Thread: The diff between men and wimin

Zed,
I feel for you mate, I've done most of the domestic stuff for the last five years or so as my Jane is pretty crook . But even after 5 years I still don't get the washing stuff right all the time . Mind you ours is slightly simpler as most of it goes straight in the dryer. I worked out about 20 years ago that it was cheaper, time wise, to use the dryer rather than a clothes line. During the wet season up here you could spend a week hanging your clothes out and taking them back in and hanging them out and taking them back in etc etc etc. And then they still wouldn't be dry because the humidity is up around 90% most of the time. Chin up mate, just remember, you're always in the poo, it's just the depth that varies .

Mick

Well you obviously haven't washed the towels with her good shirts yet,
so ya haven't stuft up totally

Do yours, bub's and the household stuff and leave hers ... she needs something to occupy her mind and time if she's picking about peg colours!!
Cheers
Tikki

Simple solution, Zed. Just chuck it all in together, dry it anyway you can but make sure it's all folded, ironed and put away before she gets home. "What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve over!"
Cheers
Graeme

Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

But even after 5 years I still don't get the washing stuff right all the time

By inference, this suggests that you get it right some of the time. That is really impressive, how do you fluke it?

On Saturday, I was told to hang the washing out while she’s working out at the gym. So me and my darling daughter were having some quality time together. I did the big items and she did the small ones. Then the lady next door came out and offered me some help. Great 3 is better then 2.

The wife came home, took the washing off and said to me “Did mum help you?”

How did she know? How the hell did she find out?:eek:

Its pretty universal I'd say, I can't do this hanging routine either. All I get is "That should been hung up the other way, that should have been inside out, peg marks! etc, why didn't you fold them as they came off the line? blah blah..." But don't mention it when one of her tissues (men use hankerchiefs!) happens to cover all your work clothes for the week!

LOL!!

Originally Posted by chrisb691

By inference, this suggests that you get it right some of the time. That is really impressive, how do you fluke it?

Just lucky sometimes

Mick

While I am a Jane, and might just have a few requirements in addition to those above...
Last month I accidentally put one of my partners nice Country Road 100% lambswool jumpers into both the machine and the drier. It came out looking like it might just fit my 2 year old.
Felt very bad, and haven't been able to complain about much in the way of shoddy male-housework since......

Originally Posted by elphingirl

While I am a Jane, and might just have a few requirements in addition to those above...
Last month I accidentally put one of my partners nice Country Road 100% lambswool jumpers into both the machine and the drier. It came out looking like it might just fit my 2 year old.
Felt very bad, and haven't been able to complain about much in the way of shoddy male-housework since......

Many years ago my wife did that to my golf jumper! Shortly thereafter my son found that it fit his big teddy bear and that was that.

Our washing machine has 12 buttons, 10 different programs and enough permutations of those that you could change the washing cycle every day for a month or two and not use the same cycle twice. It does dry the clothes in the same box though just to add some extra fun.

And there is not a word of English on it aside from 'Hitachi'. :confused:

My wife is thankful (and amazed) that I can make the thing switch on, let alone get it right.

But I don't wash her stuff (sometimes, but I rarely do the washing at all anyways), and all our pegs are the same colour, the few that we have. Most of the stuff hangs over special hanger doohickeys that even a nuffy like me can work out.

Tikki's got the right idea. I sure wouldn't want to be washing something that needs to be pampered, and I sure as shoot wouldn't want to be wearing it either!

(Heck, I even learned how to fold stuff, the local way. Soon I will be wearing the frilly stuff if I am not careful... :eek: )

I'm with Elphingirl. You want something shrunk, let me wash it

And I totally agree Tikki - matching colours of clothes with pegs - YIKES!!!!!

I'm just happy if HWMBO actually puts a load of his washing into the machine. Oh and I really appreciate it (NOT:mad: ) when he takes the washing off, with his dirty greasy hands and always leaves one item on the line.

Now what's with that? :confused::confused: :confused: :confused:

Cheers
Wendy

The three times that I have hung out the washing, there has been no comment other than "thanks for hanging the washing out". If my wife starts complaining about peg colours, I will contact the Men In Black because she has been a victim of body swapping.

Wait until you have two daughters to assist with the whinge
'You had a hanky in your jeans pocket' (she hangs up her jodpurs with 'my' socks still in the legs).
'I don't want your underwear washed with mine' (OK so I wash her stuff with the horse rugs ).
'Is this my bra' (well it sure as hell isn't mine)
We haven't reached the coloured pegs yet.