What household chores do you do?

[merithyn]

Well I think that advice is for adults, not children, but I stand by it.  If you don't like the clothes being balled up and shoved in a corner, but your partner thinks thats just fine, well perhaps you had better be doing the laundry.

Sure, that's fair. 

Because I have a modicum standard of cleanliness, I should do it all, even though I'm the one that goes to work while everyone else is home all day. I'm not saying that every fold in my underwear has to be just right; I'm saying to do the chore at a reasonable level of competence.

[The Brain]

Cleaning the toilet involves making sure the OUTSIDE is as clean as the INSIDE.

[HVC]

partly because the kids will mess everything up 2 seconds later.

So this. That may be why it doesn't feel fulfilling too.

no! Max stay out of these trap threads!

[Maximus]

Oh, I prefer a nice, clean house.  It just doesn't feel natural for me to clean it.  I do it, but I sort of feel lost doing it.

I think I understand. It's all the minutiae. There's always something missed. If there's a methodical way of cleaning a house I've never encountered it.

[merithyn]

Oh, I prefer a nice, clean house.  It just doesn't feel natural for me to clean it.  I do it, but I sort of feel lost doing it.

I think I understand. It's all the minutiae. There's always something missed. If there's a methodical way of cleaning a house I've never encountered it.

I can teach you.

no! Max stay out of these trap threads!

It's not a trap for him. I already know what he does and doesn't do around the house.

[Barrister]

Well I think that advice is for adults, not children, but I stand by it.  If you don't like the clothes being balled up and shoved in a corner, but your partner thinks thats just fine, well perhaps you had better be doing the laundry.

Sure, that's fair. 

Because I have a modicum standard of cleanliness, I should do it all, even though I'm the one that goes to work while everyone else is home all day. I'm not saying that every fold in my underwear has to be just right; I'm saying to do the chore at a reasonable level of competence.

Again, are we talking about adults, or children?  As a mom, yes you can say "this isn't good enough".

As a wife, I'd recommend against it.   

[Ed Anger]

Wimmins work.

Also, I'm with Spicy on Thanksgiving. My job is to watch football and steal deviled eggs from the fridge.

[HVC]

Oh, I prefer a nice, clean house.  It just doesn't feel natural for me to clean it.  I do it, but I sort of feel lost doing it.

I think I understand. It's all the minutiae. There's always something missed. If there's a methodical way of cleaning a house I've never encountered it.

lock the kids and or pets outside

[HVC]

no! Max stay out of these trap threads!

It's not a trap for him. I already know what he does and doesn't do around the house.

But we can be say mysogenist things , both actual and to get a rise out of you , and be safe, but mess up and max is back in Canada...or at least in the dog house

[Valmy]

You know, there's a limit to that.

I meant if you are very particular and everything just must be made from scratch or ever shirt must be starched like so.  Not doing the chore period or making some minor adjustment.

[merithyn]

Again, are we talking about adults, or children?  As a mom, yes you can say "this isn't good enough".

As a wife, I'd recommend against it.   

I was just smart enough to marry a man the second time around who doesn't act like a child. There are, however, plenty of men who do just that so that they're not asked to help again. And yeah, that pissed me off when my ex pulled that shit, and yeah, I called him on it.

[Barrister]

Again, are we talking about adults, or children?  As a mom, yes you can say "this isn't good enough".

As a wife, I'd recommend against it.   

I was just smart enough to marry a man the second time around who doesn't act like a child. There are, however, plenty of men who do just that so that they're not asked to help again. And yeah, that pissed me off when my ex pulled that shit, and yeah, I called him on it.

You're free to have a frank discussion with your partner if you think they're not pulling their weight.  But your partner is an adult, and has to live in the same house you do.  So if you mutually decide that your partner is going to do the dishes, and you don't like how he just lets them pile up until the end of day before doing them... well I suggest you re-consider your division of labour, or you learn to accept how he does them.

[Monoriu]

I do dishes, laundry, take the trash out, all the bills and everything financial, stocking, mailing, magazine management (that includes purchase and throwing them out), organising.  We hire two cleaning ladies to do the cleaning, vacuum, ironing, toilets, etc. 

[Ed Anger]

I cannot even get a response from Meri anymore. Either she has gotten immune, or I need to crank the misogyny to ELEVEN.

[Iormlund]

In related news, the woman who cleans my place will spend all August back home in Romania, which means I have to do all the chores for a month. 
Luckily it seems I'll spend some time working in Madrid, so the hotel staff should shoulder most of the burden.