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when to throw out the newspaper

17 replies

Sapphopud · 01/01/2013 19:22

I've just had an altercation with DH and need advice. I slept in today, recovering from a late and celebratory NYE. This afternoon I could no longer find the beloved front (news) section of Saturday's Guardian newspaper (which I still hadn't read.) I discovered that while I was asleep my DD had used the front section of the paper to line the cat's kitty litter (while doing some morning housework.) I got very mad at him and he showed little sympathy for my position, stating that it was unreasonable that he should have anticipated that I would still need the news section on Tuesday. He even expected gratitude for the fact that he had saved other sections for me (Family, Money, the magazine) and that he had done the undesirable job of changing the litter (which he does regularly). I expected him to apologise and he steadfastly refused to do so. Am I being unreasonable?

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Tee2072Thing · 01/01/2013 19:26

Yes, YABU to expect someone to know you want the newspaper from four days ago to be saved.

All papers thrown out on the day here, read or not.

Chottie · 01/01/2013 19:28

I think DH should be commended for sorting out the litter tray. Can't you read The Guardian article online?

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 01/01/2013 19:28

YABVU. The paper is 4 days old AND you do not have to clean the litter tray.

curiousuze · 01/01/2013 19:28

Is this a reverse thingy ma bob? If I was such an asshole to my husband about the litter tray I think I'd find a wee kitty poo
under my pillow before I knew it...

penguinplease · 01/01/2013 19:28

no YANBU, if a newspaper is to be thrown out in this house it will be in the recycling pile, if it is not then it has not been read.
I often don't finish mine for a week, I only buy it on Saturday.

CelticPromise · 01/01/2013 19:29

YANBU. DH doesn't dare throw out papers in this house. Sometimes it takes me months weeks to read them. Four days is no time at all for the weekend papers.

OrangeLily · 01/01/2013 19:29

YABVU that's a perfectly normal thing to do

Catchingmockingbirds · 01/01/2013 19:30

Yabu.

pepperrabbitanddesultorytinsel · 01/01/2013 19:30

YABU. I would have assumed you read the "beloved" bit first - especially as it's the News section - 4 days later it's old news... Perhaps he assumed the same?

Sapphopud · 01/01/2013 19:45

Thanks all. Perhaps I was being unreasonable. I suppose when it's four days old and your DH is trying to help out around the house, I shouldn't be so hard on him.

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Naysa · 01/01/2013 22:08

Come to my house. My dad has newspapers from before I was born. He brought them here from our old house Angry

HollyBerryBush · 01/01/2013 22:10

YABU _ it's not his fault you are a slow reader

CelticPromise · 01/01/2013 22:23

I'm turning into your Dad Naysa!

ImperialSantaKnickers · 01/01/2013 22:24

yabu for reading the Guardian!

mercibucket · 01/01/2013 22:25

good grief, i thought you'd say that afternoon, not 4 days later!
long gone in our house

MrsHoarder · 01/01/2013 22:26

Yabu. Unless it was obviously saved then its anyone's call to tidy up old newspapers.

EuphemiaInExcelsis · 01/01/2013 22:26

The Guardian was shite on Saturday - you missed nothing. Smile

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