Men's duties around the house: 9 tasks that our “knights” diligently avoid

In the twenty-first century, husbands do not need to chase mammoths and antelopes, build houses from branches and clay, and stand guard by the fire with a spear so that their wives and children are not devoured by saber-toothed tigers. They don't even have to fix electrical sockets or assemble furniture because the work is done by professionals. But in everyday life, the division into male and female responsibilities still remains, but somehow unequal. In most cases, husband and wife work the same number of hours a week, but if the man, upon returning home, starts playing “tank” or lies down on the sofa, then the woman has to work a second shift near the stove, mop and washing machine. It's time to put an end to such injustice and reconsider the list of men's responsibilities at home.

Wash the car

This responsibility raises the fewest questions among men. Although, no, it doesn’t cause any problems at all - not a single representative of the stronger sex will refuse to wash their car once again. As a rule, no one minds doing the same procedure with your wife’s car. Especially in our time, when there is no need to wield a brush and a rag, but instead, it’s enough to go to a car wash and drink coffee while a specially trained person does all the dirty work.

To make the bed

Even if a man agrees to take on this morning labor, time discrepancies may arise. After all, while he is getting ready for work, his wife may well still be watching her tenth dream.In fact, there’s no point in dragging her off the bed onto the floor to clean up the bedroom! The conclusion is that the bed should be made by those who like to sleep longer.

But if the spouses wake up at the same time, it costs nothing for the head of the family to spend a few minutes straightening the blanket, fluffing the pillows and covering it all with a blanket.

Vacuum the rooms

For some reason, it is believed that cleaning is a traditionally female activity. It seems unfair, because husband and wife, spending time in the same living space, litter it in approximately the same way. So this responsibility can be divided by creating a schedule. For example, on Tuesdays one of the spouses vacuums, and on Fridays the other.

By the way, in addition to exercises with a vacuum cleaner, a man can do the rest of the work:

• wipe the dust;
• To water flowers;
• clean the toilet and sinks;
• Wash the stove, oven and refrigerator.

Taking out the trash

It’s not so difficult to take a bag of trash with you when leaving home. It will take a matter of seconds to lower it into the garbage chute, and no more than five minutes to carry it to the nearest bins in the yard. If in the morning every moment is worth its weight in gold, no one bothers you to take a walk to the trash heap in the evening - even a very busy person can take on such a responsibility.

Cook food

Cooking is more complicated than making the bed or cleaning. It requires talent and takes more time. If the head of the family does not confuse a spatula and a ladle, and also knows how to use a pepper grinder, he can easily whip up a quick lunch or dinner - at least fry potatoes and make a vegetable salad. And he can handle preparing breakfast for himself just fine.

Well, in those cases when a man is a real kitchen virtuoso, who can bake a honey cake and cook bechamel sauce, nothing prevents him from taking the reins of food management into his own hands. After all, everyone knows that men are the best cooks.

Go shopping

It is women themselves who are to blame for the fact that men do not like to go shopping. After all, they always find arguments like “he will take the wrong thing”, “he will take too much”, “he will not look at the expiration dates”, “he will lose the list”, “he will forget what he came for”, “he will confuse chickpeas and mung beans” - and then dragging heavy bags home.

The husband is an adult and fully capable person, and not a small child. And he is definitely able to buy groceries for the week. Moreover, he has just enough physical strength to carry a loaded cart around the store and to bring food home.

Wash things

Long gone are the days when clothes had to be soaked in chilly river water, and then, without leaving the pond, rubbed and twisted by hand for two hours straight. Every home has an automatic washing machine, and a man will probably be able to load his things into it. And even sort them before that into black-white-color. And the powder and rinse aid will be poured into the required compartments. And he will get clean clothes and even hang them out to dry. Because nothing depends on the presence of certain sexual characteristics in this matter.

Wash the dishes

Another household chore that men avoid doing in every possible way. And some even broadcast to the whole world that scrubbing frying pans is prescribed for women by fate, higher intelligence and the peculiarity of the structure of genes. What’s so scary about picking up a sponge and washing your own plate is unclear.In general, it’s time to divide this responsibility between spouses - so, just in case, so that the word “wife” ceases to be synonymous with the word “housekeeper” in the male mind.

Iron clothes

In the age of steam generators, tidying up a shirt, trousers and jacket is not a problem. Yes, you can handle a regular iron if you practice on less valuable T-shirts and sheets. To present a claim to your wife that some item of clothing has not been ironed means to sign your own insolvency. It is the man's responsibility to take care of a man's things if he is old enough to start a family.