The Dishwasher sigh

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Most of the apartments have had installed a dishwasher in the kitchen. I have a dishwasher installed in my apartment as well. The dishwasher positions at the one of the wives luxurious appliances thanks to advertisement; however, some people say it is waste of money using dishwashers because they never clean the dishes at one time. The price of dishwasher is less expensive than ipad if it is a standalone type. Even the installment types are surly competitive with TVs or DVD players. But most of the people have feeling of guilt to use it. They explain the cleanser is expensive; water is not cut down than they imagined; noisy; powerless washer. Besides the various reasons, they seem comfort to wash the dishes by hand, and it is the most arguable part to me.

Psychologically, they say, using their time works practically efficient with family budget than using a machine. Psychologically, they add, less dishwasher usage has been “definitely” cut down electricity. The image I pictured a woman sitting in a dark room that light bulbs have been taken off except one and not using the floor heating system which warms perfectly up in the whole room. She may prefer using Kotatsu (a table with heater that is covered by a blanket to warm legs) in the dark room. Or she would have calculated exactly what the most economized life was in the super-modern era.

Once they decided to buy a nice apartment with modern fixture, the contradiction has started. Spending humble life is self-esteem, I would say. It is totally other people’s business, but I sometimes feel their excuses not using those new products (even they purchased!) come from anxiety about modern life, not come from that they are stingy.

Japanese are imprinted not to overuse utility services such as gas, water and electricity. Everybody like the parents, the teachers and the company you work obsess you not to spend much at anywhere. The education system creates economy, though people believe it is a kind of mindset or a nice habit.

The consumer market is shrinking in Japan because the generosity has already been deprived from them; instead, people has come to seek how to live with minimum possessions and minimum prosperity. Japanese started soaking themselves in austerity. Even purchasing one dishwasher cleanser obsesses them whether it is reliable and reasonable. They have dropped the greedy life long time ago.

I use the dishwasher everyday. It does not mean I am not a humble person, and it means I simply do not believe in the “psychological effect” on saving electricity. If I had to do dishes by hand, I would have not bought this apartment, not the dishwasher.

And I was a kind of kid who did not listen to what adults say about the rules.


- Ellen.



It is hard to distinguish both two product, isn't it?
From my experience, I personally recommend you Joy (the left). Its washing power
is amazing. But I mistakenly bought two bags of the right!
The package problem happens everywhere even in domestic.

A product of P&G

a product of Kao