{"id":5264,"date":"2012-03-21T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:03:15","slug":"is-your-man-bad-at-housework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/is-your-man-bad-at-housework\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Man Bad At Housework?"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>It&#8217;s the first day of Spring and what better day then to hear about a survey on spring cleaning. Or rather on how many of us apparently spend hours redoing the household jobs that men mess up. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/partner\/Sainsburys.aspx\">Sainsbury&#8217;s<\/a> survey of 2000 women while the good news is men do more household chores than ever before, we&#8217;re still complaining.<\/strong>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/is-your-man-bad-at-housework\/housework\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5265\" title=\"Housework\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Housework.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>\n\nIt seems many women aren&#8217;t satisfied by their loved one&#8217;s efforts and feel they have to redo the jobs as it isn&#8217;t up to standards. <span>A third said their men leave sofa cushions in a mess while 32 per cent don&#8217;t make beds properly and 28% leave the kitchen in a state with food splatters all over the oven. The laundry causes the biggest amount of annoyance <span>with many women feeling men have a poor ability to hang clothes, separate the dark clothes from whites and generally fold clothes neatly.<\/span><\/span>\n\nI have to admit my husband and I often fall out over household chores, usually because I am accused of not doing things properly. For instance I always forget to separate whites and colours and hate unloading the dishwasher. What do I feel he does badly? Not much. Not because he&#8217;s perfect but because having grown up watching my own mother do everything I am happy to be married to someone who just gets on with it and shares whatever is that needs to be done without asking.\n\nI do have a very good friend who does moan constantly about her husband&#8217;s uselessness in the kitchen and laundry area and part of me feels it&#8217;s about her wanting to be in control at home. After all if standards matter so much over sofa cushions and who cleans the cooker the best, then I think she should probably just do it herself (which is exactly what has happened). On the other hand my husband&#8217;s friend recently admitted (after one beer too many and in front of his very annoyed wife) that he does jobs badly on purpose so he doesn&#8217;t get asked again but I like to think his neanderthal thinking is in the minority.\n\nBut what do you think? Does your husband\/partner&#8217;s housework skills annoy you? Let me know.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the first day of Spring and what better day then to hear about a survey on spring cleaning. Or rather on how many of us apparently spend hours redoing the household jobs that men mess up. 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