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How often does your partner/DH do housework ?

29 replies

KangarooKenny · 08/05/2022 15:58

I clean every week, dust and hoover upstairs and down, and do the bathroom. Kitchen and floor I’ve dropped to once every fortnight as I’m fed up of doing it. Obviously sides get wiped down a couple of times a day, floor hoovered as necessary.
DH cleans his bathroom only, and even then it’s every 2-3 weeks. Me and the kids use it occasionally.
Am I unreasonable to expect it to be done weekly, as it gets very grubby after 1 week ?

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Shmithecat2 · 08/05/2022 15:59

Never. But I'm a sahm, he works full time. And whatever I don't want to do, he's happy for me to outsource.

bloodywhitecat · 08/05/2022 16:01

If it's his bathroom surely it's for him to decide?

DH and I shared the housework when we both worked full time. Whoever was home at the time did whatever needed doing.

LeastofLeicester · 08/05/2022 16:01

I do 80% of the cooking, food shop and occasionally do laundry. DH does everything else.

AlisonDonut · 08/05/2022 16:01

We both do a small amount every day. About once a fortnight he Hoovers and i go over the floor with a mop and one cleans upstairs and one does downstairs. It is quite dusty where we are. One bathroom is done each usually every week if not more.

He's just about to get the washing out the machine and pop it on the line, my gardening stuff needed a wash after a hard day yesterday. Whilst he is doing that I'm making dinner.

We both spend around the same amount of time on chores to be honest. If anything he does more than i do.

MolliciousIntent · 08/05/2022 16:02

Every single day. Just like me.

LeastofLeicester · 08/05/2022 16:03

It depends on your work schedule. When I was SAHP I did everything. When part time I did the majority. Now I'm full time and longer hours than DH I do hardly any.

GayParis · 08/05/2022 16:04

We both do little bits of housework every day, whatever needs doing gets done by one of us.

DogsAndGin · 08/05/2022 16:06

My DH works far longer hours than me but he still does some housework - I do need to explicitly ask him though. Or he says, ‘what do I need to do?’ Because he just doesn’t see the jobs.

Hugasauras · 08/05/2022 16:06

Every day, we both do. It's entirely split here.

Oizys · 08/05/2022 16:07

pretty Much every day. I’m a Sahm at the moment so I do the big stuff once a
week while the youngest two are at nursery but DH clears up & cleans the dining room after dinner. He usually gives the shower screens a clean mosh days and does whatever odd housework jobs need doing on the day

my ex did nothing. Left it all to me even tho we both worked full time but he saw our Ds & house stuff as my responsibility

WalkingOnSonshine · 08/05/2022 16:09

We have a cleaner but he’ll tidy up after dinner, clean the kitchen most days while I’m doing bedtime.

He’ll also stick some bleach down the toilet, clean the sink, fold some laundry and run a Hoover round once a week too, similar to me.

HMG107 · 08/05/2022 16:10

My husbands bathroom isn't a priority for him and its absolutely filthy. I doubt he cleans it once a month but he is good at keeping on top of the rest of the house. We don't have a routine but both do our fair share.

Suprima · 08/05/2022 16:10

Everyday, and probably more than I do because he gets up earlier than me and will spend his time before breakfast emptying the dishwasher and cleaning up for the day. Very busy bloke too- doesn’t use it as an excuse.

because I didn’t settle down with a strategically incompetent child who ‘didn’t see mess’. Would have been a massive turn off for me to be treated like a slave.

Ponderingwindow · 08/05/2022 16:11

Daily.

SickAndTiredAgain · 08/05/2022 16:15

We both do little bits every day. I think it sounds like your issue should be less about his bathroom, and more about the fact that you are doing everything else. Does he not even wipe down the kitchen surfaces etc?

Lacey247 · 08/05/2022 16:16

I do 100% of the housework. We both work full time

Stade197 · 08/05/2022 16:17

I basically do everything, both when I was working & now that I'm home on maternity leave.

He would do something if I asked him to - empty bins, washing up etc but he would very rarely actually look at a pile of washing up or full bin and think to sort it himself

Its never really bothered me though because in the past I have seen him wipe spillages on the kitchen worktop with my clean tea towels so I don't think his cleaning skills would meet my expectations 😅

Shoxfordian · 08/05/2022 16:22

He does as much as me because he’s an adult not a manchild

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 08/05/2022 16:27

Right now, my DP does the bulk of it due to my 12hr work shifts, and he does a bloody fantastic job with no complaints. I'm also 16wks pregnant and knackered, which he's very mindful of!

It wouldn't occur to him to be any other way. I pull my weight whenever I'm at home, as we're a team and it's OUR house.

WilsonMilson · 08/05/2022 16:33

I do the majority of housework. All the cooking, cleaning, laundry, ironing, school runs.
I wfh part time, DH has a very full on job which brings in most of our income, so I feel it’s fair.
He does the dishes after dinner (mainly loading dishwasher) and unloads the dishwasher quite a bit, he also does the grass cutting of quite a sizeable lawn and some diy. We are both happy with this division of labour.

tuliplover · 08/05/2022 16:38

My husband didn't do housework. But we had a cleaner and he was one tidy guy. He cooked at weekends and cleaned as he went along so only dinnerware to clean afterwards. He did do the rubbish though.

11stonesomething · 08/05/2022 16:48

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MadameDragon · 08/05/2022 16:58

We each do 50%, but we choose the chores we prefer.

KangarooKenny · 08/05/2022 17:07

I think that my DH can’t be bothered doing it, so he says it’s not dirty.
My DM cleaned through once a week, and that’s where I’ve got it from.
He mows the lawns but won’t weed. He will do the occasional load of laundry and empty the dishwasher, he’s just not doing half, and he’s retired.
He does bare minimum that he wants to do.

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 08/05/2022 17:17

Both work ft. Both do equal amounts.

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