Inconsequential but HIGHLY irritating things your DH does

Me too! I think I can explain this one. I was brought up with loose leaf tea and you had to leave a bit in the end of your cup to avoid getting a mouth full of tea leaves. I've been using teabags for over 30 years but I still can't bring myself to finish the last bit in the cup.

My DH is wonderful, helpful, caring, would do anything for me - BUT:

He insists on doing things for me that I don't actually want done, then gets hurt when I'm not grateful/cross
He does a lot of washing up, badly, so I have to do it again, and has absolutely NO idea of the concept of doing the washing up in such an order to ensure the most logical/space saving use of the drainer. For instance - he will wash up a big saucepan first and then try to pile the plastic takeaway containers on top of it. Then I annoy him by refusing to empty the drained because everything falls off it.
He leaves the dirty washing up water in the bowl
We do have a dishwasher - he is good at filling it and emptying it but putting things away seems beyond him
He is excellent at stopping in the narrowest place in the room so that it is impossible to get past him without asking him to move.
He insists on telling me what I think and how I feel. In fact he doesn't mean to do this at all, it is just a manner of speaking and I should know that, but it gets my goat every time!
He comes from a different area of the country from me and there are some expressions that absolutely drive me up the wall! For instance, when doing a task, usually a minor bit of DIY, about maybe a screwdriver... 'it doesn't want to do it like that'. A screwdriver is not sentient - it doesn't have wants or needs! I'm sure those of you from that part of the country will recognise that phrase!
He is weird about eating things he thinks are leftovers - which are usually things I have made and put into the freezer on purpose. For instance - chicken fricasee which is, indeed, made with leftover chicken but it is chicken I have cooked purposefully to have some leftover. (Cooked chicken, bacon (or leftover gammon if I happen to have some) and onion in a tasty white sauce). Every time he will make a face and mumble about 'leftovers'. Every time he polishes the plate and tells me how delicious it is.

That is a LOT of things but we have been together for 20 years and I absolutely adore him.

Puts everything in the sink after eating despite being able to very easily rinse and put in the dishwasher directly next to the sink. So I usually end up moving it all straight after from the sink to the dishwasher and the worst part… I don’t say anything!!!

Ooh, that's me. It's a throwback from childhood and tea always being made with loose tea. Ooops. Ah well, I do the cleaning up so at least am not irritating anyone else :-)

Sneezing like a bomb going off.

Not reading labels properly when food shopping, so, not for the first time, buying peeled plum tomatoes instead of just chopped.
But he has never repeated the ‘star turn’ of coming home with a joint of pork instead of gammon’ - ‘I thought it WAS gammon,’ he said, all injured…. Ditto pork mince instead of beef….

Apart from that, no complaints, he’s not a bad old bugger really - I do count myself lucky,

Relays information in 1000 words when 20 will do.

Leaves his clothes all over the floor then gets irritated if a dog chews something..
Sneezes so bloody loudly.
Insists he’s never wrong, while in the same breathe insisting he is not one of those people who are never wrong - that one drives me demented!
Uses words like thingummy in sentences and expects me to know what he’s on about. Aaaaagh

You have my sympathies, annoying! I used to work with someone like that. It got to the stage I just walked away before they'd finished because it was dull and irritating.

Try rolling them like at the hairdressers. It's been a game changer for me. Bath sheets folded in 4 and rolled, hand towels folded in three and rolled. Use a divider between sizes along the shelf. When they spot their favoured towel in the stack, they have to push against the ones above while pulling it out. This solution actually works for us and only took 10 years to find.

Although DH still needs me to do the rolling and stacking of laundered towels as I'm "so much better than him at it" 🙄.

A complete inability to empty a bag of shopping - be it food or non food - coupled with a talent for leaving the full bags all over the place. If anyone ever reads of a bizarre murder where someone has had carrier bags shoved into every orifice, it’s because I’ve finally cracked!

Oh god mine does this too, never one sneeze its a whole series of them…. For ages! I know he cant help it but it’s so embarrassing.

Hangs washing up inside out and folded over so it takes ages to dry. Puts clean pots and pans on the hob instead of in the cupboard. Hangs his towel over the wet shower screen to “dry”. Moans at the kids for leaving shit lying around the house when he does exactly the same thing! He really is a good egg though, and I’m certain there’s a long list of things I do that irritate him 😂

Leaves half a cm of tea in the mug every single time. Doesn’t matter if a tiny mug or a huge one. The amount of times I’ve picked up a mug that seemed empty for its contents to spill everywhere. Just fucking finish a drink.

Omg, mine does this and actually comes out with a performative "Aahhchoo!" at the end!

And for all of you that have Husbands under 55, my god you have such a treat in store
THIS

Will not close cupboard doors, and very loud sneezes

LTB!

I’m going to have to defend the Rain-X. Even using wipers, visibility can be really bad, particularly if there is a lot of surface water spray. Rain-X really does make a difference. Still need the wipers though.

Yes! Why do they do that? And if you send them to the clothesline to take it in they just dump stuff in the basket. No folding to minimize the creases 🫣.

Although because my DH retired before me, he took over the laundry, and it's rarely been an issue since then 🙃. (A trick my late DM showed me - when they retire, give them charge of the job where their input has caused the most gritted teeth from you in the past. You will have to thank and/or praise them on a semi regular basis and listen to a bit of mansplaining as they make wise pronouncements about the parts of the process that have to be done "right" but it worked for her with the washing up and is working for me with the laundry.

Yes to performance yawns, it drives me mad. He sounds like a bear and it echos through the house.

For some unknown reason he likes to roll one sock up his foot and sits there relaxing with the sock on his toes like a little hat. On or off make your mind up.

Despite having, at great expense installed bespoke under stairs storage for coats shoes and bags and requesting I put hooks up for keys. He enters the house, walks straight past all storage, puts keys on the kitchen island, shoes near the kitchen stools, bag in the doorway between the kitchen and dining room and his pièce de résistance is to chuck his coat in the middle of the dining table. Then when he heads upstairs to get changed, ignoring all his belongings on the way bellows at the kids to put their bags away.

When he runs upstairs he makes an ‘eh’ noise on every step.

If we’re in bed and I am asleep and he is not he will snuggle up to me and either stroke my face or give me loads of kisses then be surprised when I wake up pissed off that he’s woken me up.

Makes such a meal out of cutting the grass I don’t need to cook on those days.

Mine can sit in the house and not say a word for hours but the minute i get up to do something he follows me from room to room and chats about fuck all,he will stand outside the bathroom door and keep chatting, he also makes sure he is standing in the next place i need to get too. It is like having a bloody toddler attached to my leg.
And for all of you that have Husbands under 55, my god you have such a treat in store. Once they head towards 60 they start making noises, constantly, no matter what they are doing 24 hours a bloody day😡I have resorted to ear buds as i just want to commit murder.

Ex-DP, obviously had very damming qualities, as he is now ex but on the inconsequential front, was the excessive pronunciation of the word "clean". He used to say "Kerleeeeeeeeeen" and really pull his lips back for the "eeeeeen" bit. It was as thought by really emphasising the word he was emphasising the cleanness. Even when I first met him and thought he was fabulous, it used to irritate me. By the end, I'd try to avoid topics that could possibly result in the use of the word clean, otherwise I'd want to bludgeon him.

Make one loop, wrap the other lace around it, and pull the second loop through. Voila!

Omg - my husband used to do this - I thought it was bizarre and I’d always go behind him and open the other one.im amazed someone else does this.

We bow have shutters and no curtains however he still only lifts the slats on one side 🙄

Just remembered something else, having read through these. DP is obsessed with filling every square inch of the kitchen bin bag. When it’s full (as far as I’m concerned) he takes it out of the pedal bin (one of those tall ones) and squishes everything down, then leaves it lying against the bin it just came out of, like a giant rubbish filled slug. It is then filled and squished several times before it’s finally tied and taken out to the wheelie bin. It has fallen over a few times scattering rubbish everywhere. If I tie it up and throw it out myself, I get the Spanish Inquisition about whether it was completely full and letting me know that he had more stuff earmarked to go in. It’s a strange obsession and extends to the recycling. I can’t even be bothered explaining that one😅