Changing a lightbulb and other tasks...

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Just thinking, when changing a lightbulb or two, how I used to hate doing this and was a task for ex. (well he is taller and all that)

I am used to putting the car in the narrow garage now... helps that the children are no longer in baby car seats. he used to do that job too as getting the children out of the car in the garage was not easy. took a year for that to become normal.

Four years on and I still hate doing the bins and recycling.

What jobs did you prefer ex did and have you got used to them now?

oh and spiders... they just get squished immediately. Sometimes there is not even a blood curdling scream.

I was thinking about this earlier.
Dealing with maggots in eg food recycling bin - I don't even blink at it.
My first unpleasant task fairly soon after ex left was unblocking the toilet, but tbh I quite enjoyed the challenge.
Spiders are dealt with via glass and postcard method.

funnily enough I have to unblock the toilet a lot less now.

Love toilet unblocking comment

Stbxh put the Clean folded clothes away. I hate that job. Ditto emptying dishwasher. But that was the sum of his parts so life's not so different. I just take clothes from basket not drawer now.

He used to refuse to kill spiders and inevitable dropped or lost them on route to door so I always suck them up the Hoover tube.

Life is so much more relaxed these days

ExH didn't do that much round the house so it was business as usual on that score when we split up.

When I was pregnant with DS2 he refused to put the bins out on the grounds that there might be slugs on the path. OK for me to haul the rubbish out and slip on them, though.

And he didn't help that much when we moved house when I was 38 weeks pregnant. I made good friends with the new neighbours as they came to help me when I was struggling to carry stuff in.

ahh harriet... you got rid of a twat lot of extra work then by splitting up.

which has reminded me that there used to be rows bout putting the bin out an i once got lashed out at for asking. had forgotten all of that.

I never been too bothered about spiders (except the ones that run really fast at you) but ex always made a big deal about me being afraid of them so he'd have to do it. Nob. I have a spider catcher than can hoover most of them up. The cat hoovers up the rest

I don't enjoy unloading the dishwasher. That was the only job he really did round the house. Oh he did the lawn mowing (and expected a medal) but I always liked doing that so no big deal.

Must have been a shock to his system when he moved out. Ha!

nah, probably found some other poor bugger to organise his life...

Just wanted to come on this thread to say I changed the battery in the smoke alarm today. I am immensely proud of myself and starting to wonder what we actually need men for (apart from the obvious).

Bins, I have got used to.

Spiders never bothered me anyway.

Lightbulbs, no probs but DIY I delegate to Friend with Toolbox.

But sodding car tax, MOT & stuff GAAAHHHH!

That was always his department as I have zero interest other than they get me from A>B

My MOT & service are due but I can't find a day to get it in & have no one to collect me sob

Other wise I'm fine thanks!!

Things like unloading dishwashers, you can eventually train the DC to do for you. In our house DS tidies the shoes in the walkway and puts clothes out of the washer into the tumble drier - he's also quite keen to learn how to use the washing machine which I will teach him (you press Go) at some point when I'm not rushing. He's 7, these jobs started around a year ago now, he is very helpful indeed!

Washing up has got to be my most hated job.