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Chores at home

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Householdchores · 21/09/2018 13:33

I'm not crazy right? When you start a chore, you should finish it.

Like if you wash clothes you should make sure they are dry, fold them and put them away in the drawers/wardrobe.

Or if you wash dishes, you wash them, dry them and put them away.

I feel like I'm gonna have to start giving my partner a chore sheet and put gold stars on it for when he actually does a full chore and allocated games time accordingly for how many stars he gets. Obviously I won't, but dear God he is lazy.

He's meant to do dishes and clean the bathrooms. He hates cleaning the bathroom so said he'll wash clothes instead. Fair enough, until I pointed out that means folding them and putting them away too. Now I'm being ridiculous and he doesn't know how to do that. Sorry I didn't realise you had an iq of 20. Figured you could fold stuff in half and then half again, but guess they skipped that stage for you in primary school.

He doesn't put dishes away ever either. Currently, all of his shit is all over the floor of the living room too, rubbish, everything. And yet had a go at me for leaving one thing out. I obviously didn't respond in a nice way.

Don't even know how to get him to understand this anymore. He's so stupid.

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Wauden · 22/09/2018 22:17

OP, nice one. Don't take any shit.

SleightOfMind · 23/09/2018 00:01

Joking aside, this is annoying now but you have no idea how corrosive this is when/if you have DC/serious illness/financial trouble.
It doesn’t matter who does what, (play to your strengths here, I’m better at finance, DH is ace at cooking).
The stuff that needs doing gets divided up fairly. With the proviso that you catch each other if you fall.
You have to be a team if it’s going to work.

Studyinghell · 23/09/2018 00:23

You need to pick, accept he’s lazy and has different standards to you or get rid. You can’t change some1. You will just end up nagging and being miserable

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