While I remain forever grateful to finally have a dishwasher, I went through a stint where I spent more time cursing it than praising it: My dishes weren't coming out cleanly, and my glassware was starting to get cloudy (like, cloudy to the point of looking embarrassingly filthy).
I was doing everything right: I was careful to scrape dishes but not rinse them (so that the detergent would have something to grip onto in order to do its job), I loaded everything properly, I cleaned out the drain regularly, I cut back on the amount of detergent I was using, and I even tried a few different kinds of detergent. Still, the results were subpar at best.
"I think we need a new dishwasher," I casually mentioned to my husband, pointing to the 15-year-old off-brand appliance.
"Nah," he said confidently (read: cheaply!).
Now, as much as I hate to say it, he was right.
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