The Honey Do List

January 31, 2010

Blog pal Nanette and I were talking about how we can get our husbands to be more productive around the house. I thought I would share since you ladies probably struggle with the same things all the time.


  1. Befriend your husband to your girlfriend's husband on xBox Live. Then she can help you keep tabs on your husband while you're running the domestic errands.
  2. Make a REALLY LONG TO DO LIST when you go away for a Girl's weekend or out of the house. If even just a couple or half the stuff gets done, it's still something and less you have to do.
  3. Make him clean the bathroom after he has friends over. He'll think twice next time about having a bunch of men over drinking beer and eating hot wings with blue cheese. Bleh!
  4. Tell him if you trip over one more piece of his laundry or video game or computer gadget, you're going to throw it out. Even if it's brand new!
  5. If he doesn't help you with the kids, tell him you're going to start telling the kids that he's not their father and their real daddy is going to show up one day who is richer, take you to Disney and would have let Mom be a SAHM.
  6. If all the above fail, withdraw sex, clean clothes, clean towels, warm meals, a stocked fridge, disconnect WiFi and sleep in the clean guest bedroom and let the master bedroom go to hell.
What works for you? Or are you one of those women we hate who have the incredibly helpful husbands around the house?

1 comment:

Coasting Anon said...

So I *am* one of those women you want to hate who's husbands help around the house...in fact, my husband probably feels the same way about me as you do about your husbands. Which forever makes me grateful for marrying such an amazing and patient man. It also takes a lot to not have a complex every time he is cleaning something, or ironing something or putting some piece of clutter away that I had thought about doing but hadn't gotten to yet. I live in a moderated amount of fear that someday he will realize that there are so many women out there who do what he is forced to do because my threshold for mess is higher than his and leave my sorry ass.

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