i'm funny, i don't even want it stored in the house..but sure i do feel better when it is put away..a place for everything.. \ my husband seems to be really poor about putting things away in the RIGHT place..he'll put it where he wants to..even if that isn't where he got it or we are used to storing it..if he even puts it away..so i can never find things after he has used them. but husband has short term memory loss..so if it is his and i put it away, he won't be able to find it again..he wants everything where he can see it so he knows where it is

sashasmommy, I borrowed your graphic for my blog this morning. I wrote a post there, but figured I'd share the story here with you all. I just took down a gallery wall of pics, and was faced with a gazillion nails, which I then patched, sanded, and primed. I sent DH out to the garage to grab the leftover paint. I specifically said it was Laura Ashley Taupe 3 in satin. He came back with this. 5 cans of paint! Only one of which was taupe. He seriously looked at these splotches, and they all looked the same. DH - These are all the possibilities. Me - What?! DH - This one is Tea Room Yellow, this one is... Me - That(pointing)'s the one. DH - This one says Taupe 3 Me - Right. That's the one. Laura Ashley Taupe 3. DH - It says L A Taupe 3. Me - (Big Sigh)

socal, I'm in Southeast Texas, 9a, so I'm warm enough to grow quite a few citrus but still too cold to grow those that can't tolerate below 28-30F. Alas, no Key limes or avocados for me! I may climb the ladder again and do an air layering on the top of one of the flowering trunks of the calamondin. There are four trunks and so I could root one and bring the top down to ground level so I can more easily reach the fruit! Steve, yeah, I don't know what happened to that sticker. I either peeled it off to keep from slipping on it or I wore it out from standing on it so much.

I think these tendencies vary more with the individual than it does necessarily just to gender. But my experience pretty much mirrors what most have stated here. For most of my married life, I was the primary breadwinner (larger salary). But that did not mean I didn't carry the lions' share of househld responsibilities - I did virtually ALL the cooking, cleaning, laundry, gardening etc. Otherwise it would never have gotten done and it was just not worth the dissention to debate about it. And there would have been NO social engagements unless I initiated them. Things like that were just not in his play book :-) (when we finally did split up, he complained that all "our" friends sided with me. What he failed to understand was that I was the one that cultivated and encouraged the friendships and they were really my friends, not his as he put out no effort to maintain them) In hindsight I should have known better :-) He was an only child and a mommy's boy who had everything done for him while growing up, even though he had not lived at home for years before we met.