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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Chore Dilemma
Hello everyone!!!
My DH and I just got married on 9/10/11. We have lived together since December 2010 but with all the wedding planning, working and life we never figured out who should do what around the house. We both work full time at stressful jobs and the last thing we want to do is clean but I think if we had some type of schedule it would help. Any ideas from those of you who have dealt with this dilemma would be very appreciated.
Thank you,
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Re: Chore Dilemma
I stay at home, so I basically do all the cleaning, etc.
But my aunt had a system that maybe could help you. Both she and her husband worked full time, so... she did all the cleaning and he did all the cooking. That was it. Whichever of you prefer cleaning, clean. Whichever of you prefer cooking, cook.
Check out the various schedules and planners on this blog:
http://goodwifeinthekitchen.blogspot.com/p/checklists.html
Also, you may want to edit your post and remove your name.
We use these checklists! We both work full-time so its hard for us as well. These checklists are awesome! It lets H and me know exactly what needs to be done everyday and you check them off as you go.
THIS is what I work off of. I'm a SAHM and I take care of the house work. I would suggest making a list of everything that needs to be done, together go through and decide who will do what. Maybe 1 person would like to do the same thing everyday (so the daily chores) and someone would like to do different things every day (so the weekly chores). If there are things you would like done a certain way, do them yourself so you don't have to nag the other - I like the floor mopped a certain way but could care less how the toilet is scrubbed. Make sure that you're both ok with the jobs that each chose (you don't want one to be resentful because you have the job that takes longer/is dirtier/is physically harder).
In our house I do 98% of the cleaning (DH will help when I ask for it), but DH does 75% of the cooking and 98% of the outside work (he works on the exterior of the house about 1% compared to the time it takes me on the inside of the house, but he never complains about mowing when it's over 100 degrees or shoveling when it's 10 degrees, I can't stand extreme temps so it works well for us).