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Ok married guys, how do you stack up?

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Brutuskend

Lifer

Helpful male partners aren't as rare as once thought. In a recent Mars-Venus /Redbook Poll of 1,036 women, 18.9 percent claim that their partners are helpful with a hoe and other yard work and 7.5 percent of partners know their way around a kitchen. While only 2.3 percent will vacuum, 3.1 percent do the laundry, 3.4 percent will straighten up the house, and another 4.2 percent will do the dishes.

Women, here's more great news: A whopping 48.4 percent will pitch in, wherever needed and whenever asked. Of course, there is that final 12.2 percent who feel that the best way they can help is to "stay out of the way."
 
I'm helpful. I do 90% of the yard work, we split cooking/cleanup (if one cooks on a given night, the other cleans up), I do some of the laundry and about half the general housework like vacuuming and such. I like things to look neat so I don't mind at all.
 
My wife makes all of our dinners, which I hate to do. I clean the bathroom once a week or more as needed, but never less, which she hates to do. We both do the laundry and we both run the sweeper.
 
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I'm helpful. I do 90% of the yard work, we split cooking/cleanup (if one cooks on a given night, the other cleans up), I do some of the laundry and about half the general housework like vacuuming and such. I like things to look neat so I don't mind at all.
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Same here, but since my wife cannot cook unless it comes out of a box and cooked in a microwave
my portion ins like 95% 😉


 
I do 69.632% of the yard work, 98.765% of the cooking and 54.332 of the house cleaning.


I ROCK 99.89432% of the time
 
I don't know how to make most of the food my wife likes, it's complicated Asian cuisine. Though I do cook for her once every so often, and near always do the dishes afterwards. I do all of the finances, help her with gardening, and do the mowing and yard work myself. I ALWAYS do the laundy and we split the cleaning/vacumming 50/50. She brings in the bacon do I end up doing a lot of the housework.
 
She mostly do the cooking (which we both enjoy) and I do the dishes. We pick up after ourselves and whoever isn't busy gets to vacuum and do the bathroom.
 
I do laundry a lot, cook dinner sometimes, vacuum most of the time, clean out the litter box and take out the trash. We usually go grocery shopping together and I bring the groceries in while my wife gets everything sorted out and puts stuff away.
 
We are about 50% each cooking. Her idea of cooking is from the freezer to the stove so I should cook more. SHe is learning and trying new recipes so I appreciate that. I do 95% of the yard work, 100% of the vacuuming and she cleans the bathroom once a week or so. Right now I take care of the kids(1 and 3 year old) all day while she is at work, while at the same time doing about 65% of the laundry and dishes. I am starting my own business so this may go down a bit in the near future. I am starting to notice my temper flaring up more lately so I think I need a break from things. It's been pretty hard adjusting to the stay at home dad job.
 
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I'm helpful. I do 90% of the yard work, we split cooking/cleanup (if one cooks on a given night, the other cleans up), I do some of the laundry and about half the general housework like vacuuming and such. I like things to look neat so I don't mind at all.
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You stole my answer.

😀
 
I work full-time, go to school, do 99% of the grocery/other shopping, over half of the cooking and still do stuff around the house
 
I do the dishes as soon as I come home from work.
I do all the yard work and help in the garden when asked, or I see something that needs to be done.
I clean much faster and more efficiently than her.
She does the laundry 😉 She doesn't like the way I do it.
I iron my own clothes.
I'm a very good cook.
I regularly vaccuum.

I believe that Redbook readers are more likely to marry a$$holes.

 
Originally posted by: Nyical
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I'm helpful. I do 90% of the yard work, we split cooking/cleanup (if one cooks on a given night, the other cleans up), I do some of the laundry and about half the general housework like vacuuming and such. I like things to look neat so I don't mind at all.
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Same here, but since my wife cannot cook unless it comes out of a box and cooked in a microwave
my portion ins like 95% 😉
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My wife and I are both pretty good cooks but tend to cook different styles of food so it works out well. 🙂

 
Me:
Mowing 100%
Laundry 75%
Cooking 50%
Cleaning 25%
Pet maintenance 100%
Gardening 0%
Shopping 25%
Vaccuming 25%
Garbage 100%


 
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Helpful male partners aren't as rare as once thought. In a recent Mars-Venus /Redbook Poll of 1,036 women, 18.9 percent claim that their partners are helpful with a hoe and other yard work and 7.5 percent of partners know their way around a kitchen. While only 2.3 percent will vacuum, 3.1 percent do the laundry, 3.4 percent will straighten up the house, and another 4.2 percent will do the dishes.

Women, here's more great news: A whopping 48.4 percent will pitch in, wherever needed and whenever asked. Of course, there is that final 12.2 percent who feel that the best way they can help is to "stay out of the way."
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I do all of those things listed. And many of them without having to be asked. Granted I'm not married yet, but things won't change when I do get married. 🙂
 
Guess it just proves that most women just want a guy that treats them like sh*t. I can't believe the percentages are that low. I'm apparently very weird as I do way more than half of the work around the house.
 
I'm married and I cook, clean, vacuum, do laundry, and play 24/7 tech support. I also used to do dishes but it got to the point where *I* was doing everything and my wife decided she needed to help out more. So there! 😛
 
Originally posted by: Fausto1
I'm helpful. I do 90% of the yard work, we split cooking/cleanup (if one cooks on a given night, the other cleans up), I do some of the laundry and about half the general housework like vacuuming and such. I like things to look neat so I don't mind at all.
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Those thongs must be fitting better than anyone ever thought... 😉
 
i do almost all the cooking as my wife makes only 2 dishes(luckily they're both teh yummay). i usually do the dishes now because she takes care of the newborn. i also clean the bathroom and sweep/vacuum/mop the apartment.

she does her laundry and the baby's half the time. i do my own laundry and the baby's the other half of the time.

she does all the finances including our taxes.

i usually do the groceries but my wife likes to come with me. i carry them in and we both put them away.

she does most of the baby feeding and changing and bathing. i do about 25% of that but that's mostly because i'm at work.

EDIT: i do 100% of the new equipment(a/v; pc; etc) installation and setup 🙂
 
Well, I'm not married but I certainly do more than my share of the work over at my girlfriend's mom's house. We rotate mowing the lawn and I almost always end up being the one to do the dishes after dinner on Sunday nights. I also haul wood for the fireplace up from the woodpile in the winter. I guess I'm sort of the man of the house now. 😉
 
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