To wonder if anyone elses DHs play this game with their wives?

[2kidsintow]

I think the aim of the game is to see how much random crap he can bring into the house and leave in conspicuous and awkward places before my head starts spinning and I explode.

My dp likes to keep random bits of wood.

Yes, DP does seem to hide stuff away, whether it is essential or should be in the bin. Drives me bonkers.

Don't think it's just men that do this though.

Piles of receipts? Check.
Piles of loose change? Check.
15 boxes of paperwork couriered to our house by angry secretary as he hasn't gone through them in 2 years and they're moving office? Check!! Gah.

I inadvertently do this to my DH. Sorry DH, but it looks sooo useful and then I bring it back and then..... you get the picture.

Yep. Fossils, drift wood, rocks. All of which he is going to build something with. but hasn't in 12 years. Worst of all, last week he brought his parents round and they fit your criteria. :)

OP, can you give examples? Just being curious...

My DP does that to a certain extent. He gets roped in to helping friends clear out their garages, sheds, attics etc and somehow comes home with a load of their junk which then clutters up our house for ages. I swear it just gets moved from one house to the next until someone gives in and takes it all to be recycled or to the tip. Drives me mad.

My DP's mother drops in with bits of furniture when I am out. We already have TOO MUCH FURNITURE

What kind of random crap, OP? [pulls up chair ... superfluous chair, that is...]

Oh and YY to random bits of wood! Why do they do that? We haven't even got an open fire...

I bought 300 envelopes (A4 size) back when I was ebay-ing loads. Think I used 4-5, the rest are taking up valuable space in the hall cupboard....I might need them soon!

Mine brings magazines and catalogues and electrical wires home. Every feckin day it seems like. Every drawer you go in has wires in it, batteries and chargers for things we no longer own.
It drives me insane

Yes, wires here too. And little bits of metal / tools. What are they all FOR???

I like to bring home box files and labels and the like to organise the random crap. Turns out box files and labels and the like that you never actually get round to using are random crap. Who knew?

Hallway windowsill - empties pockets of wires, fuses and switches. Rarely tidies.

Living room - (small) - we purchased one of the 5 seater curved sofas as that is all that fits in the room. Currently only one seat remaining that he isn't sitting on or that isn't covered by his CDs, paperwork etc. Middle of the floor is completely taken up by a mahoosive cardboard box of random model train kit.

Dining room table - covered in his model train scenery stuff.
Kitchen side - another hobby reigns in there, winemaking. We don't even drink wine but there are 3 demijohns brewing away in there. And many, many jars of homemade vile chutney on the side too.

Oh yes, you want wood? we have enough wood to fuel most of Scotland at the moment. I have visions of us leaving this house in wheelchairs at 95 with EXACTLY the same huge pile of wood to pass on to the new owners because, although DH has collected all this lovely wood, WE HAVE NO BLARDY STOVE to burn it in. And I'm not allowed to 'invest' in one either.

Also a huge collection of Victorian gardening tools that however lovely are no longer functional (and no before you suggest, not even interesting to people with too much money and a new hise in the cuntry).

And and ... oh, just endless STUFF.

According to dd the driftwood is to build a a sculpture in the garden.

I am just so used to it I dont even notice, and I do it myself too...

My dad brought all sorts of random crap home, and it filled two sheds, his garage, under the stairs, and most of the spare bedrooms..

My FIL was just the same too...

My husband is equally as bad..

Oh yes, my DH knows that game well.
The 'Let's Fit as Many Random Pieces of Crap in the House as we can Game.'
Pieces of wood? Check. (Gawd knows what he wants them for.)
Also sees the fact that we have ample built in wardrobe space as an excuse to fill it so full of crap that things are likely to fall down and clonk you on the head the minute you try opening them.
GAH.

Oh yes, we also have wood. In the hallway. In the alleyway outside. In the corner of the living room too as he managed to smuggle a piece in for some random reason last week.

Also, carpet right were exceedingly generous the bastards when they cut the lino I ordered for the downstairs loo. I needed a metre, they gave me 2. Now the roll of the extra is propped up in the corner too as it is 'too good to be thrown away' while at the same time being too small to put to any good use whatsoever.

DH does this. Stones, bones, keys, random gloves, earrings, sticks, odd playing cards, guitar plectrums, useful looking furniture he finds on skips (we too have too much furniture), plastic animals and dinosaurs,bibles (he's not particularly religious), and, most recently, 20 unused brass sprinkler hooks from a fire extinguishing system. Apparently, one day, all these things will find their use. Until then, our hall looks like a junk shop. I've started hanging everything on the walls, like a gallery, or museum. It's our own little Museum of Everything.

Nope. No random goings on in this house. Oh no.

I have completely important hobby stuff instead. I have 'shiney things' (his words) that are scuba diving related. They are everywhere. Wet suits can be found hanging over the shower rail, weight belts now help to prop open doors, regulators hang jauntily over the bannisters and a dry suit is laying over the dining room chair like a dead body. Scares the life out of visitors on a regular basis.

In fact the dining room has become the diving room, when I think about it.

At the moment there is an electric keyboard (large) propped up in our hallway... next to a drill with an orange gardening glove placed carefully atop. There are little collections of screws in piles around the house, plus 3 doors stacked behind one of the sofas.

Don't get me started on wood.....

Or batteries...

No wood here, but a magnificent collection of the cardboard insides of toilet rolls, prime 20th and 21st C examples!

Dying chilli plants- currently only four.

Bubble wrap of varying dimensions- covering the floor of the little bedroom.

My personal favourite though is the milk bottles. About 10, that live by the side of our bed, on his side, and make the room smell like off strawberries. Because taking them downstairs daily when he goes is too much.

They live next to the tower of milk bottle tops that came from the bottles' earlier brethren.

I will not be featuring on any property porn shows in the near future....