To dry my hair while my DH sleeps?

[glitzy]

I get up before him in the mornings, and like to wash, dry and straighten my hair before I go to work. Obviously the hair dryer is noisy and wakes him - causing some grunts, sometimes moans, and always an attempt to smother himself with a pillow. I have nowhere else I can dry my hair other than our bedroom. Should I leave him sleeping and go to work with wet hair, or wake him up with the racket?

glitzy i was asking about teh dcs because of your post about having to get dressed before you went downstairs and tehrefore changing your whole routine. when you have dcs you quickly learn that managing to get dressed at any point before you are due to leave the house is a good day!! dressing at a different point in your morning really isn't an incovenience ata ll.

So sounds like there's more to it than this issue. He doesn't do enough for you so you don't want to let him sleep.

He does wake me 7/10 times when he comes to bed later than me

Use your dryer and be loud and proud. You are bringing in a salary and its helps at work if you clean and well groomed.
Its his problem - not yours!

Nah Jamie - I was just having a little daydream of coming downstairs and having my breakfast made for me... in a wishful thinking way

so we should all do what we want grandmar with no consideration for otehrs? why bother living with someone you have no respect for?

Apprently there is a silent hair dryer made by Revlon, I just have to find where to buy it then problem solved my way [grn]

You only have a plug socket in the bedroom?

Wow weird house.

"He does wake me 7/10 times when he comes to bed later than me"

7/10 times a night?

I have a lovely dressing table with lightbulbs round the mirror in my bedroom but all my makeup and hair stuff is downstair in a drawer so i don't wake DH up.

The bonus is that I get to watch telly while I dry my hair though

I woudl be furious if DH started rattling round the bedroom, he gets up at 6 and I get up at 7, so no real difference, but he doesn't turn the light on or make noise so I get to get up when I want.

"He does wake me 7/10 times when he comes to bed later than me"

I meant 7 out of the 10 times he comes to bed later than me (on different nights), he wakes me.

i know i was being naughty

Fabby - no.. its the.. oh never mind

sorry ilove...the though of moving all my hair stuff downstairs into a shared room is causing me to lose my sense of humour (my GHDs & smoothing serum will never be all mine again )

Why does he not want mirrors downstairs?

Is he a vampire?

Its easy to dry hair without a mirror, then just go back upstairs and do the rest, tis a tad rude doing it when someone is asleep.

I hope you don't use straighteners every day ... you will destroy your hair

If he is working late , hence the late nights then I think you should really get a set up in another room. Ikea did a tall , slim draer unit that the lid lifted up and was a mirror - or you get a bureau type thing & stool somewhere and have all your bits and bobs in there & a mirror inside. :)

I wash my hair at night, dry it in the kitchen cos the kids are asleep.

I do think YABU, and can understand your dh here, what a crap way to be woken every morning.

I often think I would like to live in Germany simply because they are allowed to use hairdryers in the bathroom there :o

"He doesn't have to get up, but why should she creep round the house to avoid waking him half an hour early ?"

out of respect and consideration, the same way as if he got in from work (i know he doesn't work out of the house but it's an example) half an hour after she went to bed and showered each night. is it ok for him to say "it's only half an hour you should stay up" why should she stay up when she wants and needs to sleep? she shouldn't and nor should he have to get up when he doesn't need to. i don't think it is much of an ask for her to dry her hair in another room.

You sound a bit controlling in the way you decide when your DH sleeps or not karma.

I'd be right hacked off if DH thought he could treat me so carelessly.

Loving how the people saying "it's only half an hour, he should be up anyway" are totally ignoring ILoveItWhenYouCallMeBoo's suggestion that they are woken up 30mins after going to bed every second night. Because you "should" be, right?

I totally fail to see what the OP has a problem with here (bar those trivial and easily solvable practical issues such as buying a cheap fold away mirror). I also fail to see what is gained from waking up your DH in this way. The disadvantage to you (small) vs. the disadvantage to him (massive).

No brainer!

"I just think it is ridiculous that someone wouldn't be able to get ready for a day at work in the or own bedroom"

i think it's ridiculous that soemone wouldn't be able to sleep in their own bedroom and given that the bedroom is the room with the bed in it, your DH can't move from there to sleep wheras you can dress and do makeup in another room.