Inconsequential but HIGHLY irritating things your DH does

Uses a beautiful bowl I commissioned from an artisan potter in Greece and had shipped home at great expense for the dog’s food, and puts it on the step down to the kitchen so I trip over it when I come in the front door. I’ve asked him to use the actual dog bowls and he says I’m being petty and he wants to make sure she’s eating enough. I have now hidden it…

Other people yawning when you’re incredibly tired is so annoying! Not small involuntary yawns but those big yawn and stretch performance ones.

When you know the other person has slept more than you that’s murderous territory!

(NB - lighthearted)

My DH has this obsessive habit of balling up his pairs of dirty socks before he puts them in the washing bin each night. When I ask him why, he says it's to help keep them in matching pairs so they don't get lost. I tell him it's pointless and actually quite annoying because need to stand there un-balling them all before I put them in the machine, so they get separated anyway. I still have to match them all up again once they are washed and dry. I've told him this hundreds of times over the years, but he just can't not do it. 😂

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Because sometimes you need something immediately and don't want it sitting around for hours cluttering up the drainer just drying? You want to put it away. I have a dishwasher but for example my long stemmed wine glasses don't fit in it and a couple of other bits need washing up by hand.

Plus I always have two teatowels on the go. One that stays clean for occasional drying of things, and one which gets sticky because I use it to wipe my hands on when I'm cooking. They both go in a bucket by the washing machine at the end of the day or 2 days at a stretch, depending on how much they've been used, along with the dishcloth. I am very fastidious about that. I hate slimy, stinking dishcloths and manky damp tea towels.

He will leave tins on top of my microwave in the utility room rather than in the cupboard above. I am short and require a stool or chair to reach the top shelf of the cupboard where these items go. He is tall and doesn't even need to stretch. He also leaves his socks in a pile by the radiator in our bedroom, if he opened the bedroom door, the laundry cupboard door is just to the right and he could put them in the actual basket.

🤣 at performance ironing.

They are washable, you know.

But why bother with all that expensive laundry when they could just dry naturally anyway?

Well they are only 'proven' to be extremely unhygienic if they are filthy dirty and you don't replace them often enough. Mine get washed very hot and replaced daily. Same as my dishcloths and face flannels. Nothing unhygienic about it, thank you. And if all you are doing with a tea towel is wiping over a newly washed piece of crockery or cookware to get rid of excess water, then where are the germs coming from, exacty?

Urgh no! They've been proved to be extremely unhygienic, never ever dry dishes with a dish towel 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Another one is he always leaves stuff on my side of the bed, I generally go to bed after him as he gets up early and every single damn night he’s left something of his on my side of the bed. I just throw it on top of him now. If it breaks it’s his own fault. I literally have one bedside table and he’s got ample of storage and space on his side.

or he’ll leave parcels hanging around and I’ll say to him make sure you break them boxes up and everytime he answers, you can’t have a go at me yet, you’ve not given me a chance to move them and break the boxes up, I always say to him because I know he’ll leave the boxes and I’ll end up doing it so I’m just reminding him 🥱

He finds one of mine I don’t think he realises the cost of a bag for life. Works out cheaper to get a roll of decent bin bags and there’s him using a bag for life.😂😂😂 I end up putting it in the kitchen bin anyway so it’s not spilling out in the wheelie bin which has happened before.

Yes!! Why do they do this. Every. Single. Time. And it's my bloody car!

Puts his socks in the wash all bunched up so they come out the drier still wet.

Oh i'm a jumper too. I have 4 sons only 2 at home now but for tall rugby playing boys, they sure could creep about. I could be washing up, making dinner, ect in my zone and I'd NEVER hear them enter the room. They'd just suddenly appear at the side of me like the ghost of Christmas past. I would almost drop dead from shock. They'd swear blind they shouted to let me know they were there.

@Nationalaverageyes to telling me things as if o never knew them. Mine is usually to do with diet, exercise, weightloss.

also yes to meno. I have to have stern words with myself. He might he playing FUCKING INDIE MUSIC on a loop 24/7, the same playlist over and over. But it would be a lot quieter if I left him, and not in a completely good way.

Also, turns off the auto climate control EVERY time he uses the car. I like it at 20, set to auto, the car will do what it needs to do to make me happy,

he will turn temp down and fans up, then fans down, then temp up, then fans up, then all switched off. And on and on it goes for the whole journey.

Thank you for this. I’m feeling rage just reading this thread.

I do love my DH, but performative sneezing, slurping hot tea, not unscrunching wet washing, leaving dishes in the sink, putting unsorted washing by my side of the bed, grumbling under his breath about all the things I haven’t done and all he has to do really grinds my gears!

Nope he’s Essex born and bred! All his family spoke the same 🤷‍♀️

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stirs tea/coffee not in a circular motion but from one side of the cup to another making a loud dinging noise like a bell.

Can't you use pasta shapes instead? I always do, as I can't be bothered twirling spaghetti on a fork.

This!

Omg, I wasn’t going to say anything but I’ve had more than one comment now about drying dishes with a paper towel. That really was not the point of the message or of this thread.
The dishes come out of the dishwasher so they are mostly dry, except the bottom of mugs or bowls. I simply touch these with a paper towel so they are perfectly dry when they go in the cupboard. I don’t use a tea towel because it doesn’t absorb as well. The paper towel dries up and is then used to wipe kitchen surfaces throughout the day. Before you mention the environmental impact - I hate filthy kitchen cloths so if I used them to wipe kitchen surfaces I’d have to wash them constantly and use water and electricity