Tell me what irritating shit your DH/DC/housemates do that boil your piss

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DH will do the dishes, but only the easy ones. If DD's sippy cups, deep glasses or fancy utensils are in there, he will literally drain the water and walk away leaving them there.

Tell me what your cohabitants do that pisses you off!

DH - Not putting stuff away just leaving it in piles. Leaving dirty laundry on the table. Putting his feet on the edge of the table in order to tie his shoes laces. Leaving the loo seat up. 🤬

Stbx......

Rearrange the food in the fridge. It was the ONLY time he went in the fridge.

Pick bits of fluff/whatever off the carpet upstairs, put it in the bathroom sink.

Put a plastic bag by the back door and put rubbish in it, instead of the bin.

Pick bits up off the floor downstairs and leave them in a pile on the kitchen side.

There are loads.

Have a friend staying for a few months....he leaves cooked food in the oven or on worktop for days until I notice and put in fridge etc.... And now we have mice again after years of battling them....!!

DP will do the dishes but not rinse the sink or wipe down the sides. He also leaves his work bags on the seat of the hall tree so you can’t sit down to put your shoes on or open the bloody thing to get your shoes out.

DP would say my irritating habit is being equally messy but then having a fit of everything must be tidy and getting pissed off that he has left clothes on the chair even though I’ve also left clothes on the chair.

At least we’re as bad as each other.

DH leaves the lids off everything he uses in the kitchen and the bathroom, yet thinks he is the tidiest man on Earth (that's because I follow behind him, putting everything away).

DH leaves every cupboard door open. We have beautiful built ins along one wall of the bedroom and it drives me mad to walk in and see them all open. Every. Single. One.
Housemate 1 leaves her knickers all over the house. Kitchen, lounge, our bed... everywhere.
Housemate 2 wakes screaming blue murder at random intervals throughout the night.
Housemate 1 is 3y. Housemate 2 is 4m and it's a good thing they're bloody cute.

Oh dear what a sad thread, full of people enabling other people, normally DH and DS's. They don't finish or do the jobs properly because they know you will come along and complete it for them.

It really is very easy. In the case or DHs just leave it and walk away. In the case of DCs - called back - every single time - to finish the job.

@spottygymbag
I might start referring to my dc as housemates. Although customers would be more apt as the think it's a bloody hotel.

My lodger has an annoying habit of not cleaning out the sinks after he's used them. Whether it's hair in the bathroom sink or the remains of rice and bits after he's done his washing up. He never leaves plates or pans, just a grotty sink.

Much to my spouse's annoyance, lodger also refills the kitchen bins right after they've been emptied rather than walking the extra couple of meters out the back door to the bins. A few times, it was literally minutes between them being emptied and refilled with his stuff.

Also, it feels at times no one knows how to put shopping bags away in this house but me. I don't even do the shopping most of the time, but they will leave the bags on the ground or shoved in random places until I deal with them.

Dh does 90% of the dishes so I shouldn't really complain, but the dc have sistema water bottles and he just leaves them. Puts the lids on all wrong everytime

@Iwantacookie I know the hotel feeling!

Tidying, but then puts things just outside of where they should be, like it's too much effort to open the door. So new toilet rolls in front of cupboard. Nappies next to babies bedroom. Etc. They then become invisible to him, never to be moved by him again.

Walks PAST the dishwasher to put his cups/plates on the draining board, DS started doing the same thing too. Drives me knuts

As soon as the weekly cleaner leaves HM will use the bathroom to shave and get in the shower. Every bloody week it annoys me so much. I like to have at least one day of a sparkling flat. Also telling me the floor is the cleanest of any flat hes ever lived in. Yes thats because you see me steaming it every single day.

This is really petty, but each mealtime without fail it gets my blood boiling and my teeth internally gnashing!

Any condiment my husband uses during the meal like salt, pepper, any sauces etc, instead of putting them back in the centre of the table where they were set out, he just plops them down by his plate. So then I can never reach them and have to ask him to pass them back.

Every. Single. Time.

@Anordinarymum

My bloke goes for a pee with the seat down. There are times when I could smash him right in the face for doing that. Most of the time I wipe the seat and have a moan. Sometimes I catch him in the act and he just smiles like a naughty child. I can't win

Omg my DH does this too! Makes me crazy! Then I'll go in at night all sleepy in the dark and sit on it 🤢

Does the shopping - brilliant! and unpacks it all over the kitchen counter! Like cave man who s just been out hunting! Me man, bought food! You woman- put away!! Aghhh

DH has a tendency to do 90% of a job then stop. Also the mess he makes making toast is un-bloody-believable.

DS also generates crumbs at an alarming rate (crumbs have been the bane of my existence in lockdown).

In the balance of fairness, I do a terrible job of arranging the fridge. I just chuck stuff in there! I also have an annoying tendency to buy totally random shit from our Ocado shop.

Mine can't do anything involving DIY without getting into an almighty strop. He's perfectly fine at it, is pleased with it when he's finished but shouts, swears,stomps about.
I sed the kids to play in the garden until he's done. He's usually so laidback but turns into a right diva. I once offered to do it instead. Won't be doing that again!

Dh only partly screws lids on fizzy drinks so they go flat/leak/squirt everywhere when you pick the bottle up. Same with the washing liquids, despite never actually putting a wash on.

Won't put clothes away, just moans when I put them in the wrong place. If I leave them folded on the bed, he waits until we go to bed then chucks them on the floor.

Takes pants off and leaves them on the floor wherever he's taken them off.

Leaves drawers open and I always bang my leg on them.

Never fluffs tge sofa cushions then complains the sofa looks tired.

We've lived here a year and he's not once Hoovered.

And tge worst one is we will start a series, really enjoy it, then dh won't want it to end so just refuses to watch the last episode. I still don't know the end of Luther, killing eve or the crown. Drew a line with downton abbey and insisted though!

If ever I needed a reminder of how great it is to be single, this thread is it.

I just couldn't deal with this endless lack of respect. The piss on the toilet seat is just grim. What a selfish arsehole. Why do you all tolerate being treated like this? I know this is supposed to be light hearted but come on. These men are taking the piss, quite literally.

@kernowgal I suppose it must seem that way, but there are many reasons I love my husband, and he is worth every second of annoyance.
I don't mention that he makes sure I get an extra half hour in bed, more at the weekend because he knows I struggle with a chronic fatigue condition. Of that he follows it up with a coffee in bed. Or that he's a fantastic father. Or that he knows me so well, he's saved my life from my own mental health before now. Or that he makes me laugh every single day without fail.
I'm sure there are things I do that piss him off, no one is perfect. It's more than healthy to have a moan sometimes. I know dh's work colleagues laugh because I always move the driving position in his car and he never realises why he's so uncomfortable driving until he gets to work and unfolds from practically kissing the steering wheel, looking like high tower!

@Pearsapiece well yes, he must have some redeeming features otherwise I'd wonder why you stayed! And yes, I am absolutely not perfect in any way and there would be loads of things I do that would piss off a partner. But still, some of what you and others describe is how men behave when they think something is 'women's work' and it does our kids no favours. If he knows you struggle with chronic fatigue, why on earth is he letting you do his washing and the hoovering??

Of course it's healthy to have a moan, but this kind of behaviour grinds you down over the long term. I saw it with my mum and my dad still behaves this way even though she's gone - it's just the cleaner bears the brunt now.

@DriftGames

DH will do the dishes, but only the easy ones. If DD's sippy cups, deep glasses or fancy utensils are in there, he will literally drain the water and walk away leaving them there.

Tell me what your cohabitants do that pisses you off!

I think you are married to the same man as me! Every day he finds something that he objects to washing up, I ask him why he has left it and he claims he never noticed it in the first place.

So many annoying little habits, I'd be here all day but the one that gets me in a rage most days is the way he scrapes the butter back in the tub when he's made toast. Why does he think anyone will want that dirty, crumby butter? Just use the correct amount or scrape it on a bit of kitchen towel or something. I've start getting my own back by using it on his sandwiches when I make them for him for work.

Oh and sugar. Instead of taking his cup TO the sugar cannister he will measure out a teaspoon and then precariously take the spoon to the mug. So there is always a fine scattering of sugar on the worktops as he drinks about 20 fucking cups of tea a day.