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Renata85 
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 10:11am |
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How does the housework get divided in your house?
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Henna79
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 10:14am |
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We share pretty much... DH is doing all the cooking at the mo when he is home (he works away from home on a 3 week on 3 week off swing) so when he is home he does heaps!
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 10:17am |
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during the week i do most the cleaning inside and cooking etc when my partner has the weekend off he does the lawns and gardening etc and its his turn to cook tea on saturday and sunday night.works for us also mean i get a little break over the weekend where i dont have to cook.since iv been pregnant he comes home from work and has started picking up toys and vacuuming its great
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 10:24am |
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I do 90% and I ask babies father to help when he comes over and he does sometimes. It's good :)
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 10:27am |
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Pretty much me. On weekends DP helps out but during the days during the week I pretty much do it all. DD and I get up around 9 (she sleeps in) and we have breakfast and do all the housework by 12 then just relax! Dinner is already by about 5.30 too.
When the house is a tip it's harder to get organised and we find DD is rather unsettled and overwhelmed by it all too.
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Team Herd
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 10:45am |
 I do most of the house work cleaning etc during the week, Grant is always ready to help when he gets home but I like to try my best to get it all done before he gets home, and I try to have dinner ready to go once he has had a play with Nixon, but the weekends Grant does everything  Apart from cooking as I make two big pots of dinners and put them in containers so they are ready to go in the weekends and for a quick healthy easy lunch for me during the week.
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 10:48am |
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we share most of it, however its been pretty low on the priority list since the twins came along!
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 11:29am |
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Haha, I do most of it. DH does dinner dishes while I get childs too bed, he vacumns but only because I have snazzy vacumn cleaner that makes it so easy to do. But other than that, I do it all.
He'll hang out/bring in a load of washing if I ask him too.
Oh he does the rubbish on rubbish days. and does the outside stuff.
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 12:28pm |
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I do all the regular stuff, my mom does the mad stuff (like dust the lightshades) that i disregard but are apparently quite important - the shame if someone were to come over and notice our dusty lightshades!
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 2:48pm |
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I do most of the cleaning and cooking, but DH does dishes and all the outside cleaning and tidying. He's also helping out a lot more inside when I'm tired or sore.
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 4:09pm |
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100% inside and outside ME...
Oh, once or twice in the last few months DH has done the dishes :)
But then, Dh works 7.15am to 8.30pm (ish) 6 days a week. All I have to do is look after the boys, feed the calves, do the housework and do the bills/GST/PAYE etc.
I wouldnt want to say that he had to do housework etc when he wasnt working (same with getting up to the kids at night!)!!
LOL about the dirty lightshades Bowie, heaven forbid that she ever comes to vist us, my housework does definatly NOT stretch to lightshade dusting!!
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 4:16pm |
Your house is amazing, Rosie... although to be honest, I have never looked at your lightshades  (I'll sneak a peek next time I'm round and judge you forever if they're dusty...)
I do most of the housework here - or, I'm responsible for doing it and sometimes I manage, is probably more accurate! DH is handy when the dishes get a bit piled up, and he does the lawns, but he works pretty long hours and I think our division's pretty fair. He's also great for a once-over-lightly cleanup of the lounge and kitchen while I get Jacob's bath ready that I really appreciate  .
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 5:54pm |
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I do the washing and the dishes everyday, DH is more pedantic than me, and doesn't like mess so he does the vaccumming and dusting. Since having DD my standards have adjusted a bit as I don't want to spend all day cleaning.
We've got the neighbours son mowing the lawns
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 7:16pm |
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I do all of the housework, inside and out, although DH cooks dinner for us most nights.
DH works long hours (usually around 8am/8.30am - 7pm) and them a few hours on the weekends too, so I think it is only fair.
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Posted: 15 August 2011 at 8:18pm |
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I do the lawns and gardening, all the washing and clean showers.
DH always cleans the kitchen (he considers it his room) and we divide the cooking, vaccuming and toilet cleaning...
DH will do pretty much anything I ask him too, but sometimes I can't look too close or I'll get grumpy!
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Posted: 16 August 2011 at 8:01am |
I do pretty much everything inside - If I'm tired or sick DH will run around cooking & doing a bit of a clean up (but the vacuming etc gets missed)
DH does outside, usually while I sit & watch him! I'll help out here and there... once I finish up work the Lawnmowing guy will go & I'll do it.
And washing is ALL done by me, I'm pedantic on how its hung on the line, what is washed together, and how its folded. 
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Posted: 16 August 2011 at 10:28am |
DH usually does the lawns but other than that it's me, he leaves for work at 7am & he doens't get home until 5 if he's in town or 6 if he's out of town, he works hard physically during the day. Is more than will to cook tea providing I've already thought it out & got the ingredient ready, ie defrosted the meat.
It took him a while to get used to being able to come home & not be expected to do much as it all used to be 50/50. I wanted to stay home so I had to make sure it was beneficial to him
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Posted: 16 August 2011 at 5:18pm |
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I do most of the housework during the week. But.. I cook, he cleans the kitchen at night. I have to cook because of when my boys require dinner even though I hate cooking with a passion and so he cleans up afterwards (which is only really stack the dishwasher). He does the lawns when I nag him about them and a couple of the outdoor jobs like clean the gutters cause i don't do heights.
On the weekend we give the house a good going over together. It only takes an hour done together and we are both happy with that arrangement
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Posted: 16 August 2011 at 7:39pm |
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Mum and I do all of the housework, although I do more cooking and she does more laundry, but the rest is mostly whoever has the time or hasn't done it in a while.
Dad does sweet f all.
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Posted: 17 August 2011 at 4:17pm |
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Well our household is slightly complicated. We all live in MIL/FIL's house with them. So there is MIL/FIL, Me and DP (+our daughter and another soon to be) and SIL/BIL (+ their baby son).
So the housework atm is largely MIL, which we do pay extra in board for. I do our washing and SIL does theirs and MIL does theirs(though the folding often gets shared) my DP often hangs ours out as I"m supposed to be resting.
Bathroom gets shared between my DP and SIL mostly.
Kitchen area is a shared job but mostly MIL.
DIshes depends on who cooked but atm Mondays and Wednesdays me and DP cook, so BIL/SIL do dishes (for dinner), they do Tuesday and Thursday cooking and MIL does Friday, so I do Tuesday/Friday dishes and MIL does Thursday.
Daily dishes (because the damn dishwasher is on the fritz!!) is done by whoever feels like it (or whoever it bothers the most) so normally MIL.
Living area is a general everyone is meant to keep it tidy.
Vaccumming is shared between me, MIL, SIL and DP.
Outside jobs, such as mowing the lawn and getting in wood is done by "the boys" (usually DP or FIL) but if they are at work then its usually MIL (I'm not really in wood carrying condition atm LOL)
I think thats pretty much it. Things like dusting are rarely done except for special occasions, its just not a big deal.
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