Dishwashing

I don't have a dishwasher. It's torture some days, I tell you. But, it makes me have to think about water consumption and I finally have the solution that seems to use the least amount of water while still letting me get things clean. But, while scrubbing away this morning, reminiscing of the days I did have a machine, I thought of an energy saving tip for the rest of you lucky people: Turn off the heat dry setting. I'm sure you all have already done it. But, thought I'd share.

Also, I bought a glass bottle with oil dispensing tip to put my dish soap in. To save on soap use, I do a 1:1 ratio of the soap to water. Dishes still get clean with plenty of bubbles to spare and less product in thw water system at a time!

We already switched to the foam hand soaps for the same reason (and I like the foam!), but I am considering this with shampoo and such. My washing machine already needs only half the soap my other one did, so that helps, too.