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Drink Beer, watch TV and try and score cheap thrills with internet babes.

Laundry: Her
Dishes: Her
Floors: Her
Bathrooms: Her
Trash: Me
General tidying/picking up: Her
Litterbox: Me (even though they're her Goddamn cats!)
Killing normal bugs: Me
Killing spiders: Her
Walking dog: Me
Beating cats: Me
Reaching stuff on the top shelf: Me

I do my own laundry.
I cook on my days off.
I wash dishes 70% of the time.
Make sure I put stuff away when I use it (tidy up)


That is usually good enough.

We've talked about it for when she moves in during the summer, and here's what we've come to agree on for the most part(Whether this will stand after she does move in, we'll see)-


Dishes: I clean them if she cooked (or if I made only something for me), and vice versa.
Clothes: we both do this, somebody loads the washer and dryer, and we both fold and put away clothing.
General house cleaning: We're planning on just working together for every room, depending on the things needing done in there- I'll dust (since I'm taller and can reach better), vacuum, fold, make the bed, orally please her, everything that normally happens when you're cleaning with your s/o.
Trash: Prolly me.


Honestly, I think I'll be doing more of the cleaning than her, as I'm a little more apt to be thorough about it than she is.

I somehow forgot cooking - I do that except on the odd night when he does. I would say I cook 95% of the time.

Nexa

I clean up (tidy), do the dishes, vacuum, clean the litterbox (she's pregnant) and take the trash out.
She does seem to have some sort of personal vendetta against folding clean clothes, so I usually end up doing that too. Not too bad when you consider that she doesn't work.

That's the biggest problem I've come across so far. Generally speaking, I'll do a chore when it needs to be done. The wife tends to be a bit more proactive.

I'll do my own laundry when I run out of clothes, do the dishes either when the sink is full or I don't have any left, sweep the floor when **** starts sticking to my feet, empty the garbage when I can't push it down any further, etc. Now I know that all sounds bad, but with exception to the laundry, the rest of the chores get done pretty regularly. With 2 children the trash has to go out every day and the floors get dirty enough to have **** sticking to my feet at least every other day.

She does all the laundry mostly because she gets to it before I do. I've got at least two weeks worth of clothes before I need to start washing anything so she just grabs mine when she's doing hers. I never fold anything. She gets pissed about the way I fold her clothes and if I wash my own clothes they stay in the basket until worn, thereafter getting transfered to the hamper.

I don't usually get home before the kids need to eat so she'll usually fix something for the kids and grab a bite herself. On the weekends I make dinners. And if I have the inclination I'll prepare something the night before for her to pop in the oven when I'm not home.

Trash removal is by default the man's job. Not sure how it happens that way but I always end up doing it. She'll put the bag right outside the door and I grab it and toss it in our dumpster on my way to work despite the fact that she leaves before I do.

Anything to do with mowing the lawn, gardening, picking up leaves, trimming hedges, shoveling snow, etc. are all me.

I've also never wiped the dust off of a TV before.

Edited, Mon Feb 6 11:10:47 2006 by Jacobsdeception

I do all the chores. In fact, the only reasons I keep Nadenu around anymore are the nachos and the kink.


Mmmm nachos and kink.

You guys fold clothes?

WTF?

Oooh weee, I am going to either eat or penetrate a pile of pinto beans when I gets home tonight.








In related news, she always wants the hose, again.

Maybe it's just because my hubbys' in the military, but he has to have everything just so in the house. So he's more detailed when it comes to cleaning than I am. But I'm more of the person to tidy up and put things away. My husband will grab a pile of magazines, dust the table underneath and then just drop the magazines down again. The only thing I don't understand is why does he leave his dirty clothes on top of the hamper instead of putting them in one of the baskets? And I have 5 hampers to keep all the clothes sorted.

I cook about 90% of the time, do the dishes and some tidying and the laundry. I fix what needs to be fixed and take care of "big" yard work.

The kids clean the bathroom, sweep and mop, put away the dishes, take out the trash and mow the grass.

She cooks on her days off and cleans when she has had enough of our idea of tidy.

So, Katie, are you building this list in order to make some sort of point to your husband?

"Look! These other men do a dish once in a while! No sex for you!"