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SAHM job description

mrsfireflymrsfirefly
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What is your SAHM job description? I'm just curious what tasks you consider to be part of your "job" as opposed to shared responsibility with husband. For example, some of us would include cleaning, others wouldn't. Some would say nighttime feedings, while others would not.  to be specific, I'm not asking how much or how little DH helps out, but am just curious as I was sitting here feeling lazy and thought that I should "get to work" on meal planning meaning I must think of that as part of my job.
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Re: SAHM job description

  • mrsfireflymrsfirefly
    My description:

    Clean house
    Make meals for DD
    Entertain/play with DD
    Meal planning
    More middle of the night stuff than DH
    Buy baby supplies

    DH doesnt give a hoot if I clean or meal plan, but I feel like I should. I tried to list things that I'm really only primarily responsible for because I'm a SAHM (meaning they'd be more 50/50 if I worked).
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  • bigmammaBbigmammaB

    I end up doing everythingr:

    childcare (morning, noon, night); meals; errands; pay all bills; all appts for kiddos; laundry (shared); cleaning; cooking

    and I WAH for a regular company for 4 hours a day writing training material for them.  I consider myself a SAHM because my family comes first.

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  • mabma80mabma80

    To keep it short, I'll tell you what I don't do.  

    take the trash out

    grill

    clean the bathrooms

    Everything else is what I do in the house.  Occasionally, he'll get them ready for bed and brush their teeth.  But that is few and far between, because the kids see Dad as the "time to have fun" parent.  : )

    I call myself the CEO of the house. DH is the CFO. 

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  • JessesGirl&MackenziesMomJessesGirl&MackenziesMom member
    imagemabma80:

    To keep it short, I'll tell you what I don't do.  

    take the trash out

    grill

    clean the bathrooms

    Everything else is what I do in the house.  Occasionally, he'll get them ready for bed and brush their teeth.  But that is few and far between, because the kids see Dad as the "time to have fun" parent.  : )

    I call myself the CEO of the house. DH is the CFO. 

    Yes

    What I don't do: Take the trash out, Give the dog a bath (he's as big as I am), mow the lawn, grill, call repair men, kill spiders if DH is home, fill tires with air in vehicles.

    What I do: 97 % of Meals (Shopping, Planning, Cooking), 95% of Cleaning, 95% of feeding/diapers for LO, 100% of bathtime/bedtime with LO, errands, birthday cards, RSVPing, pay bills, get oil changed in vehicles

    I just realized that what no one does is wash our cars. Not sure that has been done in our year and a half of marriage. Maybe we should figure that out.

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  • megann831megann831
    imagebigmammaB:

    I end up doing everythingr:

    childcare (morning, noon, night); meals; errands; pay all bills; all appts for kiddos; laundry (shared); cleaning; cooking

    and I WAH for a regular company for 4 hours a day writing training material for them.  I consider myself a SAHM because my family comes first.

    So family doesn't come 1st for working moms? 

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