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  I think not
context: Because it saves time, water, and space. >
  
  Not sure how it save spaces and time, I wash right after using it. How long does it take to wash few dishes with a rag? As for water, it's not like I am running it for hours. Get rag wet, soap up all the dishes, rinse them off and wipe. Put them back in the cabinet and wipe down the counter, sink, table and you're done. >
  
  Put dish in dishwasher, turn on, put dish in cabinet. Done. It undoubtedly saves time when you eat multiple times a day with many people in the household. >
  
  Each person wash their own dishes and put it away. It keeps kitchen clean and it's done in few minutes. Even with large family lunch/dinner one person can be washer and another can be a dryer. It doesn't take that long and if one have kids it's a good responsibility to learn. I grew up washing dishes with my sibling and never seen an issue with hand washing. Honestly having a dishwasher above financial cost is also results in having less storage cabinets. >
  
  My 3 year old and 9 month old aren't washing their own dishes and there is WAY too much to do around the house to spend that much time washing them. It's WAY quicker to put them in the dishwasher. >
  
  It is water saving, compared to my method of washing dishes. My mothers generation filled two basins, wash in one and rinse in the other. I dont consider them clean rinsed that way, so I run the water, at least for rinse. Dishwasher doesn't.  But to each his own, as long as your dishes are clean.
  Also I wanted to say I cook 3 (or more) full meals. 3 separate stacks of dirty pots and pans. If I didn't use dishwasher I'd be in kitchen all day. >
  
  Do you have kids? Have them help out or a husband. From financial point water doesn't cost that much at all compare to investment in to dishwasher machine, amount of time it takes for the machine to wash the dishes, you putting the dishes in to the machine, taking it out. >
  
  Financial decisions should also include the time dedicated for the activity and alternative uses for that time, including just having fun, or nothing at all.
  If you like washing dishes, fine. 
  But alternatively, you could likely do much better things with your time. Perhaps if you need the money that bad, maybe your time is not worth much for anybody, then yeah. >
  
  Dishwashers use less water and sanitizes the dishes. >
  
  I use hot water, doesn't everyone? >
  
  Hot water doesn't kill bacteria. Boiling water/steam does. >
  
  Financially better for who?
  If it takes you half an hour a day to wash your dishes by hand, but 5 mins with a dishwasher, and you're making $1000/hour, do you still think it's better financially? >
  
  If I am making 1000 an hour Ill be eating out all the time. So no worry about dishes plus i would have a maid to keep everything clean. >
  
  Then let's be more realistic. Let's say you buy a dishwasher for 1000$. Dishwashers last around 10-15 years. Let's be pessimistic and assume 10. That means that you pay around 0.28$ per day for your dishwasher. Which equals to around 1 minute of your time if you make 17$/h. >
  
  It is probably financially better. That’s not really the reason people buy dishwashers though. Time, health, and accessibility seem to be the main reason why someone would use a dishwasher on a regular basis. That’s why many cottages don’t have them. >
  
  I would suspect there's a fair bit more about this that you'd need to add up.
  First, how many hours a month are you using in order to do the dishes by hand.
  Let's just say it only takes 10 minutes per day and you clean up just the dishes you use every day.
  That's 300 minutes or 5 hours.
  Let's say you throw your dishes in the dishwasher in a similar fashion and run it once a week.
  What's that going to be?  1 hour added up?  It takes basically zero time to throw the dishes in the dishwasher instead of the sink, and you run it once a week which is another like 1 minute of button pushes and inserting the pod.
  So maybe 45 minutes? 1 hour?
  So... can you think of anything with that 4 hours per month someone could do instead of dishes, that would pay off the dishwasher in earned money, and then further actually be beneficial to making money after you've paid it off in 5, 6, 19 months?
  I'm fairly certain even if you only save 2 hours of time, after you've had a dishwasher for a full year, you've saved 24 hours, you could find something that would replace the time of hand doing your dishes, and earn the money that easily pays off a 300 dollar machine and then earns further money. >
  
  I'll be doing same thing if I wasn't washing the dishes, watching tv. Instead of sitting i am doing by standing up, it's good actually to keep physically moving.  Honestly i am having hard time finding how i would have more free time when I am washing the dishes compare to putting in to the dishwasher. Each time i want to load dishwasher i would need to take out all the clean dishes before i can put in to the dirty ones. >
  
  I wash dishes in the dishwasher once a week and it takes like... 10 minutes to put away the dishes, and I simply throw my dishes in there every day rather than throwing them in the sink.
  It's literally like... 20 minutes a week I spend on dishes with a dishwasher.
  There's zero chance that's happening by hand washing.
  Also just because "you" are watching TV, isn't really much of an argument that could simply apply to everyone.
  "It's financially dumb to get a job, because I'll just do the same thing even if I didn't have a job".
  Yeah... that's another financially irresponsible concept as well, that's kind of the point here isn't it? >
  
  Dishwashers use a ton less water, and less power to heat the less water, and save time. >
  
  Water doesn't use any electricity to heat the water. Water tank keeps water hot regardless if am using it or not. >
  
  
  Water doesn't use any electricity to heat the water. Water tank keeps water hot regardless if am using it or not.
  
  Maybe try rereading that.... >
  
  It is incredibly tiring to stand their and wash all of those dishes. A dishwasher would definitely save money because it is an investment. It also saves your time and time is money (sometimes). There is a method to the madness to save your sanity. >
  
  For someone who uses their time to spend with their family, friends, reading, working or other more valuable stuff that is worth money, the dishwasher pays off, particularly if you have plenty of people to wash up for. >
  
  Washing dishes is the perfect time to talk with your family. One can make it a family event after having family lunch