this week's favourite lolcats

Great lolcats seem to come in waves - a run of great stuff, then a lull of okay pics, but nothing that really catches your eye. But this week has been great.


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An odd kitchen decluttering approach we're trying - YMMV

I   hate doing dishes - always have.
I don't have a dishwasher - never have.
I really feel hard done by when I have to do dishes more than once a day, or when I have to stop washing, dry a rack full of dishes, and then keep going.

So Robert and I are experimenting with having just two of everything - enough for us - and putting the rest of the dishes in storage.
Two plates, bowls, pasta dishes, mugs, beer glasses, wine glasses, etc. etc.

We haven't limited ourselves to only two sets of cutlery, but we have halved the cutlery supply and put the rest away.

Results:
- piles of dishes no longer multiply by the sink
- dishwashing takes only minutes

The storage area is simply under the counter - they're not so far away that it's pesky to haul out extra mugs or glasses for guests, but just 'out of sight, out of mind'.

This approach wouldn't work for everyone. 
But for us, when neither of us take great joy from housework, it seems to be lowering the annoyance factor of dishwashing, and the hard-done-by feeling of facing a hill of dishes.