dishes

my mother is really fed up of our maid now a days. she is so irregular. but without her there is no one to wash the heap of utensils that stay piled in the wash basin. so came the idea of buying a dishwasher that would ease the daily pain of scraping food from the dishes. somebody please help...

Okay...3 years of living alone in Australia and 4 months so far in Switzerland have brought me down to this: 1) I am able to cook a variety of 20-25 dishes ... both Indian and Italian... 2) I wash dishes... 3) I do laundry...I iron clothes...I freaking buy two separate detergents...