This is not mine, I saw it on line:
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And I love how everyone agrees with this, “Oh yes, my husband/wife/sister/roommate really IS like that raccoon thing.”
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I’ve seen that before and was thinking about it before I saw your post as I was emptying the dishwasher my H had loaded. Makes me crazy every time. Usually enough that I reorganize the dishwasher if I’m the one running the cycle.
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I won’t say my knives have never seen a dishwasher but I try and hand wash. And hand wash my skillet pans. About 50/50 on pots.
And I do sometimes rearrange the dishwasher -H is apparently allergic to pulling the bottom shelf all the way out so he half a_s puts his plate in instead of fully back!
One thing about the dishwasher. I prefer the silverware be sorted spoons, then folks, then knives, then utensils. But as said it someone is loading it up for me I won’t complain !
Those are hard rules to follow @deb922 and stressed me out just imagining you trying yo follow the rules!
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My son says i load the dishwasher like the chemistry teacher I am, in accordance with the rules for electron configuration: first back of the dw to front, seconc spread out as much as possible, third only one thing per slot no matter what…
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My electron configuration is more like large molecules that form solids–tight bonds that hold everything together.
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I never put my good kitchen knives or steak knives in the dishwasher. And my other rule is: In each slot of the utensil tray, I try to put one spoon up and one spoon down, so they don’t “spoon” each other and therefore not get clean. Knives point to the bottom (so no one injures themselves) and forks point up (so the tines don’t get caught or go below the lattice of the basket).
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Sounds like you need to look into a Miele when your current dishwasher stops working. 
Love the third silverware rack! Unloading is always easy as little bending is needed.
I am a master of dishwasher Tetris. I don’t think I will be able to compete on any cooking shows, so my knives go into that third rack. I know, sacrilege! 
I hate splattered food etc., dust, and cobwebs. Those always get taken care of. I can’t stand horizontal surfaces covered with stuff so I make sure those get cleared. However,
Like other posters, I will never start cleaning the kitchen when my guests are still being entertained, and I do not let my guests clean up. They are guests, not hired help, after all!
My husband likes to spread his papers and electronics around. He can do so in his office,
So when company shows up, I simply close the sliding doors.
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I have anxiety about my BF moving in with me. I have been decluttering since Covid. Anything I wasn’t using, like stereo, bikes, linens, expired food, medicine, makeup, went. I try to keep countertops clear, except for KitchenAid, toaster oven, … I hired a professional to help choose what objects stayed, and she rearranged, offered suggestions. A third of my books were donated, as well as musical instruments.
He is not to bring down more than what can fit into a room that I am emptying out. But, he has 45 boxes of books.
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How did you (“bookworm” )decide what books to get rid of?
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Lots of books I read in college, German literature, history ( I kept American history, especially the ones with photographs). I had 2 shelves of judaic books, which went to the temple. Cook books; I had 4 shelves. The pro said to keep fav 4, but I had to keep Julia, good Housekeeping, … silly, cuz I often go online
Fiction— if I read it once, but wouldn’t read again, they went. That included Jodi picoult. I’m glad I kept 2 Dan Silva, as the BF is now reading them in order.
All my mysteries stay, as well as Potter, the hunger games, and Twilight series.
I’m so sentimental, I had boxes of books from my son’s early years. The kids went thru them, made choices, and I packed a BIG box and mailed it out. I kept his fav books, and will let him make final decisions on those.
Kristen Hannah, Carl hiaasen, Tony hillerman, dahl, and every Jane Austen has stayed. A few poetry books, like Emily Dickinson, and illustrated mythology remain.
All the books from my ex are gone.
This is rather lengthy. I have 9 big bookcases. I began taking everything off the shelves and regrouping by category. Fiction is alphabetical. I have shelves that are my “take” books, given to anyone who asks.
I hope this helps.
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This definitely helps - you have much of the same library that I do
I have given away some Judaica to the shul, and I gave away almost all of my cookbooks but I had two signed copies of one and hesitated (but did give those away also). I do have the Picoult still but you’re right, those should go. Hiaasen also on my shelf, and Austen, and poetry. I have the mythology collection which I rebelled against my Orthodox parents by shelving next to midrash. My DH has started reading Brandon Sanderson and wants to keep all those tomes. Sigh. I’m also hesitant to part with my reference books.
That’s the before picture
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Whoops, wrong thread.
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Oh, we have books! Even bookcases in the bathroom! I’ve been surreptitiously culling. H is Kindle-based now, but doesn’t want to get rid of dead tree books. S1 has several boxes of books downstairs. Still doesn’t want me to ship them to CA.
As a shul president who just donated our library’s contents to a book drive at the local yeshiva, thank you (?) for donating books to your shul. I hauled 70 boxes – filled up 2/3 of a 10 ft UHaul truck. They did not expect to see me driving the truck! Still have four bookcases to go, but they are Jewish biographies, Jewish-themed fiction and kids’ books. We hope they’ll find a home in our county’s library system. The priority was to first get what needed to go to the geniza/can be used in local shuls/religious schools out the door.
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Get rid of my books?! NEVER!
They are my life, my education, alphabetical by author last name, no airport fiction or light summer reads, just my English major treasure and some of DH’s business books.
(Oh, and our son’s childhood library which I’m keeping for him.)
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Not surprisingly, however, your library manages to still look immaculate. I have a good stash also, but mine are all behind cabinet doors in my little study. DH has a huge office (he runs his business from our home), but all available wall space (and by design there is a ton of it) is covered with aerial ownership maps of our state where he studies commercial and residential real estate.
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@ChoatieMom between the food, the cocktails and the books I would never leave your house!
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Those pictures were taken just after the construction of that room was completed. They do not reflect the current state of DH’s office area on the right side or the melange of spirits and barware that now fill those empty cubbies. And there is no door on that room that I can close.
But, thank you.
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