Joanna and Victor have fought nightly over dishes for 15 years. Karamo reveals that 65% of households have a chore gap where one partner does most work, and that dishwashers use 4 gallons per cycle versus 24 for hand-washing. He suggests Cascade Platinum detergent as a solution.
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Joanna and Victor are still in love after 15 years of marriage and 2 beautiful children. But one thing in their relationship constantly causes heated arguments, something I think that every single one of us can relate to, is doing the dishes. Joanna, I gotta ask you, when did the battle begin over doing the dishes?
I never liked doing the dishes. And in our old apartment—
No, girl, I hate 'em too.
No, who likes it? So in our old apartment, we didn't have a dishwasher. Now that we moved into a house with a dishwasher, I am absolutely not washing dishes. I hated it forever.
So I wonder what frustrates you about your husband and the dishes.
First of all, there could be 7,000 things going on and a machine that washes dishes, and he could stand there and wash dishes like this.
Why don't you just use the dishwasher?
I feel like it doesn't do the justice it's supposed to do. It just—
OK, I want to know, do you all feel like you have equal responsibilities when it comes to things around the house? No.
OK. No, I mean, we have the 2 kids, and I have 2 jobs, and I work from home. So all the home stuff is on me. And he doesn't work from home, so he doesn't. So I had to take things off my list. The dishes had to go. I'm not going to wash the dishes ever again.
You know, the dishwasher just does not— when she puts stuff in the dishwasher, she overloads it, number 1.
Yeah, I'm going to take my dishes out of the washer.
She overloads the dishwasher. Nothing gets cleaned properly. Look, this is what I'm talking about. Exactly. This is ridiculous.
That looks better than what I do. I'm just gonna be honest with you. I'm gonna give you some props.
I would take my chances with that bowl in the back.
Okay, I can understand how that causes tension.
It makes me crazy.
Yeah, in 65% of households, the responsibility of chores falls usually on one person. It's called the chore gap. Have y'all ever heard of that?
Yeah.
Yeah. Victor, what issues do you have with the way that your wife washes dishes?
She just overloads the dishwasher. It makes me upset. It causes problems in the relationship. I just— I don't agree with the way she wash dishes at all. I really don't.
How often do y'all have arguments over dishes?
Every single—
It's every night.
Look, I mean, every single night.
What is he even doing?
There can be—
Look.
Now I'm going to rearrange— look, I'm going to put it in.
This is what I'm talking about. Look what I'm saying. There can be one fork in the sink, and she'll get upset that I'm washing that one fork. And she'll dump it right back into the dishwasher. What are you doing right now? Screaming at me and yelling over a fork.
Can you tell your husband how good this feels right now? 'Cause I swore to you, 2 days ago, me and my man had the same argument and I thought I was alone.
No.
I was like, we must be about to be ending because we arguing over dishes.
Yes.
So how has the tension over the dishes in the sink affected your relationship?
Oh my goodness. It's every single night we get into this drama. It'll send me directly upstairs to the bedroom where I'm like sleeping away from my wife for that night. That's Oprah at 4.
Brother, I really want to be on your side on this. I did, I did. But Joanna is right. I'm telling you, she is right. On top of the dishwasher working better on dirty dishes, it actually saves water. Listen on everyone, on an average, people hand wash their dishes under running tap water for 11 minutes a day, which wastes 24 gallons of water. My gosh. Because dishwashers only use 4 gallons of water per cycle, Even with less than a full load, you can save 20 gallons of water a day by running your dishwasher every night instead of hand washing your dishes. I do have a compromise for you. When you let the dishwasher be the dishwasher with Cascade Platinum, you can stop worrying about who scrubbed the dishes last and help protect your relationship. You understand?
Wow.
The formula in Cascade Platinum breaks down and lifts off dried foods. All you need to do is Scrape the dishes, load them in the dishwasher, and you are done. And guess what? Cascade has offered to give you a year's supply of Cascade Platinum to alleviate some of the dishwasher tension. I am not washing dishes for a year. Thank you. Never for a year.
And a whole year.
And audience, Cascade has decided they're going to give everyone a tub of Cascade Platinum too as well. A 30-day supply for everyone to take home so you don't have tension in your own relationship. Hold on, where you going? I'll tell you where you're going. Right here to subscribe and right here to watch more.
