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

My DP slipped on some stuff left on the stairs and complained at me for leaving it there. If you don't want to slip on it then take it upstairs FFS. I don't put things there for permanent storage.

So glad other people have this problem and it's not just me.

Yeah I leave thing on the steps to be taken up when I am not carrying a child. So usually I do it at bed time.

My dh can't see them apparently so never takes them upstairs and moans when he slips on them. Grr

YANBU! I also agree this seems to be male thing. DH can ignore things left on the stairs (usually something of his) for days on end. I try and just leave it on principle, but we also usually have to dodge a cat sleeping on the stairs and it all gets a bit risky when I'm carrying the baby. In the end I just have a little strop and collect all the accumulated "stair crap" and put it away myself. I'm sure DH thinks pairs of shoes, shampoo bottles and random household items make excellent stair decorations!

As another person said - good grief am I only the second person to say this - I've never heard of this before either.

Is is some sort of regional thing?

YANBU, my sister has a stair basket.

It's pretty

It's organised

She divorced the man who ignored the stair basket

Her children use and respect the stair basket

I have so far achieved 4 yr old DD1 chucking her dirty washing on the stairs and saying "I helped mummy, I used the washing pile"

she divorced the man who ignored the stair basket . Good priorities. Respect.

In our house DH stands and stares at the offending items. Then shouts through to wherever I am "why are these things on the stairs?" Every time. And then walks past them.

But there is a whole other AIBU about his main purpose in life being to repopulate every surface I have cleared, so it's hardly surprising.

Oh god I thought I was alone. DH & DS will struggle over accumulated stuff on stairs rather than pick it up.
It was a nightmare when I was on crutches and physically couldn't carry stuff upstairs. I ended up being a horrible nag which I hated.
They both seem to think stuff magically appears upstairs, toilet rolls magically replenish themselves, empty toilet rolls fall into the bin, dishes jump into the dishwasher ....

SO glad for the support.

I actually have three lovely baskets I bought in France from a guy on the roadside making them. They are 'up' 'down' and 'everything else' baskets. Of course only I use them. Due to slatternlyness they get taken upstairs and then of course have to be decanted two weeks later

If DP needs something out of them he empties them out and doesn't put it back.....

YABU. If you want something to go upstairs, take it up yourself instead of leaving a trip hazard for everyone else.

Am I the only person here with a partner who understands the stairs rule and will distribute upstairs goods to the appropriate location?

*polishes his halo

DH understands the stair rule fairly well

The empty toilet rolls on the other hand.....

Oh....whilst I am in full flow, filling every pot, vase or receptacle in the house with bits which shouldn't be there. I have a nice pot on my kitchen windowsill which currently has two screws, a broken cuff link and a Swiss franc in it.

Technically yes.

Unfortunately we find ourselves doing a mass clear up of the top and bottom of the stairs every few days. I'm as guilty of stepping around stuff to be moved as df though.

Piles of ironed/folded stuff to be put away either magically gets put away by the fairy or is left outside DS's room or hung outside DH's wardrobe. They help themselves from the piles rather than putting away aargh

get put away not gets - grammar fail

We have twisty stairs and I will.often put a basket of clean washing across the first wider step. It goes across the whole step. Dh still manages to ignore it, even if I have asked him to take the basket up.

Trip hazard.

I leave stuff on the stairs but I'm the only one to take it upstairs!

One day the lazy bastard I am married to DH may fall over it and think about taking it upstairs too as half of it is his!

If someone puts something on the stairs in out house I assume it is to be thrown away.

Dh also hates stuff left on the bottom step.

YANBU.
Finally, after 4 years together dp managed to take a bag of clean laundry upstairs for the first time.

Incidentally, I am due ds2 on Wednesday, have been diagnosed with sciatica and pgp and have been told by the mw not to do any heavy lifting. It also took a lot of nagging.

I grew up with the stair rule, and certainly did take stuff up - not every time though, because I also remember Mum having rants about it from time to time. If you're going upstairs, take anything on the stairs.

I now live by myself, so it makes like a lot easier. If things don't get taken upstairs, it's all my own fault.

I can't believe anyone actually needs a stair rule or previous experience of it to work out that you would put something on the bottom of the stairs to take it up when you next go up! (Or, in more enlightened households - if there are any - for the next able-bodied person who goes up to take up)

What else do you do if you have something that needs to go upstairs – go up every single time? I'd spend my entire life going up and downstairs (I almost do as it is...)

My nagging has not been in vane! I just saw my 3year old DS struggling up the stairs with a small pile of clothes I'd left on the bottom stair (mainly socksand pants) bless his little heart. This is the same pile that my DH walked up past THREE times already!

DH once came downstairs, opened up a pack of loo roll which was waiting to be taken upstairs and took one upstairs. Now that's annoying.

oops. meant to be italics not strike through!