I have 6 kids so sometimes I have no choice...we "run out" of dishes before I even realize it...so then my wife or I have to clean them unless we want to eat off the floor.

what year is this?...after a while, it isn't 'dirt' but that individual who lives in your sink...best to toss it a cookie every once in a while...no longer is there an unclean knife in the sink, but an armed life form...treat accordingly.

Don't judge me!!??!?

1 day... i can't stand a dirty kitchen.

Zero the dish washer is where you store them.

As it’s only me. I make sure dishes are washed before bed. I love waking up to a clean ordered kitchen.

just cling film all your plates... never do a dish again!

Lol. Overnight. I will leave the really crusted up supper dishes (pans) to soak. But the next morning, I make my coffee, sit on the porch & drink it, then go straight in and wash them. Can't stand dishes sitting.

I do them after dinner, if while cooking I can already sense my disdain for doing them I’ll break out the paper plates, unless I’m making soup, I hate how soup runs off the edges of a paper plate.

Not that long-dishwashers are a wonderful thing.

Mine don't stay too long at all, thanks to my dishwasher. I actually enjoy doing dishes.

That said, I've had friends and exes who prefer to wash them by hand, but I think they're just crazy.

I just finished running a new drain line. The dirty dishes have been sitting in the sink, for about a week now.

Until I need a clean one

Long enough to let my food settle and not much longer unless it is breakfast or lunch in which I wash them immediately after use.

They go in the dishwasher as I use them.

I wash my dishes after I'm done eating.

Until morning

An hour. Tops.
Leaving them any longer makes my OCD hurt.

We put them in the dishwasher as we use them. I like my kitchen to be clean.

Overnight. I'll do them in the morning when I'm in the kitchen having coffee and breakfast. Usually only a couple of plates and cups anyway.

I am living in Thailand and don't have a sink, but if I leave a dirty dish anywhere for over ten minutes, I'm asking for an army of almost invisble ants to emerge from the walls and take over. I've learned to add a dollop of cooking oil to my scrubbing water, which seems to repel them for several days.

Ordinary soap also seems to work, if I leave a soap film.

They also crawl over my clothing, looking for skin flakes and can sting me relentlessly if I don't the right kind of body wash, or add a few drops of cooking oil to the container.

1 day, any longer and I get crabby.

About a week normally..Tis the life of the bacholer

I might be able to last about 17 minutes before I wash them.

Right into the washer with ye!