Household Division of Work Question

[Anonymous]

I'm quite curious - How does the work get done in your house?

Here's my break-out:
Cooking - 60/40 - DH
Pay bills - 100 - DW
Help w/ homework - 50/50
House cleaning - 70/30 - DH
Yard maintenance - 100 - DH
Laundry - 90/10 - DH
Grocery shopping - 90/10 - DW

[Anonymous]

In our house, it is:

Cooking - 90/10 DH
Pay Bills - 99/1 DW
Help w/ Housework 80/20 DW (have cleaning service tho)
Yard Work - 0 (totally outsourced. we both loathe yards)
Laundry - 90/10 DW
Grocery Shopping 50/50 (do it together)

(DW is a SAHM, not sure if ours counts?)

[Anonymous]

Cooking, 70/30 - DH
Kitchen cleanup 70/30 - DW
Pay bills - 100 DW
Help w/ homework - 70/30 DW
House cleaning, heavy cleaning and some laundry outsourced, what's left 80/20 DW
Yard maintenance, partly outsourced, what's left 100 DH
Grocery shopping, 70/30 DW
Organizing household, keeping calendar, school and medical paperwork, investments, travel planning, card writing & gift buying, computer troubleshooting, 100 DW

Curious, are you the DH or the DW? (I'm DW and SAH.)

[Anonymous]

Two comments:

- Totally depends if one of the spouses is stay-at-home or works part-time
- It's very sad if you keep score like this.

[Anonymous]

Cooking - 70/30 - DW
Pay bills - 90/10 - DH
House cleaning - 50/50
Yard maintenance - 90/10 - DH
Laundry - 50/50
Grocery shopping - 90/10 - DW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two comments:

- Totally depends if one of the spouses is stay-at-home or works part-time - Agree.


- It's very sad if you keep score like this. Not keeping score - just trying to figure out what's normal.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't seem to include working hours.

[Anonymous]

Cooking - 100 DW
Pay bills - almost all are autopay, others 80/20 DW
Laundry: wash 100 DW, fold/hang up - 70/30 DH
Cleaning - 70/30 DH
Dishes - 95/5 DH
errands - 95/5 DW
bathing kids - 90/10 - DH

Not exactly even, but works for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't seem to include working hours.

By all means, please include any/all relevant factors.

[Anonymous]

Cooking 60/40 - DW
Kitchen cleanup 60/40 - DH (whoever cooks, the other cleans)
Pay bills - 50/50
House cleaning - 70/30 - DW (only because I deep clean more and DH would be satisfied with vacuuming and washing surfaces with cleaner)
Laundry - 50/50
Grocery shopping - we do it together
Planning get togethers, RSVPing, buying gifts, writing cards - 90/10 - DW
Travel planning - 50/50 DH usually does the hotel/flight lookups and I typically do the restaurant/activity planning

I don't really keep tabs but this is what I'm guessing. We don't have kids yet so I'm sure they dynamic will change when that happens. We have both been working full-time jobs (both work similar hours) but I have recently (as of last Friday) cut down to part-time so that I can get a specialized degree in my field. I'm sure this will change the dynamics as well.

[Anonymous]

We do:

Cooking: 70/30 DW
Dishes (no dishwasher): 60/40 DW
Laundry: 50/50
Yardwork: outsource mowing; remainder, including vegetable garden, is 99% DW
Trash: 99% DH
House cleaning: 50/50
Grocery shopping: 50/50
Other shopping (soap, etc): 80/20 DH
Pay bills: 80/20 DH
Pet care: 80/20 DW

No kids yet, we both work full time with similar hours, but my commute is shorter so DH spends more time out of the house on weekdays.

[Anonymous]

Cooking: 70/30 DH
Laundry: 50/50
Grocery shopping: 70/30 DH
Bills: 100% DW
Cleaning:80/10/10 most by a cleaning service
Outside: 80/20 most by HOA, rest by DW
Bathing kids & bedtime reading: 70/30 DH
Playing w/kids/sports/school activities: 100 DW
Snow shoveling car/walk: 95% DW because I love the exercise.

Don't know if this is good or bad, but it works well for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two comments:

- Totally depends if one of the spouses is stay-at-home or works part-time - Agree.


- It's very sad if you keep score like this. Not keeping score - just trying to figure out what's normal.

Agree that it is very sad to keep score. And, there is no normal. Life changes constantly - kids age, you add more kids, you have a huge project at work, your partner loses a job, you have an injury and can't do certain chores, your kids develop new interests and add activities, your kid struggles in a subject that you don't get so you can't help with homework, etc.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that so many DWs do the bills, DH does the bills and finances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two comments:

- Totally depends if one of the spouses is stay-at-home or works part-time - Agree.


- It's very sad if you keep score like this. Not keeping score - just trying to figure out what's normal.

Agree that it is very sad to keep score. And, there is no normal. Life changes constantly - kids age, you add more kids, you have a huge project at work, your partner loses a job, you have an injury and can't do certain chores, your kids develop new interests and add activities, your kid struggles in a subject that you don't get so you can't help with homework, etc.

Good grief! We get it, and the responses have reflected the many nuances. I think OP's looking for generalities, not specifics. It's interesting, but I seriously doubt she plans on taking any of this to the bank.