Dirty dishes issue, is it some bug or just game mechanics

I play with households of 8 so I just get the trash barrel that pays 10 per sim and then I throw the plates away myself for $80 per plate lol. My sims are a bit lazy with dishes but I figured it'd cuz I always cancel them doing it so that I can haha. Maybe not after all.

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I recall this being an issue with ovens for some reason. A plate would get stuck in it somehow and that would prevent Sims from doing the dishes.

"JoBass24us;c-17393472" wrote:
I haven’t experienced this as of late, tho it has happened in the past. What I do see all the time is that despite having an expensive, amazing and handy sink in the kitchen my sims choose to go out of their way to wash them in the bathroom sink. There’s nothing obstructing their use it of it either because they will use it from time to time. ??‍♀️

I have autonomy on and this reminded me of why the hell do my sims when they need toilet when on the 2nd floor (which has a bathroom) go past the 1st floor (also has a bathroom) and go to the bathroom in the basement. The bathroom on the 2nd floor is right next to the bedroom and closer than the stairs so why do they do this ?

I made a Neat sim the other day. It had been a while since I last played one with that trait and I couldn't believe that she kept setting the dirty dish down on a table or some other surface. I always thought Neat sims cleaned up after themselves immediately. There's definitely something going on.

My Sim will make food and walk out of the kitchen, past the dining room table and put it on the coffee table. The dirty dishes they always end up on the coffee table or a half wall somewhere.

Dishes also get taken to be washed in the farthest sink actually so that is also bad lol.

'Tis a buggy game mechanic, I'm afraid :/

@VampireSapphire I had this issue solved before:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Sims-can-t-wash-dishes-if-some-are-on-shelves/m-p/8369577#M108259

THANKS for everyone's help! i figured out the issue for MY game . my sim would not clean dishes, she just picked them up and put them back down somewhere else. so what i did was put up all my walls and found all the free standing plate people put on shelves and behind stuff and put everything in the kitchen with my sim. as soon as i hit play she started cleaning up everything i did not even have to tell her . so i guess when sims are cleaning they are trying to pick up everything and if they can't do to it being on a shelf or out of their reach they will put everything down . so essentially its a ALL or none thing . THANK YOU