I do the washing and drying, the wife does the ironing.
I also do the vacuuming.
I do the washing and drying, the wife does the ironing.
I also do the vacuuming.
I do most of our laundry; Marcie does her “delicates.” She has rules and procedures for them that I don’t understand. She refuses to use the dryer for her delicates; we have a wooden drying rack and that’s where they go to dry. I hate the damn thing.
My wife insists on hanging up a large percentage of her clothes to dry. Since I put anything and everything in the dryer, we’ve long agreed to handle our own laundry.
Either one of us will wash our daughter’s clothes – more often it’s me, simply because I work from home so it’s very easy for me to toss in a load.
As I am currently a 40+ yr old single male that does NOT live with his mother I would have to answer YES to the OP question.
I’ve had two marriages, each 5+ yrs and I always have done “The Laundry”…and cooking and grocery shopping for that matter. I’m a Chef buy trade working as a restaurant manager, I know my hospitality services…
ymmv,
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My husband does the wash & dry, and I fold & put away. I like this arrangement because 1) His part involves going up & down 2 flights of stairs, and 2) He’s a lousy folder.
I do the laundry in this house and I’m proud of it.
Mrs Full does most of the laundry, as she is pickier about it than I, but I help with a lugging of baskets up two flights of stairs. That being said, I am not bad at laundry, and did it for yrs while single.
FML
I do all of the laundry. My wife does all the cooking.
It is a nice arrangement as the extent of my culinary abilities is opening the proper end of the box of chicken strips and her idea of an acceptable wash load is hot-water whites with a table cloth… a royal blue table cloth.
Yes, and dishwashing. We both cook.
How does this work? As a singleton, stuff that needs washing goes into the washing machine immediately, and the washing machine gets switched on when it’s sufficiently full.
Himself is more than willing to do the laundry, but I’d rather he not touch it. I, too, have some rules about what goes into the dryer and which setting certain things must be washed on.
Mostly, I stay at home, so this works out very well. Lately I’ve been working a lot, so it’s been more of a chore for me. I still don’t want my (very expensive) bras fried to within an inch of their lives, though, so I keep on it.
Quartz, I think most people use hampers to accumulate their laundry and then transfer it to the machine. I’ve never heard of anyone dumping it straight into the machine. But if you’re single and do laundry only for yourself, it does make a certain amount of sense.
I have a domestic to do all the chores. Because I’m single.
I live alone. Since the alternative is to shamble about in my own filth, I do my own laundry. Shambling’s overrated.
My Wife does the laundry and general tidying up. I hate doing laundry.
I think a lot of it is that while mine is simple, my Wife has all kinds of work out clothes and such and I’m never quite sure if something is hung up in the closet, or folded in a drawer. That’s after I make a determination of what the heck said item is.
I do most of the vacuuming and cooking. We split pretty much everything else.
No clear lines are drawn, we just take care of things that need taking care of.
I do about 80% of the laundry - she deals with delicates and the like, that I don’t understand.
I do 99% of the cooking and cleaning up the resultant mess. I keep the kitchen pretty well.
I do about 80% of the vacuuming.
I do 100% of the lawnmowing.
I do 100% of the car maintenance.
I do 1% of the bathroom cleaning.
I do 0% of the ironing.
I do -5% of the de-cluttering.
A pretty good arrangement, really.
I very rarely do the laundry, but I like washing my clothes and think I do it better. The washer’s always filthy and I clean it. I like to add about 1/4 the recommended dose of bleach. I move things from the washer to the dryer within a few minutes, whereas the Mrs. insists doing that the next day is fine. So, usually my shirts smell musty, and I’m embarrassed about it. But when I do laundry and she finds out, she throws a huge fit, and cries and yells and so forth, like I’m cheating on her.
Sometimes I take a vacation day and come back to the house after she’s left, and do a few loads to get rid of the musty smell.
Dh does about 80% of the laundry, the wash-dry-fold-hang part. I’m in charge of putting away, as he refuses. However, I recently discovered that the twins lurve to put away their own clothes.
Some people also mentioned cooking – I fix maybe 5 “real meals” in the course of the week, the rest of the time it’s scrounge time for him. The kids don’t eat anything interesting anyway. Plus, dh can cook rings around me & most other people. His food is seriously good. The drawback is that he’s super picky and hates most of what I make.
He also does the lawn and flower gardens, which he loves. He planted like 600 flowers this year ::insane::.
However, I’m all about the cleaning, the constant picking up, finances, a little vegetable garden, maintenance (home, car and kid) and minor repairs. Fixed a leaky bathtub seal a couple of weeks ago, in fact!
He does all ours. I hate doing laundry.
Since cooking is being mentioned, neither one of us cooks. You can pick up a full meal in the market for a couple of bucks, so we just do that all the time. Or there’s a restaurant in our condo’s compound that will deliver a complete Thai meal for two, about $5 or so total, in 10 or 15 minutes after you call them.
I do all mine but I live alone. When I was married I used to do 90% of the washing for the family and hang it out in the evenings. I also used to do 99% of the cooking. And I tried to do my share of the rest.
[bitter but brief rant]I found it very amusing after we separated that my wife, who used to continually complain about how little I did around the home, began to complain about how difficult it was to have to do everything on her own.[/bitter but brief rant]