What does your husband do around the house?

[Magic Mom]

We share things pretty evenly. The only thing DH doesn't do is grocery shopping. He will go pick up a few things when we are out, but I do the big shopping.
He's great. I'm very lucky.

 

[Zandy595]

Wow, I'm feeling worse and worse the more I read about these wonderful husbands you all have. I was under the impression that most men were like DH and didn't do anything around the house.

 

[kirbsam]

i sit around and eat chips and control the remote while my wife works her self ragged, but heck it keeps her thin.

 

[Jennasis]

Dh does everything.

He cooks

He cleans

Does laundry

loads/unloads dishwasher

Grocery shops

Makes the bed

Fixes everything/anything (including cars, tractor, our four wheeler, plumbing, electrical)

Builds anything I need (this weekend he's putting up new fence in one of our pastures)

He works 8-5 M-F and then comes home and brings 25 horses in from pasture.

On weekends he helps me clean 25 horse stalls.

He does all of our business accounting and paperwork.

He can fix ANYTHING with our computer.

A few minutes ago he made and brought me lunch because I was teaching and didn't have time to stop and eat.

He IS Superman, and I love and adore him.

 

[zippitydoo]

He does a really good job of watching tv. He is pretty good at making the mess I gotta clean up. But he does occassionaly cook. But other than that not much

 

[Mellie2162]

DH doesn't have any "chores" to speak of, however, if I need him to lend a hand doing something he does without complaint. He works 2 jobs so that is enough for him. When he's home I like for him to spend time with the kids. If there is a maintenance type of thing he will do that. He works on the cars of course. He does most of the yard work in the summer, I do try to help him there as much as I can. Working 2 jobs though is enough for 1 person. I enjoy taking care of him when he's home as he takes very good care of us and we are his first priority in everything.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

Everything...dishes, laundry, vacuums, picks up, plus all the outdoor stuff...he's a great guy!!

 

[Nancy]

He will wash the kitchen and bathroom floors (but won't clean anything else in the bathrooms), he vacuums, dusts and carts laundry baskets for me. He mows the, lawn shovels the snow, takes care of the pool in the summer, and helps pull weeds in the garden. He also will wash dishes by hand but has an issue with putting them in the dishwasher or emptying the thing.

He doesn't cook or go grocery shopping but he does help me bring all the bags in the house.

He does quite a bit around here and I appreciate it.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

What ever I tell him

 

[NCRedding]

Wow, I'm feeling worse and worse the more I read about these wonderful husbands you all have. I was under the impression that most men were like DH and didn't do anything around the house.

I'm right there with you. DH and I actually work together, and although we're supposed to be partners, I carry the bulk of the client work, and do all the managerial parts of the business, while DH plays on the computer instead of answering the 32 telephone messages in his inbox. (Can you tell I am stressed?)

At home he washes and dries the clothes. He does not hang them, fold them or put them away. He also puts about 1/2 of them in the gentle cycle basket, which is my responsibility.

He empties the dishwasher every other time it is full. The yardwork he pays someone else to do.

Other than that everything else falls on me. Our DD is 16 and driving, so my child care issues are much less than they were a few months ago when I did all her driving around in addition to all the other household work.

I'm really quite tired of it, and have had numerous discussions about it with DH, but nothing ever changes. Just as I told him several gift givings ago, I feel lottery tickets are a waste of money, and I'd rather get nothing than that. Yet for Valentine's, he bought me $105 worth of lottery tickets and a book (a mystery book). Of course, I don't like to read mysteries, and he had already read the book too. This was the same gift I recieved for Christmas, my birthday, last Valentine and the Christmas before that.

And like zippitydoo's DH, he is great at watching TV.

 

[rparmfamily]

I'm a SAHM so I do most of the housework, groceries, finances and cooking.

He works long and crazy hours.

What he does regularly (without suggestion from me LOL):
laundry
cut the grass
toilets
tub/shower

What he does when he notices it...
mop/vacuum/trash/dishes

 

[a1tinkfans]

He does whatever I ask of him (though usually at HIS time table )
SUPER handy and is amazing with just about anything. Does house stuff as well, usually without asking and is VERY VERY helpful
BUT
I will not admit that to HIM Very lucky indeed!

 

[MushyMushy]

Wow, I'm feeling worse and worse the more I read about these wonderful husbands you all have. I was under the impression that most men were like DH and didn't do anything around the house.

If it makes you feel any better, the majority of my friends have husbands who don't do anything around the house at all, and barely help with their own kids. Oh, and my dad's like a big toddler. He'll do dishes and laundry, but the messes he makes around the house need to be cleaned by a hazmat crew. And that's not just old age -- he was always like that.

 

[Freyja]

DH takes on just about any job that needs to be done, equal to me. We both have jobs and we both live here so we consider it equal responsibility to clean, do laundry, cook dinner, etc.

 

[Camicar]

My dh does the cooking and the grocery shopping. He also mows the lawn. I do everything else.

 

[Philagoofy]

Wow, I'm feeling worse and worse the more I read about these wonderful husbands you all have. I was under the impression that most men were like DH and didn't do anything around the house.

I suppose part of it is my fault, instead of letting him do things his way & keeping my mouth shut (no, the 2 dinner dishes you washed don't get put away with the drinking glasses, they go in the same place they've been for the past 3 years, in with the other dinner dishes, one cabinet over ), I ended up with most jobs. He handles the finances - pays the bills and after I wash, iron, hang, fold his clothes, I lay them on the bed for him to put away, after I was told that I wasn't putting them away right. I do not clean his bathroom anymore. (We have a "master bath" very small, that's his & I use the hall.) Now he has a better excuse not to do things, so I guess I'm really stuck.

i sit around and eat chips and control the remote while my wife works her self ragged, but heck it keeps her thin.

 

[Philagoofy]

Even when I'm sick, which is rare, I end up having to do things myself. Not that he doesn't offer but...one time I wasn't feeling well, he offered to make me hot tea & toast. I'm sitting in the living room, the kitchen if right there behind me.
He says where's the pot to boil water?
In the cabinet next to the oven on the right, in front.
Where's the bread?
In the fridge.
Where, I don't see it. (If it doesn't fall into his hands when he opens the door, it's not there.)
It's on the bottom shelf on the right.
Where's the butter?
In the fridge, in the door, on the left.
Where's the....
Nevermind, I'll do it myself.

 

[ols386]

My SO mows the lawn, shovels the snow, takes care of all the structural repairs and maintenance to the house; I do the household cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, pay the bills. It works out well for us.

 

[Stac1023]

Sorry I should had said what does your SO do around the house. Was not thinking. I am finding the answers interesting.

 

[STLDisney_Freak]

He cooks dinner, does the laundry, does the dishes, picks up around the house, lets the dogs in and out. I take care of our 5 cats, vacuum, pick up around the house, take care of the bills. We both take care of the kids, but he usually does the tucking in at night and reads them their story.