There weren’t enough memos to go around, so we’d ask all women to please read the nearest man’s memo when he’s through with it.
I am confused by the implication that doing chores is somehow related to not having any job ambition or skills. What’s the connection? What does this option even mean?:
*That’s my sweetie. Wish he would learn a thing or two about applyin’ his self in the workforce. *
They can read them after they get back from the kitchen with the sandwiches and not before.
What do you tink of the Pigs that are not like that?
Right now I’m bringing in the only paycheck and have a very long commute, so my husband takes care of almost all the house work.
I call this being a normal person. 
Things I routinely do:
- Cut lawn
- Shovel/snowblow steps, deck, driveway
- Clean and maintain pool
- Make my lunch for work
- Buy groceries
- Fix broken things including cars and car maintenance
Things routinely done by wife:
- Laundry
- Uhhh, that’s all I got.
Things we both take turns at or share duties in: - Cook
- Clean bathrooms
- Clean dishes/kitchen
- Make kids’ lunch for school
- Vacuum
Who the hell taught them to read outside of a recipe book? :dubious:
I don’t do any of those things. OK, sometimes I buy groceries.
It was unavoidable. We wanted them to be able to correctly read beer labels and movie titles (so they’d quit bringing home the wrong stuff) and, well…
This. I’d been doing these things the whole time I was single, and I didn’t suddenly lose the ability to do them when my wife and I got married.
I’m in kind of a weird situation. I’m a quite modern man who is not humbled by doing chores around the house, but I married a traditional woman who due to health reasons is pretty much a full time home maker, and has a fair amount of her self esteem tied to this work, and I don’t want to get in her way. As a result I ended up with the life style of a 50’s sitcom but not the attitudes. We’ve actually had fights over who gets to load the dish washer. There is also the fact that she is better at laundry and cleaning than I am.
My tasks are:
Bringing home the bacon
about half of the yard work
all fix-it stuff that I have competence to do
finances/bills
Grocery shopping
Cooking dinner
Her tasks:
Everything else.
We always make an effort to split 50/50
Him:
Garbage (daily)
Laundry (weekly)
Bathtub (weekly)
Groceries (weekly)
Cooks on days I work in the city (3 hour daily commute.)
Me:
Clean kitchen (weekly)
Clean rest of bathroom (weekly)
Sweep and mop floors (weekly)
Take care of cat (daily)
Cook on days when I work from home
Joint:
Budget/Accounting (every two weeks)
Dishes and kitchen during week days
Whoever gets up last makes the bed
Take turns doing taxes every other year (2012 will be my turn)
As for our working hours, I work full time, 2 days from home and 3x a week commute 3 hours a day. He is a full time Ph.D. student who receives a small stipend.
And for the record, it was him who had to domesticate me.
My husband doesn’t cook because he’s not interested, he’s no good at it, and things are just easier if I take care of meals, but he does dishes, scrubs the bathrooms, sorts the laundry (I prefer to handle the actual washing) and he’d even dust if we were dusting folk. 
Truth be told, he’s more obsessed with a tidy house than I am.
You need an ‘other,’ dammit!
He is mostly domesticated BUT while I don’t do everything, I am responsible for everything. I have to nag to get most things done which often leads to me just doing things myself.* This also leads to biweekly arguments about it. Ten years and we haven’t cracked this nut. We’re probably never going to.
*Before you say that this is a ploy so he doesn’t have to do things, he really is just THAT disorganized and inobservant. You know when you walk in the house and think, ‘Eww, what’s that smell?’ and then deal with it. He didn’t smell it. Until I mention it. Then he has no problem cleaning the kitty litter/taking out the garbage/finding the gift our children left under the couch cushion.
I wonder what kind of reaction a thread titled “Fully domesticated women-what do you think of 'em?” would garner ?
Not as civil as this one, that’s for sure.
I do about 90% of the cooking and washing dishes.
Most outdoors stuff is mine as well - cutting grass, weeding, trimming trees etc.
Looking after the cars is my job too.
Laundry and house-cleaning is probably a 70-30 split with my wife doing the bigger share, mainly as she is home with our small kids at the moment & I’m working.
She is far better at budgeting and handling bill payments.
No. Men get to have the shit beat out of them. Listen to most radio commercials, or TV commercials and you’ll hear that men are dolts. Men are clueless idiots who are upstaged by wives and small kids.
I suppose marketing folks think women make most purchasing decisions, and statistically that may be true, but men are idiots and have the intellect of 10 year old boys.
My husband quit his job when the baby was born, and right now he probably does about 85% of everything domestic + childcare. The only major tasks that are mine are laundry and bill paying (though he does the budget overall). I also take the garbage out. We both shop. It’s radically different than our pre-kid life: we had more even split then, but we also had really different standards–pre-baby we lived like college kids, now we try to be more respectable.
Or you could listen to a man on this message board, and learn that men are women.
And they drink Champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola?