Worse household chores: Husband or Wife?(assuming no kids)

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The fiancee and I had a little disagreement the other day as to who had the worse chores around the house concerning chores. Seems that my efforts weren't appreciated

It got me thinking - who has it worse - men or women?

Here's a list of things "typically" done

Men
- Mowing the yard
- Weed eating and edging
- Washing/waxing cars
- taking out the garbage
- dishes
- shoveling snow

Women
- cooking
- cleaning (bathrooms, kitchens, vaccuum, ect)
- laundry

Out of both of the lists, the only thing I don't do on a consistent basis is "pick up" and I don't fold laundry. But I don't fold because she's anal and doesn't like the way I fold laundry

Here's my beef - Sure. Cleaning sucks, but is it really AS BAD as mowing the freaking yard in the middle of august when it's 95 degrees out with 95% humidity making a heat index of 115 degrees? And then in the winter, you've got the opposite - shoveling out your driveway when there's a foot of snow, the temperature is 15 below zero, and the wind is blowing at 40 MPH.

So...who's got the worse tasks?

 

[SagaLore]

Get use to it, your efforts won't be appreciated, and she will think her efforts aren't appreciated either unless you tell her every now and again how much you appreciate her hard work.

Women are funny that many of them when it comes to house chores, are very hard working, persistent, and efficient - but they also whine about it. I think it's just the feministic propaganda they hear in the media that makes them spout how unjust it is they're doing all that house work.

Whenever I try to help my wife with something, she tells me I'm doing it wrong, so I don't help with that anymore, then she tells me I don't help at all, so then I start helping again, then she tells me I only help when she's mad at me, so then I try and do it without being told, but if she wants something else done first, then whatever else I'm doing doesn't matter and she still gets mad that i'm not helping.

 

[Beau]

As long as I don't have to do the dishes or laundry, I'm alright. I'll do everything else.

 

[Fausto]

Actually, I've got it worse solely because I do almost everything. My wife works longer hours than me and is also very politically active, which eats up a lot of her spare time. As she's not around a whole hell of a lot, I end up doing almost everything:

Cut the grass
weed whack/edge/blower/general yard work
all the gardening and landscaping (there's a ton of it)
Wash cars/basic maintenance of cars
Most of the laundry
Most of the vacuuming/general "tidying up the house"
About 25% of the cooking

Pretty much the only thing I really never do is the bathrooms. I farking HATE cleaning the bathrooms, so I defer this to her. We also have an agreement that he/she who cooks shall not be responsible for the dishes. Hence, I do the dishes about 75% of the time.

This may sound lopsided, but we're both happy with the arrangement so..... <shrug>.

Fausto

 

[yakko]

Except for yard work it would be divided equally in my house.