Division of household labor

[German Nightmare]

Ha! Since I'm living in a one-man household... guess what?!?

You're the beyotch that does all the household work?

Actually, I'm the one bitching about things not getting done. (And then, yes, I'm the one who does what needs to be done - maybe not exactly as soon as it needs to be done, but eventually, things will get done. Doesn't mean I don't clean or do the dishes or whatever, but I usually need a good incentive or certain kind of mood to feel like doing stuff.)[/quote]

O tanjobi wa ikura desu ka?

I'm sending you an apron.

J/k.

O Tannenbaum?! I'm sorry, I have no idea what you just said.

Only if it says "Kiss the cook"

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Ha! Since I'm living in a one-man household... guess what?!?

You're the beyotch that does all the household work?

Actually, I'm the one bitching about things not getting done. (And then, yes, I'm the one who does what needs to be done - maybe not exactly as soon as it needs to be done, but eventually, things will get done. Doesn't mean I don't clean or do the dishes or whatever, but I usually need a good incentive or certain kind of mood to feel like doing stuff.)

O tanjobi wa ikura desu ka?

I'm sending you an apron.

J/k. [/quote]
O Tannenbaum?! I'm sorry, I have no idea what you just said.

Only if it says "Kiss the cook" [/quote]

When's your birthday?

[JarVik]

Hmn ..She likes to rearrange the furniture every 6 months. Do other women feel this need??

I feel his pain.

I've mostly gotten used to it but its werid, and while it does give you a good excuss to vaccum where you haven't been able to easily reach for awhile it just seems bizzare to me.

I'm thankful its only twice a year now!

[German Nightmare]

When's your birthday?

Dec. 7^th

[Veblenia]

*looks skeptically at the cats*

It's pretty much all on my shoulders.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

How is it in your house? Who does what? Why? Who does the most? Are all chores created equal?

The Kitchen is basically mine. I do most of the cooking, most of the cleaning and dish washing etc. The bathroom is basically hers. She's a lot more fussy about the state of the bathroom than I am. I more often than not do the laundry and the outdoor stuff(mowing the lawn etc.) She more often than not does the vacuuming and the dusting.

[Hairless Kitten II]

We don't do anything, we have servants. Polish ones: cheap & reliable.

[Ryadn]

She likes to rearrange the furniture every 6 months. Do other women feel this need??

Yes.

[NERVUN]

I keep trying to do things, I really do, but I get yelled at about how I'm the one working and bringing home the money and she isn't and if she doesn't do anything, she feels that she is a failure as a Japanese wife, and her mother told her that if she doesn't clean the house I'll divorce her and...

Generally I found it easier to just smile, nod and then do whatever little chores she tells me (Like taking the garbage out and changing light bulbs) than try to argue with her about actually doing the dishes.

I DID manage to win on the "I will cook during the weekends or else I will kick you out of the house" bit, but I think that's more because my wife enjoys the fact that every other wife in my town is now green with envy that she has a husband who not only cooks, but keeps doing it every weekend.

[Cabra West]

How is it in your house? Who does what? Why? Who does the most? Are all chores created equal?

He' dirtying it up, I clean it....

Nah, seriously, we split it fairly evenly. I cook, he does the dishes. And we rotate the cleaning floors and bathrooms between us.

[Bewilder]

I do the cleaning and tidying, the dog maintenance, the washing up, the household accounts, my own grocery shopping and cooking, general laundery (towels, bedding, curtains), my own laundry, my computer maintenance and the spring clean. I sort out spares and repairs on the car although anything major gets farmed out to my brother to fix.

He does his own grocery shopping, cooking, laundry, computer maintenance, vacuuming (I sooo hate that job), mowing the lawn, taking the bins to the street to be emptied (after I tell him which one gets emptied this week), and errands since I don't drive.

We're 50/50 on gardening and DIY with me working out what needs to be done, and looking after any bigger jobs - we're currently planning an extension, so its been my job to sort out planning rules and regs, get permissions, find architects and builders etc. We're also expecting a baby, so that's all my work and I've done all the planning, shopping, sorting for that too.

He rearranges furniture on a frequent but seemingly random basis.

[Cabra West]

I do the cleaning and tidying, the dog maintenance, the washing up, the household accounts, my own grocery shopping and cooking, general laundery (towels, bedding, curtains), my own laundry, my computer maintenance and the spring clean. I sort out spares and repairs on the car although anything major gets farmed out to my brother to fix.

He does his own grocery shopping, cooking, laundry, computer maintenance, vacuuming (I sooo hate that job), mowing the lawn, taking the bins to the street to be emptied (after I tell him which one gets emptied this week), and errands since I don't drive.

We're 50/50 on gardening and DIY with me working out what needs to be done, and looking after any bigger jobs - we're currently planning an extension, so its been my job to sort out planning rules and regs, get permissions, find architects and builders etc. We're also expecting a baby, so that's all my work and I've done all the planning, shopping, sorting for that too.

He rearranges furniture on a frequent but seemingly random basis.

It might be a silly question, but why do you both do your own cooking?

[Pope Joan]

I cook and wash up.

I pay the monthly bills.

I do most of the shopping, especially drug store and grocery stuff.

I keep the kitchen clean, and share the duty of cleaning thee bathroom. I just finished scouring it yesterday.

I do whatever repairs get done, and keep snow and ice off the roof and walks in winter.

I dust and remove cobwebs; we have a lot of busy spiders.

I fight basement mold.

She sweeps and does laundry (except I try to do my own myself), and mows the weeds.

She also earns most of the income.

[Bottle]

We're territorial sorts, so we kind of split the apartment: I am responsible for cleaning the bathroom and the bedroom, he's responsible for the living room and the kitchen. We both do dishes, and we each do our own laundry.

[Bewilder]

It might be a silly question, but why do you both do your own cooking?

We like to eat different things and at different times - he gets up at 5 and likes a substantial breakfast and a good lunch, but only wants a snack in the evening, and likes burgers, pizzas, fried food and lots of meat. I start later (up at 9ish usually) on coffee and cereal and have my main meal in the evening. I much prefer to eat salad, fruit, veg etc, and feel really unwell with too much meat or fat. Except cheese - I can eat a lot of cheese

[Desperate Measures]

I cook, do the dishes, take care of the baby when I'm home.
My wife cleans the cat litter box (Oh, I made sure I got out of that one at the very beginning), takes care of the baby when she is home and does the laundry.
Everything else we split. We even have a chore list printed on the fridge so that everything else is equal between us.

[Muravyets]

She likes to rearrange the furniture every 6 months. Do other women feel this need??

Yes.

No.

Just offering a counter example.

I live alone, and I am one lazy, messy, disorganized bitch, let me tell you. I wish -- WISH! -- I could afford a housecleaning service. And a secretary.

[Jello Biafra]

She likes to rearrange the furniture every 6 months. Do other women feel this need??

Is she a stay-at-home mom? The stay-at-home moms I knew did this.

/generalization from personal experience

[Big Jim P]

Nominally, I do the dishes and the wife does the laundry. I cook on my days off, she cooks days I work. Basically, whoever is best at the job/has more tolerance for the tedium of the job/has more time to do the job does it.

[Big Jim P]

She likes to rearrange the furniture every 6 months. Do other women feel this need??

Is she a stay-at-home mom? The stay-at-home moms I knew did this.

/generalization from personal experience

It's called "nesting"

[Treznor]

She's a neat freak, and hates it when the apartment starts accumulating clutter. But we both work full time and it's hard to summon the energy to do all the things that need to be done. For the most part I do most of the maintenance chores like dishes, trash and catbox, and we take turns with laundry and cooking. Once a month or so she gets a bug up her butt and goes on a massive cleaning spree in one or two rooms, particularly when we expect to have company over.