I am fed up being the only person in my house who...

[Rainatnight]

...ever fucking tidies anything.

I've had enough. Really I have.

I just needed to rant.

Anyone care to join?

All of the above, plus open and close all curtains, blinds and windows, every day, morning and evening!. Remembers to wheel the bins out for the bin men.
Clean the hob. Wipe breadcrumbs off surfaces. Empty out the toast crumbs from the toaster. Shut drawers and cupboards properly. Switch the dishwasher on at night.

Can put the bag in the bin so it doesn't slide down and lose its contents into the bin when it starts to fill up.

Doing all the above without being asked!

All my lot are fab at doing housework but Only If They Are Asked and then it’s referred to as “helping mum” rather than just “doing stuff because it needs to be done”.

Drives me fucking mad and I end up muttering away like my mum used to.

Answer the fecking phone.

Ds2 at least picked it up last night, then tried to hand it to dh, who then passed it to me to actually answer. Gave him a suitable look when I handed it back to him. It was FIL.

Shuts the doors.

How can you not feel the draft?!

All of the above.
Now DCs are grown and flown, 'd'P is long gone and I'm alone.
Only myself to clean up after, things are where I left them and life is much less stressful. Glorious!

Ive just had a major meltdown over this, it appears I do every bloody thing.

I'm so close to saying bollocks to tea, making up lunches, ironing and saying fuck you all I'm going out. Sadly I'm thinking of going to Aldi, as in my mad state I'm still half thinking we need some bits in, I do my own flipping head in

Can drive.

Not dd's fault, but over the last year (elderly parents/hospital appts) I've gone from thinking that I don't want her to drive until she's at least 25, to counting down the months to her 17th birthday...

Fair play to her, other than that she does her bit around the house, these days even down to dealing with cat sick & catching random rodents.

My list would be far too long...

I just washed all the fucking mould off DD2 window.
I blame myself because I have stayed at home and never really gone on proper strike.
DH does a bit but never the bathroom, the sheets, the hoovering, tidying.
He spent 2 days putting a door knob on the bathroom door.
The rest of the house is full of shit that needs sorting, but he did the door knob.
I actually lay on the bed and wept. There is just no starting with it.
When he does the laundry he shoves everything in.
he never puts the laundry away.
Never dusts.
Never sweeps or washes the kitchen floor.
Never washes windows.
does the bins when it smells like a body is decomposing
Rarely does the garden.
would live quite happily in his own shit

Anything to do with the toilet...cleaning, flushing, replacing toilet roll. Ugggh. boys are gross

Agree with the common one of "changing the toilet roll" What is it with that one?
Picks the post up
Cleans the toilet
Waters the plants

...folds the fucking towels in the airing cupboard. We've got hooks on the back of the door for drying... with about 40 towels shoe horned on them. Just bloody fold them for the love of god. I actually had a major strop earlier this year and left everyone with one towel each

...picks up the empty wrappers off the floor or removes empty packets and cartons from the fridge and cupboard.

...wipes down the kitchen sides.

...does the washing/drying/ironing. I ironed for 2 hours last Sunday. Only two of those things were mine.

...meal plans, orders the food, cooks it, and then listens to the DCs telling me how much they dislike it.

I could go on. But it is depressing me too much...things will change for 2019.

I remember my mum having nuclear meltdowns over stuff like this and my child self being baffled as to what she was on about...

25 years later...

Puts the fucking newspapers out.

Honestly I think the pile could reach 3 feet high and he wouldn’t bother, but the fucking minute I pick the fuckers up he chimes up with ‘I’ll do that’. Fuck off you idle twat.

And breathe.

As above +

Feeds the begged for cat which DC promised they look after.
Cleans the shower cubicle and bath. DH and grown DC's version of cleaning the bathroom is wiping round the sink and loo with anti bac wipes for precisely 5 seconds. Bath and shower are self cleaning apparently as water runs around them .
Unloads the washing machine. They can load it but think fairies live inside it who take the stuff out and hang/put through the dryer and fold stuff .

And the worst one - decides what to have for dinner. Drives me nuts. Can I just not think about it at least 1 day a week.

All of the above +

Knows which day is bin day
Makes any kind of phone call
Keeps in contact with DPs family

Washes dishes ect.
Does the laundry.
Putting kids to bed (unless ds falls asleep on sofa during soaps)

Puts things in the recycling bin.
Puts a wash on.
Does anything without being asked.

@UrsulaPandress Or 'I haven't finished reading all the supplements yet' when it's been sat there since Saturday and it's fucking Wednesday.

keepingbees thank fuck I am not the only one. The boys tidy there toys and put dirty clothes in the basket. H sometimes cuts the grass, sometimes puts his dirty clothes in the basket, asks if I need anything from the shop and provides money for bills and expenses. Everything else from cooking to cleaning to organising home and lives I do. I also do the admin for his business.

It's also pissing me off the amount of really tiny things that take NOTICING, as someone said upthread, that only I do. Like...

• returning kids' clothes that don't fucking fit to the Internet
• ordering fucking vistors' parking vouchers
• cleaning the filter on the dishwasher.

None of those things on its own takes long but they all add up because I'm the only one who NOTICES.