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October 2012 Weddings
minionlover
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QOTD 3/19
Who does the cooking and cleaning? If you aren't living together, how do you think that it will work out?
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Re: QOTD 3/19
FI does 95% of the dishes and I do all the sweeping and mopping. I also do the day-to-day tidying and FI takes out the garbage. We usually do laundry together and take turns cleaning the bathroom.
I'm the last to get up so I always make the bed.
I cook and he usually does dishes. But I love cooking so it's ok.
Rest of the cleaning is a big battle in our house. In the apartment, FI did dishes, bathrooms and laundry. Since we got the house (last May), I've been doing it all but dishes.
FI has been away since January, but right before that, I wrote down everything I did each day, with a column for what he did beside it. I think it was eye openning for him. Since we work opposite shifts I don't think he realized what I did while he worked. He said he's going to help more when he gets home... I hope so.
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95% of the time I cook and he does dishes. He takes the trash out more than I do. Everything else we split equally or take turns.
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Since he went from first shift, to second shift, I've been doign more of the cooking since he's not home from the hospital until 10:30 at night.
I do the laundry and clean the bathrooms.
He takes care of the wood and tile floors, mostly because I do not have the patience. I vacuum the bedrooms. He is the one in charge of our lawn (unless i want to work on my tan and mow the lawn) and I take care of our garden. FI is always building something for the house, his next weekend off he's working on a window seat in our bedroom.
Everything else, we split up based on who has the time to do it.
FI does the vacuuming, dishes after dinner and usually the laundry.
Twice a month we try to do a big cleaning day and then we just both bang through as much stuff as possible.
October 13, 2012
Once we get out house things will go back to normal :-)
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FI will pick up after himself, help me cook if im in the middle of it, and load the dishwasher, take out the garbage and does all the outside work. He does leave the house at 4 am and comes home around 7pm, so he doesnt really have time. I dont work so its easier for me, even when I did work, I was employed in a Middle school and hope at 3pm everyday so Ive always had more time than him to do stuff around the house, plus I dont mind....
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I do laundry b/c I'm really picky about it. FI doesn't separate clothes or hang dry anything which drives me nuts. He usually does dishes, but I help out on occassion. As for everything else, it's a matter of who gets to it first. I usually end up vacuuming and he usually deals with bathrooms.
We actually really flowed into chores well together. What I don't have time to do, he does and vice versa. It's just easier that a set schedule for us.