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 put it there. If it's. Not removed in 24 hrs, then it gets put on the owner's bed he next time I drag myself upstairs. Never leave a room empty handed if you want a tidy house!

No, the DC's don't seem to grasp the idea. EX has finally grasped it (after 2 years living in his own place!)

Think he's finally realised at 38 that there aren't any stair fairies! (So stealing that phrase next time I pelt the DC's with their belongings and tell them to think fast!)

I feel your pain. As an experiment last week I left a full laundry basket of ironed clothes at the bottom of the stairs (where it was partially blocking them) and it stayed there for 5 fecking days until I caved and took it upstairs myself. DH must have walked past it scores of time but did it ever occur to him to carry it up....did it buggery!

I'm glad that there are so many others that do this! My DH gives off about me putting folded clothes, loo roll etc on the stairs, but still manages to step over them when he's going up! I leave them there for as long as I can bear it then I just end up doing it myself! Drives me batty!

I live in a flat but put things on the table in hall for teenagers to take to their rooms, it drives me mad when DD will take the clean tee shirt she wants to wear and leaves the rest of her washing there. I have much sympathy with my mum now she always used to moan about us leaving stuff on the stairs, i thought she was just being a nag and honestly as a teenager never saw the stuff

I've never heard of this before.

I'd assume if it's on the stairs it's because the person who put it there is going to take it up when they get the chance, not that anyone walking upstairs should. You put it there so you know where it should/where you want it to, go.

YANBU but I have witnessed my own family take out crampons and er, other climbing stuff to scale the pile at the bottom of the stairs rather than just take it up.

I thought this happened only in my house. Not sure if knowing that this happens elsewhere, makes me feel better or worse.

Everybody puts stuff there but I am the only person who ever takes anything up.

I take my stuff.
Children usually discover their stuff and redistribute it (not always to the right place).
Husband's stuff stays there, accumulating, until I snap and yell at him to move it. Which is slightly more satisfactory than just moving it myself but only just.

My DH seems to think anything left on the stairs is bloody decorative, DS seems to think they to be swept down the stairs with his quilt at 7am and my cats think they are obstacles to jump over/spring from/knock over in their never ending game of chase
Yadnbu

YES, YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES

YANBU

You need one (or two - for top and bottom) of those baskets that are shaped to sit on the step. Then the next person knows that they need to go up / or down,

Haha! We just had the same row earlier on in our house OP

YANBU

Yep, we do the bottom step thing.

We have a little cupboard next to the downstairs toilet with nothing in, I looked in it earlier and found 10 empty toilet rolls. The stair fairy and toilet roll fairy must be just as lazy as each other .

About a year ago I decided to go on stair fairy strike and stopped taking up the things that needed taking up. Result - seven stairs with stuff on them. Books, clothes, toiletries, stuff and more stuff.

Took DH and DS2 into the hall and said: See this stuff? It's all yours and it needs to go up. They both said in unison: Oh, sorry, we didn't see it.

Of course they didn't because they are very very stupid and I was the stair fairy. After a suitable amount of stink eye they got the message. Sort of. They still need reminding, but it's better than it used to be.

Tried that. No success with the DC's. Ages between 10yo and 15yo.

This post made me giggle. I know there will be some men out there who pick up goods left on the stairs & carry them up first time - but it does make me laugh how there are some near enough universal stereotypes about men! This is definitely one.

Completely agree OP. In fact nearly started the same thread at Christmas when there was a constant stream if things to go up or things placed at the top to come down. DH just doesn't get it. Even my two year old DD will pick up a small object from the pile to take up, but DH just saunters past.

Same in our house. I am the only one who carries things up the stairs.

I am considering having a special basket that lives at the bottom of the stairs so I don't trip over stuff I have left there (and dh has ignored) when I already have my arms full of baby.

Glad to read there are others with this first world problem.

DH believes in stair fairies, he never takes things up, but moans about the things that clutter them up.

Let me tell you a little story.

About two years ago he was moaning yet again that there was stuff on the stairs when blatantly going up without picking anything up. I had already taken most of it up, but only have two hands...

A little later I asked forced him to carry the washing basket down. A few seconds later. Crash! DH had tripped over the stuff he had refused to take up. Cue a man in lots of pain. Outcome - broken ankle and on crutches for weeks. The nurses at A&E agreed with me and told him off for not taking things up so it was a self inflicted injury.

One could think that he would have learnt a lesson. No fucking chance!

dp hates stuff being left on the stairs, my theory is if he tidied up after himself then it wouldn't need to happen. gives me the rage when he moans about it though

Unless it's naughty children thinking about what they have done then yes!