You Never Know
You never know how much you really appreciate something until it’s gone.
In this case, what is gone is our old portable dishwasher. Actually it is still in the kitchen providing an extra few square feet of counter space, but that is it the only capacity in which it functions right now. About the same time Jeremy’s car was totaled (and we realized how much we appreciated not having a second car payment) the dishwasher began to leak. We turned it off, parked it in the corner and went about the business of finding a solution to our car problems. We can wash dishes by hand, after all, but it’s hard to transport our Bear, Puppy, and groceries without a car. After we came back from vacation we decided to stop by the Home Depot and check out the stock of portable dishwashers. As it turns out, there is no stock. They can be ordered, but we really wanted to see one in person. Jeremy decided to go the local route and went to AAA Appliance in JP. Also no stock… and no options with casters. How do you get away with calling a portable dishwasher “portable” if you can’t get casters?!? So the discussion of getting a small scale dishwasher installed in our kitchen was resurrected. In the midst of all this research the dish pile began to grow. I’m amazed at how much time we spend doing dishes now. Time we don’t have, really. Our house, which was never very tidy to begin with, is now embarrassing because the time I used to spend holding back the tide of clutter is now spent washing dishes. So I now know how much I really depended on the old dishwasher. It wasn’t great. You had to do a pre-rinse (yes Jeremy, I know we shouldn’t have to pre-rinse) but you could hide dirty dishes away and let it run through the night and have clean dishes with but a few moments effort.
I have set a deadline of February vacation for a solution to the dishwasher problem. Either we will have one installed (and lose some cabinet space – a post for a later date) or free-cycle our old portable dishwasher and acquire a new one from Home Depot online. But whatever the solution, I will be MUCH more appreciative of our new tiny dishwasher, because you just never know.
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