to think that something put on the bottom step is ONVIOUSLY to be taken upstairss

[girlwhowearsglasses]

When the next person actually goes upstairs....

Just been told off by DP for putting stuff on the stairs....

I thought this was an unwritten rule of life,,,,

or do other people have a Stair Fairy

I agree but the rest of my family seem to be rather good at ignoring stuff there!

My DH will happily walk past things on the bottom of the stairs for weeks. Apparently in our house we have a stair fairy.

Oh god, tell me about it. Why would I put things on the stairs if I didn't intend them to be taken up by the next person?

I put naughty children on the bottom step

YAbu according to everyone else in my house

DH clearly believes in the stair fairy. He will moan at length about tripping over stuff on the stairs - well take it up with you dopey then you wouldn't fall over it ffs!

Of course girl that's how it used to work when I lived at home with my Mum. Though the exception to this was toilet roll which was just lobbed up the stairs as the bathroom was right at the top

I am so glad we don't have stairs. That drove me up the walls in my parent's house.

My response:YANBU
My family's response: YABVVVU. Stair fairies do it all.

My Mum and Dad did this at their house because their stairs are wide and there is space under the bannister where people don't tread that you can put it.

But at my house the stairs are narrow and so is the bannister, they're steep too. If you put things on the stairs then it's likely people coming will tread or slip on them.

So it depends really, if you have the sort of stairs where it constitutes a hazard then YABU.

THANK YOU - and I obviously meant OBVIOUSLY and not ONVIOUSLY [blushg]

YANBU! What else could it be doing there, looking decorative??
There does seem to be a male/female divide IME tho, DH and BIL both dispute the 'on the way upstairs' rule.

Yes it does. Stuff in a pile at the bottom of the stairs needs to be taken upstairs and distributed between the rooms up there. I am the only one that knows this apparently. It grates my carrot.

I am not alone! It is the same in the bunbaker household. I sometimes think that men have selective eyesight.

Totally agree with you.

The rest of the family (all male) think there is a stair fairy.

Ds1-18 leaves 5 pairs of trainers on the stairs on a weekly basis, thats right 5!!

One of these days I will carry out my threat to chuck them into the garden.

Pain in the arse.

YANBU
In vain do I try to train my family to take anything of theirs on the stairs up to their rooms and put it away.

I know it's too much to hope you'd take anyone else junk, but is your own really too much to ask.

Had a strop about this yesterday.

Loo roll, shampoo etc from the weekly shop on the bottom stair, what the feck do they think they are doing there?

Of course OP, YANBU!

The person who puts stuff at the bottom of the stairs does so because they are so blardy busy and to take everything up and redistribute it would take EVEN LONGER than all the jobs they have just done (like taking down and folding 150 items of washing)

Our stairs can have so much stacked on them that every stair is full. I take my own stuff up and occasionally nag other people to take theirs up, but it's hard to train the DC to do it when they can see their dad doesn't

The three of them regularly run out of clothes and have to raid their pile on the stairs. Do they, at that point, take the pile back up with them? No!

I once, for about 0.000015 of a second, considered one of these

Then I thought wtf was I thinking, that would be even MORE annoying. The inviting handle would make it that much more obvious that it was waiting to be carried up, and it would still be ignored and it would drive me demented. (Plus we would need about 40 of the buggers)

Well it could be something brought from upstairs to be repatriated downstairs.

Or in my house various bags & ds stuff as its a wide level 3 steps up used as dumping ground.

My DCs are such slatterns that they will take upstairs the thing they want to use (new bottle of shampoo, say) and ignore the thing they don't want to use (new bottle of bleach). Makes me incandescent with rage.

Stumbled. my mum and dad live in a bungalow and Mum always like to go upstairs here and look out of an upstairs window for a change.