Household chores

We pretty well share chores. A few decades ago my wife was gripping because I wasn't doing my share. So I asked her what she hated doing the most. We worked out a deal and now she cooks most of the time and I clean up the kitchen. I do most of the washing, drying, and hanging clothes and she does the folding. I do most of the picking up and putting things away and she is in charge of sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming.

We are not obsessive about any of it though. I think that it is a generational thing. Our Mothers were both pure old-school housewives that didn't work outside of the home. They took a lot of pride in keeping a neat house and cooking. You can do that if you don't have to juggle work with chores. The downside, at least to me, was that it wasn't comfortable living in a showroom. The magazines, carefully fanned out on the coffee table, were not to be messed with. You did NOT put your feet up on the coffee table or set a glass on it. You could eat off the floor or any other surface in the house.

She cooked a 5-course meal every night except Sunday. On Sunday she went all out for Sunday lunch. There was no such thing as dirty clothes. They got washed almost as soon as they came off your body! It was almost like magic. You could nearly take off a shirt and throw it and it would never hit the floor before it was grabbed and you were yelled at. At that time a woman took a lot of pride in the fact that anyone could walk in the door at any time and the house was neat and clean.

I am a voracious reader and so my areas have magazines on the table beside my chair and they are not fanned nor always evenly stacked. We eat in the living room most nights now that it is just the two of us. That was never allowed when I was a kid except for my Dad's popcorn. On Saturday night he popped popcorn and we were allowed to eat that in the living room.

Our house is NOT showroom clean. I much prefer to be comfortable in my home rather than always prepared for inspection. It has worked for 46 years so it is probably going to go on until we are done and ready to start over again. I told my wife not long ago while I was in the hospital that one lifetime was not enough and that I would wait for her so we could come back together and do it all again.
 
Cooking. I find no joy in cooking and yet do it almost every night. Other chores I can swing with. I put some music on while doing the dishes, pretending the kitchen window is a cinema screen for the neighbours over the street while I wash the dishes dramatically in time to the music and pull parody moves of iconic scenes from flashdance with a wet sponge - they’ll report me one day. But cooking, peeling onions that are reluctant to give me their skin, chopping veg, deseesing peppers, timing the stuff in the oven with the stuff on the hob, realising I turned on the wrong hob ring 20 minutes later because the potatoes were boiling over and a cat decided now was the perfect time to throw up. Foolish be the soul who tries light humour on me when I’m cooking.
 
Cooking. I find no joy in cooking and yet do it almost every night. Other chores I can swing with. I put some music on while doing the dishes, pretending the kitchen window is a cinema screen for the neighbours over the street while I wash the dishes dramatically in time to the music and pull parody moves of iconic scenes from flashdance with a wet sponge - they’ll report me one day. But cooking, peeling onions that are reluctant to give me their skin, chopping veg, deseesing peppers, timing the stuff in the oven with the stuff on the hob, realising I turned on the wrong hob ring 20 minutes later because the potatoes were boiling over and a cat decided now was the perfect time to throw up. Foolish be the soul who tries light humour on me when I’m cooking.
This made me laugh sooo hard! lol
 
Hiya Tomy. Good one.
Welp, I don't have any problem doing household chores and cooking is a lot of fun for me. Especially when I cook in front of my imaginary TV audience.
 
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My wife can do a few chores when she's feeling strong, but it's mostly me since her accident three years ago. I don't mind.
I'm the better cook but usually just punt to something easy after a long day at work. Soup and sandwich is getting more frequent at our dinner table as we get older.
 
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My wife can do a few chores when she's feeling strong, but it's mostly me since her accident three years ago. I don't mind.
I'm the better cook but usually just punt to something easy after a long day at work. Soup and sandwich is getting more frequent at our dinner table as we get older.
I find we are needing to do that more and more here. In fact, my son just brought home the grocery pick up order and I concentrated on salads to go with frozen meal items. If I can't crock pot something, I'm using more frozen or ready to eat meals these days. Trying to conserve energy! This getting older stuff is a challenge, especially for those of us with disabilities.
 
My wife can do a few chores when she's feeling strong, but it's mostly me since her accident three years ago. I don't mind.
I'm the better cook but usually just punt to something easy after a long day at work. Soup and sandwich is getting more frequent at our dinner table as we get older.
Mr. Garnet does most of the cooking here, since I had a change to my health. So I bought an air fryer and he is overjoyed at how much less work and clean up is involved.