Becoming a house husband

make_me_wise

Good luck with those 4 walls closing in on you. Cant think of anything worse than staying home all day, every day.

There is only so much a house needs doing to it, meals that need cooking etc

There is always that old fail safe to fall back on - Daytime TV.

And you think you dislike your current job..................

Tigsteroonie

My only tip would be to avoid MSE before 3pm It sucks you in, you lose whole days battling in DT, providing advice to others on your specialised subject, general chatting ...

sillygoose

It does really need a man to properly organise a household.

Start by clearing out all her old clothes, just leave the sexy stuff. Put the other stuff on ebay along with all those excessive shoes and jewellery. When you have made some cash look in the local paper for ironing services - £10 for a bin bag full usually, ironing must be avoided at all costs.

Food? thats easy, its not just mums that go to Iceland just pick up any random selection of food that has the same oven time on the back, saves any complicated maths. Add a sprig of curly lettuce to the offering for that authentic home cooked look.

Hit the supermarket at lunch time, thats when all those dishy single working girls are doing their little dash, much more attractive to look at than all those tired old mums at the weekends.

Damage limitation - dust comes from textiles, banish them and go with office chic, replace carpets with laminate and curtains with blinds, the need to dust will diminish.

All those episodes of Stargate/Red Dwarf you'll get through on Sky+ don't forget to cover your tracks and delete them after watching.

HTH.. Enjoy!

Peter999_2

Spendless wrote: »

I love the answers from the people with male usernames.:D You are confirming what I always suspected fellas.;)

Peter- get yourself a routine with housework and meals etc. If your finances are changing with an income drop, let tax credits know.


P.S - Are you the Peter that posts in discussion time about the economy?

Hopefully the finances will be ok, but you never know I suppose until after a couple of months.

Good idea about the routine - will do that.

No, I'm not the Peter that posts in the economy.

ska_lover

hahahaha! You lucky !!!!!!, you have a very understanding missus!
Theres only so much you can do in a house full time - I think you will have more of a measure of boredom/lack of adult conversation when you have been at it for three months. Gosh I couldnt do it.. Mind you i would love to be able to afford to work part time

Spendless

Peter999 wrote: »

Hopefully the finances will be ok, but you never know I suppose until after a couple of months.

Good idea about the routine - will do that.

No, I'm not the Peter that posts in the economy.

Just realised that, still perhaps this will give you something to do with your 'leisure time'

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/487895

**Patty**

*cough* Jeremy Kyle starts just after the school run mate

affordmylife

how on earth will you manage financially after working 13/14 hour days to working nothing????

i work full time as a teaching assistant and i couldnt support my family on that.

Peter999_2

affordmylife wrote: »

how on earth will you manage financially after working 13/14 hour days to working nothing????

i work full time as a teaching assistant and i couldnt support my family on that.

I have saved a lot over the years, and I own my house without a mortgage. I also own a flat (without a mortgage) that I am renting out.

It will certainly be a struggle, and I may still have to get some sort of job but we thought we'd give it a try.

onlyroz

The man I most admire is my father-in-law. He spent several decades as a "kept man", never having to cook a meal or iron a shirt or lift a duster. Then my mother-in-law got Alzheimer's and forgot how to do any of these things that he'd learned to take for granted. Needless to say, father-in-law is now an excellent cook, lives in a spotless house and works as full-time carer to his wife. I only hope that the original-poster can live up to these standards.