mosbysmom wrote:
Used liquid dish soap in dishwasher; my teenager put liquid dawn dishwashing
soap in my dishwasher; now it's sudsing all over the floor.
What should I do to clean it out? Is the dishwasher ruined??


Your dilemma brings back fond memories ) First job, live-in nanny,
first dishwasher I had ever set eyes on ... dish soap logically goes in
dishwasher to wash dishes. Mountains of suds produced, mopping up with
every bath towel in the rather large home. (They had a lot of towels -
didn't have to do a load of laundry to find a clean one.) Fortunately,
I did this early in the day and had it all cleaned up when the princess
arrived home.

I wasn't fired .. I lasted another week until junior, 2 y/o, decided to
play with the contents of his diaper whilst in his crib. S'posed to be
napping. 13 y/o sister found the mess first and had a fit. I would not
have been particularly excited, as my tolerance to nasty stuff is
apparently quite high. The princess let me go that day, no regrets for
me. I moved on to a job as live-in babysitter - several levels below
the status of nanny. Slept in hot attic, neither adult in home was an
attorney or movie star.

I have a dishwasher now, but rarely use it. It is not a labor-saving
device, IMO. I do a better job with Dawn and air-drying )