I have a single drawer dishwasher that I don't clean the filter of very often because I always rinse the plates before I put them in. Up until coronavirus I would use the dishwasher twice a week but now that life has slowed I actually enjoy doing the dishes by hand. I recently realised I needed to use the dishwasher so that the seals and things stayed in good condition so I cleaned the filter and ran some vinegar through on a short cycle. I cleaned the filter again afterwards and it all seemed clean and fresh. Yesterday I put a load through it again and noticed the filter wasn't sitting flat in the bottom properly. I pulled the filter out to cleaned it and I noticed what I thought was a screw in the bottom of where the filter sits. I reached in and pulled out...my favourite earring that I had lost over a year before! I had hunted all over the house and garden for that thing last year and I have no idea how it could have been hiding in the dishwasher all that time. It wasn't in the filter compartment last week so it must have been inside the plumbing somehow. From now on if we ever lose something in this house I am going to ask "Have you looked in the dishwasher?"
