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To be annoyed DH sorted out my drawer?

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dribbleface · 05/04/2013 12:41

I have a drawer where I keep random stuff, plus spare make up, condoms etc. Last night I went in there to get a condom and DH pipes up, they are on the left. When I looked he'd reorgainsed it all. It gave me the hump, but we were ahem busy so I didn't say anything till later. He can't understand why I'm annoyed as I don't keep secrets but I do like to have some privacy eyes up pile cream

Is it me?

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MakeNoResolutions · 06/04/2013 04:28

It wouldn't really bother me. My DH wouldn't chuck anything out and there's nothing that I don't want my DH to see. In fact, he's welcome to sort out the wardrobes where we just dumped stuff when we moved. It's one of my holiday projects and we're down to 8 days left!

TheSloppelganger · 06/04/2013 05:01

YANBU, I would be pretty annoyed too.

I have nothing private or of any consequence in my bedside drawer and if DH opened my drawer to swipe a mint/squirt of hand cream/post-it note/piece of string/bottle opener etc I wouldn't mind.

But if he pawed through everything and then rearranged it the way he thought my stuff should be rather than letting me keep my own things arranged the way I put them - and therefore presumably wanted them to be... no, I would not be impressed at all. It is kind of like him saying: "The way you organised your drawer is shit, so I fixed it because my way is better."

I wouldn't be similarly aggravated if DH decided to sort out any communal accumulator of crap drawer, because that stuff is ours - rather than mine and communal drawers do affect him, whereas what stuff I keep in my my own bedroom drawer is mine, and should not really be of that much concern to him.

MarjoryStewartBaxter · 06/04/2013 07:53

Perhaps he was trying to minimise any delay in proceedings when a condom is required by tidying the drawer? YANBU however, I would be rather miffed also.

DrownedGirl · 06/04/2013 08:37

My dp tidied my bedside cupboard and chucked away an envelope in which I was keeping pregnancy test from my twins, sentimental reasons

:-(

AndFanjoWasHisNameO · 06/04/2013 09:14

Oh you are soooo NBU. DH is constantly fecking doing this. Sad
Or taking the unwrapped and hairy sweets out of my handbag pockets when I'm rifling round looking for emergency sugar. Also throws out all my tissues if they're scrumpled up in there so I end up blowing my nose on tesco receipts in the car. Aargh.
It makes me feel like a little kid. He knows I hate it but his need for order and perfection overrides this. He fully accepts that he is a twat btw Grin

dribbleface · 06/04/2013 10:02

Ha, blowing your nose on Tesco receipts as he has thrown away the tissues in the car, that is my DH! I'm over it now, and he has taken both boys food shoping this morning as I felt a bit rough. He's a good bloke, and I'm a stroppy mare all some of the time.

marjory hadn't thought of that! Think you could be right Blush

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Losingexcessweight · 06/04/2013 10:11

If your dp was tidying all the drawers in the room then i think yabu to not want him to do yours too.

It would be an automatic reaction to do all the drawers, not just some of them.

If he only tidied your drawer and none of the others in the room and he knows its your drawer only then yanbu.

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