Boyfriend allows his 32-year-old brother who has lived rent free for 5 years with no savings live with him and his girlfriend against her wishes: ‘He says that he will not let his brother be homeless’

It’s a sad reality that some people never get their lives together. It’s easy to see someone in their early 20s who lives with their parents and doesn’t have steady employment and assume that they will become fully independent at some point in the next couple of years. However, if that same person is in …
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28-year-old man insists that all household chores can be saved until the weekend, girlfriend of 3 years despairs at gnat-ridden piles of dishes: ‘I do everything else in our apartment’

When it comes to basic household chores, ‘little and often’ can be a good mantra to live by. Many people have neither the time nor the patience to scrub floors and dust every single surface daily, but wiping a surface here and picking up some trash there can make things a heck of a lot …
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‘He should be embarrassed’: Husband repeatedly refuses to help wife with Christmas gift shopping, gets angry when she leaves his name off the card

It’s a long-held, unspoken tradition, at least in my part of the world, that in a partnership between a man and a woman, the woman does the Christmas shopping. It’s one of those things that has just stuck around, no matter how much progress we’ve made with gender equality. I’m sure some families are ahead …
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26-year-old single mom living at her parent’s home asks to switch bedrooms with her 18-year-old brother for the second time, gets offended when he says no: ‘She was meant to be saving for the past year to move out’

When I was a student, my biggest fear was being unable to get a postgrad job and being forced to live with my parents. It’s not that I don’t like hanging out with them, but the guilt and shame of potentially being a leach to the people I had been a leach to for 22 …
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‘Why are you married to a child?’: Incompetent husband leaves 2 weeks’ worth of laundry out while his wife was away instead of doing it himself

Every couple has their own way of dividing the chores. Maybe one of you is better at cooking, so the other one doesn’t mind doing the dishes. Maybe one of you cleans the bathroom while the other one cleans the fridge. It’s maybe even the case that one of you has a much more demanding …
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‘If you find money while doing the laundry, it’s yours to keep’: Amusing Redditors Share Ridiculous Household Rules That Everyone Should Follow

Every household has its rules. Some make sense, some make absolutely no sense, but as children, we all had to follow them. Now, as an adult, I slowly see how my parents’ rules have affected how I maintain my own household, and I now fully expect my future children to follow the rules I collect …
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32 Chores Memes for Domestic Dudes With Dirty Dishes and Laundry to do

The saying goes that everything in life is temporary except for death and taxes. I’d like to add one more forever concept to that list: household chores. I feel like the guy who came up with the «death and taxes» saying probably had his wife doing all the chores for him because, to me, that …
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25 Memes for Neat Freaks Constantly Cleaning their Kitchen

There are two types of people in the world: the neat freaks and everyone else. And you know who you are if you’re a neat freak. You’re the type of person whose self-care day involves washing your comforter and scrubbing the baseboards. Because you can’t relax unless everything is in order. How can you be …
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‘I wake up at 4:30 AM every day’: Millennials who grew up living with their grandparents reveal the old people things they do

Despite the reputation that they often make for themselves on the internet, we can learn a lot from old people. It’s true that in some ways, they had to live in tougher times than we do. It’s easy to roll our eyes at their habits and sayings when we’re growing up, but as an adult? …
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40 Part-Sun Memes for Plant People to Propagate in the Window Sill

Every time life is spiraling out of control, plant people can’t help but buy another plant. With hundreds of plants in their collection at this point, what’s one more? Although, at what point does a gardening hobby turn into an obsession?  As someone who’s named all of their plant and given them little name tags …
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