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HWN wrote:
'Back in the day', my mother used to go shopping every day for groceries, butchers, etc.,
Pre COVID we’d be up at the local Co-op prob 3 times a day. First visit to buy stuff for lunch and dinner, 2nd for stuff I’d forgotten and 3rd for a bottle of VC as “being good” didn’t last until dinner time.
Now it’s one drop every 6 days from nice folks with the Tesco van. It’s da future I tell ya.
21st Jun 2021 3:11 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
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SWMBO does her ironing and the stuff she likes to be ironed that I don't see the point of doing - tea towels, etc. If my stuff needs ironing I do it myself as I'm much better at it than her - especially shirts. But these days I tend to buy shirts that don't need ironing. If she needs one of her shirts/blouses done properly for a "special" occasion, I do it for her.
I do most of the cooking, she does most of the washing up - that's the deal. We take turns grocery shopping. I mow the lawn most of the time.
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Get used to it. I don’t get even one day off for good behaviour plus I have three needy kids. The only thing on your list I don’t do is the ironing. Apparently I make a lousy job of it, so you know what to do if you want rid of it and anything else.
The whole ironing things is silly. If fifteen million households spend an hour a week ironing (2.2 kW iron at 50% duty-cycle), that's, what 1.1 kWh x 15 million = ...er, quite a lot. Just for having smooth clothes. I'd be happy to have crumpled clothes if it would shut that Swedish girl up for a bit.
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21st Jun 2021 3:29 pm
RRSTDV8
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Hugh - you employ a Swedish girl to do your ironing? Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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21st Jun 2021 3:31 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Can’t imagine the Norwegian girl doing the ironing. She’d just have to give the laundry a stern look and say that the cloths were stealing her dreams, then the creases would sort themselves out.
21st Jun 2021 3:50 pm
RRSTDV8
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DSL, Thunberg is Swedish. But not in an ABBA kind of way. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
21st Jun 2021 3:51 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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I thought she was Norwegian!
Sorry Norway, bad luck Sweden.
21st Jun 2021 3:54 pm
ianm27
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HWN wrote:
The whole ironing things is silly.
Isn't that Boris's mantra?? Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
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21st Jun 2021 4:38 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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I thought he was referring to hair cuts.
21st Jun 2021 4:40 pm
Batfink
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Quite lucky me and swmbo seem to have struck a good balance. I cook weekdays and some Saturdays as she works 22:00-06:00 so practically much easier for me to do plus I enjoy cooking anyway. COVID has done us the favour of actually planning a weeks meals so happy about that. She hates shopping but I enjoy it so no complaints from her there. I do my own washing once a week. Quite capable so no reason to expect it done for me. The cars are my domain. Again my choice. Slightly old fashioned but on the rare occasions we do go anywhere together I still open and close the car door for her. Eldest daughter comes and does the big clean once a week and we deal with day to day. Dishwasher is my job. Don’t like anyone else going near it tbh. The tumble dryer takes care of most of the ironing.2006 TdV6 HSE.
I am guilty of playing 'Kitchen Bin Buckaroo', just getting one more thing into it before it requires me to act and actually empty it. And then another. And another. With SWMBO immobile for the last few weeks after being having ribs/ankle/toes broken by a horse I have come to appreciate how much she does without complaining. I'd assumed that like the apocryphal Dalek, she wouldn't be able to get upstairs so didn't bother tidying up so much - big mistake and I was rumbled at the w/e!
She actually liked changing nappies when the children were young so I only did a few (badly).
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22nd Jun 2021 7:33 am
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We've never had any official lines of demarcation. We both do what needs to be done when it needs to be done. My wife is an incredible cook. You'll have seen some of her work in cook books, the weekend magazines etc. so there is no point in me even going there. She's a photographic stylist by trade so the house is always beautifully presented and immaculate. My mear presence makes it look untidy
We wife and I both brought the girls up. Me on the practical side, she the organisational side of things. I did the night feeds and as many nappies etc. We pretty well share everything.
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22nd Jun 2021 7:47 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Our kitchen demarcation lines are dishwasher (me) and laundry (SWMBO), mainly coz the dishwasher is press 2 buttons, washing machine is 3 so 50% more and hence above my abilities. Everything else is shared, plus no sprogs so much less to do.
22nd Jun 2021 8:26 am
kevin-t
Member Since: 12 Nov 2007
Location: sheffield
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DSL......
Wrote, "no sprogs so much less to do."
Now that could be another topic of my moaning for today
Have two Lads, one 45, one 36. Five grandkids between em.
Lads are Lads. Was one myself many years ago
On the other hand, Grandkids.
Baby sitting duties, Wife is a soft touch. NEVER says NO...
Where to start. iPads, iPhones, electronic games, make up, untidy, messy, clumsy, mardy, this list is also endless. Not forgetting ARGUMENTATIVE.
Don't like food unless, it's from McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, etc.etc.
To top it off, all want to come away with us, Grandkids that is...Wife not happy, I said ONE at a time each holiday, cannot cope with more than one all day every day.
Thats to-days RANT over folks......Back to me chores, Got to mow the Lawn for grandkids to erect trampoline!
22nd Jun 2021 9:06 am
discott
Member Since: 24 Sep 2010
Location: Harrow
Posts: 133
Women's work
Not sure I'd be too keen to let my wife cut my privat!
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