How do you & your SO share chores at home?

Question

I'm interested in seeing how others share chores at home.

To start with, we both work full-time jobs.

We have a farm, as part of a co-op, and split the farming chores (we grow the fruits & vegetables for the co-op) between 2 couples.

Household chores are split as well. He fixes all the "stuff." I prepare all the meals. He sets the table, clears the table, and loads the dishwasher. I unload & put away. I do all the laundry. He scrubs (bathtub, stove, oven, countertops). I clean the sinks, toilets, and I vacuum. We both avoid dusting at all costs.

What do other couples do?

Answer 1

He brings home the bacon, I teach the kids and keep the house until he's home. Then we just keep at it together until the work is done. I do laundry he does yard work. I prepare meals and do dishes, he maintains the vehicles. If either of us is done before the other one, we pitch in there. For instance, I've been known to run the leaf blower to clean up after mowing, and he's been known to do a dish or two while I finish the laundry. We both feel like its pretty equal as long as one of us isn't just lazing about. We finish whatever we're going to about the same time, so we can share our leisure time together also

Answer 2

My husband works and I am a housewife. I do all the housework all week. On the weekends when he is home all day, he helps with the chores around the house and takes care of mowing and edging the front and back yard. sometimes we work together with planting flowers or putting in mulch. He wants to help during the week when he gets home from work, but I tell him he has already done his work for the day. I want him to be able to have dinner after work and relax and unwind. I don't want him to have to lift a finger.

Answer 3

you're actually perfect! you at the instant are not her ex husband so she should not be punishing you for issues that her ex did or did no longer do. She could be doing all your laundry if she is doing her very own. It takes not greater artwork to throw your clothing in with hers. i think of she is in simple terms looking reasons to whinge by using fact you do 0.5 of each and every thing else she has no different reason to. i might tell her which you do no longer savor being whilst in comparison together with her ex or perhaps having issues he did or did no longer do thrown on your face and which you will possibly truthfully savor if she might the two commence doing all your laundry whilst she does hers, or you will commence doing basically yours. And if she would not like that concept then she will choose for yet another chore that she will do thoroughly on her very own. If none of those suggestions artwork then possibly you may desire to evaluate your relationship. There could in no way be that massive of a deal produced from every day chores. extraordinarily by using fact she IS the girl. i comprehend it sound sexist yet howdy...i'm a woman and that i clean and cook dinner and do laundry all by way of myself by using fact i admire my better half and can in no way make that massive of a deal out of it.

Answer 4

We're married, and just somehow have worked things out. I tend to do the cooking, though he has some specialties! We have a teen son, so he helps out a lot too. My husband has taken over some 'harder' things because I have trouble with my hands and knees, so he does the floors, the tub - stuff that requires kneeling or is tough on the hands. Might as well use those muscles!

Answer 5

We both work full time, so our solution is this: whoever gets home first does most of the chores, which is usually me. The only thing that my husband does ALL the time is wash dishes, and the only thing that I do ALL the time is fold and put away clothes. Those two things are each of our most hated things (I hate dishes, he hates folding clothes). It works okay most of the time, but sometimes, I wish he'd get home first!

Answer 6

Dishes, I scrub, she rinses puts in the dish rack.
Laundry, I carry it to, back, she folds. Kids put their own away.
Vacuuming I sweep out the corners and by the couch, she vacuums.
Cooking, usually me. she's learning though.
I live in an apartment so not much yard work.

Trash is oldest sons job.
Bathroom oldest daughters job.

Floor mopping, as needed we alternate, whoever gets to it first i guess.

Answer 7

I do outside: lawn, snow clearing, driving, garbage.
She does inside: dusting, washes floors, vacuuming.
She cooks I clean up dishes.
She does laundry I fold and bring up from laundry room.

Answer 8

Both work full time too...I do everything in the house, he occassional does a project he leaves half done, maybe puts a dish in the dishwasher, cuts the grass when it's knee high.

Answer 9

We dont .....she has a problem of not picking up and not following thru with chores.....

So I moved to Florida to start a new life...

Answer 10

other couples probally share chores