My DH almost put the dishwasher on

[Byheckythump]

Just got in and the dishwasher is 3/4 full and there are some dirty mugs on the worktop. My DH saw me filling it and he said he almost put it on. He was trying to work out if the mugs would fill it, apparently. Then he looked in the cupboard and couldn't see the dishwasher tablets.
No more to be done then. Has your partner almost done anything today?

@3catsandcounting

I think some posters on here are rather missing the point that our DH’s who ‘almost do things’ are actually hard-working, loveable, good and decent men who we find endearing in their apparent incompetence. It’s just fun, people. We’re having a light-hearted joke. And they don’t mind, because they’re good, decent men who aren’t that precious.

Thank you 3cats. I think some posters are deliberately missing the point! They almost ruined the thread

@3catsandcounting

I think some posters on here are rather missing the point that our DH’s who ‘almost do things’ are actually hard-working, loveable, good and decent men who we find endearing in their apparent incompetence. It’s just fun, people. We’re having a light-hearted joke. And they don’t mind, because they’re good, decent men who aren’t that precious.

Ok I'll bite.

How do 'good, decent men' not know how to remove a duvet cover/work a dishwasher/doesn't know where sheets are kept/can't be bothered to put beer bottles in the bin etc...?

Good, decent men don't expect their wives/partners to run around doing basic adult things for them because they're too lazy to learn to do it themselves.

I mean everyone plays to their strengths when it comes to jobs around the house/DIY etc but some of these men are royally taking the piss out of the women they claim to love and no, that's not 'good' or 'decent' of them.

I’ve had a lovely day out with a friend.

Quite impressed that I’ve come home and DH has managed to put all his washing up for day in the immediate vicinity of the dishwasher.
He didn’t put it in the dishwasher because ‘it’s full of clean things’…I.e. the load that I put on when I went out.
Asked why he didn’t empty it he just looked blank and wandered off to have a bath 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

He also made himself a toasted sandwich…well done him 👏👏👏

@3catsandcounting

I think some posters on here are rather missing the point that our DH’s who ‘almost do things’ are actually hard-working, loveable, good and decent men who we find endearing in their apparent incompetence. It’s just fun, people. We’re having a light-hearted joke. And they don’t mind, because they’re good, decent men who aren’t that precious.

Yeah, men treating women as their domestic slaves is just hilarious

But of course, they're all great loving men who work hard. They just treat their wives like shit. And you have to laugh or you'd cry or rage or have to confront the fact that the man you married doesn't consider you an equal human being.

@PlanDeRaccordement

Mine almost didn’t take a nap 😴

Mine too but the poor sausage just couldn't help himself.

Good job someone was able to take the three kids out to get new school shoes and passport photos.

@WorraLiberty thought you'd bite. You've already been told off for that.

We have an impressive range of Tupperware type containers, 99% actually from IKEA. They have their own cupboard and each size has its own pile with a corresponding pile of lids. When DH empties the dishwasher there is invariably a mountain of plastic above the cupboard as he "didn't know where it went"

[quote Byheckythump]@WorraLiberty thought you'd bite. You've already been told off for that.[/quote]
Yeah but it's lonely here in the naughty corner 🙄🙄

On the almost booked a holiday theme, mine almost booked for us to fly from London to Stockholm via Istanbul.

Maybe you could clean the toastie machine to make up for it?

@DreamingofTimbuktu

On the almost booked a holiday theme, mine almost booked for us to fly from London to Stockholm via Istanbul.

Well, it's good to travel. Hope he almost remembered to renew his passport.

@Byheckythump

Maybe you could clean the toastie machine to make up for it?

Can I identify as a man and get away with not doing it?

My Wife let me know our babies’ prescription formula was down to the last tin (there’s 5 in the cupboard)...didn’t call for the repeat prescription or anything 🙄
Also let me know that she thought the baby might need a clean nappy 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I was almost made a cup of tea, he clicked the kettle on but wandered off.
Then remembered and reboiled the kettle, it’s now cooling again.

Full disclosure - on whole marriage tally he makes more cups of tea for me than me for him, but today it was only almost tea

I bought one of those dishwasher cleaner things, it's a bottle of yellowish liquid which you put upside down in the dishwasher and run it to clean it. I found it today nearly empty and was worried it had leaked all over the cupboard. Ah, no. DH has been putting it in the rinse aid hole. This is the fault of the manufacturer for making it the same colour as rinse aid. How was DH supposed to know? he asked plaintively. Well because it says "Dishwasher Cleaner" and not "Rinse Aid" on the bottle perhaps???

He then suggested running the dishwasher again on rinse only to rinse off whatever it was. I said that as he had been putting it in there for months and we are not dead yet it would probably be OK. I refrained from pointing out that if he did an extra rinse cycle the machine would utilise whatever was in the rinse aid compartment to effect this.

You see, there are some good points. I love almost getting a cup of tea. Balloon has an almost clean dishwasher, and Worraliberty has found the answer!

I’ve almost done loads of things today and am now annoyed with myself. My husband has had an equally fruitful but much less stressful day by getting nowhere fucking near doing anything at all. Think I’ll try that next Sunday.

@3catsandcounting

I think some posters on here are rather missing the point that our DH’s who ‘almost do things’ are actually hard-working, loveable, good and decent men who we find endearing in their apparent incompetence. It’s just fun, people. We’re having a light-hearted joke. And they don’t mind, because they’re good, decent men who aren’t that precious.

Exactly. Mine after cutting the grass will cheerfully say 'done that for you' I usually shout something back in full earshot of the neighbours like 'cheers, in return I'll pick up your dirty underwear from the bedroom floor'

Mine doesn't even get to the almost doing household chores, so you've all got something on me there. But he works long hours in a job he hates, whilst I do the house and kid stuff, but I only work sporadically, he puts up with my shit cooking, my swearing, my ineptitude at anything domesticated. He laughs at my shit jokes, held my hand through years of really bad PND and was a rock when I was in labour.
Most people are flawed, none of us are saints. I often wonder who these perfect MN husbands are and are their wives equally perfect?

@SusannaM

Mine doesn't even get to the almost doing household chores, so you've all got something on me there. But he works long hours in a job he hates, whilst I do the house and kid stuff, but I only work sporadically, he puts up with my shit cooking, my swearing, my ineptitude at anything domesticated. He laughs at my shit jokes, held my hand through years of really bad PND and was a rock when I was in labour. Most people are flawed, none of us are saints. I often wonder who these perfect MN husbands are and are their wives equally perfect?

The perfect wives probably give the men constant grief so they do lots just for a quiet life. Look at Hyacinth Bucket 'Richarrrrd!!!'

If they had such perfect lives and partners, they wouldn't be so aggressive and angry.

I'm guilty of today almost replacing the bin liners in all the bins but I couldn't figure out which size liner went in each bin.

@MiddleParking

I’ve almost done loads of things today and am now annoyed with myself. My husband has had an equally fruitful but much less stressful day by getting nowhere fucking near doing anything at all. Think I’ll try that next Sunday.

DP almost put the plates in the dishwasher. He got them as far as the worktop directly above the dishwasher. As per usual

It took me years to train my DH out of elaborately stacking the dirty crockery on the worktop above the dishwasher. The thing that nearly broke me was that it took 3 times as long as just putting them inside the bloody thing.

Presumably all the wives are also good, decent and hard working women though? Yet they still have to do basic household tasks, instead of pretending to be incompetent so they don’t have to bother.