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 ...

Dd walks into the bathroom, picks up the loo roll and then walks around the house blowing her nose, then leaves it in some random place. Drives me insane. I give her her own loo roll but no, it won’t do, she must have the one in the bathroom as well. If I put multiple loo rolls in the bathroom, after a couple of days they are distributed all over the house. My inner Hyacinth can hardly breathe!

@scoobysnaxx You seriously need a holiday for one - or a separate house. Is next door empty?

My DH goes up and down stairs like a baby elephant. Bang bang bang thump thump. Why? He walks perfectly normally the rest of the time.

The Great Telling Off

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Just an FYI if you're keeping recycling outside, make sure it's covered as cardboard that has been wet, cannot be recycled

Open the new cereal/looroll/bread/anything before the old ones finished. Bastards.

Wakes up early on the weekends

i treasure that alone time in the mornings but she’s usually up at 7 and starts getting bored before noon so I always feel like I have to be “on” when she’s here

otherwise she’s a pretty good kid lol

Sorry but this is the best post I've ever seen on MN 😆😆😆

The tea towel abuse traumatises me.

DH has ruined hundreds of tea towels by wrapping them around roasts are resting after coming out of the oven. There's usually a small piece of tinfoil on top of the meat but the stains never come out.

One hot day I caught him wiping his brow, dripping with sweat, on the tea towel and putting it back over the oven door. I'm usually quite mild but there were savage words spoken that day.

And only today, he has warned me that some sunflower oil was spilt and he has used tea towels to clean up with. Sounds quite an episode. They've been chucked in the washing machine, can't bring myself to look yet.

Tea towels aren't something to just sit around and look pretty you know?

They are towels, towels are used to wipe things, they have a multitude of uses

My house mates will keep taking a fork from the kitchen drawer and taking it up stairs to their rooms to eat a meal up there. Once this has happened six times I will make myself a meal in the kitchen, only to find there are no forks at all as they are all upstairs.

DH makes himself a piece of toast then just puts the used buttery, marmaladey knife down on the work surface and walks away.

It's pretty much his only blind spot but it drives me nuts!

I bet he's having a crafty fag. "Just going to put the bins out darling!" Puff puff puff.

DH places his dirty pants and socks on top of the lid of the laundry basket. Apparently it's too much bother to open the lid ?

another one came to mind, DH makes a sandwich and then leaves the knife full of margarine on top of the margarine tub so now the tub needs wiping before it is put back in fridge! why cannot he put it in the sink?

When my husband has used the butter, he leave the knife on top of the butter dish "in case" he wants to use it again.

He switches the light on in the toilet every time he goes in there (even in full daylight).

Scraping crumby toast butter back into the tub.

My 25 year old son has moved back for 6 months while he gets some savings together and does the blowing nose using toilet roll thing too - there are toilet rolls everywhere around the house except in the bloody toilets! He also never replaces the empty roll and leaves his shoes at the bottom of the stairs at night so when I get up before him and don't switch on the light (so I don't disturb him!) I trip over the bloody things and turn my ankle.

There also seems to be a desperate shortage of glasses for water since he moved back - heaven only knows where he puts them all!

He’s an only child, so there must be two of them around! 😂

Wet cardboard can go in the compost bin.

Oh yes, the post thing.

Instead of putting junk mail, envelopes, etc, in the kitchen bin or out for recycling takes them into the living room and puts them in the open top bin. If he is going to bin stuff I don't get why he can't put in the kitchen bin (post usually opened in the kitchen) which is inside a cupboard instead of taking it into another room and leaving it on full display.

Leaves the washing up bowl full of water, which is cold and has bits of food in the bottom.
Leaves crumbs all over the side when he takes bread out of the bread bin
Rarely empties the little dish for used tea bags, it seems I’m the only one who knows how to empty it.
He’s recently retired and is just here, all day.

Tea towel talk has reminded me that the same adult ds who steals my spoons used to use tea towels to wipe his x box handset 🤮.

I'd go to use the tea towel, discover it was missing, ask if anyone had seen it (naturally no one ever had), and then find it in the sitting room. He denied taking it for years until I caught him in the act one day. Used to drive me mad. He couldn't understand why I would get so worked up about it, and I couldn't understand why he couldn't understand!

One of my family members always throws paper trash in the sink first.

Example,
She is sitting at the kitchen table. Opening her mail. She will scrunch the envelopes and throw them in the air, to let them land in the sink (the sink is not very close to the table). The envelopes get wet, because they sometimes land in the dishes that might be in the sink. So someone will have to fish up the wet envelopes and throw them in the correct trash can.

Oh god. Towels. Specifically the downstairs bathroom hand towel and the kitchen towel. For some sodding reason, noone seems able to hang those towels in a way that they'll actually dry and instead prefer to just scrunch them up.

Oh and bin liners. DH sorts out the bins on a Thurs morning. The kitchen is always chaos every Thurs morning with bin lids everywhere but he's also utterly incapable of replacing the sodding liners. 🤬

Yeah, when I expressed my displeasure towards two of my male housemates for using tea towels to mop the floor and wipe their faces, our two female housemates wandered into the kitchen and completely agreed with me.

Meanwhile, the poor men looked totally bewildered. 😆