DH has ruined the house

[Rabbitingonandon]

He's tidied and cleared out the garage, so he can put an office in there. But we are left with a load of garage crap dumped in the house. I currently have suitcases at the bottom of the stairs, boxes and bags of stuff in the kitchen and on the sofa. The dining room table has water pistols and tennis rackets on it. I'm supposed to be wfh. I can only hope he plans to sort all this stuff but to where I don't know as there is literally no where for it to go

Does he wfh?

Do you have an office space to wfh?

Is any of this stuff interfering with your office space?

I completely get why you’re annoyed but if he needs an office space then it’s understandable that he makes one.
This does take time and often things are messier before they’re clean again.

As long as he clears it all up by Monday morning then I’d let it go.

If he doesn’t actually need an office space then I’d be telling him to put it all back and declutter first.

I have to say I am 🤣 because this would be dh all over.

When we moved house it took him nearly 10 years to actually deal with the box which was labelled "obsolete computer stuff" mostly old wires. He didn't even deal with it when I moved it so he kept falling over it.
He finally dealt with it when I tipped it on the floor of the lounge and told him anything left by 3pm was going to the tip.
We now have a drawer full of obsolete wires, but it's not in the way and only 10% the size of the box. Most went to the tip.

WTF with these women acting like staff or subalterns in their own fucking homes?

Engage a removal service. Tell your husband when they're coming.

He will get pissed off when I mention it/,it will cause an argument.

Well, this is the problem.

It's not being U to ask where he plans to put all the garage shit, and to ask him to tidy it all away before he creates his garage office. Is he usually like this?

Skip?

I assume his plan will be for you to get so annoyed that you will clean it up.

If you're genuinely too scared to ask what the plan is or to have had input into the plan then you need to reconsider this relationship. Dumping stuff in the house whilst you convert the garage isn't that unusual. What is unusual is how you're reacting.

If it's still there in 48 hours put it all in the bin.

That is utterly unreasonable !
Again that kind of unreasonableness will lead to arguments

It will take I would say up to a month to convert the garage depending how much time he has
Empty
Seal floors
Insulate walls
What bout heating ?
Plaster , decorate , fit flooring
Build storage units
Return stuff to its new home in the office

Buy a garden shed and put it in there till you decide what to do with it.

Everyone saying skip - presumably OP wants to keep the stuff from the garage? Otherwise why's it in there?

If I sorted out our garage and DH came along and threw out all the bikes, scooters, bodyboards, BBQ, gazebo, windbreaks etc I'd be livid (and utterly bemused!).

Stack it all in his new office😊.

Yes this. Does he have a shed? If yes make him take it to the shed. I'd allow suitcases on top of wardrobes if you don't have a loft. The rest she'd, loft, back in the garage packed more neatly than before or taken to the tip. Don't just hope he will sort it out.

Such drama. You've got time to share about a few suitcases to the world and be ' fuming '. 🙄Why don't you just put them in the car for now. Take to tip / charity later. Its good he's got a new office no?

I also agree with the shed...or a skip!

Possibly. Or possibly he needed the garage set up for the meeting OP mentioned and is planning on sorting it after.

Communication is terrible all round here but I don't think he's necessarily being a dick.

A garage will be cold.

As a true MN spare bedroom?

OP needs to be part of the process of sorting through her own clutter, unless she is happy for her DH to bin it all.

I simply cannot see what her OH has done wrong? He's getting on with a job that needs doing that will benefit the family (since presumably they need 2 WfH spaces and currently only have one - he appears to have drawn the short straw and is getting garage space rather than comfy inside house space), and both the adults in the family have the responsibility to sort out their own clutter (and if the children are too young to sort their own, then jointly sorting the children's clutter).

The process of sorting will take time, and make temporary mess - but that is completely unavoidable. The garage cannot be made into office space until this is done - it's necessary for the benefit of the family.

I would suggest OP and her DH work together this weekend to go through all the clutter, donate what they can donate, tip what needs to be tipped, and put away things that they want to keep.

Loft, underbed storage and garden shed are where I would imagine most of the things to keep will end up. They need to make sure (jointly) that they don't keep more clutter than they have space to store.

Ask him. Communicate.

I wouldn’t like that at all and feel your pain. I’m no Mrs Hinch but mess stresses me out and having it around my WFH area is really distracting.

Unless he’s on a temporary break and planning wheee to put it all, I’d be losing my shit about it.

And yes OP can communicate her feelings. Interesting v few are suggesting DH should have done that BEFORE making everywhere look like a bombsite.

Put it all on gumtree for free:) he needs a shed.

My house looks like that at the moment. Absolute shit tip. But it’s me who’s done it. Dd and I have left it and gone to local cafe for lunch.

has to get worse before it gets better.

This is what I am thinking.

You need to consider heat, light, security. What about a window? Power? Ventilation?

Wouldn't you leave a bit of storage so you open garage door still and have a tiny front garage?

You don't just empty out a garage dump the stuff and say off we go.

It just sounds so incredibly unthought out.

Saying that you also don't just throw the contents of a garage in a skip willy-nilly.

Tough shit if he’s pissed off, that’s just a tactic to stop you mentioning it. He made the mess, he needs to sort it out.