Do your drinking glasses go on the counter for use later in the day or immediately into the dishwasher even if you are likely to continue drinking something anywhere from 10 to 300 minutes later?

I sometimes drink out of the same glass all day. I just rinse it out everytime before I use it.
Oh yeah. Oops on pressing the good question button.

Great question! One me and my ex fought over a lot. He would put each and every glass in the dishwasher KNOWING he would be getting another drink in the next few minutes or an hour. I would keep the same glass all day.

Same glass all day then you wash it at the end of the day. When you have to wash everything by hand because there is no dishwasher in your apartment you like to cut down on the number of cups you use a day.

I have to wash my dishes by hand, so ill use a cup as long as I can, a little mold never hurt anyone.

Love the topic “why my girlfriend and mother drive me crazy”.

I use the same cup a couple times. Just so I don’t have to keep washing dishes. And then I don’t run out of clean ups as fast.

I usually rinse the dish unless there’s an abundance of dishes then I start loading the dish washer

I almost never use a cup…I like my soda or beer straight out of the source. No ice = no dilution! I pretty much only drink water from a cup, and will use it as long as I’m still drinking water. On the rare occasions that I drink soda out of a glass, I will only use it as long as it is continually in use. If I’m done for now, it goes into the sink…they get sticky!

I try to use one per day; my kids aren’t so resourceful.

If it’s just water, I reuse it as much as I remember to. Milk or juice, only one use!

I use different cups every use. I have so many cups. 1 tall cabinet with 8 shelves, plus another cabinet with mugs, plus another cabinet with 6 nalgenes. I also have a lot of tupperware that can be used during drastic times. Also, I dont like mixing the “creamy” liquids with the “fruity” liquids. example: milk and OJ.

In the washer after done. And grab a new one. We hafta run the dishwasher once daily in any case… so I don’t perceive any wastefulness.

The wife, on the other hand, drinks all but a little at the bottom, and leaves one of those laying around the house all day… driving me crazy. Then later, I finally put it in the washer when I figure it’s gotta be forgotten… driving her crazy (because somehow she was planning to drink those watery dregs at some point).

Looking around me, there are exactly six cups: two tea cups, three regular drinking glasses, and one wine glass. There are also two plates, a cereal bowl, and two spoons. I should bring them downstairs and wash them.

If I’m downstairs: When I’m done with a cup I put it next to, but not in, the sink. That way if I need a glass I can use the same one, but it’s still by the sink in case someone else wants to put it in the dishwasher, or wash it by hand, if they are so inclined. At the end of the day if my glass is still on the counter next to the sink I wash it.

If I take the cup upstairs: it generally stays there for a very long time. Very often I bring food up here, eat it, and go to bed without going downstairs. In the morning I’m not thinking about dishes, so they don’t go anywhere.

Depends. If it’s just water, I use the same glass all day. If anything else, I use a new glass.

I try to use the same cup. It depends on what OCD people are around me because they can’t just see a glass sitting there and not do something with it.

@robmandu: My wife does the same thing. There are glasses, bottles and cups everywhere – half drunk, or even full.

I collect them all in the morning and deposit them into the dishwasher.

Drives me batty.

My kids do the same thing…and then complain that we’re out of milk!

@Kevbo, do your girlfriend and mother wash too frequently or not enough? Has your curiosity been satiated?

@tl, yeah, like within 10 minutes they load my glass into the dishwasher!

Drinking glass always in use…
Alcohol kills germs…
No worries….

Put the glass in the freezer. It’s out of sight, but not in the dishwasher.