Does your SO wash the dishes and clean up? We definitely have this rule in place!
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No. He puts the food away and rinses stuff off. Then I clean the kitchen before cooking the next night.
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We typically cook together and whoever did less cooking will do the dishes. If I'm cooking alone, I'll usually wash some dishes while items are cooking. And then he'll wash the dishes we use to eat with afterwards.
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Yeah, we just take turns cooking & cleaning. Or, whoever doesn't cook/clean has to entertain LO.
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If he feeds LO dinner, then I will usually wash dishes as I'm cooking. Otherwise they get left in the sink and whoever gets to them next does them.
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Yep! I very rarely do dishes. Even if he cooks lol
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That's our normal rule- one cooks, and the other cleans up the kitchen afterward. However, since I have become a super-lazy, super-exhausted preg, I have to say that my husband is pretty wonderful about doing both. While I lay on the couch and watch from the living room- love him!
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No, whoever gets done puting their kid to bed first (usually me, since DS is easier than DD) cleans up. DH usually unloads the dishwasher every morning, though, because he gets up before me.
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No, I do both, I don't like how my husband cleans up.
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I usually end up doing both. After DS goes to bed for the night, I clean the kitchen and DH will clean up in the living room and play area.
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Sometimes. Whoever isn't cleaning is entertaining LO..... which can be the harder job sometimes! I usually clean up as I cook though so there's not much of a mess left over anyway.
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I do both, every time. We HAD that rule in place, but the dishes would sit there for a week before I finally broke down and did them myself
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Nope, I will usually do both. He almost always offers, but I really don't mind doing dishes so I hardly every take him up on it.
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Sometimes, but usually it'll be me doing them! I don't like going to bed with dirty dishes in the sink!
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No, I generally do both. He brings in the dishes and scrapes the plates though. He will always help if I ask or sometimes he even just starts cleaning up but I stay home so I think of it as part of 'my job.'
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Sometimes. Right now it has turned into, I cook, we eat, I take the baby up for bath and he cleans up the kitchen. That works right now.
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My husband usually does both. When I cook, I wash as I go so there are very few dishes to wash afterwards.
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yes, I usually do thr cooking and DH is the cleanup crew. Its a good system for us.
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No I wish! Hubby has been kind of cooking lately, when I say kind of becuase I still help with most of the food prep. And I don't think he has washed a dish in his life to tell you the truth.....
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My husband does both! HOLLA!
If it was up to me, we'd get take-out every night and eat off paper plates. I'm the worst wife ever.
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Yep! Even when I don't cook he usually does the dishes. He's a keeper!
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@pointybird: I could have written this exact thing! Me making spaghetti for dinner is a pretty big deal around our house
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Sometimes. I'm envious of your ladies who's hubby does both!!
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Yep! And he'll even clean up if he's cooked that night too! He's pretty awesome.
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@lawbee11: I love it! I put veggie burgers in the toaster oven for us yesterday night and when they were done, my husband very sincerely thanked me for making dinner. I have set some VERY low standards.
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@pointybird: haha! I'm with you on the low standards. At least they appreciate that we try!
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I looooove cooking.... I would rarely let DH cook. We just have a dishes roster so he has his set nights to clean up and I have mine. When I'm a sahm and I have the luxury of a dishwasher I'm sure that will change
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When I cook, I clean up and when he cooks, he cleans up, haha. I tend to make way more of a mess when I'm cooking than he does, so it would be mean if I made him clean up after me, haha.
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Whenever I've got enough energy and motivation to cook, it usually results in another energy boost after eating to clean up, do all the dishes, and pack Wagon Jr.'s lunch. By the time I'm done, Wagons Sr. and Jr. are usually done eating at that time.
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I do it all......but DH is good at rinsing his plate down pretty well and cup so really all I do is stick them in the dishwasher and wipe the table down. I am the type that cleans all the pots and pans I used before dinner. I keep a clean kitchen as I go because I am usually in a food coma after I eat!
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Yes, though sometimes I go back over it...
Since becoming pregnant, he actually takes on this duty no matter who cooks. He's such a keeper 
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We don't really wash dishes often...but we do rinse them and make a huge pile in the sink before finally loading the dishwasher! We don't have a system for trading off chores, we just kind of see what happens. A lot of times we each rinse our own dishes, and I usually clean up while I'm cooking.
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We DO, but when I cook up I clean as I go so the only thing left after dinner is dishes. When DH cooks he leaves everything all over the kitchen, so I have to clean up from his prep work, put all the condiments away, THEN i can get to the dishes. It kind of drives me nuts.
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one thing i'm very grateful for is my husband almost always loads and unloads the dishwasher. every now and then if it needs to be done and i'm home i will do it but he usually beats me to it!
I do most of the cooking - so it is a good trade!
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yep we do the trade off, though even if 1 cooks, we both often pitch in to help clean up, put things away. on those days when DH does the clean up, while 90% of the dishes are put away or washed, I still find there's always things he left behind or not put away, so I still have to do a clean-up after him. but i accept that, since he's very handy around the house and does all of the outside maintenance.
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Not always.. I always thought that was a fair rule but never implemented it. Some days I just get so tired that I don't want to do either! We do take turns but with him working nights I often end up doing both.
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Can you believe that I cook and hand wash the dishes? I cook more often now that LO eats three full meals a day, and the pots, pans, and dishes pile up quickly. DH has a problem with his one finger, and he has to keep it dry. Of course he could just wear gloves. Hmm...
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@jholler25: aahhh so lucky! That would never fly in my house. Your hubby is handsome AND wonderful!!!
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