Half Job Harry / Harriete

[rainbowtrain]

Enlighten me with your OH's half job anecdotes

Hangs laundry and leaves it outside for 5 days.

Notices out of date yogurt, takes out of the fridge and leaves on counter for 4 days, or until I deal with it, whichever comes first (second always comes first)

Lighthearted. No "you should count yourself like that ...." please 😁

My husband. Clears the table, always leaves the ketchup bottle. He has to pick the ketchup bottle up to remove the placemats but he puts it back down!

Meant lucky not like 😅

@LilMadAgain why is ketchup so important to him?

Loves to fill the dishwasher, obsessive about bleaching the worktops. NEVER cleans the sink.

We say 'half a job Bob' in my family

Dad - when doing cleaning, diy, gardening, anything really, will do the job, admire it, go off to shower then seem surprised when he sees he has to put the tools he's used away too and that is indeed part of the job!

In fact this is pretty true to most men I know 🤔

Oh I've thought of one DP does - baths a child, gets them out, puts pjs on etc, but never ever empties the bath water

We've got a never empty the bath water dad here too!?! Why?!

Why have you put an e on the end of Harriet?

Everything my lovely DH does he leaves something for me to finish.
He'll clean the bathroom, very thoroughly - moves all the bottles off the shelves etc, but never puts them back.
Vacuums, leaves the vacuum in the place where he finished.
Unpacks shopping, never puts bags away...
I could go on for some time.

@IsTheRainEverComingBack sorry I am foreign
Is that not right? 😫

we say Alright Arthur? as in "half a" job.

I'd like to make a prediction that this thread will be full of tales of men not doing a full job, no women acting like incapable idiots ...

@VeryFoolishFay my sink must be self cleaning too

Rainbowtrain, I wouldn’t worry about not spelling Harriet correctly. Everyone knew what you meant but sadly some folks are just spiteful and have far too much time on their hands to pick up your misspelling and then use the obligatory sarcastic “confused’ emoji. It’s not at all confusing.. what we really need is a ‘don’t be a wanker’ emoji you could of used back...

Could HAVE used cosmos

It’s not sarcastic, genuinely wondered why it was spelt that way.
It’s Harriet OP, or sometimes Harriett but that’s less common.

Growingboys

Sorry holliday tales of my DW aka half a job Bob.

Asked to take the rubbish out, apparently this doesn't not include the recycling bin right next to it unless specifically stated.

Never finishes the washing up in one go.

Washing up means literally just that and does not include wiping the sides or the sink.

Cleans litter tray but does not refill litter tray.

I could go on.

My dh will rinse out the packets for recycling then put them on the windowsill behind the sink. Instead of the recycling box which is about 4 foot away. I once didn’t move them to see how many would pile up. rather than put them in the box when the windowsill was full he just started putting them on the other kitchen windowsill. Our kitchen looked like we were hosting a really shit modern art exhibition. Dh’s reason he puts them there is so they can dry

Washing up means literally just that and does not include wiping the sides or the sink.
THIS

Half a job Henry in my house and he always always changes the duvet and pillow cases but doesn’t change bed sheet 🤦🏻‍♀️
He is also a great cook but 💩 at cleaning up after himself, I enter the kitchen and it’s like a bomb site.

I'd like to make a prediction that this thread will be full of tales of men not doing a full job, no women acting like incapable idiots ...

Agree. With lots of reminders for women to stop themselves being doormats.

So I’ll offer this:
I am absolutely incapable of putting laundry away. I will happily just take clothes of the airer to wear them every day until they’re all worn.

If I do a new pile of laundry, I will lazily rearrange the wet stuff around the dry stuff. If there isn’t enough space, the dry stuff finally goes in a pile next to it. But never in my actual wardrobe.

Drives DP absolutely crackers.

All the bastards in my house get called Arthur regularly.

The teens wash up on alternate nights but apparently that just means stacking the dishwasher, no actual washing up and certainly no clearing rubbish or wiping the sides.

We have broken up furniture in the alleyway, a garage full of large cardboard boxes that don’t fit in the bin and bags of rags etc. It’s all been there for months. The tip is literally 30 seconds drive away. I don’t drive or I’d obviously do it.

DH needs a whole day to do a task. So going to the tip would mean blocking off a Saturday in his head. So he can’t go today because he’s visiting his mother and going out to a gig at 6pm. He is free from about midday until then, but he won’t fit it in. It’s very frustrating. It’s like he has a limit of chores for a day.

I think it was just meant to be a lighthearted thread...but in the interest of balance, I never ever iron and that drives my husband bonkers 😊

Oh and I am terrible with clean laundry. I’ll pile it all up neatly by person on my bed and then get distracted.

And then I bedtime I think, oh fuck it, and put it all back in a basket.

Every single bloody day.