How many times have you been at a dinner party and offered to help clean up and have been pounced upon just as you’ve gone to put your host’s Riedl stemware in the dishwasher? You haven’t? That’s what the help’s for, you say? Well step out of the dark ages, you reprobate; get off your no doubt unwieldy behind and at least help take things to the kitchen sink.
Now for the less selfish and time-poor of us, there’s a handy new little invention that prevents your precious crystal from disintegrating amongst the jets. Made from silicon, the Tether clasp clicks into the dishwasher basket and onto the stems of wineglasses, saving them from certain and eventual death. A pack of four is only $14.99 from Quirky, which is certainly a lot more inexpensive than replacing an entire set of Waterford.
Published on 4 January 2012 by Agony Uncle