everything so I don't have to deal with stuck-on food. I am a SAHM, and by the end of the day, I just don't have it in me to clean up another mess. My oldest is 7 and not able to do the dishes independently yet. Half the week my husband is not home, and so I still have to deal with having the kids clean up and bedtime on my own (not to mention karate, scouts, unfinished homework, etc). I have much more energy and am better able to face the chore the next morning, without having to worry about cramming yet another thing in before bedtime. And I'm certainly not doing dishes after the kids are in bed, as this is my "me time." Seeing as I'm the one who cleans it up, I'm not being lazy, simply managing my time differently.

90% of the time everything is cleaned up. My husband is working less so now he does the dishes maybe 40% of the time. I mostly cook but eat out on weekends a fair amount. Ok - I rarely cook on weekends... We both work full time and have two girls - almost 6 and 7. I'm a bit of a neat freak and like things clean. And oddly, we have a nanny which puts more pressure on to clean up bc it's not fair for her to walk into a mess. So Friday's are the one time once in awhile I'll leave the dishes. But that's only when I'm super burned out bc I know it'll just be there in the morning.

I always leave a couple of dishes - Sometimes I leave all the dishes. I don't get a lot of help in the KP dept, so I am tired out by 8pm and want to sit down.
I am shooting myself in the foot though, because tomorrow after school, guess what I have to do before I start to cook?

I am anal about cleaning up after a meal. I immediately put all the food away, put all the dishes in the dishwasher and clean the counters and stove. I work full time and have one toddler. I just can't stand anything left out in the kitchen and I loath dirty dishes left in the sink. I can't relax unless the kitchen is spotless.

Maybe once a every two weeks. We have teenagers in the home and that is thier job until they obtain a job. :)

i leave a mess 0.1% of the time.......Id rather do it when i dont feel like it than wake up to it not done. Thats just me. I say 0.1% because i can remember 1 xmas party where i left a mess and was dog tired and buzzed..........i cant remember doing it any other time though.

I have 2 kids, 1 on the way and im 30

We put up the leftovers and leave the dishes all the time! We both work full time and have two small children - by the time I work, work out, get the kids, do homework, get dinner together, baths and story time, we're DONE! We unload and load the dishwasher and wash the dishes sometimes while cooking dinner, but luckily we both work from home two days a week, so every morning but Wednesday, it's easy to clean up then before getting to work.

I cook, husband cleans up kitchen! Love it that way. Now we are only 2 in the house so he has it easy. When the kids were growing up he did dishes
when he was home for dinner. Being a NYC Police Officer his schedule
was crazy.

I'm a SAHM with a toddler and a kindergartener. We eat as a family so we have to get up from the table and put the kids straight to bed. Most of the time things get left until the morning because we are tired. The bare minimum gets done at night and I do the rest in the morning. Sometimes we clean more or I clean the hand wash as I cook.

It matters more on my husbands day than anything else. He is working 120 hour weeks this month vs his light workload months of only 90.

That means dishes soak overnight a lot this month because daddy needs tlc from mommy and is to tired to really take over the kids (6 yo girl, 3 yo boy, and 18m boy).

The percentage is 90%. I think it depends on what stage of life you are in. When the kids were little I made sure all the dishes were done and the floors cleaned because they played and lived on the floors. As the got older and we did and did not have dishwashers I made sure the dishes were washed in lots of hot soapy water.

When the kids grew up and left and hubby was on the road as a trucker it was just me and it took a few days to fill up the dishwasher. Now that hubby is home he has taken over the cleaning of the kitchen and I get chased out because "it is his job" to do it.

I still work full time and enjoy cooking. There are times the dishwasher is running and I am washing pots and pans by hand. I try to make sure the dishes are done and that the sink is empty to fill the coffee pot in the morning.
My aunt taught me how to cook and clean as you go so that you don't have a sink full of pots and pans and it really hand when you have a large group or you have been cooking and don't have a dishwasher - can't live without "Gertrude" she has been a life saver and keeps us well physically with the sanitize setting.

We usually go out to eat breakfast on the weekend Saturday and sometimes Sunday when our Saturday is full of activities. Dinner out is once or twice a month.

Have a good holiday season from "Cold" New Mexico.

The other S.

95% of the time it is all done (or at least in the dishwasher) before I go to bed. I cannot stand to go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink. Hubby will just dump his breakfast mess on top of whatever is there. There might be a spoon, a knife or a fork, but no DISHES. If it won't fit in the dishwasher (weird shaped or it is just too full) I generally will hand wash it. Those things might be sitting out over night, but not dirty dishes. There often will be a singular cup or glass I missed before starting the dishwasher, that gets set on the counter beside the sink... but no dishes IN the sink. That just irks me.
The other 5% of the time, I allow for when I am sick and just cannot deal, or holidays or parties have been hosted and there is just too much to do at one time and the dishwasher is stuffed to capacity and already running.... When that happens, we use paper plates the next morning, lol.

I am a SAHM, but I was like this even when I worked full time before having kids.
When I was single but had roommates, that was one of my biggest pet peeves-- 1) someone leaving a dish in the sink and 2) compounding #1 by leaving FOOD in it and filling it with an inch of water so that it doesn't help soften anything that needs scrubbing and also makes the maximum gross-out effect. YUCK. And STINKY too! oh.. and then throw silverware and sharp knives into the gunk where you can't see them and stab/cut yourself when attempting to do something with the mess. :(

Generally speaking, I cook dinner at home about 3 nights a week. We get takeout the rest of the time as I have 2 kids in martial arts 4 nights per week, and hubby isn't home for dinner 3 of those nights. It is fairly typical for hubby and I to get dinner out together somewhere one night also (sometimes it is the entire family, sometimes not. And it is as likely to be a sub shop or something like that as it is to be a "restaurant"... )

Oops, forgot! -- 2 kids. 13 and 10.

I have a dishwasher, and the rest of the family knows that it needs to be run and pretty empty before dinner. Everyone in the family clears their own plate, silverware, glass to the dishwasher. Dh will do any pots that need handwashing and the counters do get wiped down.
As for the other info, I have a husband. I have two kids, age 12 and 16 who have cleared their own place since before elementary age and I work during the day but am home late afternoon. I do cook dinner every night, no takeout or anything like that.

100% of the time my kitchen and house are clean. I am just anal about having a clean house. I am a SAHM so it is something I can accomplish easily, I also have a very helpful husband and my kids are 12 and 9 so they pick up after themselves. I have to admit we do eat out and get takeout a lot though.

I cook, we all clean up, depending on who is home (kids are 12, 10, 8 and 1) and hubby is normally home for dinner. I clean as I cook and have a dishwasher, so we all clear the table while DH or I load the dishes, DH washes whatever can't go in the dishwasher (sometimes not till morning). and that's it. the kids get off way to easy I'm sure, but they help with the baby too so we can get stuff done faster. I can not, like I will be late to leave home or not eat myself, leave a mess sit, so i hold myself responsible for it getting done. It's no ones fault I'm a bit neurotic about messes. lol

we never leave the dishes in the sink :( i'm sorry.
i cook, work from home, take care of 7 yr twins, and my 47 year old hubs.
reason, i am afraid of bacteria, germs, dirtiness, germs, bacteria, germs :)
yeah, i do them all on weeknights, hubby on weekends.

I am married with a 12 year old son & a 10 year old daughter. Both my husband & I cook, it just depends on who's home first & what we're having that night. I can say in all honesty that I leave the dishes 100% of the time. As we clear our plates from the table, the actual dishes, silverware & cups go directly into the dishwasher & that gets started if it's full, but the pots, pans, casserole dishes, good knives, wooden utensils, etc. stay until the following day when my son cleans them. That & taking out the trash are his 2 main chores so I never have one ounce of guilt regarding leaving it there. I don't make him do it at night because it just doesn't matter that much to me for it to be done before I go to bed.

FT working mom with a 5 yo and 1 yo. My husband and I clean up the kitchen mess about 99% of the time. The only time a dish is left in the sink is if it was used after the dishwasher started- then it is rinsed pretty good. I hate waking up to a messy kitchen in the morning- just a pet peeve of mine and my husband's. That and I absolutely hate bugs. Nothing attracts creepy crawlies like dirty dishes left out overnight. Eek!

It gets as clean as it needs to be so the cats can't eat/get into anything they shouldn't and it's taken care of the next day. I'll put some water and dish soap in a pan if it has something in it and put the lid on. But that's it. It is insanely rare to go to bed with the dishes run etc.

95%!

Usually my energy is at end of day is zero percent. I rinse things and set on counter. Can not stand dishes inside sink- not sure why. I then tackle the dishes in the am when things look better.

Stats: single mom of 13 mo old girl.

Hope this helps!!

I have 2 kids, 5 and 2. I work 3 days a week and am home with them the other 2 (though I'm going to be a sahm beginning Jan 1 - I'm going to need some help from you guys!!!).

I cook every night of the week except for 1 night we order out (usually on friday or saturday night). On the rare week it might be 2 nights ordering out. I can't STAND waking up to a sink full of dishes, so yes every night I wipe down the dinner table, the countertops, fill and run the dishwasher, and wipe down the sink. Nothing pisses me off worse than not being able to fill up the pot to make coffee in the morning because there are too many dishes in the sink!!

I am a SAHM with 2 boys, 3 and 1 and one on the way in 2 months. I'm pretty exhausted from the pregnancy and taking care of toddlers all day, so I usually clean the kitchen, but not every night -90 percent maybe? Before pregnancy, 100% of the time. We have cats and I hate waking up to a mess. It is hard to catch up if I start the morning already behind. We eat take out about once a month and have frozen pizza once a week, otherwise I cook. I am getting better at cooking quickly and cleanly like washing dishes as I go or putting them in the dishwasher or wiping off a counter here or there. My husband is helpful about 5 percent of the time. He hates anything about kitchens except eating, so we have a deal where he plays with the boys while I clean up quick. I usually end the evening with the dishwasher on, the drain dish full of pots and other not-dishwasher safe stuff and the counters and tables cleaned. I only pick up food from the floor if it is large. I vacuum and empty the dishwasher in the morning when my kids eat breakfast.

I always do some cleanup. But if i'm wiped I may leave some of the dishes until morning when I have more energy to tackle it. Maybe once a week I'll do that. My kids are very little and I do not work out side the home.

I never leave the dinner mess it will drive me crazy. I always clean it all up, put away leftovers and load the dishwasher. My kids are 2 and 4 and I stay at home...my husband works pretty long hours and usually doesn't get home until 6:45ish so we don't eat until around 7. Ugh. Sometimes I do leave breakfast or lunch dishes lingering in the sink but I always get to them eventually, cuz no one else will! I try and get it all cleaned up by mid afternoon though so that when I start dinner I won't have to hassle with the other dishes! I cook almost every night, except weekends. Sometimes during the week I'll pick up dinner, but it's not often.

I am married with a 3 year old and one due in April! I work FT outside of our house, as does my husband. I will openly admit that I have a few "trigger points" and dirty dishes in the sink is a big one! Maybe it's from growing up in South Florida, but honestly the thought of all of that sitting overnight... bugs... bacteria. GROSS!

I cook a full dinner every night and truly enjoy cooking. My husband helps by keeping our son entertained in the living room, so after dinner he wants his mom... leaving my husband to do the dishes. He does it because he knows that I can't sleep with a sink full of dishes!

Rarely... very rarely... maybe two or three times a month do I go to bed with a full sink!

I work PT. I cook most nights, probably 5 out of 7. The other nights are sandwiches, breakfast for dinner... that kind of thing. Occasionally i or someone does the dishes after dinner. My older kids or i do them the next day if not. We dont have a dishwasher, otherwise they would be done every night. My husband and i both grew up where the kitchen sparkled at night. We cant let the dishes sit more then the next day... it bothers both of us.

Never go to bed leaving a kitchen mess.Today I didn't feel great, so everybody pitched in.It always changes, who cleans the kitchen...my husband,or myself, sometimes together,he brings the little guy to bed, I clean,or the other way around, or the older kids clean,if they are home...you just never know.

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I HATE waking up to a messy kitchen and my husband works evenings so yes, I clean the kitchen every night after my kids (7.5 and 3.5) and I eat dinner. The boys clear the table and put the dishes in the sink or on the counter and condiments in the fridge. I load the dishwasher, wash pans and wipe down all the surfaces ~ usually after I get the boys in bed for the night. The 2 nights my husband is home he makes dinner and loads the dishwasher and I wash the pans and wipe down all the surfaces. I am a full-time working Mom and we get take-out maybe once a week.

It is different if we have had a large group over and there are a lot of dishes! I load the dishwasher and run it and what's left gets rinsed off and waiting for the dishwasher to finish ~ and I don't clean the kitchen while my guests are still there, so if they stay late then it does have to wait until morning.