Ugh..do I have to?

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violakat

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I hate to maintain my car. I do not like being dirty. Ugh
I hate changing kitty litter. If I could, I would pass the chore off the someone else.

What I do like:
I love cooking, and yes I know it's weird, I actually enjoy cleaning the bathtub.

I hate spiders. They all need to die. Along with cockroaches... and I hate it when the guys scream at them. That's my job, not theirs!
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If a spider is in the house, someone better take care of it quick.
 
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violakat

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thimsrebma said:
I want to learn how to knit, I don't think a spouse would care about though.

I am already crafty and pretty handy around the house. I laid a new porcelain tile floor this weekend. Those things may come in handy if I don't have a handy husband.

The one thing I know I have to get used to is cooking more regularly. I actually am a pretty decent cook and enjoy doing it. But it is hard for me to cook single person portions so I end up with tons of left overs and can only handle eating them for so long. So when I cool I end up wasting alot of food and money. Its cheaper for me to go out to eat a few times a week and eat the left overs for lunch the next day.
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Have you thought about freezing your leftovers for later dates.

Also, have you tried crocheting, or loom knitting? Fun stuff.

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I'm sorry for posting so much, but I went back to edit the last thing, after I read this, and was not able to tack it on.
 
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thimsrebma

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violakat said:
Have you thought about freezing your leftovers for later dates.

Also, have you tried crocheting, or loom knitting? Fun stuff.

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I'm sorry for posting so much, but I went back to edit the last thing, after I read this, and was not able to tack it on.
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I know how to crochet but can't knit.

I do not like frozen dinners, it's just not the same.
 
Liamson

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I don't really mind doing dishes, fixing things(guitar hero equipment, Cars, Motorcycles, Garbage disposals etc), cooking, cleaning, ironing, BUT


I hate folding Laundry and doing landscaping projects. Landscaping is to me like Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down again. Landscaping is never done, its just one project after another Ad Infinity. Its starts innocent enough, pulling weeds or removing a dead tree but it quickly snowballs into fountains, gardens and raised flower beds.
 
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evelina

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i don't mind to learn something to, but i don't want to be (re teached/ re- thought- i don't know the right word for it) in something i know already!!!
( i just do it my way )
 
Pheonix

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Liamson said:
I don't really mind doing dishes, fixing things(guitar hero equipment, Cars, Motorcycles, Garbage disposals etc), cooking, cleaning, ironing, BUT


I hate folding Laundry and doing landscaping projects. Landscaping is to me like Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down again. Landscaping is never done, its just one project after another Ad Infinity. Its starts innocent enough, pulling weeds or removing a dead tree but it quickly snowballs into fountains, gardens and raised flower beds.
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and then doing it all again next year
 
Liamson

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I totally want the maple one!!!!!
 
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Jullianna

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thimsrebma said:
I want to learn how to knit, I don't think a spouse would care about though.

I am already crafty and pretty handy around the house. I laid a new porcelain tile floor this weekend. Those things may come in handy if I don't have a handy husband.

The one thing I know I have to get used to is cooking more regularly. I actually am a pretty decent cook and enjoy doing it. But it is hard for me to cook single person portions so I end up with tons of left overs and can only handle eating them for so long. So when I cool I end up wasting alot of food and money. Its cheaper for me to go out to eat a few times a week and eat the left overs for lunch the next day.
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Knitting, crocheting and making dumplings seem to be lost arts. What will we do when all of our grammas are gone? I tried learning to crochet when my son was a toddler, but he got up before me one morning, pulled it all loose and was playing telephone with the yarn by the time I found him saying, "Hewwo? Hewwo"?? :)
 
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Jullianna

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Liamson said:
I don't really mind doing dishes, fixing things(guitar hero equipment, Cars, Motorcycles, Garbage disposals etc), cooking, cleaning, ironing, BUT


I hate folding Laundry and doing landscaping projects. Landscaping is to me like Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down again. Landscaping is never done, its just one project after another Ad Infinity. Its starts innocent enough, pulling weeds or removing a dead tree but it quickly snowballs into fountains, gardens and raised flower beds.
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I'm just the opposite. I really like working in the yard and plan my landscaping projects for maximum beauty and minimum care. (i.e. planting flowering shrubs that bloom at different times during the year so I don't have to plant flowers every year and dig up dead ones; planning everything so that it makes mowing as easy as possible) Haven't done a fountain though. That would require more care than I have time for.
 
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Rissa77

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violakat said:
Especially when they mechanic gives you the little woman attitude.
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And then try to upsell me because they think I'm dense and ignorant. I laugh.
 
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violakat

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Rissa77 said:
And then try to upsell me because they think I'm dense and ignorant. I laugh.
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Last year, on New Year's Eve, the kick start on my truck broke, so I couldn't start the car. Well, the mechanic, when I told him what was going on, kept saying, oh the couldn't be the problem. There's no such thing as that in the car, etc. I finally made him realized it was part of an alarm system that had been installed. But he still kept insisting that there had to be something else wrong with the truck, that would be several hundred dollars. Guess who got the last laugh, and how little it really was.
 
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thimsrebma

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Jullianna said:
Knitting, crocheting and making dumplings seem to be lost arts. What will we do when all of our grammas are gone? I tried learning to crochet when my son was a toddler, but he got up before me one morning, pulled it all loose and was playing telephone with the yarn by the time I found him saying, "Hewwo? Hewwo"?? :)
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You are right. In the age of two working parents or one working parent many domestic skills once thought to be important are now forgotten. Sewing, knitting, crochet, quilting, cooking from scratch, doing your own landscape and gardening. My mom didnt know how to do any of those things but I somehow picked them up from somewhere. (I crochet and sew, but can't seem to get a handle on knitting. Someday I will make a quilt but it just seems like it would take forever)
 
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violakat

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thimsrebma said:
You are right. In the age of two working parents or one working parent many domestic skills once thought to be important are now forgotten. Sewing, knitting, crochet, quilting, cooking from scratch, doing your own landscape and gardening. My mom didnt know how to do any of those things but I somehow picked them up from somewhere. (I crochet and sew, but can't seem to get a handle on knitting. Someday I will make a quilt but it just seems like it would take forever)
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Depending on how you quilt, I don't think it would take as long as you'd imagine. Of course, TV shows do make it seem a lot easier than it really is. I still say, go for loom knitting, it's basically knitting, just easier.
 
Pheonix

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thimsrebma said:
You are right. In the age of two working parents or one working parent many domestic skills once thought to be important are now forgotten. Sewing, knitting, crochet, quilting, cooking from scratch, doing your own landscape and gardening. My mom didnt know how to do any of those things but I somehow picked them up from somewhere. (I crochet and sew, but can't seem to get a handle on knitting. Someday I will make a quilt but it just seems like it would take forever)
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here's a twist;

me a guy can sew, embroider and cook. I used to be able to knit and crochet.

:D

eat your heart out all those who think guys aren't able to do that sort of thing
 
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thimsrebma

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Pheonix said:
here's a twist;

me a guy can sew, embroider and cook. I used to be able to knit and crochet.

:D

eat your heart out all those who think guys aren't able to do that sort of thing
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I am not saying that they can't just that they usually don't. They don't have to. Women on the other hand ofen have to learn things that are considered to be "male" roles because if they didn't it wouldn't get done.
 
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