MSU Red Cedar Message Board

If you try to find an equitable distribution of household chores it will just lead to a fight. Marriage really doesn't work that way. My wife is a busier person than I am and I travel on business which leaves more of a burden for her. So I do what I can to help and try not to bitch about it. I am also more OCD than she is which is my burden not hers.

Don't blame me. I used fabric softener

same here.

I've tried to do the laundry, but the wife hates it because she says I fold them wrong or I let them sit to long and they get wrinkled...

(nevermind the fact she usually overloads the washer and dryer and it creases my jeans and slacks)

overall, not going to complain. I get the simple stuff to wash, but I get sock-matching duty which is pretty time-consuming.

We pretty much split the laundry duty. No problems with that. I like to fold the towels a certain way which sometimes ticks her off, but other than that, we're good. When you have three boys in sports the laundry builds up in piles you could ski down. Did four loads of laundry yesterday and feel damn happy about it.

I do most of the laundry, the cooking and most cleaning. My wife works, I take care of the home. Usually we do a good job of splitting things up but she's pregnant so now I do almost all of it.

She does her laundry, I do my laundry. We both do the towels and sheets, but I probably do them more often that she does.

How can regular posters on here not get AM Wood's joking around?

maybe. i don't know.

We each do our own mostly. I usually end up washing some of her stuff especially workout gear since I have quite a bit each week.

She does 90% of cooking and most of the cleaning (I get the bathrooms and outdoor stuff). I figured that was an even trade off for the quantity of work she does.

We both work full time but she enjoys cooking and is better at it. I get the groceries because she hates to shop.

QFT. My wife tends to be something of a 'scorekeeper' -- she'll let me know what jobs she's done, especially during school holidays (like this week) when she isn't teaching. I come home from work and she runs through the list of everything she's done that day, during which I have to try to pretend to give a shit.

It's difficult when she tells me that she did three loads of laundry, because she sure as hell didn't iron any of it -- most of the time she hasn't even folded the stuff that doesn't need ironing, just leaves it in the basket. Which means that her 'three loads of laundry' took all of about five minutes to accomplish.

I would say that she washes/dries about 75% of the laundry, but I do 100% of the ironing and fold/put away about 80%. Thanks for bringing this up, OP -- now I'm going to go home and slap that bitch.

I do my own laundry. Wife cooks all the meals. Win - win for me.

Part of our tiff was the folding. I have no idea how to fold most of her clothes so I left them in the basket. I folded the kids things (stay at home Dad his year so I don't mind taking on more, previous working years did my own) and why fold hers if she's probably going to redo it. Damned if you do/don't. My general assumption was that many husbands don't do laundry, this is how I grew up. Glad to see I wasn't totally right.

We both do our own. tWife does hang my stuff that can't be put in a dryer on a rack for me though. It's an even exchange. I am the only one that handles garbage, mowing, and snow clearing duties.