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.

DPs job means he gets lots of free rubbish merchandise.
He bought home 50 or so holdalls. They are very nice but why he needs that many I don't know. He fills them with crap and leaves them all over the house.
Also free samples of everything useless you can imagine!!!
(love the free perfume and make up though so I put up with the rest of the toot!!)

We have a massive price of wood In the garage that dh was going to carve into a rocking horse for dc1, he's now 22!!

Don't start me on the tv system.

I have to get assistance if I want to watch a DVD!

My DH loooooves cables. We have a box of cables im the study which I am sure some of them aren't made any more and neither are the things they connect.

He also loooooooves mail. Especially big piles of mail, ripped open, all the crappy leaflets piled up higgledly piggedly with the envelopes and possibly actual letters included. And often something unopened for me hidden at the bottom.

Overall he's not ok bad though he is also collecting every after shave box I buy him on his bed side cabinet.

He would probably comment on my craft stuff and shoes mind you.

DS does that.

with "items of Nature" as he calls them

Bloody sticks, bits of tree bark, stones, shells from the beach (ok they're allowed)

I'm always finding something under his bed in all sorts of places

I just unplug it all and put the aerial back into the telly.

I have one of these, but I have discovered a 'cure'. It is called aversion therapy and can be attained by 1) visiting the PILs or 2) having the PILs to stay.

The sheer eye watering chaos of the PILs house induces a near compulsive throw-awayathon that can last for up to a week. This is especially effective when paired with lots of sympathetic noises about how hard it is going to be for DH and his siblings to sort out the house if /when the PILs die.

The portable chaos the PILs bring with them when they visit once a week is effective at 'topping up' the aversion to hoarding.

I have to admit it has not been entirely successful in dealing with the 'nostalgia' box [sigh]. But at least things aren't getting worse

Disclaimer: my PILs are lovely, kind, generous people (who haven thrown anything away for half a century, including some food items in the back of the fridge I suspect)

Are you married to my First husband OP?

My DH is constantly leaving his belongings in the place where he decides he no longer wants it in his hand. I am sick to death of moving ticket stubs, pennies, used tissues, notes, etc etc etc/ For the past two weeks, I have been piling all of his clothes that he leaves everywhere on the floor next to his side of the bed. This includes clean and dirty clothes and shoes. Any papers, gadgets, money is piling up on his bedside table.

As I look at his bedside table now, I see his mobile phone barely resting on the leftover space on top. I really do not think he has noticed.

Antidote - are you married to my husband? Or more probably his brother....my PILs are very bad, and it does get him to mend his ways a bit once we've been there. Although he often comes back with bags of "stuff" from their house too, mostly books.

Nope Rabid.....mine is previously unattached....which scarily must mean there's another one of them out there.

This morning I got fed up of the spreading pile on the sofa which had toppled over and spread even further. I put the magazines in the magazine rack that sits down by his side of the sofa (bought particularly for him to put them in) and stashed his blank CDs and empty DVD cases by the computer.

Late this evening I 'fessed up in an "Before you complain or wonder where they are" tone. His answer
"I hadn't noticed!"

Gah!

Much as I hate to agree with your DH LeQueen, netbooks can be pretty crap to type on. You can get v nice small lightweight laptops (mine is HP) which are a teeny bit larger than a netbook but much easier to type on.

I really thought I was Mrs Trebus until I read some of these! Some make me sound completely minimalist. Thank you people!

Ye gods, we also have the Box of Cables in this house too.
Plus gym equipment everywhere. The most bothersome are the random kettle bells, always in annoying places like in front of the dishwasher (why? why?) and invariably too heavy for me to move without risking a hernia.
Still, he puts up with my collection of magazines, hairbrushes etc which is probably worse.

Boxes...

Empty, fucking, pointless, never-to-be-used again boxes...

My DH started keeping the SMA milk tins, and cutting bloody slots into the top and writing (eg) 10p on the top as his own personal banking system.

Nut job.