How many hubbys or boyfriends...

[KDbeads]

Haven't done dishes in 10 years

If hubby wants food, he must clean the kitchen.

I do the laundry though, I got really ticked off the last time he did them and I ended up with sticker burs in my underwear, bras and pajamas.......

I do vacuuming and general straightening but he cleans the cat boxes. I build things, fix things, he figures out the computer crap and the electrical. I don't do attics, he doesn't do painting.

We pretty much even things out until he gets in one of those 'poor pitiful me' moods and goes on strike long enough to not have decent food for 3 days... then he snaps out of it usually or else I start on a warpath....

 

[baldie]

My man washes ALL the laundry....AND he even uses stain remover!!!!

He knows I dont like the basement stairs so he carries all the baskets down and washes them. I fold them and put them away (sometimes..lol) I hate putting laundry away.

He leaves the dishes for me most of the time, but every once in a while he does them which is nice.

 

[DuckLady]

I find that getting paper plates, really flimsy ones, helps get the point across. Also washing just a dish for me at meal time. It takes courage, because I can't stand a messy kitchen. Lucky for me, the strike only had to last a couple days.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

My hubby does dishes, vacuums, cleans toilets, dusts, and would do laundry if I'd let him. He is wonderful about that kind of stuff, I'm so blessed to have him.

 

[Mahonri]

Without being asked I did TWO loads of dishes and one load of laundry today.

 

[McCord6]

I wish I could be treated like a china doll, at least for 1 day! Woke up at 1am to go PEE and found the dishes still not done, not even touched! Boy, better believe a blew a fuse! YIKES, woke the kids up as well

His excuse: Need to teach our 4 year old how to do the dishes.

and he does all the playing with the kids.

GOSH! MEN! He said he has to be up with the alarm clock in the morning for the kids to get to school. YEAH RIGHT! He does get up with the alarm clock, to WAKE ME UP! then goes back to sleep. When I finally get the kids ready to go, I try to wake him up to have him walk them to the bus. SOMETIMES he gets up but always with an attitude of why I can't walk them down there.

So, here I am, at 1:30 in the morning, just got half of the dishes done. Just need the glasses and silverware to finish up.
I bet in the morning I would have to walk the kids to the bus, TRY to do laundry (DRATS the weather, we don't have dryer! so we have to hang), and get the bedrooms cleaned up. Im also going to have to fix the trash trailor so we can get the 10 bags of trash out of the diningroom (THANK GOD WE DON"T USE THE DININGROOM!) and whatever else that is needed to be done.

Im goign to need a LONG nap once everythign is done.

 

[saddina]

Mr. Saddi does the dishes has since our 3ed or 4th date. He was a bachelor and said eating out was getting old, so I told him if he'd like i'd cook dinner in. so we went to the market got some ingredients and I made him Lemon Pepper Chicken over rice pilaf. After dinner he said he'd grab the dishes since I cooked it. 10 years later I cook, he does the dishes. He also does the vaccumming and cleans the kitchen.

I do laundry, so he doesn't have to remember what washes how.

 

[BarkerChickens]

I lucked out! DH lived by himself for 12 or 13 years before we met. He can cook, clean, do dishes AND laundry! In fact, DH and his best friend (who is single and lives alone) decided to run to the grocery store to buy chicken, corn, russets and baby spring mix salad stuff and made dinner for the three of us! I love sitting in the living room with two men in my kitchen cooking!

I, of course, do my share of chores and I am the primary cook in the house, but there have been times that if DH hadn't done laundry, I'd be out of clothes for work! However, when he cooks, I usually get stuck cleaning up his mess...but he cooked, so I don't complain.

 

[Cetawin]

My husband does his own laundry and would do mine if I asked. He will do dishes if I ask. They do know how to do it, they just do not want to. My father does laundry and dishes, cooks and mops floors too.

And no....you cannot have mine, I am keeping him!

But I will lease him for the right price.

 

[silkiechicken]

My SO washed the dishes for about a year. But he hates it. It would take him an hour to do a 20 minute job because he'd wash them till they literally squeaked when light beams bounced off... one... single... dish... at... a... time...

He was so grumpy that it just wasn't really worth it, since I can do the job in 20, while dinner is being made...

Luckily he keeps me company during the dish washing and tries to compensate by vacuuming 300 times more carefully than I vacuum, cleans the shower and the potty. Only down side of me washing dishes is that they aren't as squeaky clean as they used to be. Oh well, it's better than the dish washer machine!