Do you give yourself or each other jobs to do based on your gender? A blue job in our house means that it is a job for a man and only a man can do it, a pink job means that it's a job for a woman and only a woman can do it. I constantly tell her that ANY job that needs to be done around the house is a pink job, in a fun, take jabs at you wife whenever you can, kind of way.
My wife likes to keep busy, especially in the summer where she will spend most of the day outside watering, gardening, pulling weeds, and continuously trying to beautify our yard.
I barely help, but I have given myself some blue jobs that have to be done from time to time, I mow the lawn, remove nasty trees, make sure all of our equipment is running properly with regular maintenance, fill tires, basically blue jobs.
If she needs gas for the lawnmower she will tell me it's a blue job and it needs to be done. Not only do I have to go to the store and purchase some I also have to fill the tank because she is too weak to lift the container. ( She isn't, she just like to play like she is.)
My wife does not look at the pink job, blue job the same way as I do. She uses the "It's a blue job" phrase whenever she comes across something she does not want to do. So she will do any job unless its nasty, in which case it becomes a "Blue job".
Our septic tank pump has a hole in the hose, as you have probably guessed it is obviously a blue job to have it fixed. And I am currently working on it, yes it is gross, but it has to be done. This is a job that will never be a pink job in our house, my wife will sometimes get upset that I don't clean toilets, so what, she has never cleaned a septic tank and she never will. She would rather clean toilets on a regular basis for the rest of her life than to enter a septic tank one time.
This is the trade off ladies and gentlemen, you may get mad and think that your significant other doesn't do enough around the house, and you would be right, we don't. We do the truly horrible and nasty ass stuff that you ladies would never do, change a tire in 30 below weather while you sit inside the nice warm vehicle, deal with a hornets nest, pull all the negative attention to your self when it's on her, and yes, jump into a dirty sewer and repair it so she can continue to have bathroom breaks inside.
You ladies do tons of stuff it's true, we men are lazy, but when something needs to be done, there is a reason it's called a Blue Job. If it's a job I don't think is necessary it then becomes a Pink Job. (Because I don't wanna do it.)
Scott Goerz.
