What are your first actions when your dh or dp goes away and you have the house to yourself for a while?

[Featheryash]

I’ll start:

~ turn the setting on the toaster down
~ turn the heating down
~ open all the windows
~ remove all the wierd condiments cluttering up the kitchen counter and put them away properly
~ scrub the kitchen to within an inch of its life
~ clear all the wierd pots of things that he eats on toast out of the fridge and do a grocery order containing all the food I like
~ remove or wash all of his dirty laundry that lies alongside the laundry basket and either wash it or dump it elsewhere depending on how generous I’m feeling
~ steal his pillows 😄

Anyone else?

Put some music on. Make a cup of tea. Pick up a book. Sit on settee with dog, tea, book and biscuit tin for as long as I like.

And absolutely yes, rejoice in a clean and tidy house that’s not turned upside down within half an hour of DH walking through the door. How do they do it? How is it so much calmer and tidier when they’re away? And definitely yes to dog replacing husband, especially in bed.

Our house is very clean and tidy so I'll be a slob for a couple of days.

I will then look at the washing up on the side and the state of my hair and start to feel incredibly uncomfortable so do something about it!

Thanks for the Alexa tip RhubarbFairy

I am not averse to a few men in uniform myself HellonHeels (on the TV that is 😃)!

Bing eat.
Do as little as I can get away with.
Avoid leaving the house.
Watch crap TV he doesn't like.

Absolute Bliss 😊 it be

I would have to refrain from wanting to skip for joy...

Ok, sorry still not getting this therapeutic or ritualistic cleaning and washing off his clothes. Or husbands who immediately make the house dirty and a mess.

as said, personally I don’t behave any differently to when my husband is here or not here, I’m not a teenager whose parent has left them alone. And my husband does his share 5o/5o.

I just can’t grasp the whole my husband is away so let me immediately clean and wash his dirty pants thing.

Surely this thread is an incentive to be single? 😁 Well it definitely highlights all the things I love about being on my own! A nice change from constant reminders that I’m missing out on being in a couple tbh

Avoid leaving the house is definitely one I aspire to Redtoothbrush

Lovely post LouBaloo

A midday bath is the height of luxury TaraRhu

Nothing much changes but I snack more and eat dinner directly out the saucepan

Watch something on TV that he wouldn't want to watch with me (ie everything). Probably in my pants.

Pot noodle for tea. YouTube in bed. Gets lonely after a few hours!

So. Here’s what I do..
Dont judge me…

I clean every inch of the house like a demon, de clutter, do a tip run then go food shopping getting myself something lovely for tea.

Then I admire my lovely spotless clean, tidy, clutter free house with washing on the line.

I imagine that this would be my life if childless and single.

I walk from room to room soaking in its lovely clean loveliness about 2or 3 times because I know that within about 20 minutes of their return it will be completely and utterly trashed.

Just for that short time I get such pleasure from my (worthless, waste of time) work.

And yes to pp, enjoy the silence.

Yep big clean & tidy because I reset all of the spaces knowing they are going to stay that way. My DH is terrific in a million ways but he cannot keep any room that he's been in tidy. He moves things and doesn't put them back, puts stuff down, etc etc. Its a pleasure to have the house in order.

Bath, pjs, silence. I take in all of the silence and totally decompress- nobody wanting me for anything. Bliss.

Beans or eggs on toast for dinner - (my DH would see this as a snack.)

Up early for sorting things out then back to bed with 2 teas (one fresh, one thermos) for dozing and reading!

Bliss.

114 posts here describing the absolute bliss and contentment of living alone

I think both have their positives and negatives, I like the house to myself as its quite novel, I'd get lonely all the time and I do enjoy our time together. I know plenty of people who very happily live alone and would hate living with someone else!

Absolutely no judgement from me Mightyouandiconfabulate sounds blissful, as does AprilDrizzle’s home alone routine!

I clean the toilet, happy in the knowledge that it will only bear my bum for the next 24 hours 😂

Same!
I just do the same things we do together. I don't understand why you don't do what you want anyway when he's there.

I honestly can't believe how many women are being controlled and don't realise it. Or are okay with it.
Why wouldn't people snack as much as they want around husbands and partners?

Yeah meal for 1 and .crappy TV bugger clearing up after him/them

And slovenly husbands who don’t pull their weight , put their dirty laundry in the laundry basket, do their own laundry or clean up after themselves .

It’s unutterably depressing, to live with such pigs that it’s a joy to clean when they go as it’d the only time it will stay that way, and to not even be able to eat the food you like when you like when they are there.

its shocking this sad stereotypical dynamic is still playing out behind some closed doors.

When I’m away, my husband always does some cleaning 🤔😬

First night tonight of DH being away for four days.

General plan is to drink wine and binge watch crime dramas. Throw the kids a biscuit every now and then.

That’s it.

I don't think it is the cleaning pp are taken aback by but specifically the sorting the husbands messy ways out and clearing out of the fridge and re stocking that's a bit odd imo.