Dh angry I don't sweep up the leaves every day

He doesn’t have a wife he has a maid. 🙄 “Leaf the bastard” indeed. If he’s not contributing to running the household you might as well be a single parent.

I can't believe he puts the leaves in a plastic bag and then into the household waste bin. Don't you have garden waste collections where you live? If not, then he should be composting the leaves to turn it into lovely mulch for the garden - although not for your horrible plastic lawn obviously. He is one lazy fucker.

A man who slams around angrily, muttering under his breath needs the rake shoved up his asshole.

As an aside, putting the leaves in a bin bag and throwing them away is a huge environmental no no. Leaves are really good for flower beds, and they are often the home of many insect eggs, including many moths, etc, which if left alone will hatch innthe apring. Getting rid of leaves from urban or suburban canopy is turning into something of an ecological disaster across the deciduous zone around the world.

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So tomorrow, when he gets home, you say dinner is x, I’ve shopped for everything, can you cook it please and watch ds while I sweep the leaves?
the night after, you say would you prefer to cook dinner or sweep leaves?
tne lazy fucker gets home at 4:30, does fuck all, and complains you haven’t swept the leaves. He eats dinner. Single men work harder than him and don’t come home to a clean house and a cooked meal. Having a family should never be easier and less work than being single, but somehow many men expect it to be.
dh and I both work full time, he leaves at 6am and I get home 6-7pm, we have 3 dc who play sport every night and all weekend and we work our butts off to keep our family life going. If he were even a fraction as lazy as your dh he’d be single and discovering the joy of coming home to pick up his 3dc and cook dinner and no other adult doing anything for him ever, he can catch up with the housework on my dc time.

The leaf/leave joke has already been done and with great success.

Do the leaves and go to work but nothing else for a few days. Give him some leaves for his dinner with dog poo garnish.

I've never ever once swept our leaves up.

Either the lawnmower gets them when the grass gets mowed, or they degrade and refeed the ground, or they provide a habitat for minibeasts to overwinter or lay their eggs so it's good for the ecosystem of the garden.

The thought of a grown man absolutely losing his mind over leaves is almost hilarious if it wasn't for the fact he thinks it's a necessary task that you should be doing. It hardly impacts your lives like not having clean dishes and bog roll would.

Leaf sweeping sounds like a weekly thing - if at all really. I’d ignore him!!

Brilliant

You’re barking mad you, aren’t you?

I never ever have understood the need to need to sweep leaves nor the need to have the lawn in neat lines

We have a robot now - it zig zags all other the show, but it cuts the lawn

I live in the country, my house and garden is surround by trees and they have started to drop. And they can stay dropped. AFAIC . There's a wee bit where they all congregate which we may or may not lift depending on the weather and how full the compost bin is

Leaves and grass - organic matter - they rot in

Dog poo picking is enough outside work, and I have to hose the patio cos the hens poo on it - more then enough

He is very untidy with other things and i'm the one forever picking up clothes and things left by him and Dc, i'll be f* if i'm doing the garden too

"You dislike having an untidy lawn. I dislike having an untidy house. When you start putting your crap away instead of leaving it for me to do, I'll start sweeping leaves. I don't think I'll be needing the brush any time soon."

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So he has one domestic job - tidying the garden, and now he wants you to do it?

Twat.

Very easy solution.

1. You sweep the leaves
2. He gets home and is all happy that the lawn looks clear
3. He asks what is for dinner
4. You say there is nothing for dinner as you didnt have time because you were clearing the leaves.
5. If you are feeling petty, repeat every day with laundry (hide his clean pants and socks), tidying the house (I know it bugs you but is a sacrifice worth making), kids toys away etc

Have you read the OP? He doesn't do anything else! It's about 99.5/0.5, not 50/50 anything. I'd be bloody delighted if my partner did all the cleaning, admin, washing, school runs and pet care and all I had to do was shovel up a few leaves between September and November. (I quite like raking up leaves tbh.)

Definitely unreasonable attitude. You live with him and share your lives and living space. You have to pull your weight with chores and sorting the leaves 50/50 is fair. But every day is taking the piss. I'd offer to do it once a week. And ask him to regulate his emotions better because slamming things and being aggressive is an act of intimidation and it's not acceptable.

I see your bough and I raise my too mulch hassle. ( but you still won the Internet)

Cut the tree down, end of leaves, end of problem.

Seriously, either he does it. Or he doesn't moan. End of.
No ones asking him to do it so he can't expect you to do it.

Hilarious responses. MN never fails.
On a serious level, who does he think he is storming in angrily. He needs to run the house as you for a week minimum or shut up and get on with his sweeping brush.

Falling leaves is a natural process so get your DH to complain to god.

My leaves get swept up once a month when the gardener comes.

I think I might go into the garden at 4.47 to sweep up the leaves, telling him it is his turn to make dinner, whilst looking after the dc, as I didn't have chance to sweep them earlier and it is clearly important to him so that seems like a good way to manage it.

Omg best reply ever

Well said. Very wary now too.