Does your SO help around the house?

[woop woop]

We're as bad as each other! It's terrible. We don't know what's going to happen when we move in together - I need a high paying job so we can hire a cleaner!

[garnet]

We're as bad as each other! It's terrible. We don't know what's going to happen when we move in together - I need a high paying job so we can hire a cleaner!

Haha! This sounds like an excellent plan for Rane & I too!

[Bluestars]

When Jared used to live in his apartment, every time I flew to visit him he would spend the day before I came cleaning his house. Of course, the first time I went there it was really nice, but then the next few times he didn't clean it as much lol! It was still really cute to see him working so hard to clean the house for me! When we are together, his room is usually a total mess because we both just throw our clothes on the floor in a big pile, but that is ok.

We have made dinner together before, and working together makes it a lot more fun than usual He amazed me at his ability to cut romaine lettuce because he did it exactly like they do in restaurants! He says he is not a good cook, but he was a cook at a fancy Italian restaurant for two years, so I know he is just being modest Whenever the dishes need to be washed, we also do it together

[punkpain]

Kyle is a complete slob. And well I tend to let things get out of hand before I go OCD and clean. I love things very clean.... but i have two kids so i get frustrated and just give up all the time. It will be interesting to see how it works out. First time kyle came to visit he helped out alot. This last time we were both making messes everywhere trying to get stuff done and well... i had a huge pile of things to put away after he left. I know he doesnt keep his areas clean at home or his car.... i actually recall having to complain to get him to clean his truck before i showed up. with threatening to refuse to get in it if i had to site in a pile of garbage. I am hoping that we will be able to keep a happy medium.

[Frank]

Michelle doesn't so much "help" around the house as she does everything. I am naturally disorganized. And when Michelle comes, she always helps me pick up my room and become more organized. She has taken out the trash, vacuumed, dusted my collection of shot glasses, filed papers, made my bed, cooked food, washed dishes, even picked up after roommates.

Really, I could go on. But she is good. Real good. It is like she gets joy in helping me clean... hahaha

[fcbella]

Steve and I are kinda secret messy people. We always tidy up before company arrives, but if it's just us... things can get pretty messy. Thankfully, we can't stand it for long and start cleaning.

Also, when he came to visit me.. I believe he did some cleaning/dishes while I was at work... so that's always a great sign

[Monkey Man]

I'm one to not sit around, especially if people are workin around me, I'll help them weather they want the help or not. It's driving me nuts right now cuz my girl is busting her ass getting things ready for the apartment we are about to move into together. Shes making the money, making the calls, payin the bills, ect. My circumstances dont allow me to help as much as I'd like, so Im pretty much keeping track of what we need and what we have.

[polkapiggy]

Well, to be honest, I'm pretty lazy. If I don't HAVE to do something, I wont. And that includes cleaning. The only cleaning I do is cleaning out the horse's stalls and cleaning up the yard. House-wise, I do NOTHING xD Thankfully, my SO is quite the cleaner, Alex just loves to clean. He cleans all the time and he's been bought up to clean up after himself, whereas I was an extremely spoilt child and was never taught to clean up after myself. He does his whole families washing, I don't even know how to work a washing machine. I clean my whole house top to bottom every couple of months when I get the sudden urge to, but apart from that I never lift a finger.

[Laura]

Paul is the most helpful person I've ever met, when it comes to this kind of thing. Back at home he chops the firewood, brings it from the woods, does a lot of the cleaning, washes the dishes, cooks... the list goes on. Personally, I'll do whatever I'm asked to if I'm at home with my mum and step-dad and if I'm home alone I make sure the house is clean. Paul's a lot harder-working than me when it comes to house-work, though. Heh.

[JoMarie]

I was raised in a pretty obsessively clean environment. In simpler terms my mom is a real neat freak. That being said, that has rubbed off on me in ways that if things are disorganized or messy, I can't think and it sometimes makes me anxious. (Healthy right?) Kevin luckily is pretty neat, as am I. He likes to do the things I don't like (mow, deal with the trash, bathrooms etc.) so we kind of fit perfectly in that way. So yes, he does, and will help out around the house.

[Rane]

Rane & I are both painfully messy, and it's made worse because neither of us cares if it's getting bad. :P He will absolutely help me in a second if I ask for anything though.
I think we both tend to be neater alone, and when we come together, our inner slobs join forces.

Oh yeah, I will totally try to lend a hand whenever asked. It's just, when it comes to cleaning, I'm not too great at it, and take forever to get it right. Which is kind of funny, since my new job is like, 85% cleaning...

[DemonxOisin]

We fight over who gets to do dishes lmaoo.
Same with cooking (though I usually win that one as he can only do tinned soup, eggs, and chicken strips LOL <3) xD

[nicole]

apart, we are both messy (apart from I have some sort of OCD with the kitchen- the rest of the house may be a bomb-site, but my kitchen MUST be clean!), together we are both pretty tidy.

On visits, if he is with me, we both do the cleaning up as we are at my parents house. At his, I do the cleaning and majority of cooking, seeing as he works full-time and I'm at home most of the time. He does argue about it and says he should help round the house more, but until I get a job myself I will win that argument. It makes me feel I contribute more, and the relationship is more "even". Once I get a job, we'll have to share the chores more evenly, until then the house is MINE!

[roosie]

I call my SO a perfect housewife. He always helps me around, cleans up, organizes, does the dishes, irons the clothes and cooks while I'm at school if he is visiting me. He does most when I'm visiting him too but I always try to surprise him by cleaning up when he is gone. He is just a bit like Tanja, wants to do things on his own way. He is neat whereas I am really messy.. I'm trying my best to change though because it makes him a little anxious to see mess. Once he said that when we close the distance, he is sure he will walk behind me picking up all the clothes I leave lying around. He is a great cook as well. We usually cook together but it drives him crazy that I always want to measure everything really carefully and chop everything the same size. It's weird that someone as unorganized as me is so obsessive what comes to cooking..

[elina]

Weeeeee do stuff around the house together pretty much.. sometimes we have cleaning days when he hoovers and cleans the bathroom and I dust and wash the dishes or whatever. I usually wash the dishes when he's gone, and he washes them when I'm gone, and maybe some other stuff so it'll be nicer for the other one to come back to a clean apartment

I guess I'm kinda like what Roosa said about Chris, if I see a messy room (clothes lying everywhere and stuff where they're not meant to be etc.), I tend to get anxious and have to clean