Do You Share The Chores??

[Smowball]

Mr Smow generally leaves house by 7 - 7.30 am and is home by 6.30 -7pm. He then often does a couple of hours in his office at home. So he works long hours. I have the luxury of working from home - I have a part time job which involves working on laptop and also my proofreading which at the mo is also all online. But because I'm at home and can do the work when I like, I also do all the shopping, cooking, washing, ironing, gardening, decorating, car washing, absolutely everything apart from DIY i.e. If a shelf needed putting up. (Although I could do it ). Are you all similar??P.S if I actually asked him to do anything he would.

[Tilly2]

I haven't noticed an increase in spiders but the cobwebs appear from nowhere, every couple of days or so.

[EDDIE51]

No one on here actually knows me. So it makes no difference.
To be honest I would not trust her to cook food. Even as a child her Dad did most of the cooking as he worked shorter hours than her Mum.
Since I retired from full time work as an industrial chemist I have worked in pro kitchens and learned a lot of cooking techniques. It has got to the point where I am trusted to do jobs that only full chefs normally do. Baking cakes, bread and scones at the University of Cambridge kitchens for example.

[Caran]

OHDoes breakfast, bins,bathroom and booze as you can see anything beginning with a b. I do everything else.
By booze I mean opening bottles andthe making of gin and Tonics. He used to run pubssodoes it better than Me!

[Cloverjo]

My OH probably knows where the washing machine and iron are as they're in the same room as the wine fridge, but he'd never use them.
He pays for a cleaning lady, which I feel uncomfortable about as I have fully functioning arms and legs so don't really need her, and he deals with bins and recycling. I do everything else, but he's not fussy about dust or pristine sheets (thankfully).

[jno]

I guess you should try to share chores, but really, if one of you is out 12 hours a day and the other one isn't, then it's probably reasonable for the one with shorter hours to put in a longer shift at home.

[Maydup]

yes we share the chores. He washes I dry. Or he peels the potatoes while I do the other veg. Mostly I cook he washes up.

I tend to do the washing, but he puts it away; and he does bins, while I do bathroom. If I hoover the bedrooms, I give him a shout, and he takes over and does the lounge. We always shop together and garden together.