Chore brainstorm time; let us know what chores are done in your home....

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Here at MNHQ we are working on a mini project about the division of labour in the home.

We want to find out who does what chores - we have a list of chores but we'd love to know what you consider a chore in your home so we can check they are all on our list so we can do as full a project as possible.

So please list on this thread all the chores undertaken - whether daily, weekly or less often - and whether by you, your DP, your child or your cleaner etc.

Grateful thanks to everyone who helps!

thanks
MNHQ

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Paperwork such as arranging insurance: we run our finance, houses and admin completely separately. He just lives here part time

Both work 70%, SHAP 50%, 6month baby, MIL next door

the SHAP does clothes washing, clean floors, clean bathroom - as needed then daily - wash up, make bottles, walk dog, walk baby, all other baby care.

Worker - prepare night bottles, tidy up toys, clean floor around high chair, tidiy away dinner, bring in wood if needed

Me - change beds, batch cook for ds, gardening - veg, picking fruit and cooking/storing, cut and split wood for us and MIL, Saturday cooking

dh - maintain cars, fill wood boxes weekly, bins, MIL house maintenace, hunting and meat butching, picking fruit, clean up dog poo, hover and mop whole house monthly, cut and split wood for us and MIL, Friday cooking

MIL - most week day cooking and has the dog in the day time.

Taking the children to school/breakfast school and collecting - 100% me
Making sandwiches - DH, rest of packed lunch and school bags, me.
Cooking - 5/7 me, 2/7 DH
Laundry - 70% me, 30% DH
Washing up - 80 % DH, 20% me
Ironing - we each do our own and share kids (on a need to wear basis!)
Cleaning - DH does bathroom, I do everything else
planning meals and shopping - 95% me.
pets - shared
Paying bills, checking finances, family admin - me
holiday planning, social events, birthday organisation - all me
DIY - DH
bins out DH, bins back in, me
Gardening: DH lawn (70%) all other gardening, me
putting kids to bed - 50/50
kids tidy away own dishes, set table & make drinks, feed rabbit, make beds.

Yikes, how long is a piece of string in terms of chores - difficult to think of all of them....

DH is quite good at doing specific chores but ignores most of them (unless I direct him specifically with a list)

Probably easier to say what DH does and assume that I do the others. The DCs need chivvying to do anything and everything really:

Oven cleaning inside and top of the hob;
School-run (if he's on a day off);
Top-up shopping (with a list);
Vacuuming.
Homework help (if it's something he's in interested in and it's the weekend).

DH -
Putting bin out
Car care between services
All gardening
Cleaning windows
Booking and organising all holidays and trips away
75% of ferrying DCs to activities swimming sports clubs etc
Cleaning oven
Weekly and monthly food shop
All DIY or organising of tradesman to do same.
Cooking
Bill paying and banking

Me
Weekly deep clean of house
All gift buying and card organising for family and friends
Ironing
Washing and cycling through to ironing stage
Majority of daily housework- bathrooms hoovering and general tidying
Organising school bags and school activities
Buying dcs clothes and shoes
Changing beds
Deciding what needs done and when

We both work f/t though DH tends to be around the house more

Carer
Get DH up, washed, dressed and breakfasted. Mop wetroom floor after showers

DH
99% computer maintenance (I switch inaccessible things on and off and plug things in as required)

Me
Everything else

Me
Clean toilets, vacuum, sweep floors, clean windows inside, strip beds & remake, put recycling in outside bin.

DCs (aged 10&12)
Dusting, polishing, shine shoes, tidying, clean car, put bins out and bring them in.

DH
Mow lawn, shopping, (drilling and "tall" jobs)

Joint effort
Dishwasher, washing up, gardening, washing, drying, folding laundry, stacking dishes, cleaning kitchen, composting, most things really.

Laying the fire and topping up indoor log basket - me or DH - daily
Filling log store in porch ( from woodshed) - me or DH - weekly
Chopping kindling - DH ( with DS sometimes) - every couple of weeks.
Emptying ash can - me- weekly
Collecting wood - me - when ever I find it
Sawing and splitting wood to size - DH - when ever
Stacking wood to season - me or Dh or DS - when ever
Construction and re-pair of woodsheds - me- when needed.

and that just the chores around having a woodburner.

DS has one chore that must be done weekly to earn his pocket money ( he is 7) Clean and polish his school shoes.

I am the clothes washing and drying fairy - DH is the dish washing fairy. Tho we both do both on occasion. Neither of us clean cars or windows very often.

Breakfast - everyone sorts themselves out,
Washing up - DH
Cooking - DH
Washing/Ironing - Me
Shopping - Me/DH
Hoovering, dusting, tidying up, mopping floors is as and when required or rather when we can be arsed (in the holidays we pay the kids to do it, or rather they earn their pocket money that way ).

Dh puts the bins out and mows the lawn (at least twice a year...). I'm a stay at home mum so,i do pretty much everything else - laundry, cleaning, tidying, grocery shopping, the vast majority of child related stuff. Dh does the children's breakfasts and also at weekends he does anything that needs doing but i usually do most things during the week. It suits us.

Me:
Cooking
washing up
Cleaning doors/light switches/bannister
Cleaning bathroom
Mopping kitchen floor
Dusting
Changing ours and dcs beds
Loading machine and packing away
Organise our diaries
Buy birthday gifts for both sides of family
Online shopping

Dh:
DIY jobs
Washing up
Put bins out for collection
Hoovering
Ironing
Takes dc to school

I am on ML so am able to do more.

Thanks everyone, much appreciated

I pretty much do everything! My husband works out of the home, I work within the home. I once wrote a little rota for myself of things to do on what day but as I rarely stick to it, I say it's more just a guide! ;)

I take the bins out when they are full and put new bin liners in. I then take the bins out for collection on a Monday night and get them back in on the Tuesday morning.

I do the food shop online and then try to fit it all into the freezer come Monday morning!

I let the dog out multiple times a day. I have to actually take him out to the toilet on his lead as the garden is too muddy at the minute and the last time I left him out freely, I nearly cried when he came back in, absolutely covered in mud and dripping it and walking it into the carpets! Oh, and I bath the dog and cut his hair regularly. Major chore, that one! I have to work myself up to giving the dog a bath! lol

I wash up a stupid amount of times a day, seeing as there are only 3 of us in the house! I dry up and put things away, too. Make everyone a different meal at different times of the day! Chores! One day, our routines will be that we eat the same thing altogether around a bloomin' table!!!

I hoover usually on a Monday or Tuesday morning and Friday morning. (Dog + toddler who likes to pick everything up off the carpets means I hoover twice a week now!)

I wash all the clothes, put them out to dry, fold them up and put them away. In the 3 years I've known my husband, neither of us have used an iron!!!

I tidy up at the end of the day. Put husband's work clothes out ready for the morning. Get his packed lunch stuff ready the night before.

I've been on mould cleaning duty this winter which has been awful. It's pretty much stopped now, thank god! I had to keep getting up on the ladder because I can't reach the tops of the windows! I clean the windows every so often when I feel like they need cleaning. Dust when I feel the house needs dusting. De-clutter when the stacks of paper and receipts in the kitchen starts getting too much!

Bloody hell. I'm tired just thinking about all this!

Oh, husband will get supplies from the city on his way home from work. He picks up treats for us, too. He mops the kitchen and bathroom floors and cleans up after himself when he's had a shave! He also pays some of the bills, I pay the others and we share the mowing of the garden because it's so big!

Phew!