What nice things do you do for your spouse?

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:37 pm

I leave money in my pockets to make laundry day more fun for her.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:13 am

Money! Feh!

If you leave paper tissues in your pockets, then she has a festive snowstorm when she opens the tumble-drier!

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:07 am

It's our 36th tomorrow and I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do. Panic mode!
Tolken is with an "i" before the "e" btw.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:41 am

I try to make her life as easy as possible by staying out of her way a lot of the time

Slan,
D.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:50 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:Money! Feh!

If you leave paper tissues in your pockets, then she has a festive snowstorm when she opens the tumble-drier!

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:02 am

mutepointe wrote:I leave money in my pockets to make laundry day more fun for her.

Why is your wife the only one doing the laundry?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:16 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:Money! Feh!

If you leave paper tissues in your pockets, then she has a festive snowstorm when she opens the tumble-drier!

Less celebrational, but more potentially interesting is when you leave a cobalt-blue roller-ball pen in your shirt pocket, and the laundry-person fails to notice.
Surprise tie-dye day!

But as to the original question.
We make each other coffee. Depends on who gets to it first.
I read Bill Bryson (or similar) to him because he really likes it.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:24 am

had her coffee....I don't let her make it

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:26 am

I make sure he's up in time so he's not late for school

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:53 am

I get up really quietly so as not to wake her, and feed the cat.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:23 am

dubhlinn wrote:I try to make her life as easy as possible by staying out of her way a lot of the time

Slan,
D.

Yeah... unfortunately the cupboard under the stairs is in "her" territory.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:35 am

izzarina wrote:
Innocent Bystander wrote:Money! Feh!

If you leave paper tissues in your pockets, then she has a festive snowstorm when she opens the tumble-drier!

Since I am retired and no longer have to leave the house every day to earn a living, I do many of the household chores (laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, some cooking, cleaning, etc.). I do all of the laundry, which, since my wife is the artistic type, means picking up her shoes and clothes from the floor all over the house where she dropped them. She has a habit of leaving tissue in her pockets, so I have learned the hard way to check all of her pockets before I put them in the washing machine. I really don't like to open the dryer door and see little pieces of tissue stuck to the clothes. I routinely find wads of paper money in her pockets. I don't see how she separates the twenties from the trash. My worry is that she probably doesn't think about this.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:32 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:Money! Feh!

If you leave paper tissues in your pockets, then she has a festive snowstorm when she opens the tumble-drier!

That's a good one although we do our own laundry so I'm the one who gets the snowstorm.

chas · Post by **chas** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:50 am

Depends on what you mean by "for your spouse." I do all the cooking, all the yard work, much of the cleaning. She does all the laundry, much of the cleaning, most of the child care. I don't look at these as what we do for each other, but as what we do for us/the family/the home.

I look at things I do for her as the little extras. Buy her an interesting bottle of wine now and then, look the other way when she brings home yet more fabric, wash the cars, wash the windows when the time comes, build stuff for her, etc.

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:02 am

Vacuum once in a while, not hang my clothes on the conveniently shaped bedposts and use those bleachy wipe things on certain porcelain surfaces.

In other words, not act like a man.

Chiff and Fipple Forums

What nice things do you do for your spouse?

What nice things do you do for your spouse?

Re: What nice things do you do for your spouse?