So who does the most housework etc in your home

I do everything, cleaning, windows, beds, cooking, shopping (nightmare with DH in tow) garden, paperwork, banking and investments, repairs, arranging & accompanying to DH's numerous medical appointments and all the driving, etc. The latest additions to my list are the recycling, grass mowing and hoovering as DH can no longer manage these.

In one way I am lucky, in that as DH always worked two jobs, I am used to doing most things myself, on top of working full time and doing all the paperwork - Tax & VAT returns, Invoices, accounts, etc. for DH's business. We did have a few more leisured years when we both retired, until DH's accident, subsequent collapse and Dementia. Now I am not only chief (sole) cook and bottlewasher but have added 24/7 caring to my workload.

I must admit to being jealous of some of the lifestyles reported here (especially those with cleaners and gardeners) though I wish you all well and hope you have a long, happy and illness free retirement. I would, however, add a note of caution to those couples who have split the chores, cooking, paperwork, driving, etc. along strict demarcation lines. Much better to be like David1968 where both are able to competently deputise for the other if necessary.

GabrielaG
Change your bedding twice a week and clean mirrors and glass daily I AM IMPRESSED.
Where about do you live, I have a few jobs you may be interested in doing.
I have loved reading every ones comments, it seams we all trundle along in our own way and it works for most.

A lovely cleaner does most routine stuff.
Spring cleans e.g emtying a cupboard/ moving furniture will be me.
DH does the laundry, changes bed linen & clears up after meals, stacks & empties the dishwasher
I shop & cook, do the garden & any incidental cleaning needed we do as is needed by whoever spots it. I am trying not to spot the windows in our bedroonm as rhe sunshine is highlighting a need!

I did everything bar cutting the grass when DH was working. When he retired he took on the washing up, but I would have to bite my tongue as he sometimes left it for a couple of days. I then managed to get him to hoover the carpets as I said he was so much better at it than me! And he would help me change the bedding, and sometimes get the washing in. He always did the electrics, as he did an electrical apprenticeship, but there again, that would be in his own time! (I waited several years for a light above the dressing table!) Since he died a few months ago, I now do the lot, including the grass, and I get a man in for anything I can't manage.

Keen housewives among us (so that lets me out) May wish to match their domestic goddessness against this!
(GabriellaG you have been warned!)

I do everything as there is only me to do it. I live in a small flat so no bother I can clean right through in 2 hours. When I lived in a house I did get someone in to mow the lawn and at the moment I pay someone to clean my windows but that's all.

I live on my own in a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment, and I have always cleaned it myself. I had an operation last week so organised a cleaner to come and change my bed and clean. It was wonderful! My bedroom looked like a hotel, the wooden floors have never been so clean, she even polished the balcony windows. She will be coming every week until my treatment is finished, around the end of December, but I think I will find it hard to let her go after!

I hate housework - so never-ending. Our garden backs onto fields (which is lovely), but the windows are always mucky from the dust. I would say I’m tidy, but I fail at keeping everything clean. That makes it sound as if the house is filthy - it’s not, but it rarely gleams and shines

The Bodach has a visual impairment known as dirt blindness, so will do anything if asked, otherwise he’d be like Quentin Crisp, who maintained that after four years of not cleaning the house didn’t get any dirtier!
He doesn’t cook, but attends to the washing and dishes ( i.e. filling and emptying the dishwasher).

Cleaner does the cleaning
Window cleaner does the windows
Gardener does the gardening
Car gets valeted when the moon is blue
DH did the cooking before the crash but now we muddle along together somehow or go out
DH does the finances, utilities
I organise the shopping which is delivered
I organise the dishwasher and DH will wash all things which don't go in it and I dry them
I choose the colour schemes and DH did the decorating but I think we may have to get someone in now that he can't do so much

This thread has certainly made me think even more because we have had to rethink so much recently. After my stroke my DH was my carer before the crash. Although he is much better he will never be able to what he once did. It is certainly wise to ensure that we can either do anything necessary or know somebody we can employ to do what we need.

Me !

Husband is disabled, I do it all.