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A Duty Poll
Yea yea I know some of you get annoyed with the "wifely duties/husbandly duties" polls, but...
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband.
Do you consider your husband to be handy?
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Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. I do most of the cleaning. Andy could but he doesnt. He's never gotten down on his hands and knees and scrubbed a floor ever.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. My mother always said things were "a man's job", so there are lots of things that some women do that I have never done. Including: I've never used a lawnmower or other electrical device for outdoor work (weed whacker, trimmer, leaf blower, snow blower, etc.). I've never grilled. I've never hung anything on a wall. Also, its Andys job to pick up stink bugs and spiders.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? I would say he's a good amount of handy. He can fix cars and do plumbing/electrical work. He fixes things around the house, and he's good at building things. His biggest project at the house was a loft he built in the garage for his geese to live *eye roll*
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. I guess I'd say the laundry. He "could" do it but honestly, I think I'd be scared that he wouldn't sort the colors or use the correct temp. water.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. Taking out the trash. Mostly b/c I just don't want to do it. I tend to "collect"/ change the trash bags in each room and put them in the can outside but it's up to him to bring it out front. I guess it also falls on him b/c he walks to the train station so it's easy for him to just drag it out on trash days.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? Oh heck no !!! I'm the handy one and he's the technical one. I do all the repairs, assembly of furniture, etc but if there's a problem with a computer or tv, that's his specialty.
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Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. I do 99% of the cooking and kitchen cleaning. Robin is good about helping out with other chores, like laundry, but for some reason if it's in the kitchen he doesn't touch it. I also take care of the grocery shopping and couponing.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. He cuts grass. I wouldn't even know how to do that, if I needed to. He also takes out the trash and recycling and cleans the litter box. If something needs to be hung or a tool is involved, that's his job.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? He's in the learning process. He knows how to hang things and do basic home maintance. He hasn't gotten to the building things stage, but he did just tile one of our bathrooms and is going to do the other soon.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. I would also say cleaning. He does clean every so often but since he works well over 60 hours in a week, I try to have it already done (Dishes, Laundry, etc.)
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. Lawn work and Trash. I take care of the flowers, but he cuts the grass and does garbage because it can get too heavy for me to lift and take out.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? Not extremely but enough for us to fix small things.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. Cleaning, laundry, cooking, baking, decorating. Josh sometimes helps with cleaning though.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. Taking out the trash, grilling, car maintenance, yard work (although we've both done it), driving when we go places together.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? Not reallllly:) I've done all of the small repairs/hanging of things in our house.
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Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you.
Absolutely not. Dave does the majority of the cleaning and half the cooking. He always does dishes, regardless of who cooks. He has been doing more since I broke my wrist. Yeah, he's a keeper.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband.
I am a hypocrite, because he also does most of the yardwork, sets up new technology, and fixes stuff.
Do you consider your husband to be handy?
Most of the time. He can't do major plumbing or electric stuff, but little stuff that breaks he can fix. He is kind of McGyverish.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. ~ Cleaning..things like bathrooms and floors especially. Jon is fine with "straightening up" but not so much with actually deep cleaning things. (*sigh*..I think I'm just saying that my husband can make a neat pile but he doesn't do a lot of cleaning.)
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. ~ Lawn care, trash and grilling..I could certainly do those things, but throughout the course of our relationship they have typically fallen on him.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? ~ Not even a little. Literally the least handy man in America. Luckily, we bought our condo brand new so there's not a lot that needs to be fixed.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. I do the laundry. Chris COULD do it, and he's tried in the past, but if I want my whites to stay white I think I better handle it myself...
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. Yardworkd. Sure, I COULD get out there and rake and mow the lawn, but he'd much rather do it, and I'm going to be more than happy to let him.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? eh, not really. He thinks he is, so we rarely call a specialist until we absolutely need to. It's aggravating sometimes.
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Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. I cook 98% of the time. He cooks occassionally, but usually when it is something he wants that I refuse to make (like Hamburger Helper).
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. He grills. I have grilled before but I never do it at our house. Um, nothing else really. Oh, I'm not tall enough to hoist the trash into our dumpster, so he does that too.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? Negative. When something needs to be built/ fixed/ hung, that's me.
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Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you. - Honestly? not really. He cooks and cleans just as much as I do. We take turns doing the grocery shopping. We do equal amounts of childcare. I'm usually the one who drives when we go somewhere together, but that's just because my car has the good carseat. The only thing I can really think of is that I'm always in charge of bathing the baby.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" ie- you could do it but the responsibility falls on your husband. - He always mows the lawn, but not because I refuse. I've offered but he just says he would prefer to do it. So either he likes doing it, or he thinks I'll do it wrong. *shrug* Also, i've never touched the grill on my own. I find it intimidating.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? - I would not. However, I will say that he tries and is learning. But, most of the time we wind up having to call for help.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you.
Dishes. He tries, but for one thing he never does the hand wash items, and second no matter how many times I've told him there's certain things that really shouldn't go in the dishwasher (wood utensils, pans with teflon, etc) they always end up in there, so I guess it really is best I do them. Then again, I kind of do 97% of all the cleaning, cooking, chores so...
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?" Grilling. I am terrified of fire, so its the only cooking I won't do. Mowing the lawn and taking out the garbage are the other two I choose not to do.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? Ya, more or less.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "woman's job?" ie- your husband could do it but the responsibility falls on you.
Dishes. Danny will load the dishwasher, but he never loads it right, so there are always leftover dishes....and I'm the one who has to wash them. Or else they sit in the sink until they start to grow their own food. Folding laundry. Danny can and will wash clothes (as long as I've separated them first and he knows which ones don't go in the dryer), but after they come out of the dryer it's as if he has no idea what to do next.
Is there anything in your house that you consider to be a "man's job?"
Trash. I'll collect the bags and put them on the back porch, but it's his job to take it to the curb. Also using the weedeater. I couldn't use that damn thing if I tried (and I have tried). I love cutting the grass, but as soon as I pick up that weedeater I end up flinging chunks of grass and dirt in the air. I may as well be using a pickax.
Do you consider your husband to be handy? We're both pretty handy. I can do general maintenance (picture hanging, blinds/window treatments, furniture assembly) some plumbing and I LOVE to paint. Danny does general maintenance, electronic maintenance, he builds things and he's learning a lot from my dad about house stuff. Sooner or later they're both going to be pouring a concrete slab for our patio out back.
Women's work: the cooking, and the dusting. He just doesn't see dust, or it doesn't occur to him to clean it.
Men's work: he does all the yard work. I won't do it, I'm not an outdoors kind of girl. Plus we don't have room/enough sunlight for a garden, which would be the only thing to tempt me to do yard work. He also does the grilling, which I consider more of a guy thing- but I'm tempted to join in because I think he's doing it wrong (aren't you supposed to cook meat over high heat? He says you have to let the flames die down and cook over lower heat. I say that makes your steak tough and leathery.) He also takes out the trash. We gather and bag it up together, but he actually brings it to the curb.
I don't think he's that handy- not because he can't do it, but because he just doesn't, not even if I ask repeatedly. Although on Saturday he surprised me by fixing the kitchen drawer that broke exactly a year ago