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To see how long I can leave the bin until DH empties it?

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Pipbin · 08/03/2014 14:23

There is just me and DH, no DCs.
I do the washing, cooking and ironing. He empties the bins and washes up. We have a cleaner for the rest of it. We both work full time.

The bin in the bathroom is overflowing. There are things on the floor. But I'm refusing to empty it because it's not my job. I have emptied all the bins the last two times it's needed doing and I'm not doing it again.
Am I being unreasonable? Should I just suck it up and empty it? It's making me twitch every time I use the bathroom.

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chocolatemademefat · 09/03/2014 06:00

Empty it over his side of the bed.

BurntPancake · 09/03/2014 06:21

DH is bin emptier and dish washer is this house except he hardly ever does either.
If I ask he'll either just go and do it or more commonly "I was planning on doing it later"
"ok well actually do it this time please"
"I definitely will"
And then he doesn't, I can't be arsed getting annoyed anymore so I just do it myself most of the time. He'd happily live in a shit hole, I don't want to.
That being said he has washed up maybe four times this week and taken the bin out without being asked. I hope he keeps it up!

Shamoy · 09/03/2014 07:33

I love the throwing the bin out!!
My dh has very very few jobs. One of them was to clear the stuff up after fireworks night. It's march and we still have firework packaging, slabs and buckets on the patio.
Id hate to think what state we would be in if his job was the bins...

Jinty64 · 09/03/2014 07:44

Just do your ironing. Leave his sitting in the basket and then empty the bin. When he asks where his ironed clothes are tell him you've swapped jobs as it is more important to you to have empty bins.

Alternatively, get a teenager. Mine do the bins once they overflow

Pipbin · 09/03/2014 22:12

This does remind me of the joke:
When a man says he is going to do something, just trust that he will do it. There's no need to keep reminding him every 6 weeks.

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