Household chores that have somehow become yours...

[BigDahliaFan]

Cleaning out the dishwasher filter. DH would be hard pushed to know such a thing existed...

I do the dishwasher filter too, though I actually also didn't realise you were meant to keep them topped up with salt and rinse aid. But then it turned out you don't need to do that in Scotland because we have lovely soft water, and my dishwasher was just shit.

DP regularly changes all the hand towels and gives the dog his flea and worm medication. I organise our subscription purchases of toilet paper and dog food, and change all the bed sheets. I am also the only person who ever clears out the shower drain hair trap, but it's fair enough as I shed more hair.

I'm confused about the tumble drier filter just being one person's job though - don't you have to clean that every time you use it? Or is the same person also doing all the tumble drying?

The tumble dryer filter should be done every time you use it as it's a fire risk otherwise. Unless that was a subtle hint that your DH does as the tumble drying as well.

My TD has the filter that fluff collects in inside the door, and then another one at the bottom of the machine that I have to sort of rinse out - I do it monthly.

I can't really complain about DH. He is very hands on from cooking, to cleaning, to taking kids to activities etc, but there are a million little things he would never think to do without prompting.

E. G. We've had our dishwasher since 1999 (yes, the same one!!!). But he's only just recently realised I've been topping up the salt and rinse aid all these years (I know the tablets say all in one etc, but we've very hard water).

Anyway the thing that annoyed me this evening was realising I am always the one to ensure we have some cash /change in the house. I know we pay for most things by card /phone now, but a few of the kids activities are still paid in cash.

So it falls to me, every single time, to get to an atm, then "break" the 20 / 50 so I have the appropriate €2/€3.50 etc as needed. Just a small little gripe but I didn't have enough change this evening (have been sick the last few days) & his answer was "does it need to be paid tonight?!?". As usual, he didn't even have 20 cent on him. DS ended up giving me a "loan"!

Ours has 2. There’s a lint filter in the door that gets cleaned every time. And a large one that, according to instruction book, only needs done once a month or so, it’s a condenser tumble dryer.

and he does more tumble drying as I prefer to hang stuff out…horses for courses.

DH cannot cope with any "mess" such as filters, or vomit, or bin juice. He goes green... I do all of those.

He's very good with blood though.

He works away so I have to do the vast majority anyway. When he's home, he always does getting the duvet cover on the King size bed and topping up the fluids on the car.

Ah yes, we used to have one of those. But we didn't realise for a couple of years until we started to wonder why our tumble drier was shit at drying and also squeaky. Then I found it and it became my job.

@BarnacleBeasley yes we rather emabarrasingly found out when we went to buy a new dryer and said 'it's ridiculous the old one is only 2 years old' and she asked if we'd tried cleaning out the filter....no, not that filter, the other filter....oops. Saved us a new dryer and it's still going strong at 12 years' old.

Guessing you’d like that to change?

@Mexcitedfam that was my slightly snippy response to a poster who'd been getting on my nerves by trying to turn what wasn't meant to be a DH bashing thread into a DH bashing thread....

I should have put lighthearted and never mentioned my partner - it was meant to show that in any household there is a job that for some reason just becomes 'yours' my husband - who is the person I share a house with - has other jobs that have become 'his' for some unknown reason.

Well... 😱

Guess I'm looking for the manual later. Dammit.