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Original poster

to expect dh to NOT leave his pants on the bathroom floor!

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ratfly · 13/06/2007 15:48

fgs. I am narked anyway today, but when I find his boxers hidden behind the door AGAIN, I am really p*** off. How hard is it for him to pick them up and put them in the washing bin?
Sometimes I just leave them there til a small collection builds, then chuck them on top of his computer.
Why should I have to pick them up?!?!?!?!
Rant over (for now).

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sugarfree · 13/06/2007 17:58

I have dealt with the pants on floor thing(one dh and 3x ds)
I now have a zero tolerance policy on inside out washing.(a much tougher nut to crack but less distressing on the eyes/nose)
It goes in the wash inside out then it will be returned to you inside out but clean.The message is slowly getting through.
I am the Barbara Woodhouse of the laundry world.

sugarfree · 13/06/2007 17:54

Go Ratfly! That's the spirit!
Inzidoodle,if yours ends up with no pants,who cares?
Don't be putting them out of sight in wardrobes ladies.
Leave them exactly where they are.I promise,eventually your menfolk will crack.

morocco · 13/06/2007 17:35

don't leave them on the floor - you aer bound to crack first at the scuzzy sight of 3 weeks worth of smelly pants - stick them all at the bottom of his wardrobe instead or put them back in his drawers cos they must be clean if he's not put them to be washed, right?? that way, it won't get on your nerves but once in a blue moon they will all appear magically in washing basket

NoodleStroodle · 13/06/2007 17:34

That'll be me - I can't begin to think about telling you about his pant recycling

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/06/2007 17:33

Lol, yes, do we get bonus points for DH's who pick them up and put them back on again?

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ratfly · 13/06/2007 17:31

I guess the winner would be the one with most pairs of pants!

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inzidoodle · 13/06/2007 17:29

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NoodleStroodle · 13/06/2007 17:27

DS following DH footsteps - has left his cricket box on the hall floor so it's the first thing you see when you walk in - ugh! (And how did it get there?)

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ratfly · 13/06/2007 17:25

the washing bin, not the rubbish bin

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ratfly · 13/06/2007 17:24

ok ladies, a challenge:

The next load of dirty underwear our dh's chuck on the floor, we leave it there until THEY put it in the bin.

Prize for the mumsnetter whose dh leaves it the longest

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inzidoodle · 13/06/2007 17:03

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sugarfree · 13/06/2007 17:00

and?
They're not your socks so leave them.
(I appreciate that this is above and beyond normal wifely duties but so is picking up another adults dirty clothes for 40+ years)
They drop it because they know that eventually you will break and pick it up.
Be strong ladies and leave the skuddies where they are!

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/06/2007 16:57

If I didn't then we would probably have a modern art installation, akin to Rachel Whitread in the corner of our hall.

I would call it 'solid block of festering sock'

sugarfree · 13/06/2007 16:53

Why are you picking up after your men??Are they toddlers?
stop picking up after them!

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/06/2007 16:50

Dp puts them into the pocket of his trousers!?
And he puts his socks into his shoes, then puts them into the shoe box, then the next morning chucks them back in, or sometimes back on his feet (boak emoticon)

JodieG1 · 13/06/2007 16:45

Pmsl laughing at this dh chucks his down the stairs from the top when he's going for a shower in the morning along with his socks from the day before. He sometimes picks them up and puts them in the wash but some days he manages to step over them on the way out the door and doesn't see them . I can't stand the way he rolls his shirts up before putting them in the wash though, they come out all screwed up but since I've stopped ironing them I don't care lol. Most days he doesn't even bother ironing his shirt just sticks it on creased lmao.

lizziemun · 13/06/2007 16:39

This realy annoys me, DH stand by the washing bin and throws his clothes across the room (to his side of the bed).

I might also add he will be running out of clean socks soon as he takes them off and leaves them under is desk in his home office and as i am 6 months pg i can't bend down and get them.

unknownrebelbang · 13/06/2007 16:32

Just let the pile grow until he's no clean ones left at all.

Or bin them.

Ok, so he may go commando....

LazyLine · 13/06/2007 16:29

Put them in the bin.

Or hide them and tell him you have put them in the bin.

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ratfly · 13/06/2007 16:12

kslatts - tried that. he put EVERYTHING in the washing bin - clean or dirty. so I shoved it all back in his drawers.
why is it so hard for them?!
sorry, this REALLY bugs me.

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kslatts · 13/06/2007 16:09

YANBU, I would just refuse to wash anything that is not in the washing bin, maybe if he runs out of clean boxer shorts he will start putting them in the washing bin.

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ratfly · 13/06/2007 16:07

i could put them in his work laptop case. If he wasnt on his laptop ALL night.. He's bound to notice when he puts the laptop back.
funny isn't it - laptop nicely tidied away, ev erything else left where it falls...

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woopsadaisy · 13/06/2007 16:05

oh! and can i add, that even though THEY leave their stuff everywhere, we are the ones who are supposed to know where everything is, and "wheres my blah blah t- shirt???"

on the bloody floor where you left it mate

woopsadaisy · 13/06/2007 16:04

my dp leaves a trail when he gets in from works, it starts at the front door, and then winds up to the bedroom, but not before depositng an item in EVERY other room

Bouncingturtle · 13/06/2007 16:03

Does he have a briefcase? Put in there...