Homemade Dish Detergent

Ingredients:
1 cup Borax
1 cup washing soda
1/2 cup Kosher salt
1/2 cup citric acid (or unsweetened lemonade packets)

Directions:
Mix all together.
You use 1 Tbsp per load.

Washing Dishes

I'll admit that I let my dishes pile up sometimes. It's not really that I mean to, but if the dishwasher doesn't get unloaded there isn't a place to put them, and when I am in a rush, I just start the pile. For some reason once there are a few dishes, in no time there is a massive pile.

When that happens, I have a system that helps me get them washed in no time:

First I start by unloading the dishwasher (which is the culprit behind the piles of dishes).

Then I load up glasses and cups because they usually just need a quick rinse and can be put in the dishwasher.

Then I load up any pretty clean (as in don't need to be scrubbed) dishes and utensils into the dishwasher.

Then I pull out any "deep scrub" needing things (pots, pans, really gross dishes) and put them to the side to do last.

Then I quick rinse and sponge off semi-dirty dishes and load those into the dishwasher.

Then I scrub the dirty dishes and put them into the dishwasher.

Lastly I scrub pots and pans and any other bigger things that don't go into the dishwasher.

I take the sponge and some dish soap and scrub the sink really well and wipe down around the sink.

I like to do easy things first because it makes me motivated to keep going since it quickly makes the pile not seem like a mountain.

Of course the best way to do dishes is to rinse and load as used, but in the real world that doesn't happen all the time, right? ;)

How do you "like" to do dishes?