I leave money in my pockets to make laundry day more fun for her.
Money! Feh!
If you leave paper tissues in your pockets, then she has a festive snowstorm when she opens the tumble-drier!
It’s our 36th tomorrow and I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do. Panic mode!
Tolken is with an “i” before the “e” btw.
I try to make her life as easy as possible by staying out of her way a lot of the time 
Slan,
D.
Why is your wife the only one doing the laundry? 
Less celebrational, but more potentially interesting is when you leave a cobalt-blue roller-ball pen in your shirt pocket, and the laundry-person fails to notice.
Surprise tie-dye day!
But as to the original question.
We make each other coffee. Depends on who gets to it first.
I read Bill Bryson (or similar) to him because he really likes it.
had her coffee…I don’t let her make it 
I make sure he’s up in time so he’s not late for school 
I get up really quietly so as not to wake her, and feed the cat.
Yeah… unfortunately the cupboard under the stairs is in “her” territory.
Since I am retired and no longer have to leave the house every day to earn a living, I do many of the household chores (laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, some cooking, cleaning, etc.). I do all of the laundry, which, since my wife is the artistic type, means picking up her shoes and clothes from the floor all over the house where she dropped them. She has a habit of leaving tissue in her pockets, so I have learned the hard way to check all of her pockets before I put them in the washing machine. I really don’t like to open the dryer door and see little pieces of tissue stuck to the clothes. I routinely find wads of paper money in her pockets. I don’t see how she separates the twenties from the trash. My worry is that she probably doesn’t think about this.
That’s a good one although we do our own laundry so I’m the one who gets the snowstorm.
Depends on what you mean by “for your spouse.” I do all the cooking, all the yard work, much of the cleaning. She does all the laundry, much of the cleaning, most of the child care. I don’t look at these as what we do for each other, but as what we do for us/the family/the home.
I look at things I do for her as the little extras. Buy her an interesting bottle of wine now and then, look the other way when she brings home yet more fabric, wash the cars, wash the windows when the time comes, build stuff for her, etc.
Vacuum once in a while, not hang my clothes on the conveniently shaped bedposts and use those bleachy wipe things on certain porcelain surfaces.
In other words, not act like a man.
I kill creepy crawly things when asked, and sometimes when not asked.
For years, when we lived in apartments and had to go to the laundromat, that was my chore. My wife always said that when we had a washer and dryer, she’d do the laundry. She still refuses to wash fishing/camping/canoeing laundry. Not to worry, we have an equitable distribution of chores and responsibilities.
I go to work. and some other nice things…
He’s retired so he cooks for me…very important, does his own version of cleaning- dishes, vacuum, mop, grocery shops and makes me a huge chocolate ice cream cone every night while I’m here.(actually he waits on me a lot come to think of it)
We have a fairly even distribution for the sake of the household. Detailed cleaning is not one of them. I cook, she cleans the kitchen. I vacuum the living room. Basically we live at separate ends of the house so I take care of my half and she takes care of hers.
We both take care of the dogs and she changes the cat litter.
This morning I was in a hurry so I left my beard trimmings in my sink.
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Well, she isn’t my spouse yet, but we’re working on that.
So, what (apart from sending flowers and talking on the phone for hours every night) can you do when your loved one is miles away in a different country? (We’re working on that too.)
I wrote her a tune just because I was missing her.
Here it is, played on my Water Weasel A:
http://wildvoice.com/MagicSailor/Posts/Waiting-for-Donna
Regards,
Owen Morgan
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