Thread: How domestic are you?

I do all the cooking, when I'm not working. When I'm working we eat out a lot. HI talents do not lie in the kitchen.

How long a list can I make:

These are my usual tasks:

100% of the following
cooking, including lunches, and meals for guests
dishes
vacuuming
washing floors
cleaning bathrooms/kitchen
feeding the animals
kitty litter
putting out the trash
mowing and all outside tasks

and I help out by doing about 1/2 the clothes washing.

Not sure what I've missed.

I cook about 1 in 4 nights. Load and unload the dishwasher. That's about it.

Ummm, did I mention I'm still trying to finish our house. I figure that makes up for it.

I'm a single father - how domestic do you want me to be?

Richard

Originally Posted by Stuart.

100% of the following
cooking, including lunches, and meals for guests
dishes
vacuuming
washing floors
cleaning bathrooms/kitchen
feeding the animals
kitty litter
putting out the trash
mowing and all outside tasks

and I help out by doing about 1/2 the clothes washing.

Not sure what I've missed.

Stuart, it time to find a wife.

But seriously, well done mate.

I changed a nappy once, a long long time ago.

Originally Posted by AlexS

I changed a nappy once, a long long time ago.

So did I, but alas - it was put on back to front :confused:.
Les
Ps. I also do some other domestic chores - just not enough I guess.
Les

I wish I had a dollar for every nappy I changed when our kids were babies. I had it down to a fine art. I once changed a nappy with one hand while I held a beer with the other.

I pick up the dog crap from the back lawn. Other than that, I'm married so i don't do meanial tasks.

I think I'm pretty domesticated. I can do 95% of all domestic tasks. Whether I choose to do them or not is a different matter.

I won't, however, change tap washers, mow the lawn, or service the car. I have to leave something for HWMBO to do....

cheers
Wendy

I dont do any house work indoors, Outdoors only i have an agreement with the mrs she looks after the inside and i do the outside gee i love my shed.

My wife gets the kids ready and does breakfast in the morning except Sunday morning when I do breakfast and she gets a lay in. SWMBO also packs everyones lunch including mine.

In the evening SWMBO cooks the kids dinner and prepares ingredients for ours and I cook our dinner almost every night. We share dishwasher, I fill it and SWMBO empties it.

I bath the kids on the weekend and we each put one of them to bed each night and read them stories.

SWMBO does the washing and cleaning neither of us iron except me when I iron my shirts for work.

I cut the grass and most of the stuff outside sometimes SWMBO and the kids help with the gardening. I also change the light bulbs.

HH.

It takes a first time dad 3 sheets of baby wipe to change a dirty nappy. But for a experienced one, like myself, 1 sheet is more than enough.

You need to fold the sheet a few times of course.

Arh, and clean up your fingernails (sometimes).

The wife and I share most of the household duties (except she does all the laundry, but I iron some stuff).

But when it comes to wrangling the kids its a matter of efficiency. She can get them dressed in minutes. Takes me about half an hour. Getting all the arms and legs in the right holes in near impossible with my two. And getting a nappy on the small one? Forget it! Apparently using velcro on your kids when on the change table is wrong.......What about quick release clamps? That would help......

Other than that, I cook and do dishes, she baths the monsters and reads the books. I open the wine when they're in bed.

I works for us. Everyone has to find what works for them. And for the single parents out there - I don't know how you do it.

Cheers,