"Look Timmy, I get you want me to be your ‘mom’ or whatever, but have you considered that my do-nothing job that pays me like 80k a year makes me feel kinda alienated sometimes? I’m the real victim.
Anyway I’ve decided we’re going to join a MLM scheme/cult that I heard about on AOL. So I’m going to be busy, you’ll have to make your own Mac-n-Cheese tonight."
I’m older than you, and my parents are boomers. But I always wondered how much better life would be growing up if my parents didn’t buy into to bourgeois ideals so hard. Like so much interest was paid into maintaining appearances and pointless consumer goods that served no function. Sooo much effort was made into keeping the house nice, mowing the lawn, making everything neat, etc. We had a fine china and a presentable interior or a house. But my parents put zero effort into raising children. I feel like the kids were like the plates on display in the china case, just for show.
Probably as a reaction to my parents, but mid 40s me has ZERO interest in appearances. My flat is a bit messy, with commie pictures and books everywhere. Dishes get cleaned but might sit around for a day.
I disagree with this somewhat, the only dishes that are acceptable to leave out are mugs you’ve forgotten about/will use later 😤
Gary, why are you like this?
I will buy as many as I wish!
I pretty much don’t do dishes until I need something currently dirty and in the sink. If I had a dishwasher I could rinse and stack them right away but I gotta hand wash everything which is ugh.
The dishwasher is simply where the clean dishes are stored until the sink fills up with dirty dishes