Dishwasher Mania

I spend an enormous amount of time in the kitchen. It is a compact area that has one lovely wall lined with cupboards. It is a daydream kitchen-set for grown ups. My dishwasher was installed when the house was built in '92. It’s an old model that has paneling to match the rest of the wood on the cupboard doors. Early in December it broke. We toughed it out for a bit, but it was painful and dishes filled the counter. If anything, my dishwasher serves as a holding pen. Adam, who never posts on Facebook, deemed his experience of doing the dishes one night worthy of a status update.

Rewind to two days prior to early in December. I had a notion to make soap, this extended into laundry detergent and dishsoap. I was excited to discover that with only a few ingredients, I could cover most of the cleaning products that I use regularly. I made the dish soap and proudly poured the powder into the soap dispenser. It washed them—yay. The next day it was broken. It's a 20 year old dishwasher, it very well could have just been it's time.

We decided to search craigslist for a solution. Adam found a unit that was the same model as ours—and for only $15! He picked it up, replaced it, took the good parts from ours and reinstalled it with the other dishwasher. I'm not exaggerating at all when I say that I was totally pumped about this. $15!! Not having to spend Christmas money on a new dishwasher! My husband is a STUD! I was bragging about it everywhere I went (maybe two places).

Christmas Eve: I put the kids to bed after a fun-filled day at my folks, load the dishwasher and fill the dispenser with my homemade dishsoap. What a lovely day.

Christmas Morning: Dishwasher is broken. WAS IT MY DISHSOAP?!! I am sorry to say that my whole day was wretchedly affected by the state of the dishwasher. I was totally depressed. 

Back to doing the dishes for the week. Adam decides to try and fix it again. He does. I was SO excited that he got it to work and joyfully purchased new dish soap from the store.

Mid-January: Unfortunately, it is broken again. At least now I know it wasn't the soap.