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Ino

(3,366 posts)
23. Oh, I bet you COULD cook to save your life.
Sun Mar 2, 2014, 03:01 PM
Mar 2014

What you mean is you won't cook to save your wife some trouble.

You're terrible at cleaning the house? A 12-year-old girl could clean the house, but you're just so terrible at it that it's better you don't even try?

What sort of suggestion are you looking for, pray tell?

Clean the house and cook her a nice dinner that's waiting for her when she gets home. nt ChisolmTrailDem Feb 2014 #1
Seriously?... TeeYiYi Feb 2014 #2
Any chance you start a garden? TexasTowelie Feb 2014 #3
Brody has been interesting. I will post an update. No place for a garden diabeticman Mar 2014 #16
Do a terrible job of cleaning the house angstlessk Feb 2014 #4
That's what I was thinking LoveMyCali Feb 2014 #5
Yes.. sendero Feb 2014 #12
Here are some ideas marzipanni Feb 2014 #6
how about this grasswire Feb 2014 #7
You don't have to do it perfectly BainsBane Feb 2014 #8
You can learn to cook and clean My Good Babushka Feb 2014 #9
How do you get better at cleaning the house? UncleYoder Feb 2014 #10
clean the effing house and cook a simple meal. No wonder she's frustrated. magical thyme Feb 2014 #11
Homemade salad spinner: put greens in clean plastic bag with holes poked along bottom marzipanni Feb 2014 #14
That is a great idea. femmocrat Mar 2014 #18
life partners are supposed to share day-to-day responsibilities NJCher Feb 2014 #13
I will do dishes when I can and the laundry. I work 40 hours a week too. I'm not a freeloader. diabeticman Mar 2014 #22
You left that out, that you are also working full-time My Good Babushka Mar 2014 #24
OOOOOH....wait a minute! Minor detail. In that case: magical thyme Mar 2014 #25
make a homemade pizza MissMillie Feb 2014 #15
Learn. Seriously. IdaBriggs Mar 2014 #17
I do the laundry and dishes when I can but I work night shift 40 hours a week. diabeticman Mar 2014 #19
How about learning to clean the house? NewJeffCT Mar 2014 #20
Learn how to clean and cook. Vashta Nerada Mar 2014 #21
Oh, I bet you COULD cook to save your life. Ino Mar 2014 #23
He doesn't actually want to do anything. Vashta Nerada Mar 2014 #27
Yeah, that's what I thought. Ino Mar 2014 #56
The easiest dinner you can make.......... mrmpa Mar 2014 #26
I feel for you. RandySF Mar 2014 #28
I am NOT unemployed. I work 40 hours a week. It amazes me how everyone assumed I was unemployed diabeticman Mar 2014 #29
If she is working 40 + hours tavernier Mar 2014 #41
READ the thread HE has a full time job too!! He just wants to do something nice for his wife n/t auntAgonist Mar 2014 #46
Yes, I did read it. He has one job, she has two. tavernier Mar 2014 #48
How do you know he didn't? I'm all for him helping around the house. Make no mistake. Yes, auntAgonist Mar 2014 #50
My advice is... Sweet Freedom Mar 2014 #30
okay. diabeticman Mar 2014 #31
clean the house already. after spending 10 hors a week on that to even out your time, make sure you bettyellen Mar 2014 #32
I have been reading this post and was not going to answer it. texanwitch Mar 2014 #33
Poor diabetic man My Good Babushka Mar 2014 #34
I agree! femmocrat Mar 2014 #36
A woman's gotta sleep sometimes too. Gormy Cuss Mar 2014 #54
Tell her how much you appreciate her Generic Brad Mar 2014 #35
How? To me that would mean paying someone to come and clean the house. Fine wiith me! CTyankee Mar 2014 #37
There are many ways Generic Brad Mar 2014 #38
that's nice and actually should be what male and females do for their partner all the time. CTyankee Mar 2014 #45
Make a lunch to send off to work with your wife... Earth_First Mar 2014 #39
Vacation Renew Deal Mar 2014 #40
Crank up the old crock pot Samantha Mar 2014 #42
My husband and I are retired. He has had two spinal surgeries and now I have been CTyankee Mar 2014 #43
Try making a schedule to split cooking and housework. Ilsa Mar 2014 #44
I think if you edit this post to add that you too work FULL TIME the answers might be different (?) auntAgonist Mar 2014 #47
It just boggles my mind how people assumed I was unemployed. It isn't like I have never talked diabeticman Mar 2014 #49
Could I just say, though, that I've been here since 2001 and Arugula Latte Mar 2014 #52
Ask her what she would like you to do. Lars39 Mar 2014 #51
All of the little things... chrisa Mar 2014 #53
My husband has MS ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #55
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