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No, this isn’t a sign for jokers to let them know if children are in the room.
It’s a dishwasher sign so you know the condition of the dishes.
The first time you realize you put away a bunch of dirty dishes into your cupboards because you thought they were clean you will wish you had a sign like this! ;-)
Pretty simple – drew out a random “blotch” pattern and the words into my CAD program and let my CNC go to work – then it was a simple five minutes on my scrollsaw to cut it out.
Some lemon oil and a spritz from a can a spray lacquer and Bob’s your Uncle!
I counter-sunk half of a rare earth magnet I stripped from a computer hard drive in the rear – holds on like a champ.
Measures around 7 inches by 4 inches and is white oak.
Cheers! Now I gotta go empty the dishwasher. Or are they dirty??? Uh Oh…......
-bob
-- Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. - Thomas Carlyle http://www.ffrf.org
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tyvekboy
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#1 posted 70 days ago
Great idea. I once did that too to let me know if the dishes were dirty or clean.
Since then we developed another system. After meals, we put dirty dishes in the dishwasher. HOWEVER, we put the silverware in a container (filled with water) that sits on or near the sink.
When we open the dish washer and there is NO SILVERWARE in the silverware basket, then the dishes are DIRTY. If there IS SILVERWARE in the silverware basket then the dishes are CLEAN.
You just got to remember to put the silverware in the dishwasher before you start the washing cycle.
-- Tyvekboy -- Marietta, GA
DIYaholic
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#2 posted 70 days ago
Paper plates & plastic utensils…..
Bachelor with NO dishwasher!!!
BTW: nice looking sign!
-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow!
Ken90712
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#3 posted 70 days ago
We have one at work as well. Fun project nice post.
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
Sheila Landry (scrollgirl)
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#4 posted 70 days ago
Looks cool, Bob! Nice to have. :)
Sheila
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Monte Pittman
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#5 posted 70 days ago
Good thought
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
helluvawreck
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#6 posted 70 days ago
That’s out of my territory. I don’t know how to operate the dishwasher and my wife won’t let me go near it or the laundry machines. However, the sign sure looks good.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau
ldl
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#7 posted 70 days ago
Nice sign.
Whatever sys you use it’s a memory thing as you got to remember to switch the sign. I got a good memory but it’s so short it’s not much good. I’d forget to switch the sign. Haaa Haaa
-- Dewayne in Bainbridge, Ga. - - No one can make you mad. Only you decide when you get mad - -
CessnaPilotBarry
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#8 posted 70 days ago
Cool!
My current dishwasher includes an LED “clean” indicator on the control panel. Without it, a sign would be very useful for folks who live with people who insist on prewashing everything they put in the machine.
-- It's all good, if it's wood...
Roger
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#9 posted 69 days ago
LOL ldl…. I’d fergit to turn it round fer sure
-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net
scrollingmom
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#10 posted 68 days ago
You are just full of ideas. I do like.
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KnotCurser
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#11 posted 68 days ago
Thank you all for the kind words!
-bob
-- Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. - Thomas Carlyle http://www.ffrf.org
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