Jags said:
~*~Kathleen~*~ said:
Doing The Dixie Eyed Hustle said:
I know. Men like that only exist Once Upon a Dream.
PFFFT!
I pay all the bills
I do all the cooking
I do all the grocery shopping
I do 50% of laundry
I do 50 % of the dishes
I do 50% of the cleaning
I do all maintenance
I do all the outside work (5 acre yard to boot)
I do everything to do with river cabin
I do everything there is to do with wood burning.
Sometimes I wish I were a girl. I have two adult ones under my roof. As far as I can tell, they got it made. Flame me if you must.
Kind of the same thing here . . . I guess my wife and I look at things as not being "man" jobs or "woman" jobs, but rather jobs that either she or I are good at or don't mind doing . . .
For example, I know my wife could do all the bills fine . . . but she trusts me to do the bills and handle the finances . . . and on my part I always let her know where we are in terms of bills, savings, etc.
As for cooking -- I would guess I do maybe 60% . . . but that's since she taught me how to cook and we have a deal . . . whoever cooks doesn't have to clean and while we have a dishwasher for the life of me I can never get it filled as much as she can.
I often do the laundry and hang the laundry or use the dryer, but she says I don't fold the clothes right so I just hang our uniforms and leave the T-shirts, underwear and socks.
I do most of the outside work, but she can mow a lawn or even plow if she had to . . . and in the same vein of thought she does most of the more "detailed cleaning" such as dusting . . . we can both do it, but it's just a more or less equal division of labor.
As for the wood burning . . . honestly I do most of the processing . . . but she runs the stove maybe 50% or more of the time . . . and I'm fine with that since it all keeps the oil bills low.
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For the record my wife and I have seen idiots ignore her . . . usually at their own peril . . . normally in places like Home Depot, Lowes or with contractors who do not realize she knows far more than I ever will about construction . . . something about her father making everyone in her family work on their house renovations when they were young.