Inconsequential but HIGHLY irritating things your DH does

Mine can not speak to me all day then decide, when I'm at that juggling point just before everything has finished cooking but still have a couple of tasks because often it's 3 different meals and DS2 needs his special pudding with his medicine in preparing, that he has a load of incredibly important stuff of zero consequence to tell me about or show me.

Leaves the sponge in the sink without squeezing it whenever he uses it for anything. They get manky and smelly quickly if you do that, as they never actually dry.

No court would convict me.

Same!!! and then afterwards says "I love sneezing" WTAF?!

I've never met a man who can hang washing out properly. It's almost like they go out of their way to throw it on and bunch it up in the most cack-handed way possible, as if achieving maximum creasing and the poorest level or air circulation around the garment is the desired outcome.

Uses a dirty or greasy plate as a tray to carry jars from table to kitchen after a meal. Then doesn't wipe the bottoms of the jars properly or at all.

Gets water everywhere when washing anything in a sink or basin but never wipes it down afterwards. I say never, but if wiping does occur once in a blue moon he will use a very wet sponge and then not dry the surface. Either it dries with loads of water marks or I will discover the wet surface when arriving with hands full of stuff needing a dry surface to put it on.

Bless him.

...isn't this what draining boards are for?? I leave stuff to dry on there all the time!

Argh, the water in the washing up bowl! My DH does this! I’m forever tipping a centimetre of water from the bowl into the plug hole. Drives me nuts for some reason.

Breathing….

Our set of three ‘aesthetic’ rustic chopping boards - small, medium and large sized - live propped against the wall next to the toaster in size order.

He always stacks them in the reverse order with the largest one at the front and the smaller two behind it. Look’s astonished and baffled when informed that this isn’t right.

I do so many of the things listed in this thread. I was going to defend one or two but there are too many now.

Personally I think the most annoying kind of person to live with is someone who's as easily irritated as most MNers.

Also does the delayed wiper thing.
Always has his mouth open.
After washing up still continues to squash the dishcloth into a ball and put it in the washing liquid/scourer holder thingy.....after years of telling him not to.
Does everything at a snails pace.
Oh and breaths ⚰

The online grocery shop is his job. But he doesn't get off his arse to see if we already have plenty of something so if it's a good deal, he'll buy it. So I have to try and neatly store the 7th jar of peanut butter without snapping. Sometimes if we have obscene quantities of an item I'll write on the shopping list NOT to buy it to prevent the future inevitable internal rage I'll get unpacking it. But having to write a do not buy list doesn't exactly fill me with joy either.

My ex-MIL once boasted that she ironed everything including towels (?!) and knickers. Waxed lyrical on the loveliness of ironed undies. My now exH blithely stated 'oh, Bats knickers are too small to iron'. MIL made a cat's bum face, she obviously thought I was a hussy 😂

Mine does it while in the bin. I was struggling to get any more in it while making dinner, last night. He compressed it all down to make another couple of inches. I told him that if he left it like that, I'd be dumping the rubbish in his work chair.

Uses all pans/bowls so it takes me longer to wash up than it does him to make dinner.

WILL not bring down his empty shower gel bottles/cardboard tubes of loo roll then admits he was waiting to see how long it would take me to do it!

I really can't whinge, he does all finances (I have full access but can't be arsed to sort new mortgage offers/savings research etc), most of the cooking, walks the dogs three times a day and doesn't mind if I can't be bothered to go with him.

Any dodgy emails/messages I get from scammers, he looks at and dismisses/reassures me they're fake.

Oh I recognise this. infuriating. I am the finder of things that were never lost.

finds it impossible to use a pan without making a mess of the hob. I can juggle 3 and at worst it needs a cursory flash wipe, but with him it looks like the aftermath of the Somme.

He even managed it while poaching eggs the other day. I have no idea how.

He uses the free drinks on my Costa app. I'm a SAHM and all money is shared, so there's absolutely zero financial impact. But it pisses me right off, I was saving those!

Offers to “do” the kitchen after dinner… when I’ve already done it all while cooking, like all in the dishwasher apart from what’s on the table, normally wiped the sides down too. Never offers when I’ve not done all the pre work. I just say no thanks I’ll finish it, making a point of the fact it’s almost nearly done! He’s a chancer!

Thankyou! I really do thing he shakes like a dog coming out of water!

Never tidies away the yoga mat after using it. Fed up of it lying across the living room floor or bedroom floor after every use!

Leaves his electric toothbrush on the dark tiled windowsill where it leaves toothpaste everywhere every single day! He says it shouldn’t go in the drawer as it’s dirty but I shove them all in there every day after I have wiped the sill.. grr!

Oh I think that's a long standing competition with my DH. Mine roars out the sneeze as if attempting to blast his head off. In fairness the 10th one does almost seem like it might happen!

Can't see anything in the airing cupboard or pantry unless it is literally at the front.

"We've got no brown sauce"

"Yes we have"

"Nope can't see any"

I go and get it from behind the salt and pepper pots (where it always is) but still perfectly visible.

"It was hidden at the back!"

No ! It was 2 inches from the front of the shelf and everything in the pantry can't be at the front FGS.

I do love him dearly though.

Slams the front door by pulling behind him.
Leaves the downstairs loo door open.
TV too loud and never turns it off when he leans the room.

A lot of my irritation is noise based.

Cannot access things in kitchen cupboards. So we have an increasingly growing collection of pickles, spreads and sauces on the kitchen sides, meaning there is little space to set plates down.