Men are From Mars, Woman are from Venus

In other words...my husband and I are very different.

This post will be pretty meaningless. So if you have many more important things to be doing with your life, by all means get out of here now. No offense will be taken....because I really couldn't know either way. :-)

Mike and I have this understanding that whomever gets out of bed latest in the morning "should" make the bed.  I put "should" in parentheses because one of us (cough-Mike) doesn't always do this.  Usually this is not an issue because Mike typically has PT early in the morning and I am the later riser, which means I make the bed.

Today was one of those days where Mike got up later and actually made the bed! Hooray, right? Not exactly.  I discovered upon coming home from my army-spouse leadership classes this afternoon that Mike's idea of "making" the bed does not match mine.  Here comes the proof.

Mike's idea of a nicely-made bed*:

* And no, Mike was NOT in a rush this morning. He had plenty of time to sit on the couch with a bowl of cereal and Sports-center. 

My (correct) idea of a nicely-made bed**:

**Please excuse the lack of painted walls/wall decoration/headboard/matching furniture in our bedroom.  We are, after all, moving again in July.  Getting a new bedroom set will be one of the first things I do in North Carolina. 

Anyways, this actually didn't irritate me.  It made me chuckle.  And I got to thinking, in what other ways around the house to Mike and I differ?  Now, stereotypically, men are more slobby than women  (A little red squiggly line under "slobby" tells me that this is not actually a word...but I will still use it). BUT I don't consider Mike to be very messy.  He is actually one of the neatest guys I know.

Let's look at some other examples.


  Mike's stacks of t-shirts:

My stacks of t-shirts*:

* Notice how Mike has WAY more shirts than me.  I regularly try to purge myself of the t-shirts that I don't actually wear.  Also, I should probably do my laundry sometime this week.


Mike's shelving in the closet, complete with random black garbage bag and cluttered shoe-boxes:

My shelving in the closet:

I can't even show you our spare-bedroom closet because it is so cluttered with Mike's army paraphernalia--which, if you're not familiar with the army, is WAY more than you can imagine.  I'm talking 5-6 pairs of those tan army boots....TWO sleep systems (each consisting of two sleeping bags and a bivy-cover for sleeping outdoors)...duffel bags....tough-boxes....I can't go on.  This wouldn't be so bad if it had ANY organization to it at all.  It's actually pretty funny when Mike is trying to find something and has to pull out all kinds of bags and boxes to get to it. Ok, now I kinda want to show you a picture of it:

 

 This post wouldn't be complete without a picture of MY half of the spare-bedroom closet:

Can you believe this organization exists directly across from such chaos??The thing is, Mike is very organized when it comes to important things like the class he is currently taking.  And our finances, I think :-)

Do any of you experiences these difference between you and your significant other?

Love,
Christine