Hobbit Day: The Aftermath

There was a fearful mess in the room, and piles of unwashed crocks in the kitchen. Nearly every pot and pan he possessed seemed to have been used. The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.
~The Hobbit, Chapter Two

(after two loads have already run in the dishwasher . . .)