Housework routine

quintwins

bluebag wrote: »

Don't worry, once they get to 14 they disappear into the 'vortex' and issue grunts to communicate, if your lucky you may even have some dishes left to eat off and occasional food in the fridge.


WARNING:
Do not step into the 'vortex'... you will not come out sane, just shut the door and pretend it isn't there.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

lindseykim13

Thanks for all the comments i am going to make a rota for me and dh so we both know what to do each day. I like the timer idea so might give that a try but not for me for dh as he takes an absoloute age to clean the bathroom! He will go missing for an hour when i could do it in 10mins. Going to do the bare minimum each week and any extras as and when needed.
Got to get my meal planning more organised too, as i'm the only one who cooks which also bugs me but i can live with it.
Organisation is needed!

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CFC wrote: »

That's blokes. They see nothing and need step by step instructions.

That is SO TRUE. My dh is 64 and we have been married for 41 years and only this week have I made him cook a meal a day. I flipped my lid last week and got so fed up of being the meal provider. I told him he would be doing a weeks cooking including deciding what to eat and shopping. He panicked but settled down and we had the first (nice) meal today

so OP get your partner to do the cooking including shopping and prep. It`ll take a load off you

espresso21

I wish I knew the answer - if I did, I would live in a tidy house. All my friends have absolutely spotless houses and I mean showhouse quality. I don't know how they do it. I get home absolutely knackered and I leave home in the morning around 7am. There is no time to do anything and yet having a cluttered house really depresses me. But then again I don't want to spend my whole weekend cleaning house. Right now I am sitting on the sofa and I suppose I could get up and clean, but you know what? I'm tired. I have been working all day and I'm just too tired. I also have the untidiest husband in the world (!) who just doesn't understand why the mess would upset me. Grrr! Sorry for the moan. I've had a bad day. Sorry I didn't answer your question and instead hijacked it for a rant of my own!

song_of_calliope

How depressing it is to read about all these useless blokes in this day and age - I really thought this cave-man attitude was a thing of the past. I've had 4 live-in partners in my almost 40 years (yes I know that's kind of a lot but the current one is permanent I think!). Anyway I would not be a slave to any of them and they all ended up cleaning up after me! I'm very messy by nature (not lazy, I work hard at my job and do a lot to pick up extra income, etc, I just absolutely hate hate hate housework) so the men I've been with knew if they didn't do it then it wouldn't get done.

The deal at our house now is that I do all the cooking (breakfast, packed lunch, dinner and he always gets given a choice as to what the meals are going to be) and I pre-wash the dishes that I use in food preparation and I don't leave the kitchen a pig-sty (wiping up spills on the counters as I go, etc). In return my partner does the rest of the washing up and once a week on a Sunday morning he cleans the house while I sit on my backside watching trash tv. We each do our own laundry, he does his ironing and I only wear clothes that don't need ironing. We each have our own rooms in addition to our shared bedroom and my room is an absolute tip - he knows if he didn't clean the rest of the house would be that way.

I think it's a million times easier on us because we don't have kids and also I laid down the law from the beginning that this is how it's going to be. But there's got to be a way to make just about every bloke pull his weight and if you can figure out how to get yours doing half (at least) your problem will be just about solved.