Does Your Husband Help With Chores?
#73
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My hubby works, I stay at home and take care of our two small grandsons (ages 3 mos. and 21 mos.) I do inside stuff and he keeps up with the house maintenance, and will help me with stuff. If he wants to do man stuff then he needs to let me do lady stuff. What goes around comes around. Married for thirthy-nine years and r high school sweethearts.
#74
Originally Posted by PatriceJ
i'm confused. you feel inconvenienced because your husband wants to contribute to the housework?
he wants to do a chore but apparently isn't sure how to do it correctly?
where's the problem? sounds more like an opportunity to me.
if you show him - without foolishly making him feel like a useless idiot - he'll be able and willing to do that chore more often.
he wants to do a chore but apparently isn't sure how to do it correctly?
where's the problem? sounds more like an opportunity to me.
if you show him - without foolishly making him feel like a useless idiot - he'll be able and willing to do that chore more often.
#76
I'm very spoiled. My husband does the vacuumming (I'm retired - he still works!) because he is much more thorough than I am. He gets out the shop vac and cleans the baseboards (every time) and the drapes and furniture! He also is a whiz on bathrooms. Takes him about 45 minutes to just clean the 1/2 bath downstairs (and it doesn't even get used very much!). Some of my friends want to rent him out. I think it comes from him being in the Air Force for 23 years and had to clean all the time. But I'm not complaining! He's the best.
#78
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Location: currently central new jersey
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my husband does the floors. washing, vacuuming, swiffing, sweeping. he does it all badly but i don't care, i'm not re-doing it. he does ALL outside work and ALL inside work that i deem hubby-work like painting. he does electrical and plumbing and carpentry work and snow shoveling. i do all cooking and cleaning, laundry, mending, animal care and childcare (when necessary). i order all delivery food.
i fill the dishwasher because he overfills, and he empties and puts away.
if i absolutely have to, for anything else, i leave written instructions, such as:
1. lift pan with your right hand and pick up scrapey sponge with your left.
2. with a swirling motion, scrub food bits and grease off the pan until it's all gone.
3. rinse. repeat with dishwash fluid and hot water until sparkles appear and you can see your reflection.
4. using clean dish towel, dry until all water is gone. put away.
when i'm sick, i leave similar instructions for laundry, with my heart in my mouth. letting him do the laundry means i'm dying, the house is piled with every stitch we own and the queen is on her way for her annual visit. it also means that even with instructions that bar-bar the elephant can follow, i will still be buried in a pink bra and underpants. and so will he. (no bra.)
i fill the dishwasher because he overfills, and he empties and puts away.
if i absolutely have to, for anything else, i leave written instructions, such as:
1. lift pan with your right hand and pick up scrapey sponge with your left.
2. with a swirling motion, scrub food bits and grease off the pan until it's all gone.
3. rinse. repeat with dishwash fluid and hot water until sparkles appear and you can see your reflection.
4. using clean dish towel, dry until all water is gone. put away.
when i'm sick, i leave similar instructions for laundry, with my heart in my mouth. letting him do the laundry means i'm dying, the house is piled with every stitch we own and the queen is on her way for her annual visit. it also means that even with instructions that bar-bar the elephant can follow, i will still be buried in a pink bra and underpants. and so will he. (no bra.)
#80
Mine only helps out when I get mad. I get tired of getting mad so most of the time I just do it myself. If I say anything he says he is sorry, but he says it more like a challenge not a real appology. Then he says I am picking on him.
sigh!
sigh!
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