I came home the other day from running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
Hubby proudly announced he had cleaned up the kitchen!
Seriously? I am a 38 year old women feeling like I have one too many balls in the air right now, this had me all kinds of excited.
As I walked into our kitchen my reaction was less…”Oh thank you Honey” and more “What the hell are you talking about, I thought you said you CLEANED.” The kitchen looked EXACTLY the same as I had left it!
Me voicing my opinion on the matter didn’t go over so well.
He had emptied and filled the dishwasher, and apparently wiped off the 1 by 1 foot piece of counter that wasn’t covered in crap. In man language, that baby was all good and cleaned up.
Sigh.
Man clean is just different then Women clean!
Man vacuuming means vacuuming around furniture and anything that might be lying on the floor. Women move chairs, couches, and every single piece of crap their kids and dogs have dropped or touched in the last 24 hours gets put AWAY.
Man dusting. It does not exist.
Man dusting. It does not exist.
Man dishes. If it fits in the dishwasher, you are all good. If not….it needs to soak. Usually for three or four days is good.
Man laundry. Gets done when he has completely run out of clean clothes and his socks can stand all on their own. It however does not get put away. It sits in that laundry basket all folded and creasing until it is needed to cover man parts. I guess putting clothes away in drawers would be a waste of man power.
Man toilets. Not in my lifetime!
Now don’t get me wrong I am grateful for every little bit of man cleaning that gets done around here. I think a man who vacuums is hot. I just wish man cleaning and women cleaning were animals of a more similar breed.
A girl can dream…
The way my husband cleans….
1.) Picks up all the large pieces of toys and stuff on the floor.
2.) Puts them in garbage bags because he has no idea where they go.
3.) Sweeps…kinda.
4.) Done. Aren’t you impressed?
It is then my job to gush over his work, and to unpack any garbage bags he has filled. Soon too, just in case he confuses them with real garbage again, and you realize that your children are in fact not crazy, when they cry over all their missing toys, because your trash can starts talking to you in a plethora of animated voices, when you try to drag it to the curb.
I could do without Man Clean. Really.
I had to read this to my husband… he smiled sheepishly and agreed to everything! Men also have a higher tolerance for dirt. Dh’s job is to vacuum which he will leave for weeks… I usually have invite people over so that he will clean 🙂
My man likes to clean the kitchen for me too. The only problem is that he NEVER EVER wipes off the counters.
Man cleaning doesn’t exist here but I’m training my boys to pick up after themselves…a girl can dream.
*Sigh*
I gotta say that I can’t complain my my husband’s cleaning –WHEN he does clean.
I definitely man vacuum. Because I don’t think anything can lodge between the leg of the coffee table and the rug because uh…the table leg is there?
Most guys don’t seem to know what clean is, mine thinks it’s when you throw everything under the bed.
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I am very lucky I have a man that does woman cleaning… yes honestly. OK, I admit it, I do employ him to do my cleaning so he has to get it right.
This would be what my Husband would say about me. I am a BAD housewife;)
That is so true. I asked my husband to clean the nursery today and when I got homr he was so proud. He moved the babies towel off the changing table and thought the room was clean. He shoved toys into the corner. Will they ever learn? lol
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That is so true, but I have to tell you that IF my guy cleaned he is pretty good at it. “IF” He does do the toilets for me and for that I am thankful.
Oh, gosh, I love this post. So funny and so true. I love how my hubby is always so proud when he “helps” and I have to bite my tongue to keep from pointing out all the things he left undone.
I can definitely relate to the “if it doesn’t fit in the dishwasher, it needs to soak.” I’m always amazed at what is left soaking when he cleans up the kitchen — and wipe the counters or table — uh, no way. 🙂
ahahah I feel ya! Today was our clean day and as I was cleaning and my husband was vacuuming I was calling out the areas to make sure he didn’t miss. “Don’t forget – Under the couches/behind the TV/ etc etc LOL Men, gotta love em.
Happy weekend 🙂
LOL that’s funny. In our household I guess I would be considered the man. LOL
That is hilarious. I have to admit, my husband is fairly well trained. He does, in fact, vaccuum well.
But the kitchen. Yeah. Dead on. That’s man kitchen cleaning. And he gets upset that not everything in the dishwasher gets cleaned when he’s put 20 spoons together in one silverwear rack?!?!