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.

YANBU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it's yours pick it up and put it away!

It's totally and completely beyond my 11 and 14 Y DDs.

DH hasn't a clue where his clothes go so I know he won't, but the girls

Anyway I get revenge on DH by dumping magazines, post and geek on his desk so he has to move them.

This stair piling business was something i never encountered till i stayed at exPILs. I would get up in the morning and walk down the stairs and there would be a passive aggressive pile of my things (shoes from the porch, a book which i had left on the coffee table etc). There would also be pants socks towels etc (not mine).

It honestly NEVER occurred to me that it was intended for ME to take up. I could see she was getting agitated but by the time i worked out why (if she had just said 'Spud would you mind taking these up') i thought she was a PA PITA and preferred to watch her irritation.

I actually think it's rude to put stuff on the stairs and just wait for someone else to deal with it. If i put something on the stairs it is to remind ME to do something and if it was moved i would say 'who's moved my stuff' in a irritated way. If I want someone to take something up i just ask them directly.

don't you just take stuff straight up? [baffled] You must live in massive houses I just grab stuff and whip it straight upstairs, into the room it's supposed to go in.

Because I am far too lazy Hectate

Like I say. Massive houses. For me it's 13 steps up and then two steps in any direction and you're there

my DH regularly walks past the empty laundry basket which I have returned to the bottom of the stairs having loaded the washing machine. He says he doesn't know if its on its way up or down. Its empty!

No.

currently our stairs have lots of cookery books on them because we got a "new" fridge/freezer and it is taller than the old one.

we had to remove a shelf from the wall, so that is sitting on the stairs, too.

If they all got taken upstairs, it would be chaos! (see what i did there...)
[wunk]

YABU sort of.

DH uses our stairs as his office. They are the repository of his post. I leave it there for him to see when he comes in and goes upstairs to change but often it doesn't get moved. His man bag lives on the bend in the corner of the stairs during the week (he doesn't use it then) and threatens to trip everybody who walks passed. We also have several small pieces of art work from school and some CD's that get dumped out of the car into the house but not quite back on the shelf. Downstairs.

On the other hand obviously clothes on the stairs are meant to go up....... unless they are going to down because they are gloves and hats that have been stranded there. Not that I would leave clothes on the stairs. Don't they get in the way? What if somebody is coming down and needs to get passed, surely you wouldn't expect they to do an extra journey to get back up.

Actually I am with usualsuspect in the 'death trap stairs' camp.

P.S. what are doilies when they're at home? Not heard that one before.

Downstairs was not meant to be a sentence in its own right. The shelves are downstairs. End of.

YANBU. We have death trap stairs as well.

BTW I have one of those stair baskets, it sits at the top of the stairs full of the shite I can't be bothered sorting out.

Doilies are really naff lacy things that go on tables and under food and stuff here

here

I think they were the height of posh and sophisticated in the 70s. or something.

Along with loo roll covers and those dolls you put over your vacuum cleaner

There is a pair of dh's football socks that have been on the bottom stair for about 10 days, they have gathered dust and will continue to do so until he picks them up..

Yes yes, I know what doilies are, I was brought up proper.

Just in this context. How are you a bit of lace for not taking stuff upstairs?

And is there no issue with taking stuff down?

oh. Sorry.

Thanks for the pics though Hecate - I actually thought the icing sugar on the cake in a doilie (doily? neither looks right) was quite clever.