Ten on Tuesday: Ten things you could do yourself but you get your spouse to do them instead

1.  Open jar lids that are stuck on tight.

2.  Take out the garbage.

3.  Remove live (and dead) creatures of the insect variety from the house.

4.  Dishes.  Scarred on this one from my childhood. 

5.  Mulch the landscape.  Actually, this one gets hired out.  It takes them about 1/5 the time it would take me, and they are used to picking ticks off themselves.  Me?  Not so much.

6.  Clean the lowest gutter.  This gets hired out once per year, but needs to be done more often.  I always volunteer that if he brings out the ladder, I will do the cleaning.  But then he does both.  *love*

7.  Make morning tea or coffee.  We split this about 50/50.  

8.  Pack the suitcase.  (He has an excellent geometry brain.)

9.  Finish the Amazon order.  I put stuff in the cart, and never get around to checking out.

10.  Clear the walkway after a snowstorm.  We split thiis one 50/50 also.  I like the exercise most of the time.  But then he zooms up with the snowblower, and it is done.  I do it if the snow in the driveway is taking a long time to snowblow.

 

Comments

[claudia]

Interesting. Spider removal from the house and dead/half-dead animal removal from the yard is my job.

[Donna]

You guys make a great team. I'm with ya on removing the creatures - most especially the ones who are still alive and kicking!

[margene]

Teamwork is key to getting jobs done around the house and you two have a good system.

[Lisa]

I don't do insects either -- yuk!

[Lynn]

Hey, what's wrong with insects?????

[Caroline M]

Mow the lawn (yesterday's job of the day)

[Caroline M]

I forgot to say that I am the queen of stuck lids, it is the one thing I learned as part of my degree that I still use on a weekly basis.

[Carole]

Totally agree on the bugs. As for packing, I do the suitcases but he fits everything into the car. This was especially helpful back when we were camping.

[Patty]

I'm going to have to try that Amazon deal! ;-)

[S.Kate]

Okay, I'm curious about the story behind #4...

[gayle]

I make him open the jar lids, since he's usually the one who tightens them down too hard to ever open again. I can get factory-tightened lids open, but not Madman-tightened lids...
And I'm curious about #4, also.