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I like doing the dishes, in fact I do them every day. It's my time of the day where I do the most mental crunching. And I've put the drive to increase the productivity in life in practice at the sink.

Here are my 5 principles that make doing the dishes fun:

1. Our family already consumes enough natural resources. By doing the dishes we save money and save on electricity and water consumption.

2. We have a family rule: "If we have the energy to cook we also have the energy to do the dishes." On most days my fiancée cooks and I do the dishes. By doing the dishes every day it's reduced to a 30 minutes task which leaves lots of time for more pleasant things during the evening.

3. Before I start I throw everything that has to go in the garbage. Next I collect everything that needs to cleaned on the sink and order them into groups: cutlery, plates, cups, glasses, pots and pans, plastics, ...

4. Then I wash category by category, usually in this order: glasses, plates, cups, cutlery, plastics, pots and pans, rest. I rinse every item before putting them on the drying rack. I don't dry unless the very big things for which there is not room to dry.

5. Lastly I quickly clean up the kitchen.

Doing the dishes is a great way to do my part of the household. While I'm doing the dishes my fiancée rests and I prepare us a tea. The way I see it we win on every front.