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 ...

@Shivermetimbersmearty I think your DH must be my Bro-in-law!!

Saying, 'I'll walk with you' or, 'does that make sense' after explaining the most basic concept known to man.........

I once caught one of my five kids (now all grown up and left, thank goodness and I live on my own with my own annoying habits) leaving a milk bottle in the fridge with one molecule's worth of milk smeared around the bottom. I asked, in between frothing at the mouth, just 'why? WHY!' and the answer was 'if I didn't use the last up I don't have to deal with the bottle.'

So they are putting back containers with almost nothing in just so that they don't have to rinse the empty/put the packaging in recycling. In other words, it's someone else's problem.

My husband takes the toilet roll off the holder when wiping his arse and then puts it elsewhere in the bathroom. Sometimes the back of the toilet, sometimes the shelves, occasionally the window ledge. JUST PUT IT BACK ON THE HOLDER FFS

Leaving used teabags on the countertop. This irritates to a level equal to inverse Psoriasis due to

1. There is a bin, operated by foot, exactly 3 foot away from the kettle
2. He has to walk past said bin in order to put the used teabag on the countertop as it is at the opposite end of the kitchen to the counter where the kettle lives, a further 7 foot away, thus increasing his travel from 3 foot to 10 foot
3. He has decided that the bin is insufficiently close to the countertop and has therefore dangled a carrier bag from the drawer handle but not placed the teabag in that, either
4. He bought some pointless lump of plastic shite in the shape of a mini bin in order to put teabags into it, then presumably ferment them for a week or two, then put them into either a) the bin or b) the carrier bag. This is not used, unless it's to pour tea over the lid of it before walking over to the other countertop to dump said teabag.
5. The mini bin monstrosity is next to the kettle.
6. The teabag is never squeezed out and means there is also a puddle of cold tea staining the chopping board and countertop. Unless he decides to ring in the changes and dump it in the sink instead - into the bowl of unnecessarily left in cold water because we have a fucking dishwasher washing up. Then he squeezes it to death so it splits just before he chucks it into the cold water. So we have a bowl of festering cold water and crockery all covered in tealeaves that has to be rinsed off before it goes into the dishwasher, the bowl cleaned, the sink cleaned and the washing up sponge either cleaned or chucked away because it's full of tealeaves. Except when the sponge is actually at the bottom of the festering tub of crockery, so is completely unusable from the outset.

Sniffing. It makes me murderous
Leaving a knife and crumbs on the worktop
Buying and opening boxes of Ritz crackers when the other box still has some in
Faffing about with ear plugs during the night
Burping
These are all DH

DS - leaving wet towels on the bathroom.floor
Leaving dirty dishes in the kitchen

DD - not leaving home!

OMG- I thought my Husband was the only one, He is constantly moving and patting his food whilst eating, rice seems to be the main culprit but yes most things are prodded and poked and patted-He also is forever cleaning his knife with the fork tines, makes meal times a delight as i find myself getting more annoyed by him.
Has to come over and stir whatever I am making for tea, and if it is him cooking stirring and stirring for bloody hours, I have been known to just take the pan away from him and serve it because he is still there giving it one last stir when everything else is plated up ready
Getting things out to use,but then not putting them back away
His loud stomach rumblings

Dh snores. Enough said.

He makes me a cup of tea in the morning when I'm not in work and brings it upstairs as I'm still in bed. When I go downstairs maybe 2 hours later for breakfast he's always left the milk out of the fridge. I hate room temperature milk on my cornflakes.

But strangely works!

Top down ketchup and sauces, standing upright in the fridge 🙄.
Turning the heating down to 17 then complaining they are cold and turning it up to 23, all the time. Just leave it at 18.5 FGS

DH ALWAYS close the vertical blinds the wrong way. They don't lay straight if turned to the left, which means I have to turn them to the right and faff about shuffling them. I've told him a million times to close them the opposite way to what he seems programmed to but he just can't do it.

DH insists on cooking dinner every Sunday ( which is nice)BUT does not wash up one single pot or pan as he goes along!!
It makes see how easily I could be an axe murderer!!

Oh I could write a book, but off the top of my head..

DH leaves a trail of devastation in the kitchen when making a sandwich, butter left out and open, condiments just left with the lid off

DSS uses the communal bathroom hand towels when he has a shower and forgets his, so when I get up for a wee in the middle of the night I've nothing to dry my hands on

Nor DH or DSS know how to empty a dishwasher apart from taking out what they need right there and then

I work from home and they both assume it's my job to clean up after their breakfasts after they've gone out to work

DSS helps himself to my shampoo / conditioner when he's ran out (doesn't ask, just comes into the bedroom and takes, probably been going on for ages but he only got caught as he left it in the bathroom) - yeah sure use my £20 stuff on your tiny bit of hair

DH doesn't put his clothes away after they've been washed, they just get stacked up on the side in the bedroom, then periodically blows up because the bedroom "is a tip"

Whenever dh makes toast, he puts the bread away but not the butter, marmite, peanut butter or chocolate spread. Last 3 items live in same cupboard as the bread, above the toaster. He also lets Teabags pile up and he won't use the teabag tongs, he uses multiple spoons instead.

I've more or less trained DH to empty the crumbs on the bread board into the bin. Even shown him the best way more than once.

So why is there a circle of crumbs, seeds etc on the floor every time? He swears he does it properly despite me seeing him hold it way above the bin Sigh

Ooooo let's see...

Leaving keys in door (inside) so my keys can't unlock door (outside) and then not hearing me knocking for AGES when my hands are full.

Switching doorbell off at the plug - see above.
Humming.
Whistling.
Son dragging wooden chair on wooden floor with him sitting in it, about a million times in small increments. Drag, screech, drag, screech etc. Just stand up and move it FFS.
Shoes behind front door.
Leaving kitchen cupboards wide open.
Empty packets left in cupboards.
Leaving one square of loo roll so they don't have to put a new roll on.

Oh yes, similar to previous posters, teenage DSS and DSD start a new bottle of their shower gel without quite finishing up the old one, and I think it’s literally so they’re “not responsible” for dealing with bottle 1.

@NeverDropYourMooncup I'm sorry but you only have two options to deal with this. 1. Kill him, or 2. Ban him from drinking hot beverages in the house. Take your pick.

We have a squeezed to death toothpaste tube situation in our family bathroom due to DSS not wanting to go to the trouble of opening the new one which has been sat there ready for use for weeks. Thank God we don't share a bathroom.

Leaving cupboard doors open! Arghhhhh!!!

All of the above. All.of them. Every one.

Making my eye twitch thinking about it tbh.

So we're all married to the same bloke huh?

DP:

• leaving his shoes directly behind the front door so that no one can get in - especially with shopping bags or a pram - or both!
• not standing on the bath mat or drying self long enough and walking wet footprints from the bathroom to the bedroom (DDs too)
• leaving wet towels screwed up somewhere (DDs too)
• leaving clothes or towels on the bathroom floor (DDs too)
• failing to twirl the knife round and round until the marmite string stops.
• jamming the lid on said marmite jar without screwing the lid on so the next person who picks it up drops the whole bloody jar.
• not screwing the lids/caps on anything!
• not asking anyone in the house if they need the loo before he takes an hour long poop/bath so everyone is busting then gets annoyed when they need to use the loo.
• having the TV on far too loud - especially the football - the constant background cheers and jeers grates on me!
• snoring.
• generally being very loud and banging things about unnecessarily.
• shaving over the sink and making a half hearted attempt to clean up the hairs.
• if he dares to do some washing, filling it far too much so it comes out smelling musty and I need to re wash.
• adding soft plastics to the recycling bag.
• when tasks with putting dinners left overs in the fridge will frequently jam the entire saucepan/frying pan into the fridge. Conversely when bothered he can neatly divvy up the dinner into separate meal containers to take to work.
• when cooking with jam the sink sky high with every utensil so you cannot possible wash up (instead of leaving the big things like saucepans soaking on the hob to leave some room for manoeuvring)
• getting the huge heavy wooden chopping board out to cut everything on so it needs washing up 50 times a day. Just cut a roll straight onto a plate and save a bit of washing up!
• empty toilet rolls on the floor (DDs too)
• no one but me changes the bathroom bin
• cupboards left open (DDs too)
• DDs not wringing their flannel out in the morning and leaving it draped over the sink side so I go in to a little puddle of water on the floor
• kids leaving toothpaste in the sink or on the hand towel

It appears I have 4 children instead of 3..

God let me stop or I'll keep going on all night

Why does he do this lol

Breathe. They breathe