Our washer & dryer are making noises like they don’t want to live much longer and ♀ is expecting a good tax refund this year so we’ve been looking at what’s available. We were in Sears on the weekend and a sales woman was showing us a set that was in our price range. She started telling ♀ about all the bells and whistles. ♀ stopped her and said, “he does the laundry, not me.”  The woman laughed and kept telling ♀ how great these machines are. ♀ stopped her a second time and said, “My only concern is how much they cost and will they fit in our laundry room. So please just tell me your best price and get me a tape-measure and while I’m measuring them you can tell the laundry-bitch how much easier these machines will make his life.”

We walked through the shoe department on the way out the store. I saw an adorable pair of pumps and held them up for ♀.  A guy walking towards us said to me, “they don’t really suit you.”

♀ didn’t miss a beat. She said, “I don’t know. They’d match his toe nails.”

We stopped at another appliance store on the way home to compare prices. They didn’t have much that I was interested in, but ♀ was very interested in the coin operated machines. She was very amused at the idea of making me pay for the privilege of doing her laundry.

That appliance store was right next door to a vacuum place we had been in a few months ago. We took our old Electrolux to get serviced (now there’s a machine that lasts forever). It turns out we just needed a new power-head. The sales guy attached a fancy self-propelled power head to our vacuum cleaner and tried to pass it to ♀. She looked at him like he was handing her poop-on-a-stick. Mini was with us and he thought the idea of ♀ vacuuming was hilarious. He told the sales guy, “my dad does all that sort of stuff.”

Truth be told, ♀ does lots of house work, but it’s fun to let the world know that I’m her bitch.

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1. 

   I once told my boss to go fuck himself,I thought I was being clever.He said “If I could Fuck myself I’d never leave the house!” Now that’s clever.

   Comment by Teresa Bowers — March 22, 2010 @ 5:22 am

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   In our house Jason does as much as I do. His workload though is done on his own terms and around his out-of-house day job hours. And as I work a lot from home I carry the day to day to stuff. However anything I don’t want to do, can’t do, or am unable to get to, all I need say to him is “do ______” and he will tend to it.

   It’s not like we discussed splitting the house work, it is just obvious that it belongs to each of us as adults. Not just to me, as the woman.

   Plus with two kids, one 16 and another 15 weeks, it is important to us that neither us is overwhelmed with all that needs care taking.

   Jason only works four days a week, though 10 + hour days. On his days off, he does almost all the baby care as I sleep, catch up on life and do the things that were too challenging when I had a baby in my arms.

   What we have at home works so well, because it is our life. Not because it is the prescribed way of doing things. Every couple should find their own path, and not be trying to keep up with the “Jonses”.

   Comment by Jennifer — March 22, 2010 @ 9:59 am

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   I agree, but I think that ‘grown-up’ attitude is the exception more than the rule. It’s funny, but most of the discussions we have ever had about housework have been about one of us doing to much and not leaving enough for the other. The polar opposite of the ‘Jonses’.

   Comment by admin — March 22, 2010 @ 5:34 pm

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