Domestic division of labour

Heehee, twas ever thus! Blue jobs and pink jobs around the house.I don't mind really, as I don't want to have all of the gardening to do, or washing the car or the windows or dragging the bins out.DH does do some cooking and is very good at it, and supplies early morning tea as well.

oh, yes. He does bring me morning tea too. Not all bad then

Please be grateful that you have somebody to help!

We both do a bit of anything although I do most of the cooking but we both put the recycling/bins out, whoever is about puts on washing or hanging it out also emptying the dishwasher. Although I do sometimes have to say "the bathroom/floors need cleaning", but I only have to ask and he's happy to do whatever. OH OH I forgot he doesn't do ironing...

When we were both working the division of labour was really around who managed to get home first and do what needed to be done to feed children, the dog and ourselves. DH always did the heavy lifting and heavy gardening. Since retiring it took us a couple of years to settle to a routine. I do all the cooking and am responsible for the finances and domestic shopping, the kitchen and bathroom and the laundry. DH does the hovering (well he bought the bloody great heavy hoover that I can't shift) inside window cleaning, most of the gardening (I do the pots and baskets), cleans the cars and does the ironing. It works well and we don't argue about it.

He has taken on the ...
gardening, car washing, bins, DIY, oven cleaning, floor washing.
We share...
dishwasher, laundry, washing up non dishwasher stuff.
I do the rest but he will do more if asked.
I do know how lucky I am.

He earns the money and cuts the front lawn. I do the rest.

We have always done whatever was needed, regardless of who did it last.

Results can be variable!

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He irons everything. He sees to the dishwasher. I happily do the rest.

A subject close to my heart!
My husband does help me a lot, but he thinks that women are programmed to be able to do the dull routine everyday jobs whereas men expect to do the oneoff heavy jobs. But this results in a much heavier workload on my part.
As exceptions he always washes the dinner dishes, and vacuums downstairs once a week.
He says "you just call out my name and I'll come running" ("You've got a friend") but I would prefer he would volunteer without being asked.
Probably different from most of you though, we live in France, he can't speak french and leaves all the bureaucracy etc to me, meetings, phone calls , writing letters, disputing bills, filling in tax forms etc. I do all the "office" work.

I must admit DH always says he's done something "for me".

I do everything that requires brain and he does everything that requires brawn! Seriously though, he does more than his fair share of housework and gardening, and most of the driving, but I do the cooking, laundry and ironing. I wish he would leave the dishwasher to me, though; he has a very cavalier attitude to stacking it!

I do:
- shopping (online!)
- cooking
- finances
- ironing

He does (to the best of his ability as he has PD):
- washing
- washing up
- filling dishwasher
- some of the gardening
- cleaning car

Between us:
- caring for and loving DGC

I'm fortunate to be able to afford a cleaner once a fortnight.
I couldn't bear squabbling about who does what.
I suppose I do more of the traditional housework and cooking, but I am happy with that.
MrA loves fixing things and is always busy doing something or other. I might feel differently if he slobbed out in front of the telly all day.

I do all the cooking and shopping for food and sorting the washing. We split ironing 50/50. Husband did pretty much all the cleaning, but got fed up with heavy duty stuff such as showers and the bath. About a year ago he hired a cleaner, which I thought was outrageous she has been coming for 3 hours every Tuesday and we now find we couldn't live with out her double I still do all the cooking and shopping, but he's got out of the cleaning He does unload the dishwasher and bring me a coffee in bed in the morning though

oooh he does do the bins as well and other nasty things

Ummm.......puts out bins, mows lawns (titchy)
I do everything else

He takes the bin out on Wednesday night, occasionally brings it back on Thursday morning. That`s it.

I must admit DH always says he's done something "for me"

That is so annoying isn't it!
He does the ironing - for me! (even though he wears half of it and sleeps in the bed linen as well.)

In our household:

She does:
Ironing

I do:
Everything else (except gardening which I have neither skill nor enthusiasm for, so we pay a gardener).

To be fair, when she was fitter she used to do the general cleaning and the cooking but as her health has deteriorated I have taken those jobs on.

DH still works (much more than he intended) but does the DIY and the hedges, I do the rest of the garden (which is very small and has no lawn) He empties the dishwasher and opens the curtains and tidies up every morning.

I do shopping, cooking, washing, ironing and act as his secretary.

We have a cleaner once a week which is such a boon that it is totally non- negotiable!

I do most of it,my husbands not a well man.Hes very willing and will do what he can.Mind you,I've always been my own worst enemy,nobody can do it as good as me.(idiot)