She cooks, i clean. She gardens, i orchard. She worked in a visitor center, i built trails. She clerked, i mayored. I teach EMT skills, she is the patient. I feed the woodstove in the middle of the night, she keeps the bed warm. We share most everything else listed prior.
Husband removed a spider from the house for me last night. I usually catch and relocate my own spiders, but this one was big enough to wrest the cup away from me.
I hate when they growl at you.
Since I’m mostly retired and she works full time I do almost all of the cooking.
I do the grocery shopping.
I mostly take care of the dog. She handles the cat.
I do 2/3s of the laundry, mine and the sheets/towels etc. She has too many rules for her clothes for me to wash them.
She does all of the planning and organizing. Nothing would get done and we would go nowhere if it were up to me.
She is the keeper of the dates and numbers. She remembers every birthday and important date for everyone she’s ever met.
I make more money sitting on the couch than she does working full time but with her current job it’s a much smaller gap.
We have someone come in every other week to do deep cleaning. I pay for that.
I have to come up with TV shows and movies we would both want to watch. That may be the hardest thing I have to do.
The worst part is, it wrote down our names.
Before we got married, my future mother-in-law took me aside and told me that I should hold the checkbook, because he likes to spend money. He tells me that I made him a “cheap bitch” and tells everybody that I’m the reason we have money!
Since my wife discovered that I was happy if my checkbook balanced within $5, she took over the bill paying, although I take care of all 5 tax returns (one each for Quebec and Canada, and one joint US). She does maybe 4/5 of the cooking and I do all the dishes. She does all the laundry. I do everything that requires height and strength. I take care of trash. I program the TV recorder and run the playback. When we lived in a house, I did most of the gardening and whatever snow clearance the guy with the plow didn’t do. I am so glad not to have that any more.
My husband is afraid of spiders so I’m the one who catches them and puts them outside. Ditto with anything else that gets in the house – occasional bird, random possum. I handle all the animals wild and tame. The spider thing amuses me though.
Band name!
I make coffee every morning and bring her a cup while she lounges in bed for a few minutes. Typically, I’ll empty the dishwasher while the water is getting hot.
I mow. I blow. I dispose of the dog poop.
I take care of the finances.
We both do laundry, but she definitely does more and takes the initiative. She shops for food, and organizes the household furnishings, etc. She does most of the cooking. (We sound more “traditional” than I think we really are)
Me:
All aspects of laundry (he does have to put his own clothes away),
Dog feeding, walking
Bills, banking
Majority of cooking
All shopping
Vet visits
Clean the 2nd floor of the house
Dust
Anything that has to do with the TV/streaming services/Wifi/internet
Him:
Mowing & snow blowing/shoveling (I do help with both sometimes)
Car stuff
Handyman stuff: painting, fixing, etc.
Majority of vacuuming
Cleans one of the bathrooms
Picks up dog poop
Some cooking
Both:
Dish washing is done by one or the other
Former marital duties: discuss which person will pay for what. Pay.
Ex-marital duties: Pay.