How do you guys manage the what is known as the Damn Dailies…the housework/cooking/cleaning Kids stuff watever that is required to stay alive:)…Really do guys(zee male species) volnteer or have to be nagged to help.Is it always the lady of the house who end up doing more then her share since she is working too:(?and for the guys, Do YOU (ok I am generalizing now:D) wait till the basment/garage looks like Mount Junkmore …in order to help:)…Do you guys make a schedule/chore chart? Any helpful tips ??
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…koi nahi Jawab daita tu I’ll do it myself..:D"hey have you tried the chore chart?"
Amber:..Uh Yes…didnt work too long:D
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Well I'm going to school and working part time right now.
My husband works full time. I'm not even in the same city with him for three days of the week.
How do we manage? No kids yet so I can't say how that would work but all the household chores are pretty easy. We both do what we can when we can. If i'm home and I have time, I do them. If he's home and he has time, he'll do them.
It works out quite nicely Thank God.
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^^ without the kids...does help a lot...:)..
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With kids, its simple as well.
Take turns changing diapers :)
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There is whole new world, more then changing diapers....:D...Its just that when the responsibilities increasse....woks stress...needs of kids a bit more then just their physical needs, housework...Im totally burned out:D...since I have to force my husband to help...or I basically do it all myself, until I run out of fuel:(
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Pre-marriage my husband cooked lived on his own and cleaned up after himself.
After marriage we shared the duties, often doing them on the weekend, i just got home earlier so would start dinner otherwise we'd have dinner at 11pm....but his work got steadily busier and he was traveling and I did more...
Now after baby- i'm home and he's even busier, i can't imagine what i would have to do if i were working out of the home, with a baby it's tough! We have someone to clean, but i do the cooking and take care of the baby, he takes care of the baby on the weekend (though i still get up at night/am with her) and cleans up after himself all the time (i.e. no dishes or clothes laying around).
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It's sound's kinda very tough ....
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The stuff that doesn’t HAVE to get done, doesn’t get done until the weekend. Maybe that’s bad, but I have to prioritize how I spend my time, and during the week, making sure the kitchen is spotless is the last thing on my mind.
My husband is more of a cleaner than I am – he cleans things regularly to keep them relatively organized, but he’s not as thorough, I think. And doesn’t have a vision like I do. 
But it works out fine. I cook usually, but if I’m exhausted, we order or stop somewhere on our way back from work. We seem to have a good rhythm, that we’re both comfortable with. However, both our mothers would probably be horrified. 
I cannot imagine working with a small child at home.
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^^ I understand completely wat you mean as I myself am detaile oriented and he is appearance oriented...I mean he'd rather hide dirt underneath a rug if nobody's looking:)
I have been "trained" to do more...I guess juggle more becuz he is the "sleeping partner",it ends up on me.
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haha .... Let him sleep enough
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I cannot imagine working with a small child at home.
Or a mother-in-law :D
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I'm still in school, and work part-time too, so most nights i get home after my husband, so he naturally starts dinner or gets takeout after work. The cleaning/laundry is usually left till the weekends, we both sort of do what we can. We have a mutual understanding not to nag each other, he likes a really clean bathroom, and i'm the sort of "let the towel lie where it may" kind of gal so he'll usually cleans up after me, and i like a really clean bedroom so i pick up after him there. It works right now but i don't ever see it as a long term solution.
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We both try to help each other. I cook 4 salan on the weekend, marinate chicken and fish. He does cleaning and laundry on saturday. We go out with our son on sunday to zoo, chucky cheese, mall or over due visit to family or friends. During week days I make roti etc do dishes and he take care of our baby and makes tea. I think it will be very difficult if he won't help me around the house.
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^^ That makes sense, so basically u guys have distributed the work..Good for you.:) But who wakes up in the middle of the night with the baby?
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We both used to wake-up but now he is 3 so don't need to do it any more.
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We share responsibilities. She does certain things, I do certain things. I vacuum because she's too nazuk to drag the behemoth. She does all the kitchen stuff. I find it really helpful to do a good thorough cleaning once a month and then just do light cleaning during the week. If you let it get out of control, then it becomes really bad. For instance, after using ANY dish, just put it in the dishwasher, don't leave it in the sink or around the house, stuff like that.
It also helps that we have a house keeper who comes once a mont and scrubs the bathrooms and kitchen.
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^^ Keeping up does help a lot. Keyword, as long as everyone is doing their share:)
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we share responsibilities. and we try to maintain ..so things dont get out of hand. but when one or the other is sick, or kids are sick, things pile up and then we hafta get it back in order over the weekend.
being organized helps, if there is a place for everything, then things are not lying about.
we dont have a chore chart or schedule, but in general we are able to maintain the place. there are a few trouble spots that we need to tackle and organize but rest is pretty good.