to thoses with amazing dh/dps please tell me what they do with regard to housework?

[mrsdannydyer]

tia

all the DIY stuff
sweeps and cleans floors (when asked!)
vaccums
washes up (when asked!)
cooks (when asked and sometimes when not asked!!)
does majority of food shopping
puts bins out
all gardening
puts washing on

me on the other hand...........

.....i could make a list as long as your arm!!

He does enough for me not to nag at him and always knows when i need help and just does it for me!

Actually, he's domestically pretty perfect, he does loads.

Most of the cooking

much of the shopping

if he didn't keep on top of the washing, we'd all be naked.

hoovers.

says he finds washing up theraputic, and makes me sit down.

general tidying and picking up duties.

Don't notice him cleaning the bathroom much, or much cleaning/dusting type stuff (although cleans the kitchen).

Please don't think i'm being smug, there are quite a few areas in which he is an absolute my-god-i'm-going-to-murder-him-pain, but domestically I feel very lucky.

He works FT, me PT. He helps with the morning 'baby rush' on days when we both work, otherwise i do it, and i tend to do bathtime. always makes me a cup of tea in the morning. We alternate lie ins at weekends.

my dp does anything and everything that needs doing around the house...and never moans at me to do anything either even though he works fulltime

Everything, anything, whatever needs doing. There's nothing he'd say is my job.

oh, and i usually iron hos shirts on condition that he makes the packed lunches.

everything whenever it needs done

we share but he's great, irons, cleans, hoovers, cooks, washes up, changes the animals! etc.

Puts the rubbish outside the back door. (not in the bin, that's too far).
Let's the dog out the back door....

Provides the bin liners from work.

Walks the dog, who can then do his business, whilst relieving himself of the contents of our bin, not the ripped up foil and wrappers though. Then picks up after doggy and brings it home with him only to place that beside the outside bin.

Very very helpful around the home.

What I ask him to do, I run the home so delegate jobs as and when they are needed.
There isn't anything he won't do if I ask him.

dh does bins
and garden
also loves to cook no matter how long a day he's had...bloody amazing.

will put washing away at a push

err that's about it

oh yeh-he cleans the garage and the oven a couple of times a yr.

he also likes to clean the fridge about 30 minutes before we go on holiday

he cleans toilet about 4 times a year
but when he does it is SPOTLESS, so sparkling you could eat your dinner off it ...

Anything I leave undone for a long enough period really. For example I haven't done any hoovering since September, I think he's done that a couple of times!

He's a star!
He lived on his own for 10 yrs before I married him so he does pretty much everything that he needs doing apart from emptying the real nappy bin into the washing machine...he steers clear of that one. And he's not fond of cooking but will if pushed (but preferrs to pick up the phone and order in)

My DH is amazing he does everything in regard to the children, housework and my horses (when he is not working) the only thing he doesn't do is the washing/ironing mainly cos the first time he washed a load he ruined my brand new very expensive sheets.

dh does most things. he is not amazing it is normal. we have a complicated but rigid system whereby duties vary according to that day's childcare responsiblities.

Dh does pretty much anything that needs doing - we both work and we have a cleaner once a week and somebody to do the ironing anything else ie loading/unloading dishwasher, washing/drying laundry, cooking, emptying bins, tidying up etc. is split pretty much 50/50. he is particularly good at doing stuff in the garden and fixing things generally. Before ds we didn't have a cleaner or have the ironing done but we still both did our share.

Agree with other posters who say that this kind of stuff isn't "amazing" but is how a normal family household should work.

men are not 'amazing' if they do housework

they are equal members of the household, surely

dh does all the cooking as I have to do more childcare (we both do paid work but his hours are longer). I probably do more laundry.

Basically both of us try to do what needs to be done as it comes up. If the place is a tip, it isn't the other one's responsibility to tidy up.

mine does a damn sight more than i do... but that aint hard.
(cleany housework im talking about. childcare i do teh lions share, but then, im here and he WOH)

dh is in for a shock tonight

DH prob does more than me. He does nearly all cooking, packed lunches, tidying kitchen and washing dishes etc.

I do more laundry and cleaning bathroom, general tidying up and dusting etc

There is not one job that he can't or won't do if it needs done.

OTOH there are plenty jobs I won't do (bleeding radiators and diy stuff, also I tend not to light the stove)

We both work f/t, but when I was on maternity leave he still did more in the house than I did - we both agreed I was on leave to look after dd, not do housework.

I do appreciate what he does, but agree with others this is not 'amazing', it's just him being part of the household and doing his share.