Things that your OH does that just wind me up… light hearted

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Should say winds YOU up. Nothing your OH does will wind me up 😂 Sitting watching tv. My DH will watch a movie 10 times over. It’s not intentional viewing. He will literally sit down, put the tv on and watch whatever is on the tv no matter how many times he has already seen it. Doesn’t matter if it’s from the beginning or if he picks up half way through. Drives me silly.

Against the gender stereotype, I'm the music nerd in the relationship - DH does sometimes makes me cringe when I'm listening to something and he'll come in and say 'Oooh, this sounds really like [artist it sounds nothing like and is a completely different genre]'

I used to do it with a wooden steak hammer!!! Never used it for steak, just for pulling the window shut in our old house! 🤣

Every morning he’ll leave his hairbrush and face wash on the side in the bathroom when it should go in the cabinet… EVERY time. At this point I think he does it to piss me off 😂

Mine takes off his socks every night and puts them on the back of his sofa , he used to trim his fingers nails and drop the clippings behind til I went mental once at the amount left to hoover up

DH is a decent hard working man, runs his own successful business but it amazes and irks me in equal measure that he just can't load the dishwasher. The concept of water getting around to clean things appears to be a complete mystery. This morning by chance I checked as he'd loaded it and there were about 20 glasses loaded on the lower shelf with a saucepan full of bolognese sauce balancing on top of them. How the fuck does he honestly think it's going to get everything clean and because it's a drawer system one, he never can work out which one is clean and which one is dirty so he puts his stuff in it regardless.

Oh, just thought of another one. Lays the damp tea towel and the kitchen hand towel, across the worktops to dry out! Then, especially on the towel, he'll leave bits of washing up, like a mug and a plate. What possesses people?! 🤣

Will start watching something with me then announce partway through that he’s going to bed. This is done knowing that I struggle to do this and need to watch things to the end of the episode.

Leaves a trail of ‘stuff’ wherever he goes. Prime example today - he got in from work, used the downstairs loo, got a drink and sat on the sofa playing with DS.
How do I know this? Shoes by the front door, contents of his pocket on the sink in the downstairs loo, squash bottle left on the worktop and water everywhere and toys everywhere around the sofa. Sigh.

Now I really want you to test this.

”Sainsbury’s order arrived, shagged the driver then knifed him and stuck him in the freezer”.

“Can you believe, they didn’t bring the oven chips”.

Mine does that!

He never clears any time remaining on the microwave.

This really disproportionately pisses me off and I'm aware it's ridiculous 🤣

Oh this drives me crazy. I’m constantly closing cupboard doors after all the idiots in my house, and when I point it out I look like a crazy bitch

Having too many noises going on at the same time. He'll be "watching" something on the TV, but will then scroll through video after video after video on his phone. He just picks up wherever his social media leads him, and flicks through and watches every single one. Multiple noises happening at once give me the RAGE. And I also find it really annoying when someone's watching things you can hear but not see - the reels he watches are so short I don't have a clue what they're about, so I'm just hearing "noise" completely out of context.

He also paces constantly when on the phone. But fast. And we only have a small lounge. It gives me motion sickness and he won't believe me.

Puts his washing NEXT to the basket, I swear he does it just to wind me up lol

He is a very clean guy on the whole. Neat and tidy. Which is why this pisses me off so much. When he comes to bed he just like… flips his slippers off (he’s also 26 and has these horrible old man slippers but I have crocs so I won’t berate him for them). Like they’re just strewn about on the floor. He is borderline anal about things being in their place… but not the slippers??

Also occasionally he will just put the kids in fugly mismatched outfits because he thinks it’s funny. It doesn’t really piss me off that much because it’s not like he does it on picture day, and the kids also find it funny. They picked me up from the train station last week and my two beautiful and normally stylish children were dress in horrific outfits, grinning at me. DD had on all orange and green hat and she looked like a carrot.

Uses the washing up sponge to wipe down kitchen surfaces, instead of the cloth, and then leaves it on the side, unrinsed, to go all cheesy.

Cannot load a dishwasher to save his life. Puts DD’s lightweight plastic cups and bowls in, in the certain knowledge that they will flip over during the cycle, fill with water and need washing by hand again.

Never, ever uses the tumble dryer programme that actually gets things dry, no matter how many times I tell him.

Dumps the tea towel scrumpled up in an undisclosed location, leaving me wet-handed and furious when I need to use it.

Watches one episode of a TV programme and then announces that he really doesn’t need to see any more of it, ever.

Leaves his slippers in the middle of the hall. Not in a corner but in a place where I am bound to trip over them. He would argue he places them to the side. I would argue the hall is so narrow that’s meaningless.

Oh, and the household chores that are too complicated for him, including putting away any item of kitchenware which he personally does not use on a daily basis. He is an intelligent man. He has a job and everything. But can he work out where the salad spinner lives? Can he heck.

Oh God, mine does the dishwasher thing! It’s like hanging clothes - I can fit twice as much in/on the line and it washes better/dries faster.

Oh I’m so glad to hear this , when I can’t get to sleep on goes Two Doors Down. Luckily I am forever single!!!

My dh is a lovely considerate man 99.9999% of the time but he uses a clean teatowel as a napkin with his meal. The children copied him and now I have 5 teatowels used every dinner ( him and 4 dc).

My Dad does this. He's 88. They don't change. 😂

The cupboard under the stairs really pisses her off. They hang their coats on the back of that door. God help him on the days he remembers to close it but traps a coat sleeve in the door jam. Just leaves it hanging there like a bunch of grapes.

I'd be tempted to ignore it and have a fun experiment to see how long it takes for every door in the house to be left open. Or tell him that every open door adds another week to the blow job-ometer. Carry on like this and he'd be well into retirement before the good times return.

This being Mumsnet, I'd obviously advise you to LTB. Just don't expect him to close the door behind him when you chuck him out 😁

If my DH has something, anything, he wants to show or tell me, he has to do it straight away without asking whether now is a good time. Our relationship almost came adrift early on when he summoned me urgently from something I was doing to watch a particularly fine display of synchronised jazz hands on YouTube, and got petulant and said he wouldn't bother trying to share anything with me ever again when I told him I wasn't interested in being shown that sort of rubbish.

He's also unable to see an empty drawer without filling it with old electronic gadgets, cables and chargers. When I open one of these junk drawers he'll say, "I don't know why we've still got all these," as if someone other than him had put them in the drawer. There's no point making him throw them out, they'll only reaccumulate.

I am guilty of this - stealing all the duvet and then not being able to sleep because I'm too hot (and whinging about it!!) 🤣

Uses a chopping board to make a sandwich. Just use a plate! Saves on washing up!
Makes a real performance of making said sandwich. Ingredients littered all over the worktop.
Leaves said ingredients out while he ‘enjoys’ his sandwich.
Sniffs constantly.
Insists on going back to a shop where we once bought something on 2003 to get another of said item. The concept of stock selling out /no longer being manufactured does not exist.
Keeping the cardboard box for
every appliance we have ever purchased in the garage. Just in case. 😡

God that was cathartic!

Being a know-it-all 😒

My DH annoying habit is impatience so he'll ask me to help him with something - usually lifting or moving something that ideally needs 2-3 people. If I don't drop what I'm doing within about 5 seconds he's already giving himself a hernia or putting his back out, trying to move a wardrobe/fridge/stone plant pot by himself.