I'm a fucking HOUSEWIFE?

[ToadinTheHoleWithKetchup]

Just had the car insurance renewal on DH's car. I am a named driver, and the details listed state that I am a 'housewife'. How the fuck is this even a category?

I agree with OP. I find it offensive and take great pride admitting I’m rubbish around the house. However, that is my opinion on myself being labelled, doesn’t apply to anyone else. I wouldn’t like it being under the occupation, if they want to call it a job title they can damn well pay you for it. Maybe change it to ‘stay at home parent’ instead?

No, that's called parenting, and also the mental load.

Because parents who work don’t parent or take on the mental load?

Your dc are old enough not to need sahm so you take care of the house... a housewife then? You’ve chosen to live like a woman in the 1950s so the name matches. Not sure what you want to be called looking at your posts.

They usually have drop-down lists.

You might not be a housewife, but by the sounds of it, you're a bit of a twat.

Best post of the thread 😂

Domestic Engineer if you please! 🤣

@Namechangr9000 the insurance is higher for some jobs such as journalist.

Also for people upthread. The names driver can deal with the car insurance. I do. It's my car, but my husband is main driver as he drives more than I do.
However he is always with me when it comes to renewals etc. And you have to have his permission to make changes.

@Namechangr9000

*I do the insurance for both our cars, including the one I’m a named driver on. Insurers don’t care!

They don't care whether they have a valid contract?*

I dont understand this.i fill in all the online forms for my own and DHs car insurance (I'm not even a named driver on his!) I input all the correct info, and set up a direct debit from his account....why would that not be valid?
If it was up to him he would stick with the same provider every year, and pay about £200 a year more because its quicker!

It's surely considered invalid if the form and the agreement boxes agreeing to the terms and conditions and so on are not filled out by the person who is taking out the insurance.

Essentially you are taking out a contract in another persons name. That isn't legal..so if the insurer didn't want to pay out and then found out that the insurance policy had not been taken out by the insured then it wouldn't be valid and they wouldn't have to stick to it!

@CheetasOnFajitas no worries!

@bookmum08 @Howallergic yes, it’s a bit vague I admit. My job involves writing regulations for a specific sector. But it’s a bit niche and not everyone has heard of the body I work for so it’s easiest to say civil service. It definitely never comes up on insurance forms (not even policymaker or regulator)!

Dh is a self employed landscape gardener and I'm a stay at home mum but when we got married I said why don't we say 'paranormal investigator' and 'burlesque dancer ' it'll be so much more interesting for relatives doing our family tree in the future! And it wouldn't have mattered. But I didn't have the guts sadly.

If you don’t like it get it changed as long as it’s on the list and then don’t moan if it goes up in price.
Car Insurance is all about risk and your driving history and someone told them what your occupation was.

"But you are a housewife!!"

Start a thread calling a SAHF a "house husband" and spot the difference...

It's just a title
I'd rather that than unemployed .
Even when I'm not working ( I'm an agency nurse ) I always put down nurse.

OP - it’s fine to say you’re unemployed (and leave out the eBay stuff you do on the side)

Hope you’ve enjoyed the attention OP. Next time, please add a poll

Also, occupation is a category of information that insurance providers rate on, so they absolutely didn't just decide that's what you were themselves. Someone TOLD them that's what you were. If not you then presumably your husband. Maybe he found it as difficult to get out of you what it is you actually do as the rest of the posters on this thread 🤷🏼‍♀️

😂😂😂

I don't think they actually have a job title of 'a bit of a twat' on the drop down menu though.

Never mind, blame the person that filled out the details last year .

I agree with OP. I find it offensive and take great pride admitting I’m rubbish around the house.

So what is your occupation/what would you refer to yourself as @LoverOfAllThingsPurple ? Seeing as OP won’t answer!

The title you gave the thread is Im a fucking housewife.
Case closed I’d say

What a weird post. Not a housewife but not willing to say what she does in a self employed capacity. No wonder the insurance company were confused.

Your a wife... That stays at home = housewife. Your self employed but from the folk I know, people say they are self employed who make craft shit and sell on fb so 🤷‍♀️.if you stay at home all day then your friends and family probably see you as a house wife too... Even if they don't say it. If you've got a problem then perhaps ask your husband about it or the insurance company why it was listed

I'm not sure if you're upset at the term housewife or the insinuation you don't work and that it is insulting that someone thinks you stay at home with your children

What a weird post. Not a housewife but not willing to say what she does in a self employed capacity. No wonder the insurance company were confused.

Also... not a housewife but offended by the term anyway. I can’t imagine being offended on behalf of someone else. I’d probably question/correct someone referring to an “Air hostess” but I wouldn’t be offended particularly.

specifically offer 'housewife' as an option to anybody whose name is Miss/Mrs/Ms and 'househusband' to a Mr- although that would just complicate things more if your a Dr or Prof etc.

Firstly there are now two Dr options: Dr (female) and Dr (male).

Secondly, DH and I ran into the 'housewife' issue a few years ago. The algorithm automatically put your job title as 'housewife' if you said you worked PT. However both DH and I work PT and so it wanted us both as 'housewife' and that shot up the premium. Since we both work 4 days a week and more hours than the government consider FT (30h) we changed our application to say we both worked FT, we got to choose our jobs (my job is never on the lists) and hey presto the premium went down.

I just enrolled for my 2nd year at college and couldn't find my occupation on the list and it made me think of this thread. I specifically checked, and housewife wasn't on the list