re: How much do you fellas really pitch in when it comes to housework?

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How much do you fellas really pitch in when it comes to housework. Need to know where I stand compared to the average. It could be useful info for future arguments sake.

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Got home from a week at the Beach Saturday. Unpacked us and then immediately left for the AT&T store to get a new phone (jumped into the lazy river with the trusty iPhone 6 on Wednesday afternoon last week and went phoneless after).

Got dinner on the way home.

Woke up Sunday Morning and mowed the front yard grass. Showered. Went grocery shopping with the wife. Unloaded groceries.

Washed dishes, put out trash, cleaned kitchen, unpacked my sh!t and started laundry, put up/folded clothes, repatriated toiletries and stuff from the bathroom back in there from my dop kit we brought to the Beach. Then I put together some burgers and hit the grill.

The wife helped out here and there.

I don't do it because I'm obligated. I don't do it because I'm OCD. I do it because that's what I would do regardless of single, dating or married.

Translation: I think this is an example of why I can be described as "not fricking lazy." From the sounds of your post and the vagueness of it, it sounds like you're worried you can be labeled that.

If you're worried, you are. Stop being lazy. Get up and do some sh!t and stop making her ask you to.

I am pretty clean person. I cut the grass, big on no dishes in the sink so have everyone in the practice of rinsing the dishes and throwing them in the washer. Whoever throws the last thing in when it is full runs it. Whoever notices first usually then puts dishes away. I toss clothes in the wash all the time. She hates how I fold though so she folds the cloths usually. We have wood floors I would say it's pretty even on who cleans those. Usually one sweeps while the other sprays and wipes the wood cleaner on. Usually it just comes down to who notices something needs to be done. Nobody is assigned really any one thing (except maybe the folding laundry) and everyone pitches in. I will say by doing it as you go saves time from dedicating one day to cleaning.

I do the dishes and bring the garbage out.

She can't load a dishwasher to save her fricking life. Somehow she can manage to fill it completely with 2 plates, 3 forks, and a wine glass

Its a damn anomaly.

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I do yard work that we don't pay for like cleaning up the beds and stuff. Pay someone to mow and we have a Roomba so vacuuming isn't a thing we need to do really. She does the laundry, folds, and puts the clean dishes up. I hate folding clothes with a passion.

I do everything outside, she does most things inside, I am not allowed to do laundry, except to unload the dryer. I do the dishes most nights, dust, and vacuum occasionally. I mainly take care of the kids while she cleans. We try to split the kids stuff pretty even, diapers, midnight feeding, etc.

Military time kinda made me a neat freak...I do all the laundry because I like the way I do them(get them right out of the dryer and put the ones on a hanger that need it...that way I don't have to iron). Not opposed to vacuuming(youngest daughters chore for now) or scrubbing toilets. Handle all the outside yard work and garbage. Wife handles tubs, dusting & dishes(kids while they're home).

Fixing to be empty nesters in about a month, so the house should stay a little tidier.

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My wife is lazy as frick. If I don't do it, it won't get done

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That's the worst.

You're going to stop getting laid eventually if it hasn't already happened so what is she good for? I hope she works.

I hang shite and fix shite around the house. If I do the dishes my wife comes and re-does them because I have done them wrong. She cooks, I grill. Still get the sex and BJ's so I guess I am doing it right

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Dammit I knew this thread would depress me.

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:Why's that? I help out as much as I can because she's in school full time. She still complains doe

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She can't load a dishwasher to save her fricking life. Somehow she can manage to fill it completely with 2 plates, 3 forks, and a wine glass

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I open it sometimes and call her into the kitchen and just stare at her.

It's like holding a puppy's head over where it messed in the house.

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I would think a man helping his SO clean would benefit their relationship by having more time to be "together"

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You are joking right?

My wife loves to make me go to the store with her for that reason. I go to the store by myself and she will ask, you want me to come? I say no that's ok, the store sucks, I hate going to the store so I won't make you go to the store with me.