HOW DO YOU HANDLE HOUSEHOLD CHORES?
Curious, when you have a day off work together with your spouse, do you fight because neither of you are doing what you wanted/expected to be doing? Or have you talked through the plan. Matt and I rarely have days off, but the unexpected ones are the ones we sometimes struggle through.
Matt’s idea of a day of is sitting in a recliner and watching TV. The end, nothing else needed. My idea of a day off is doing all the things that doesn’t get done on a regular basis. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all about a good movie or show, but not all day.
So we compromise, Matt sits in the chair and I do all the things. Joking, kind of, sometimes. I tell him all the time that we aren’t in the 14th century, there are two of us that live in our house and that means there are two of us that can run the laundry, dishes, sweeper, etc.
Maybe in your household, you have the chores divided and that is just your chore that you do. Maybe one of you do all of the household things. I’m curious how you do it. How do you divide the chores? Does it work for you? What are the things that make it work?
We have been married since October of 2013, but are still working through things. Give us all the ideas on how your household functions in relation to who does all the things! Genually curious how the rest of the world handles these things! Let us know!
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~Matt & Kelsey
I answered this a little differently in your IG, but thought I’d add that Josh & I used to argue over chores. He firmly believed that since he maintained the vehicle, the house, and yard that I should handle all the inside chores. I firmly believed that while those were all things I was happy not to do (couldn’t do w/o paying someone else on some cases) that inside chores were daily while his tasks he described were weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly. Soo early on we kind of fell along those lines for the most part. BUT he did switch off on doing the dishes & almost always took out the garbage. The rest was still pretty much up to me. Note: his mom was a SAHM and she did all the things. Which is great – I’m honestly not the greatest at household things and I’ve always had a full time demanding job outside the home as well.
Fast forward to today (pretty much what I described in IG). We now have 2 boys 11 & 13. They do the dishes 90% of the time and at some point I taught everyone to do their own laundry (Josh included lol). So really there’s just the shopping, meal planning, cooking, vacuuming, sweeping, dusting you know the inside stuff. Josh still does the outside stuff I noted above. Which his mechanic skill set had saved us tons of money and I’m sure frustration over the years. And it works for us. It’s not something we even talk about anymore. He is more OCD than I am (I have a high tolerance for messy lol). So he does point things out sometimes & then I get defensive and we have a tiff and get over it. Sometimes he’s right and sometimes he needs to chill lol. Marriage. I think you’ll find your flow on these things eventually. We’ve talked through these things enough over the years and listened and heard eachother enough that I think we’ve found our balance that works. Yours might be completely different and that’s totally normal,