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1. Stacking the dishwasher.
Putting the things where they belong in the cupboards.
Closing the cupboard doors.
2. Putting lids back on jars correctly, e.g. mayo, jam etc. Half hanging off is not good enough
Stacking the dishwasher
Saw the thread title and came here to say that.
Do they actually stand on the other side of the kitchen with a blindfold on? It’s the only logical explanation for the performance of otherwise intelligent humans…
2. Loading the dishwasher properly as a stack prevents water getting into the bowls and leaves welded on crumble 😉
That and opening the living room curtains in the morning rather than turning on all the lights 🙄
Reloading the park tool toilet roll holder. It’s like an intellectual sorting hat now & I deliberately leave it near roll end when we have guests. It’s a frikkin qr into a bladed fork ffs, but no that’s seemingly totally beyond the capabilities of absolutely everyone else.
clean up the dog mess
Take out any form of rubbish
Use a bloody hoover
Clean the windows
Clean the sofa of dog hair
Clean any of the cars
Clean anything to a standard where anyone would stand next to it and think "why yes, that has been cleaned"
Incidentally the only explanation of the dishwasher loading in my house is that my other half is playing hoopla with the crockery from a distance of thirty yards.
I trained my wife in dishwasher stacking. She’s progressed through “acceptable” to “accomplished”. She even tuts dismissively when she uncovers the supposedly helpful stacking her parents execute. I’m very happy.
Empty the dishwasher, empty the bins and walking the dog
1. Stacking the dishwasher
Yep, like it's been packed by David Blunkett as part of a Funhouse challenge.
Turning lights off when not in the room.
Turning the telly off when going out.
Locking the back door.
Loading the dishwasher.
Emptying the dishwasher.
Hoovering.
Coming on here and whinging about the rest of my family.
fixing all the bikes
cleaning the roofs and gutters
using a chainsaw
… and removing the toilet roll core from the bathroom.
Emptying the trap in the shower when "cleaning the bathroom".
Putting the top back on the squash bottles properly before laying them horizontally in the bottle rack.
Clean a cheese grater on the inside as well as outside.
I’m the only person in the house that doesn’t think that all devices magically charge themselves by some form of osmosis, pulling electricity out of the very air itself
THERE’S USB SOCKETS ALL OVER THE HOUSE FFS!!
JUST PLUG IT IN AFTER YOU'VE USED IT FOR HOURS UNTIL ITS DOWN TO 2% CHARGE!!
1. Stacking the dishwasher
2. Emptying the dishwasher
3. Washing the pots and pans
4. Anything DIY related
5. Anything related to fixing the car or bikes
6. Putting spiders / wasps / insects out of the house
I'm sure there's a lot more. My wife earns more than me though so I try not to complain too much.
On the dishwasher thing, Ive genuinely met people who think it fills up with water to the top and thats why correctly loading does not matter 🤯
Push a drawer shut.
Not nearly shut.
Shut.
I'm sitting on the trap in the en suite looking at the only two drawers in the room. Can you guess if they are, or are not, pushed shut?
Washing the car
Hoovering the inside of the car
Cleaning bikes
Mowing the grass
Recharging dead batteries
Apparently it is my job to get cat turds off the lawn.
Mustn't have been at the meeting where they agreed that one.
We have a rule in the house...
I load the dishwasher, and as she has agreed that she can't load it properly, my wife unloads it. I can live with that 😆
If I could get her to take her hair out of the shower trap I'd be content.
Two types of dishwasher loaders:
1: Swedish Architect
2: Raccoon on meth.
Our house it's 3 to 1 in favour of the Raccoon. Either that or it's being loaded from orbit.
Car washing/cleaning. Again two tribes. One who believes regular attention mitigates the need to purchase multiple hazmat suit, the other curating biological life on every internal or external service. Again, party of one here.
And if the internet breaks...somehow I become the customer complaints proxy for our crap ISP.
Taking something from one floor of the house to the other in a single trip rather than leaving it to fester on the stairs for several days.
Apparently I load the dishwasher like a racoon on Meth. However the stuff comes out clean and dry and it’s done then put away.
As to the whinge list:-
Anything laundry related, rather than switching the machine on then leaving the clothes inside to rot.
Even putting the basket back upstairs seems a struggle.
Making a bed
Pissing IN the bowl (OK the wife's not that bad at it)
Washing up
Removing even the most basic item from the freezer, unpackaging it, turning the oven on and placing said item inside
Buying a mother ****ing pint of titty ****ing ****ing milk
I can identify with an alarming number of these issues.
Empty the dishwasher, empty the bins and
walkingempty the dog
Closing latches on doors, washers etc. using the handle rather than just slamming them shut, and then complaining a year later when there's play in the hinge, or latch won't engage during more continued slamming because said door is now sagging and missaligned.
And generally having zero mechanical sympathy for anythiing and wondering why it gets broken.
I’m the only person in the house who will catch spiders.
As a result we have lots of spiders because I haven’t got the heart to put them outside after they’ve come in from the cold…I just open and shut the back door and chuck the spider under a bit of furniture away from everyone else 😂
current one - "doing the washing"
Sorting the whites from the colours* and putting a load into the machine with detergent and softener does not constitute 'doing the washing' - it's not even half if the bit that gets left to me is emptying the machine, hanging out the bits for drying, putting the smalls into the tumbler, and then collecting it all up including pairing and folding.
In fact to make a point, I started typing this reply, then timed myself to "do the washing". Under 2 minutes.
* racist sounding washing, couldn't phrase it differently
Dishwasher - yep
Putting things back in the fridge from the same place they were taken from, yes thats why we have 3 opened blocks of mouldy cheddar.
Checking the dark washing for white socks, my white socks (on the rare occassions that i’m not the one who does tbe washing)
emptying the washing up bowl when the washing up was done 3 days ago (current record)
Sorting the whites from the colours* and putting a load into the machine with detergent and softener does not constitute ‘doing the washing’
It's kind of a household analogy to "get the front wheel over and everything else will just follow".
I don't want to contribute any further as there's a chance I'll fill the forum up to capacity.
Using my nice* kitchen knives on anything other than the nice end grain (x2) chopping boards bought specifically for chopping... the clue is in the name... NOT the eathernware plates or the kitchen work surface.
*they are not that expensive but I'd like them to retain a decent edge for more than 2 weeks....
Taking bin bag out of pedal bin before it has been filled so much that it's a PITA to get out.
Taking food recycling bag out of mini caddy before it has been filled so much it will enevitably split or leak when removed.
Putting tea bag in bin rather than on edge of sink. 🤷♂️
Taking empty shampoo or shower gel containers from bathroom to recycling bin....and related washing out plastic containers before putting them in recycling bin.
Putting tea bag in bin rather than on edge of sink. 🤷♂️
You need an intermediate receptacle such as a saucer or ramekin to allow cooling and hence avoid the steamy bin lid phenomenon
Cutting the grass/hedges.
TBF I hate other shit like making beds and doing washing, but I DO do it. No ****er else has ever cut the grass or hedges since we moved in 10+ years ago. Then they complain when I want things to make the jobs easier.
I ended up putting sensors in the bathrooms as I was fed up of constantly switching the lights off. I can relate to virtually all of the above. I live with teenagers, everything is my job. This evening it transpired that I should have reminded them of their homework that I wasn’t informed of in the first place. I can’t wait until they move into their own place and discover that the laundry and dishes fairy are no more real than the tooth one…