Division of Labor

[pstone]

I do all the laundry, fold, put away. DW seems to take her clothes off where ever she is standing when she decides to take them off. I have found clothes everywhere. I tease her about it, but end up picking them up and washing them.

I iron her clothes, the ones that HAVE to be at least. As SAHD I seem to never wear anything that needs ironing anymore, sometimes I look at all my dress clothes in the closet and think back to different times.

She tries to help when she is around, she loves folding the little boys clothes, course that is when she sees that I just shove his stuff unfolded into his dresser, not like he knows.

I do the washing, folding and putting away. And it seems like my DH would fit right in. His clothes end up all over the floor in our bedroom (the kind of dirty variety). I started stacking them up on his chair (our bedroom is big enough for there to be a 'work' table in one corner) so then he has to do something about it. He just isn't bothered by clothes, or stuff in general, laying all over the place like I am.

I iron her clothes, the ones that HAVE to be at least. As SAHD I seem to never wear anything that needs ironing anymore, sometimes I look at all my dress clothes in the closet and think back to different times.

I make sure DH buys the non-wrinkle dress shirts. I hate ironing, and avoid it at all costs. I think I've ironed two shirts since he started med school, because I forgot to take them out of the drier soon enough.

[DCJenn]

My trick was to iron his uniform once- and I swear I didn't intentionally mess it up BUT he insisted that I did it wrong. So uniforms are his responsibility. Besides, he has to get out the stupid ruler thing to make sure everything is where it's supposed to be after it's washed. (except for the BDU's which have everything sewn in.) (and the Army insists that the BDU's be ironed and starched. except that in 'real' battle, the starch shows up under the night scopes- way to stick out, there boys)

Jenn[/i]

That is interesting about starch and nightscopes. I had no idea. I do know that you aren't supposed to starch something that is going to be stored for more than a month because moth larvae eat the starch.

I do NOT iron well. I try. I just suck at it unless its something totally flat, or really basic. Its either no iron shirts for DH or he'll have to come up with the cash to send them out like we did before this insanity began.


I do all the laundry, I always have. I have my way of doing it. I've been doing the whole family's laundry since I was 13. Its my job. I have a system not to be messed with. :clothes:

I am such a cranky harpy that I think the boys and DH are afraid of messing up and not putting their dirty clothes inthe hamper. I even have my 5 yo putting his and his brother's socks in color coded bags. They have a white hamper and a blue hamper in the closet and put clothes in the matching colored hamper.

The sticker in our house is running clothes. :walk DH will hang them to dry the first place he finds. He used to hang them outside on the porch rail until I threw some clothespins at him and pointed to the line I had hung for him. I was having a bad day.

DW does the laundry...she has a terrible hang-up about letting me do it. I guess when I washed/dried the whites and our 5yo undershirts came out fitting tightly on the 2yo, she drew a line.

Anyway, she washes, I hang and dry and fold and put away. Sounds like a fair deal to me...

[Vishenka69]

Clothes were meant to be folded AND put away???!!!???

We both do laundry, depends on who has more time during that particular rotation. But then the washed clothes will sit in the basket for at least a week before being put away. If I do laundry, I fold immediately, DH doesn't believe in folding of anything. We then go through the period of pulling stuff from the bottom of the pile (laundry only gets done when we run out of underwear or the hamper starts exploding, these often occur simulteneously), while the cat makes herself a bed on top of the clean pile. After a few days of this, I get fed up and put stuff away.

As for missing the hamper... Ours is the build-in wall variety in the bathroom. DH usually collects his dirty clothes from various surfaces in the apt right before the cleaning lady comes on Saturday mornings. At this point, I'm happy that he does it at all.