to tthink everyone except the daftest of doilies knows that stuff on the stairs needs to go UP?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

AAArgh.

No I don't walk down the staisr and then turn round pop the stuff on stair 3 to continue the journey in someone else's arms.

No I don't put it there for fun.

aaargh.

My stairs are always covered in stuff, they are a death trap TBH.

YANBU

Lots of doilies about though.

Same here. I think the rest of the household think it's just for my benefit. Also the bleeping when the washing machine finishes is only audible to me.

Good luck!! It doesn't work in my house either. To the point where they will go up the stairs, past the toilet rolls waiting to go up, do a poo and be yelling for toilet roll!! I go as deaf as they are blind and stupid!

It kills me that despite shouting talking about this at least once, it seems impossible for anyone but me to take stuff up. I'm training ds to do it.

You could get one of those stair baskets? i have to say they wouldn't hold enough for me, except they might be taken up more quickly...

yanbu. I'm trying to train 5yo DS, he sort of knows he needs to take his clean pants and socks upstairs.

....everyone except the daftest of dollies.....and teenage boys.

Except... we hang washing over the stairs to dry and have a downstairs bathroom so sometimes, on my way out I will do just this for my return...

Really adults should know which goes up and which goes down though - it's not rocket science!

Nice to see you AM.

Or PM, or anytime.

HSE are on their wya to yours usual...

Are they rilly clean?

And, yus, joanofa, surely they only need telling once? [grr]

sorry, in my house, things on the stairs are just out of the way of the toddler - DH teenage boys and I can reach the stairs over the stair gate, but toddler can't, so it is a useful place for mugs of coffee, mobile phones, books etc etc. I wouldn't want them taken up when I am still using/reading/drinking them!

I totally agree. Admittedly, our 9mo twins can't carry crap upstairs yet, but I have instigated something of a new motto with DH - 'no wasted journey' (around the house). Luckily he thinks it is quite funny and picks up stuff in triumph, bellows 'no wasted journey' and trundles off. Perhaps my greatest moment of DH behavioural change!

I hate this. DH walks past it all. Piles of laundry, cuddly toys, clothes, books, shampoo, new loo roll....I am going to start putting it in the middle of each step so he has no choice.

(runs to stairs to carry out plan)

Plus my DH has NO excuse as he manages a bar restaurant and says to the waiters "Full hands in and full hands out!" all the time.

The twat. He KNOWS the idea of it all. He's just lazy!

KissMyEmbroidery, don't hold your breath. I think British men have improved at gymnastics because they are performing increasingly incredible manoeuvres of balance to get over the obviously placed piles of laundry without ever touching them.

unless they are at the top of the stairs - in which case they are to go down.
seems obvious to me, but DH manages to miss it unless I put stuff RIGHT IN THE middle of bottom step.

I haven't lived anywhere with stairs for about 20 years - I'd forgotten how much of a problem they can be.

I agree with Joan my 2 teenage dd's are clearly in training for the hurdles event in Rio, they have to get over the bloody piles of THEIR stuff to get by !!

I want one of those stair baskets just for this reason. My DD's are oblivious to not only loo rolls and washing but even their own crap.

Then they wail about not being able to find said crap or need loo roll...

joan he's Aussie though...so he'll probably just lie down on it and have a nap.

Hah, sometimes I forget and walk past it even if I'm the one who put it there