Guys; Who cleans in your house?

I do it ALL. Clean, cook, take care of kids (8 yrs and 5 mths) and work full time!!! My husband works out of town and is only home once in a while. It is kind of bullsh*t, but I just do it. He does do the outside stuff if it still needs done by the time he's actually home! Maybe I need a cleaning lady???

He's actually home today and I'm working, wonder what I'll go home too. He does suprise me by picking things up like once every 6 months.

Why is that bull****? When he's gone he's cooking for himself and cleaning for himself, just like you do.

Maybe you should see a marriage counselor. Sounds like you have resentment issues.

Wow, that was kind of harsh. Maybe you missed the part where she said she does all that AND works full time. Might be a different story if she was a SAHM. Or maybe she just meant that him having to work out of town so much is bullsh!t. When he is gone he is only cooking and cleaning for 1, she is cooking and cleaning for 3 plus working.

Don't know the situation but just think it is a little harsh to suggest marriage counseling to a total stranger. :noway:

I do it ALL. Clean, cook, take care of kids (8 yrs and 5 mths) and work full time!!! My husband works out of town and is only home once in a while. It is kind of bullsh*t, but I just do it. He does do the outside stuff if it still needs done by the time he's actually home! Maybe I need a cleaning lady???

He's actually home today and I'm working, wonder what I'll go home too. He does suprise me by picking things up like once every 6 months.

I think that you need a cleaning lady! Sounds like you have a lot on your plate.

I do all of the cooking, cleaning and laundry. I'm a stay at home mom and my husband works full time as well as goes to school full time. He helps pick up or does the dishes once and awhile, I always appreciate it when he does but I never expect it. I am much happier if he has free time for him to spend it with the kids or relaxing than spend it cleaning. But he does take out the trash and take care of the lawn.

I pretty much do everything at home -- cleaning (scrubbing, dusting, vacuuming, etc.), laundry, dishes, cooking. I also do all the flower beds (mulching, weeding, edging) and whatever gardening we do.

My husband will cook SOMETIMES (when the mood strikes him), but usually leaves the kitchen a wreck for me to clean up because we're "sharing" the duties that way. :noway:

I don't think my husband has cleaned a bathroom since we got married 12 years ago. Come to think of it, he never cleaned his OWN bathroom when he was single. Our cars are cleaned by someone else. We also have someone who mows the lawn, because I was trying to do that myself, too, and it was too much.

I've always worked (part-time for 6 years when the kids were little, but otherwise full-time). When I returned to full time 2 years ago, he did tell me "Hey, you're gonna be overwhelmed. I'm gonna help out." And he DID. For a few months. Since then, because his family business has been stressful w/the bad economy, he doesn't really help unless I beg. And even then, it depends on if he's "stressed" or not.

He always tells me he wants me to cut myself some slack, don't do so much...but I don't wanna live in filth, or have our yard look like a wasteland. **sigh*

I'd be happy if he just picked up after himself regularly! As I've always said -- ain't nothin' sexier to a married woman than a guy cleaning the toilet.

We also have 2 boys who are 4 and 8. I'm already teaching them how to take care of themselves and do chores. I figure if they help their wives out without being asked, I will have done my job as a mom.

Me. I'm boarder line 'clean freak'...Especially my bathroom and kitchen.

Hubby and I both clean. I usually do the bathroom and he usually does the kitchen. Everything else we do together.

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I'm going to school full time and work part time but I still clean the house. My wife works full time as a nurse at a hospital. I dust, mop vacuum (including two carpeted staircases) and clean the litterbox and bathrooms. She does most of the laundry and grooms the dog. We cooperate to cook, do dishes, and take out garbage and we fold laundry together. Outside I mow and weed wack or shovel snow. She tends the flowers or pushes the snowblower. We both take care of the vegetable garden. If I have more free time I do more so she has to do less and we have more time to do fun stuff together. She appreciates what I do and I appreciate what she does. Pretty much if we see something needing done we do it. We really don't have set chores.

I usually do the deep cleaning and she maintains most of the day to day stuff, laundry is about 50/50, and the trash and animal clean up belongs to my oldest son.

I'd say about 60/40. She cleans upstairs and i clean downstairs (main level) Then i vacuum the whole house....that being said...all bedrooms are upstairs.

For cleaning the house only, we go probably 70/30 (70 her, 30 me). But, I handle getting all of the kids ready for school, baths, homework, getting them to bed and I also do the cooking for the house as well and all of the yard work. So after it's all said and done, I'd say it's 50/50.

I don't have a job and I go to school. So for the most part I do the work. My man does the cooking though, I hate cooking. And if I have a lot of school work (I can get up to 80 hour school week sometimes) My man will help with the cleaning. It really depends on the situation, and there's a lot of differences in each household.

I do. I kinda have to tho..

I was raised doing chores (dishes, laundry, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, etc.), so I try to help out as much as possible. I'm gone 10-12 hours out of the day at work and my wife runs a daycare out of our home. Our home is tough to keep clean because of all the little ones, but if there's laundry to be folded, I fold it... if dishes need done, I do them. If my wife sees me do it, she asks me to stop because she feels like its her job to run the home. Never have I said this to her or requested it of her, she just feels that it's her duty. She also has to maintain a certain level of cleanliness for state regulations/standards also.

Still, she needs a break too, so I try to help as much as possible.