Off the back of the TV rant thread...

H deals with the car, does the cooking and washing up, does the food shop and sorts bills.

I do the majority of child related stuff, and cleaning. I also do the DIY, as H is useless.

We do confirm largely! I do most of the cooking, though not all, and I do most of the cleaning. H puts the bins out and does the recycling, he also mows the lawn. We share the gardening for the most part. I do more childcare, but just becasue i only work 3 days and he works 5, when he's home he spends as much time with J as i do. For DIY I do wall prep and the painting, and he does almost everything else, including anything involving power tools.

I do the cooking, we share the cleaning, we both do the ironing (I only started after the wedding because we got an awesome steam iron), he does any sewing that needs to be done, I do the shopping (because he hates going with me which leads to arguments), I pay the bills etc because he is too forgetful, we both do the gardening and DIY. Car stuff we're both clueless on! We tend to share most things really, because other than the cooking (I'm a much better cook, unless we want to eat pizza or mac and cheese every night), I'm too aware of the gender stereo types and don't want to end up doing all the 'woman's' jobs.

On some things we conform but on others we dont.

Cooking is split when we are both working, while I was out of work I did all the weekday cooking, OH would often cook for fun at weekends.

We food shop together, and OH decides with me what we will eat.

OH does the mowing and the heavy gardening but the lighter stuff is split

OH takes the bins to the curb, but only because we have a couple of steps in the garden that i struggle to get the full bin down. emptying the bins from the house is split.

OH is better at getting motivated to do the house work than I am, seeing him start guilts me to do it too. but while i have been off work I have been doing it. he also generally does all the ironing too.

Boy jobs that he does: bins, hanging pictures.

Girl jobs he does: more than his fair share of housework, cleans oven, household finances (although I think this is stereotypically a Boy job?).

Boy jobs I do: build furniture.

Girl jobs I do: coordinate soft furnishings, vast majority of cooking.

OH is in charge of most things to do with the kitchen - cooking in it and cleaning it, washing up. I do the odd bit of cooking but OH likes his meals much more regularly than I do and would starve if he had to wait for me. I clean the bathrooms and the bedroom. We both do the living area, although I usually wait for him to start then feel guilted into helping him ?. OH does most of the ironing. Laundry is done by whoever gets around to it but I separate the washes as OH gets confused by the idea and I usually put the clothes away as OH can't stand sitting there pairing socks. We share the financial stuff, half go out of my account and half out of his, I don't know how it ended up that way. We both go along for the weekly shop, we don't get out much otherwise. We both get our hands dirty with things like gardening, decorating, putting furniture together - he does it out of obligation but I do it because I like making/breaking stuff.

Boy jobs: I do DIY, H sorts out stuff to do with the car, H checks our finances and is generally the one who sorts out our utility bills etc. H takes the bins out.

Girl jobs: H tends to do the cooking, I tend to do the cleaning. Laundry is done by whoever gets round to it first but that tends to be H. H tends to do the weekly shop. H tends to feed the cat because he is the only one soft enough to get up at 6am when she starts whingeing and she knows it (she doesn't wake up early meowing when H is away), and he'll feed her in the evening when he's cooking.

Boy does all standard blue jobs- bins,car fixing, DIY and shockingly all of the bill payments. Plus additional pink jobs of most childcare duties and birthday cake baking.

i do all the cooking pretty much (despite him being a trained chef) washing and cleaning and artfully arranging the second hand crap I being home into something Kirsty allsop would be proud of.

we are actually quite gender stereotyped on everything.

H does anything disgusting, such as toilet related, dealing with anything weird, but that might be more to do with my OCD than anything else.

H does all household finances, but works in finance so just leave all that stuff to him naturally.

I do all the food shopping. but down to convenience/logistics -I drive to work so stop off at supermarket on way home and finish work much earlier than he does, and he gets the train.

H does all DIY because I just came from a family that knows better than to attempt it ourselves.

Cleaner cleans.

I do 90% of cooking but again get home earlier than him and he can only cook steaks.

He does all the cooking and the food shop and the bins and diy but I do all the cleaning (whilehe does the food shop) and sort finances but as most of this is direct debit I just check the account every now and again

This is me!

Me: Recycling, all cooking, all food shopping (well l order it and always seem to put it away!), car stuff, tidying and some DIY -sanded most of the stairs and landing lately. I seem to deal with gross things -slugs, hairballs in plugs etc. Everything for the cats.

Mr Erin: Paying some bills, washing up, cleaning bathroom, hovering and mopping. He is meant to put the bins out but this often seems to fall on me at the moment... He has stepped up on the DIY front after sanding some of the stairs and landing today.

I do most childcare and will continue to do so going forward, but only because my part-time-hours request was accepted and his was rejected. He does slightly more childcare when we are both at home, while I get on with other things.

In the evenings he comes home from work and takes the baby so I can cook and sort out the kitchen. Then we eat together, he bathes A while I clean up the highchair and our plates. He plays with him upstairs while I go on Facebook/Hitched, then I put A to bed while he plays video games.

Because I'm off work at the moment I do the food shop, since I can go in the middle of the day.

I deal with all the accounts and bills and always have, plus all the 'family organisation' like family birthdays, holidays, keeping track of relatives etc.

I like to tell him I work the hardest since I'm growing two babies (breastfeeding one and pregnant with the second) and he just has to grow himself!

Oh he does the bins/recycling on Sunday evenings, and usually Hoovers while I tend to do the day-to-day tidying up.

We both do very little cleaning ? As for DIY... my dad does that! We are useless, not sure why we're allowed to live by ourselves frankly!

I do the bills etc, and budgeting, shopping, cooking. He lends a hand a cleaning etc.

It's hard because, It was my place for he moved in, so I'm so used to dealing with everything, and I'm a bit of a control freak. So I don't expect him to do too much, just pull his weight with keep the place tidy and looking after the pets and pay his rent on time.

I do all the cooking and washing and drying up.

OH does most of the cleaning, sometimes I do some too, depending on my mood!

OH mows the few sq ft of grass we have.

We both do bins and the DIY.

One of the major issue's H and I had when we were together is that he expected me to conform. He didnt want to do anything around the house. Which I wouldn't have minded, if he even contributed money wise to the household. I did all the food shopping (generally alone), bills and most of the cleaning.

Obviously I dont live with MF - but when he comes to stay the night, most of the time he cooks and cleans, but if I've cooked he jumps straight up afterwards and washes up. He tidies up after himself and me, even in my house and somehow manages to pay his own bills!

Pompey! I could have written your first para! My ex never helped with housework/cleaning or even contributing ANYTHING towards the house. (even when I was working 52 hour weeks and he didn't work for 2 months because it was winter!) it was down to me to sort bills and everything. Massive factor in why we split up.

He earns more than me too and moaned at me that I never had any money....

But we didnt split up because of that, it was because I'm boring, cr@p in bed and a nag. ?

I do the majority of the cleaning, O/H will do what I ask of him, although often reluctantly ?

We both do the car, the weekly food shop and cooking.

I am the gardener, O/H hates doing the garden, in Summer it's where you'll usually find me.

I do love DIY, O/H insists on doing it though ? says he should do it, so I leave him to it, unless there's something I can do sneakily. Hehe.

He deals with the bills, utilities and finances.

I deal with all the finances and do the majority of washing and cleaning but H will do things if I tell him exactly what to do. He's pretty good at cooking and food shopping but we do both take turns doing it. DIY is shared between us after I've called my dad for his expert advice.

The only 100% blue jobs are taking the bin out and changing lightbulbs but that's pretty much a height issue rather than really being a gender thing.

I do everything to do with my house and my family and he does everything to do with his house and family.

I think we conform.

I cook and do the clean up afterwards, though we have started sharing a bit more lately.

Childcare isnt an issue, his two pretty much look after themselves!

We both keep an eye on finances, i do mine he does his, our shared stuff is joint access etc.

I do the admin! birthdays, replying to letters etc.

He does the majority of technical stuff or odd jobs.

Yep we really do conform! I dont mind most of the time.

Virtually all our bills are DDs so it really doesn't take any work to "do the finances." We both have a vague idea of how much is in the joint account and our own.

He does a lot of cooking, I do more cleaning and I am always the one to clean the bathroom and kitchen. I deal with most of the laundry. Binbags get taken out by whoever notices that it's full first - we have a communal binstore for the block so we just shove our stuff in the big skips whenever, doesn't need to be on a specific day. I look after the hamster except when I'm on nights, when he'll feed her.

He organises things like electrician, car maintenance etc - he would never try to DIY as he hasn't a clue. He didn't even know how to fill up a car with petrol until we bought this one when he was 26!