A Chore Chart for Hubby

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So we recently started a chore chart for our 2-year-old daughter which has been working like a treat. She gets a stamp every time she does a designated chore, at the end of the week she gets 10c for every stamp to put into her money box.
Since starting this though I’ve noticed that she is doing more housework than hubby! Now I am a stay at home studying mum, pregnant with #2, so I accept that the lions share of the housework is mine, but is it too hard to get some dishes done once in a while. Hubby has told be that I should ask, but once again he is a grown man and I am not his mother (thank god). So I’m thinking of starting a chore chart but a stamp and ten cents at the end of the week won’t cut it. A beer or some bedroom time (not that I want that) would suffice. But really? As I said I am not his mother, I try leaving the dishes but I crave under mount dishmore a lot quicker than him. The constant stub your toes are becoming more likely to end with a hospital trip for me as I can no longer see my toes. I am over the gender stereotype that the women clean and cook, tonight its take out.

Posted by mumma-mel-c, 16th May 2014

26 Comments

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 16 May 2014
    1:18 pm
I think a chore chart for the whole family sounds like a good idea, it always works out here that someone is doing more than their share, so a chart for everyone may be the go.
- mom57522 replied
  
  11 Jan 2015 , 6:38 pm
  That’s a great idea! Very clear cut, everyone knows what they’re responsible for.
- - tilly said
  - 16 May 2014
    1:07 pm
I had to laugh when reading this as it must be all men. I recently said the same thing and the answer was— all you have to do is ask, you need to speak up. We are not slaves and if we did ask then it would not be a nice thing that they had done it would just be something we told them to do and I bet we would then classed as demanding. Enjoy your takeout.
- mumma-mel-c replied
  
  16 May 2014 , 3:37 pm
  That’s how I feel about it too, I ask and I get attitude honestly he is a teenager at times.