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Woman Bills Husband for All the Housework She Did

**Wife Seeks Divorce, Wants $500,000 for 5 1/2 Years of Cooking and Cleaning **
Jul. 26, 2005 - Can a wife put a price tag on housework? One woman says yes, and is seeking $500,000 for the work she did during 5½ years of marriage.

Kathy Thompson previously appeared on “GMA” when she went on strike to get her husband, Gary, to help around the house. Now she wants a divorce, and compensation for her work.

“He goes fishing a lot, he doesn’t appreciate me I don’t think, and so I went on strike,” Kathy Thompson said in 2002.

The strike ended only when Gary Thompson showed up with flowers, vacation plans and dinner reservations.

But Kathy Thompson says the honeymoon didn’t last very long. In addition to her previous housework, Thompson said she also had to start mowing the lawn and doing other household chores such as painting the house. She was also working two jobs and going to school.

Thompson said she finally had a “nervous breakdown,” and one day at church God “touched my heart and said ‘Baby, the only thing you’re guilty of is loving too much and too hard.’”

Thompson said she went home and wrote out a bill for her soon-to-be ex.

The itemized bill covers 5½ years of cooking, cleaning, laundry and yard work. For six hours a day of cleaning for 352 days a year, Thompson is charging $20 per hour for a total of $42,240. Approximately 1,760 loads of laundry at $10 a load could cost Gary Thompson $17,600.

The bill is a separate case from the divorce proceedings.

Kathy Thompson says the total comes to $494,880, but she will settle for $30,000.

“I’m trying to be reasonable,” she said. “It’s not about the money, it’s about standing up for women’s rights.” Kathy Thompson is now living in her mother and father’s log cabin and working part time cleaning houses. She says has no plans to marry again.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmericanFamily/story?id=977565
 
Well, at least she has no plans to marry again since that would be adultery. Granted, her husband should take some responsibility and help his wife. Still, its not justification for divorce and God did not speak to her. But, that’s love American style.
 
Heck my husband would bill me for being a handyman, groundskeeper, security guard, bed warmer, craftsman – he built end tables and did nice job of it – mother’s helper, landscape designer (he did that professionally for most of our marriage and our yard shows it) analyst for ditzy wife, dog exerciser, and he does take out the garbage and eat leftovers.

I married a Saint – poor guy has to live with me though. 😉
 
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I shouldn’t laugh but that is the craziest thing I have ever heard.
 
And the world just gets goofier and goofier, doesn’t it? :eek:

I’m afraid that in my case, I’d be the respondent - hubs could sue me for all the grocery shopping, laundry, cooking, dishes, etc. :o
 
Well, her husband does sound like an insensitive jerk for not helping her out more. But I’m sure she didn’t NEED to work 2 jobs AND go to school. That right there is a recipe for disaster, no matter who you’re married to.

I know a lot of couples where both spouses work one job each and that is hard enough. This couple I babysat for (both Christians, mind you) well they both worked and thier house was a stinking pig stye because neither one wanted to clean it at all!

But seriously, unless you have 15 kids,** how can you do 6 hours of housework a day?? That is preposterous. ** What does she do, get down on her knees and scrub the floor with a toothbrush? Compulsively dust everything in the house over and over again? If they have kids, can’t they help?? If not, who’s laundry is she doing EVERY day??? I’m a housewife and mom and I KNOW that’s a laugh. There isn’t 6 hours worth to be done unless you let things go for a week!! AND I wash dishes by hand.

I also had 6 other people to help take care of growing up, and even then there wasn’t 6 hours worth of housework every day to be done! That is a joke. Unless she is including cooking, in which case, hey lady, ever hear of Betty Crocker?

That woman is obviously just GREEDY.
 
That is quite the feminist philosophy though. Shut your mouth and play the victim, and then…attack and sue!

Could she never have had a DISCUSSION with the man? Worked out an agreement of some sorts? Said, “Hey, if you expect me to take care of the house by myself, I’m not working that second job.” What kind of person marries someone and lets them walk all over them without sticking up for herself except for in the form of crazy stunts like this??

I’d be a little more assertive than that. When my husband wants me to mow the lawn, I say, fine, but you’re washing those dishes. I’m not doing both. And that is that.
 
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Christian4life:
But seriously, unless you have 15 kids,** how can you do 6 hours of housework a day?? That is preposterous. **
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I do 6 hours of housework a day, and I have no children. I can easily see how someone would have that much housework. Between doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, gardening, sewing, grocery shopping, etc, etc, the list never ends. I don’t let things pile up, but there is always something that needs to be done. It depends on what kind of household you live in. For example, I live in a rural area, and in the summer I grow my own fruits and vegetables, so I spend a lot of time in the kitchen canning and preserving. A city dweller probably would just get their produce from the market, so that would not be in their list of household chores. Depending on her situation, this woman could very well have had 6 hours of housework a day. But regardless of how much housework she had, it seems rather ridiculous to bill her husband for the work she did.
 
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Asella:
I do 6 hours of housework a day, and I have no children. I can easily see how someone would have that much housework. Between doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, gardening, sewing, grocery shopping, etc, etc, the list never ends. I don’t let things pile up, but there is always something that needs to be done. It depends on what kind of household you live in. For example, I live in a rural area, and in the summer I grow my own fruits and vegetables, so I spend a lot of time in the kitchen canning and preserving. A city dweller probably would just get their produce from the market, so that would not be in their list of household chores. Depending on her situation, this woman could very well have had 6 hours of housework a day. But regardless of how much housework she had, it seems rather ridiculous to bill her husband for the work she did.
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Okay…I do all those things except gardening, canning and sewing. But those sound more like hobbies than chores! But when you have a 1 year old you learn to do things quick, you have to lol, before the lil bug gets away!

I know it is rediculous. Should a mother sue her children next for all she did for them growing up? Should parents insist their children pay them retroactively for all the food they ate growing up?
 
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Christian4life:
Should parents insist their children pay them retroactively for all the food they ate growing up?
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**Hey now that is a thought:rotfl:…I could make a bundle off of my two kids between the food that they consume (could swear they have hollow legs with all they eat) :rotfl: **
 
Only 6 hours of housework a day!!! (including food shopping,cooking, child care, “grandma care”, laundry gardening and everything else) would be an easy day for me:D
 
I hope the husband is smart enough to bring up in court the fact that there was NO signed contract between the two in which he would owe her money for doing all that stuff. Ya can’t just send someone a bill for something unless they signed something beforehand agreeing to pay you.

I guess a divorce is inevitable since it sounds like neither one of them has a clue what marriage is really about. :nope:
 
I almost laughed out loud when I read the part about working and going to school to boot! I can just imagine they had a fight about whether or not she should go back to school, or whether she should work. It’s very possible that she insisted that she needed some outlet to get out of the house. So the jobs and going to school could be for her own selfish benefit, yet come time for divorce these things are thrown in like they’re added burdens!

If that’s the case, the hubby should charge her $50/lb for every bite of fish she ate. Poor guy had to work AND fish just to support the family. 😃 😉
 
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kaymart:
Only 6 hours of housework a day!!! (including food shopping,cooking, child care, “grandma care”, laundry gardening and everything else) would be an easy day for me:D
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Laundry? You put the clothes in the washer and walk away. Folding is the only thing that takes any amount of time, unless you’re one of those obsessives who insists on ironing. I never iron.

I don’t consider child care one of the things you’d put on the list, since it is your child and you’d be responsible for that whether you were still with your spouse or not. Even if you didn’t have custody, there’s child support.

Why do I keep seeing food shopping? I go once a week and buy a lot at a time. It takes me 3 hours a week. No biggie.
 
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masondoggy:
I hope the husband is smart enough to bring up in court the fact that there was NO signed contract between the two in which he would owe her money for doing all that stuff. Ya can’t just send someone a bill for something unless they signed something beforehand agreeing to pay you.

I guess a divorce is inevitable since it sounds like neither one of them has a clue what marriage is really about. :nope:
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I agree. I have seen cases on t.v. where boyfriends sued thier girlfriends for all the expensive gifts and dinners they shelled out whilst dating. They always lost. The judge always said, “It’s a gift. You don’t get reimbursed for gifts.”
 
Karin said:
**Hey now that is a thought:rotfl:…I could make a bundle off of my two kids between the food that they consume (could swear they have hollow legs with all they eat) :rotfl: **
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Yes, but then you’d have to take that money and give some of it to YOUR parents, too. LOL.
 
She claims she was working two jobs, going to school, and doing the housework and yardwork.

What the heck was HE doing? Was he gainfully employed? Was he working more than 40 hours a week? Or was he sitting on his rump somewhere doing a lot of nuthin’ ?

I’d sure like to know the rest of the story.
 
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WhatMeWorry:
She claims she was working two jobs, going to school, and doing the housework and yardwork.

What the heck was HE doing? Was he gainfully employed? Was he working more than 40 hours a week? Or was he sitting on his rump somewhere doing a lot of nuthin’ ?

I’d sure like to know the rest of the story.
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Oh yes, I’m sure he was home all that time watching football in his underwear, only taking breaks to hold the gun up to her head and FORCE her to work so much.

Let’s just play the victim for all it’s worth, why don’t we.
 
Just a thought, maybe he could say that all the housework and stuff was rent in exchange for living there. In the end, this is all laughable but thought provoking, these people have no clue of what marriage is. I always thought marriage was a team effort. Btw, did you see the charge for intimate relations,that is illegal even between married people,
 
Okay, that lady should never have gotten married in the first place. You don’t try to hold down 2 jobs, a school career, and a house at the same time. I think she went into marriage with a fundamentally messed-up attitude…

Hmm, how much could I make if I sued my parents for emotional damage? My ego suffered irreparable harm while I was down scrubbing those floors. It made me feel like a no-good, lowly gasp housewife! Oh no! I said the H-word!!!

Yechhh. I think feminists should just shut up.
 
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