Another dishes rant
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gemfyreI don't mind washing the dishes really.
I just wish I'd get a bit of gratitude or even acknoweldgement for doing it. I feel like a forgotten housewife rather than a housemate. I do the daily chores most of the time and have to tell the housemates if I want them to do it because somehow they're blind to the ever growing pile of dirty dishes on the counter. I asked Matt to wash the dishes yesterday and he told me "But I did them a few days ago." Yes, a few days ago, and you did HALF the load that was there then and just abandoned the rest. I have done the rest of that load and at least 2 washes since because yaknow, people eat during the day and create dishes and most normal households do the dishes once a day and it never gets to great piles that need to be done in two parts.
"You create most of the dishes." Yes - on food we all eat. Again, most households the cook is the one that DOESN'T do the dishes because they do the cooking. Instead as usual I have to ask and feel like I'm a mother.
I just want a little acknowledgement and/or gratitude. See how that pile (you did see that pile right?) is suddenly gone (please tell me you noticed that too). That's because I washed them. Just say thanks or something. I usually say thanks when you do some housework, I feel guilty if I don't. Yet you two don't even realise I've done dishes.
I just wish I'd get a bit of gratitude or even acknoweldgement for doing it. I feel like a forgotten housewife rather than a housemate. I do the daily chores most of the time and have to tell the housemates if I want them to do it because somehow they're blind to the ever growing pile of dirty dishes on the counter. I asked Matt to wash the dishes yesterday and he told me "But I did them a few days ago." Yes, a few days ago, and you did HALF the load that was there then and just abandoned the rest. I have done the rest of that load and at least 2 washes since because yaknow, people eat during the day and create dishes and most normal households do the dishes once a day and it never gets to great piles that need to be done in two parts.
"You create most of the dishes." Yes - on food we all eat. Again, most households the cook is the one that DOESN'T do the dishes because they do the cooking. Instead as usual I have to ask and feel like I'm a mother.
I just want a little acknowledgement and/or gratitude. See how that pile (you did see that pile right?) is suddenly gone (please tell me you noticed that too). That's because I washed them. Just say thanks or something. I usually say thanks when you do some housework, I feel guilty if I don't. Yet you two don't even realise I've done dishes.
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Re: Sounds like a lot of excuses you're getting to me...
Date: 2004-09-30 05:01 am (UTC)Who says I haven't been pitching int? To my knowledge I've done about as much vaccuuming as BJ has; and I've tended the garden about as much as BJ has; I've tidied the loungeroom, laundry and storeroom as much as BJ has; and I've paid towards the household budget as much as BJ has. I've even gone along on the household shopping when she and Matt don't conspire to go and leave me out of it.
I've even let her store her stuff all over the house and yet she still goes on about how small her room is. Never mind the fact that the guy next to her has exactly the same size room and not a fraction of the amount of stuff stored outside of it; or the fact that someone always leaves junk laying around on my trundle.