please suggest punishment for OH!!

kymbogs

Lost2 wrote: »

make him wash he's own socks and nickers
MEN ! why can they never do as there told

Major design flaw, I reckon.

rosalie-lavender

I can totally identify with this. My daughter and I went away for two days this weekend leaving my middle son and OH at home. Eldest son has gone camping for the weekend.

All they had to do was cook for themselves for two nights. The first night there was snack food and some left overs that just needed heating up, so really it was just one night they needed to cook for. Did they cook? No they went to Nando's instead. My son is perfectly capable of cooking but what teenager is going to cook when his dad says lets go out to eat?

Eldest son has gone camping with a small camping stove and a packet of pasta and plans to cook on one gas ring for possibly as many as seven people and my OH can't bother to cook in a proper kitchen for one night.

I tried the cookery book too but five years later it hasn't made it out of his wardrobe.

Hippeechiq

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

The last lines of Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman" spring to mind - sort of ...

# And the most she will do is throw [STRIKE]shadows[/STRIKE] mushrooms at you,
But she's always a woman to me. #

ubamother wrote: »

I'd go with "ignorance is no defence" and on with the punishment!!!:D

Originally Posted by gratefulforhelp
Ten lashes of the cat o' nine tails!

Ladyhawk wrote: »

Some people might not see that as punishment

:rotfl: My my, aren't we all on form today :T :T :T

And totally agree with everything JackieO wrote

ViolaLass

JackieO wrote: »

I have yet to meet a chap that can cook a meal of anysort without using every pot and pan in the place and clear up after himself .it just isn't in their make-up at all.

I would introduce you to my OH but I'm worried you might try to nick him!

PennyGSD

Owl wrote: »

Declare one night a week his cooking night. I did this and now, every wednesday get a delicious tea!!! On weds, i don't get anything out the freezer, shop or otherwise. It is entirely hos responsibility.
Worked for me and he now appreciates what I do more!! (cos I do the other 6 dayS!!)

We do this - Monday's is my night off and oh, the bliss of not even thinking about catering for one day. Mind you, it wasn't straight forward convincing him. It turns out that he would go into a panic at the thought of cooking as he's so out of practice - I've embraced OS ways so much in the last few years that I've been getting really creative in the kitchen so he felt under pressure to perform equally (silly really, I just chuck things into a slow cooker normally and it does the rest). Mind you, I didn't have any complaints about his help in the kitchen before - he has always been happy to chop, peel or scrub anything which needed doing, and we have a rule that if you cook, the other one washes up, but sometimes you just don't want the responsibility or to have to decide what to have in the first place.

We solved this by finding some completely different recipes to try - ones I've never cooked, so there's no expectation to live up to. We've had some really interesting meals recently and bean burgers are now a speciality of the house, even though we're not veggies. Mind you, I do have to type out step by step instructions for him so that he can follow them exactly, but I detect that his confidence is returning as he's starting to add a little splash of this and an extra pinch of that and now has about 6 tried and tested recipes in his repertoire.

kerrypn

Could you not drain the excess sauce off and make potato cakes and fry them?

Valli

parsonswife8 wrote: »

Kym, listen to an (ahem) older woman....
1. Keep the sludge and add it to a chicken and mushroom, or a pork and mushroom stew or something.
2. Men have selective hearing. They only hear you when you say something to them, like, "Would you like another beer darling"?
3. Just do it yourself. At least you know it will get done properly.
4. Make him take you out for a meal if he won't help with things, he can feel it in his wallet. Just refuse to cook.
5. Roll the cookbook up, get him to touch his toes and shove it where the sun don't shine.

Men need to be trained.
:beer:

I hope you realise that this post is mostly tongue in cheek. I have a rather warped sense of humour.

meybe if I'd listened to this I wouldn't be divorced (twice:o):rotfl:

and then you can withold his 'treats'