In my household I am the goto person for... (lighthearted)

[InsanityOf2020]

Untangling slinkies. My kids manage to tangle them up every time the tangled lump of spring appears without a by or leave and i absentmindedly untangle it until it looks like new.

Whats yours?

Gift wrapping.
Stamps
And in restaurants, calling over waiting staff if required and deciding on appropriate tip. (I’m not necessarily expected to pay said tip but i am supposedly evaluator of the level of service received 🤔)

I'm car stuff, including maintenance. DH can barely work out where the filler cap is.

Magic instant iPad charging dock (this one is faulty, they think if I touch the iPad it will magically be charged. Like my hands have supercharging powers)

Otherwise shit and boo boos

Reading timetables (especially those complicated paper ones that GWR love). Also anything complicated logistics wise.

Everything but specialities include:

spiders
splinters
anything medical

Removing spiders or butterflies. No one else will touch them.

Foreign language stuff. I speak French and have some basic German and Russian so clearly on a family holiday in Italy or Spain I am also the designated speaker of "foreign".

DH did GCSE French many moons ago, I make him order his own food in France. To be fair I am not amazing at translating fish types (the English name means about as much as the French (or being realistic Chinese, Arabic or Martian) name for said fish and a bit limited on cuts of meat (again as much due to lack of English vocabulary).

Generally annoys me that he's got away with being so lazy about languages (his sister also has a MFL degree, and mum likes talking French) so I'm mean but will help if important (medical stuff vs supermarket).

Recently they couldn't find the right Scrabble tile in the bag and I stuck my hand in and pulled out the right one first time - my finding skills are now being viewed with suspicion.

I have recently started saying, “Nope! Plug in your own brains! Haven’t you heard of atrophy?” Kids are old enough to know what that means/Google it.

@Pepper54

I am matron (did a First Aid course in 1987), DH is tech support. I am also ents officer and in charge of finding things.

LOL I am Ents Officer too :-)

Actually according to DH I am Senior Director of Adventures. I'd say that's about right.

I"m also Payer of Bills, and Filer of Paperwork.

I gave up all my other jobs in our house. I am no longer Maker of Appointments, Organiser of Anything School-related, Planner of Holidays or Finder of Things. I have officially retired as Cook, Cleaner and Summer Camp Administrator.

Anything which requires some sort of effort

I am Homework Dragon and in return DH is in charge of internet safety (and Sex Ed when DSs are a bit older).

Same here with finding things. It’s like I’m the head of my own No 1 Mum’s Detective Agency. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Why is that??

I've got a live-stream inventory of all the cupboard contents. These days DH cooks about 70% of the time, and he does most of the shopping, but he'll ask me if we have any tinned tomatoes, or how much pasta there is. I usually say "I don't know, I can't see inside the cupboard from here."

Interesting comment from an earlier poster whose DH can turn invisible at will, I think that is happening here too. So DH is either a spy or a chameleon!

My magic skill is jar opening. I'm asked by weight lifting DH, my strapping DS, even my father in law. I putnit down to a mix of small hands, short arms, broad shoulders and average strength. Somehow the combination means I'm a jaw droppingly good jar opener. Mother nature is a wonderful thing 😄

• By the way, I have decided that I am tired of being the brain and the rememberer of all the details. I have stopped. My DH came in last night holding his electric toothbrush looking bewildered, and said, “The battery’s run down!” Yes... “You didn’t put it on the charger!” “No... I’m not doing all those things anymore, remember? It was never ACTUALLY my job to begin with, was it? Now is the time to run through a mental checklist of all the things I remind you about, and you call “Nagging,” because that’s stopped too. Night, Dear!” He slept in and was late for his sporting event today because SOMEONE didn’t remind him to set his alarm, but he wasn’t game enough to bring it up with me. (There was a lot of swearing under his breath though.)

Adding stuff up (easier to ask me than, you know, use a calculator)
Spelling.
Finding things.
Knowing what food we have.
Fixing the computer/ printer/ google classroom despite being a technophobe.
Anything dog related.
Homeschooling.
Pet and child health.
Answering questions when Alexa doesn’t know.

Oh, and I’m also the alarm clock and the only person ever to take keys when I go out.

And having RTFT also spider removal, car maintenance, untangling stuff, finding bargains, booking holidays and Christmas.

Oh yes, I forgot about Christmas. Christmas is my job too.

"Do we have any......"

Anything food related.
Anything toilet or sink related- unblocking is a speciality.
Anything laundry related.
Emotional support and soothing ruffled feathers.
Sorting, filing, organising.
Sewing and mending stuff.

I charge £5 for any question asked that I know they can do for themselves.

Solving the rubix cube so the kids can mess it up again. (Also goes down well in my primary class during golden time).

@justilou1 good on you! I have also retired from being the family brain. Tipping point was being asked whether it was raining outside. We were sitting next to each other within full view of the window