When we moved into our house my mom sewed a blind for the ensuite bathroom window. I think the fabric matched our bedspread at the time. It was impressive work, with a cord that accordioned it up and down. A few years after we moved in the cord stopped working, which wasn't that big a deal, it's a bathroom, we don't spend a lot of time in there with the blind raised. A few years after that, it was obvious the blind should be replaced, but 1. we are procrastinators 2. there were other house improvements that were more pressing and 3. it's the kind of task my ADHD brain just freezes up at: How does one obtain a blind? I don't frequent blind stores. How do I know what kind of blind to get? I probably need to measure...something? Now it is starting to tear in the middle from humidity, and will soon just be half a ragged blind covering half the window, which probably means I should take some sort of action.
Yesterday I was brushing my teeth before bed and Matt was in the bedroom. I yelled that I really needed to do something about the blind. I was really just verbalizing it to help me remember and maybe spur me to do something other than keep noticing it.
My husband called something back from the bedroom.
Me (surprised, faintly outraged but willing to negotiate): "You'll do it for WHAT?"
Husband (also faintly outraged, but resigned to his fate because he's used to my bullshit): "I SAID that could be a BLUE job."
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LOL! What’s a BLUE job?
(surprised, faintly outraged but willing to negotiate) LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
@ Julie: An antiquated way of saying the job will fall under the man's purview. Garbage is a blue job (except when he's not home). Laundry is a pink job. It is regressive and anti-feminist, and I care not a whit.
Blow/ blue, what's the difference?
I think I learned the phrases blue job/pink job from Nicole. I stopped to consider, since we do have an adult male living in the house, if we have any blue jobs and he is the default lawn mower, with me second in line and Beth third. I don't believe North has ever mowed the lawn but that's more of a chronic pain get-out-of-jail free card than anything gender-based.
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Is this blue/pink job a Canadian thing? I've never heard of it, either.
We had a broken blind in our guest room (broken by THE MAN of the house) and it took months before we had an actual guest who wanted to use the room. Then we had to measure and go to the hardware store and buy a blind. Did you notice who broke it? And the "we" in the rest of it? I want a blue job distinction in my house!!
@Engie - not that I know of. It's just a silly thing that I thought was fairly well known. I don't think I can leave the blind thing to him even if he's willing because he's never here and I am going to be either exposing myself to the neighbourhood or having to hang a towel over the curtain rod soon.
I nominate this post for Best Blog Post of the Week.
Speaking as someone who replaced all of our upstairs blinds back when I moved into the house...why didn't I think of this. As you say, I would have been very willing to negotiate.
It's my first time hearing about pink and blue jobs, but now that I have heard it I will never unhear it.
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