What stupid little inconsequential things do people you live with do that enrage you?!

[Fraca]

I live with adult Ds. By the kettle, I have a spoon rest with, unsurprisingly perhaps, a spoon on it. I leave the spoon there all day because I use it to stir my tea. In the evening it goes in the dishwasher. Adult ds knows this.

And yet, Every Time I go to stir my tea, my spoon has gone! Every. Time. I mean, tbf, I've probably only mentioned it a million times so I expect I should say it a bit more often. This morning, the absent spoon has catapulted me into a seething raging murderous mood.

Like I said, it's the little things ...

My DH uses the tea towel to mop up spills or wipe dirty hands and it drives me INSANE, then folds it neatly and hangs it from the oven door handle.

Drives me INSANE

Breathe.

Dh puts the duvet under the pillows, does my head in as then my pillow goes flying. Put them over the pillows and stop annoying me.

Youngest two dc use the tea towels to dry the swings, then stick them back in the kitchen.

Next door moves his wheelie bins (very loudly) at 11:30pm every single Tuesday night for the bin men to collect on Wednesday morning.

He or his wife (who both work from home) couldn’t do it Tuesday daytime or Wednesday morning - instead he chooses to do it when the whole street are in bed and he wakes everyone up.

Inconsiderate wanker.

DP will finish eating and wash his plate, bowl or cup... but never the cutlery. Always a fork or spoon left lying in the sink. WHY.

OMG….. that would give me the rage!

Breathe

I live with one DH and 2 teenagers.

• No-one else besides me, knows that empty loo rolls go in the bin, not chucked in the corner.
• No-one else knows that the wet bath-mat needs to be hung up or else it stays wet.
• I don't how the bath mat even gets wet, because judging by the PONDS of water on the bathroom floor, they only use it for decoration. Or as a towel, maybe.
• Cutlery in the sink is included in the task of "doing the dishes". The sink fairy doesn't wash them when you go to bed.
• If you peel your trousers/boxers from your body like a snake shedding its skin, it will be returned to you "washed" in the same way.

Leaving empty food packaging in the worktop. PUT IT IN THE BIN!

Dh leaves the recycling on the utility room side. He does this until the side is covered and rendered useless. Or be did, the one time I resolved to leave it until he noticed.
The recycling bins are directly outside the utility room door. You don't even need to go outside mostly-you can Chuck it in each bin from the open door. It drives me mental.

No one in my family except me can apparently load or unload a dishwasher. I must do it twice a day-it's the most boring job in the world!

Opening junk mail and just leaving it on the kitchen worktop - put it in the recycling ! Socks left on bedroom floor instead of putting them in the wash basket . When my ds comes back to visit he just dumps stuff anywhere , drives me mad

I only live with one person but reckon there are at least 20 grrr!!!

Dh puts the duvet under the pillows

I do that, I think it makes the bed look neater.

I do this too. Much nicer looking.

I try to avoid gender stereotyping, but I swear this is a man thing.

When I lived in a shared house years ago, one of my male housemates thought nothing of mopping the floor with the tea towel. Later, I caught one of the others wiping his nose on it 🤢. Nowadays, a male friend of mine thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to dry himself on someone else’s hand towel, or on the bathmat 🙄.

@piscofrisco couldn't agree more with the unloading of dw being boring! I thought it was just me. The sheer monotony of that job gets me like nothing else, can't even explain it, it take minutes but internally drives me batshit.

The coffee table is DH's dumping ground, at any given time there will be a coffee cup, a couple pairs of glasses, assorted magazines, a shopping bag and so on. The one thing that is not on the coffee table is the TV remote. Rather than being kept within easy reach, this essential item is kept in front of the TV, across the other side of the room which necessitates me getting up and walking the 4 steps across the room to get it.

In the big scheme of things this is absolutely nothing, but it engages me every time with its pointlessness 🧐

Urgh my DH is guilty of this too.. also doesn't wring out sponges/flannels from the kids bath, or take up the bathmat so it doesn't accumulate mould.

DH doesn't close cupboard doors, I feel like I live my life closing things after him.

DH doesn't tuck his chair back in, leaves a sip's worth of OJ/milk etc in the bottle in the fridge, and trims his beard just after I've cleaned the bathroom. Also seems to generate masses of crumbs no matter what he eats.

He is wonderful and considerate in so many ways... but these things are so enraging.

Enraged on your behalf!!

Hide all of them, say you can't get the them back until you know how to tidy up!! Same as you might with a child and their toys.

Filling the dishwasher from the front and me having to lean in over the dirty dishes to fill the back

DH tells me stuff first thing in the morning. I don't mean important stuff. He's a morning person and so lovely but I need two cups of tea before I can converse!

Yep agree with this, definitely a man thing. The amount of times I've left an old tea towel (as in it's been demoted to a floor towel) on the floor next to the washing machine, ready to go into the next load....disappear for 5 mins and come back to find said manky floor cloth neatly folded hung up on the oven door handle <boak>

Never ever cleans the sink after washing up. The little strainer thing is full of crap every time.

Doesn’t wear his reading specs to wash up, but really should. Many things have to be re-washed when I see them

Hand washes utensils as I cook - we have a dishwasher ; I may still be using said utensil.

In all cases he believes he is helping…

takes socks off in the living room and leave them in the corner, the same corner mind.. I leave them there until I cannot ignore them anymore and put them in the wash… it’s grim