to be so angry about something so totally trivial that my heart is pounding with rage?

[HecateGoddessOfTheNight]

and despite the fact I had logged off, I have logged back on again just to rant about it?

AND I have quite possibly ranted about it before anyway?

AND in the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter?

putting pans and mixing bowls in the wrong place.

Yes. That's what it is. I have just gone into the cupboard to get a pan for the veg. All the pans are piled up inside each other. About 3 pots up - the plastic mixing bowl.

Every. Bloody. Time.

I have to take everything out and put the plastics on one side, put the pan set in order and the big pans on the other side.

and Every. Bloody. Time.

Himself just makes the one huge pile on one side, of everything. Open cupboard - sling it in.

I feel the red mist right now. I could ruddy swing for him.

Every time, I tell him PLEASE don't do that. PLEASE put them in their proper place. Look - THIS is how they go. Can you see?

And every time he says yes, ok, fair enough you freak

AND THEN HE PILES EVERYTHING IN THE ONE BLOODY SODDING FRIGGING ROTTEN DAMNED BLOODY SPOT

Dh never puts things into cupboards, but he does helpfully puts whatever near where it should be put away[hhmm].

But on the plus side i can hide goodies in the cupboards and he never eats them[hgrin]

The most annoying thing that DH does in relation to Doing the Washing up (and there are many, including but not limited to :- not putting stuff away at all but leaving them on the drainer/cooker; not considering wiping surfaces as part of washing up duty; not doing the washing up in the evening but leaving it until the morning) which, bizarrely, leaves me frothing with rage is that if he washes a pan and there is no room left on the drainer he leaves it in the sink to dry, instead of just drying the sodding thing and putting it away.

Which all means that when I'm busy cooking up a storm and wish to drain something, or throw a dirty utensil in there, I have to first remove the pan and put it away.

Actually reading that back I realise that really makes me look bonkers. But meh.

You are not alone, spent most of yesterday looking forward to two whole hours of me and the telly,vegging out indulging myself and the DS buggered off to his club with the remote control in his pocket!!!Arrrgghhhh!

Yanbu, my husband will eat a packet of crisps and then put the empty packet back in the cupboard! I have threatened to kill him on many occasions for this reason. He then started to get the message and will now sometimes, but not always, put the empty packet on top of the worktop, above where the bin lives.

He will also regularly eat the last biscuit/finish the cereal and leave the empty box sitting in the cupboard. Actually reading this over is making me really angry with him and he hasn't even done it today (as far as I know :))

I think you need to start putting his things in the wrong place and keep doing it for a matter of months. It will give you endless pleasure seeing him take ages to find stuff.

YABU, but then again, I get unreasonable about the same things and end up doing an awful lot of clattering until I find out where something has been put.

Hec - it occured to me, about 4am, that you are in fact BU - not unreasonable, but unrealistic!! A man who insists on having a fridge in the lounge is never going to get Correct Pan & Bowl Stacking... just never.

YANBU - my DH does exactly the same thing with the cheese graters and the colenders. It winds me up every time!!!

Oh this sort of stuff drives me insane too.

a) he's a fricking engineer, he should be bright enough to find a reasonable stacking solution
b) it's never him that's having to cook, so he doesn;t need to do the pan-wrestling each time he has to make dinner. I'm tempted to go on cooking strike the next time...

Mind you, since cooking is about the only chore I'm doing at the moment (due to pregnancy, PGP and dizzy spells) I suspect that may be a little unfair, so I'll just steam and rant under my breath instead.

Leave the old duffer immediately

Do not pass Go!

It's the towels, just the bloody stupid towels. It makes me want to throttle him.

We have a cupboard in the bathroom where, with appropriate folding, they will all fit, and look nice & tidy. I've even shown him (many many times) which way to fold them, so they'll all fit in.

Why, when I've listened to his petty annoyances, and done my best to sort it will he not remember mine??? [hangry]

chipping. you are right, of course. I don't know what I was thinking!

Fridge in the lounge.

hang on ...... 4 am ?

You're as bad as I am!

Yeah Hec - 4am - my dedication to you cannot be questioned.

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