General Chat

Well that worked, for a change.

"It's garden bin day tomorrow, and it's about to rain".
He immediately got out of his chair and moved the wheelie bin :-D

Joonie - we forgot where we'd left our daughter in Cyprus. The Taxi driver asked if we wanted the little hospital, or at least that's we thought he said. Luckily, once we realised it wasn't the correct building or area, he took us to the other likely hospital. That turned out to be correct.

Saving your capital for a rainy day, Joonie. :-D

Just in time production is an admirable method for doing just that.

What are you going to spend your spondoolicks on?

I favour the tried-and-tested wine, dancing and song :-D :-D :-D

Around here it is the dude's job. That and washing dishes.

That's because when you have had strokes, you apparently forget how to clean toilets and tubs, wash floors, vacuum cobwebs, put the towels in when you wash a load of laundry, and pretty much anything else, leaving the dishes and taking out the trash, recycle and compost bins.

Which you do at about midnight on the appointed night, because you haven't lost your 'just on time' business practice even though you no longer work in a business ...

The most entertaining thing you do, when you have had strokes, is take a taxi to the wrong hospital to pick up your partner (which you have to do because you just can't abide spending three hours at the hospital waiting, so she went alone for a minor procedure that required a sedative, which means she isn't allowed to go home alone), while she sits there in bed for an hour being the only one left behind in the recovery room, with the nurses staring at her like she's a lost parcel, until you remember which hospital you went to with her the last time she had the procedure ...

I allow I'm a bit odd ;-) ( in so many many ways lol).

Not only do I like putting rubbish out, but one of my favourite jobs, that I can sadly no longer do, was cleaning out the drains in my former house. They had been oddly arranged to go round as many corners as possible so periodically 'backed up'...nothing quite as satisfying as clearing a blocked drain :-)

Oh puts them out when he leaves for work.
I bring them back and put the neighbours away too.

In the last 5 mins, I washed and disinfected the food waste bin that was emptied yesterday

Realised that OH doesn't close the food waste bags the way that I do.
I tie them up in a way that nothing can escape into the big bin
OH ties each corner leaving a gaping hole in the centre!

The bin had stinky fluids on the bottom and smelled like a land fill site!
The warm, dry weather hasn't helped.
( no rain here at all since 13 Apr)

Yucky Yuck Yuck! but.... It smells nice now. :-D :-D :-D

So the butler deals with the bins got it. :-D

Say I spend an hour in a week, 4 hrs month, dealing with domestic waste or I could delegate the job to the same guy who does the cleaning, hoovering etc.

4 hrs work on my own account pays far better than what I pay not to do this stuff.
That is why London has tens of thousands of people working in support jobs some quite well paid. Few are Brits though.

My OH takes the bins out and our next door neighbour's.

When emptied he brings the bins in including all our neighbours
as they are working. :-D

I'm really lucky where I live now my lovely neighbour puts mine out for me and Brings them in but when hubby was alive he always did it

If you want a job done properly, do it yourself? ;-)

LOL the English bin ceremonies......does no one else put out their bins then or is it only the English who don't tell their husband to do it ! :-D

I think that when the chance offers paid employment opportunities should be extended to those looking for them. Duties can extend to all sorts of things inc the English bin ceremonies.

All work can be men's work as far as I'm concerned. It wouldn't bother me at all as long as they didn't think it was THIS woman's work. :-D

Hubby used to do his self appointed job of being dishwasher monitor. Apparently I didn't load the machine up correctly .No probs be my guest !!

We had it on a wash overnight and he set that up too and unloaded it the next day

It's only a slimline dishwasher as we don't have a lot of space but quite adequate for two . The only thing was if there was too many plates etc at some time it would sit on the side which I hated . But he did do a manual wash up of things that didn't go in the dishwasher

He was a shift worker too and as I also worked full time he had to look after himself with cooking his own dinner.
He was an excellent cook , his casseroles were delicious . He always made the Christmas mince pies too ,no shop bought ones for us . His pastry was beautiful

But then his dad was a chef and his mum a silver service waitress and they were taught cooking at home .

OH puts the bins out, and brings them in.


BUT he also does 95% of the cooking, the grocery shopping, the washing, and changes the sheets and duvet covers.

I write out the grocery list ......... he's hopeless at that!

Whoever feels up to it, does house cleaning ............... at the moment I'm cleaning the inside windows, 1 room per day

We have someone cut the grass, but he does all the rest of the gardening because he enjoys it.

Its usually my job, simply because I know when 'dustbin day' is and he never even thinks about it.
I also used to do it in the bad old days of bin bags unless it was within a couple of weeks of giving birth.

We were discussing boys & girls jobs today. I 'don't do' cleaning the car, plumbing or carpentry. He 'doesn't do' ironing, garden plants, mending clothes, washing or dusting. Virtually eveything else gets done when we each think it needs doing. Its a good thing we both have a high tolerance level ;-)

Whoever is available...so mostly me.....for the bins...the grass cutting...washing etc....he does do the plumbing and general fixing because he's better at it than me.

I take my own Bins out

:-D :-D :-D

as the only male in my house is my cat, it's up to me to do the bins - just done them - the recycling bags, the food bin and the general waste bin!!

In our house it depends on who gets to the bins first to either take out our bring back in. However I always do the messy food bin, it takes too long for OH to sort out what he is doing with it.he however always does the ironing and hoovers the floors, often empties the dish washer on his own although we usually empty it together. He also helps strip and remake the bed. But he rarely cooks. Always helps with the shopping and always cleans the cars. I generally do the washing but he can do it.