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To string DH up by his balls...

29 replies

minionmadness · 12/12/2014 19:26

Just been up into attic today to get tree and decorations down for the dc to decorate. Tree is there but no decorations.

They were in a box clearly labelled Christmas decorations... gone! There is another box with a "for the tip" label which I asked DH to take when he went.

It's looking like he taken the wrong box to the tip and he's on a works do tonight so can't ask him, well I can but I am fuming and would probably spoil his night. The dc are upset, I'm trying to make light of it but I am seething.

I know we can buy more, but there were lots of ones that the dc have made over the years and some which my mum gave me before she died.

I am really bloody angry and feel like ringing him to get himself home and find them... I won't!

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AlistairSim · 12/12/2014 19:29

Blimey, this seems to happen a lot on mn! Xmas Shock

Mrsmorton · 12/12/2014 19:29

Didn't you post this before??

FoxgloveFairy · 12/12/2014 19:29

Coat the testacles in gold and use them to decorate the tree? Pity he has only two, but it's a start. Perfectly reasonable, I think. A well balanced and fair response! Grin

Allbymyselfagain · 12/12/2014 19:30

Word for word read this before im sure.

whereismagic · 12/12/2014 19:31

I would scream at him tomorrow morning when he is hangover just to make a really good point about reading labels. Grin

CheeseBuster · 12/12/2014 19:31

Had this thread already but this time the boxes are labelled and you are slightly less screechy.

MillionToOneChances · 12/12/2014 19:32

Last time they were in the conservatory. I think here are a lot of idiot DHs out there waiting to be gelded.

waithorse · 12/12/2014 19:32
Hmm
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minionmadness · 12/12/2014 19:38

No definitely not posted about it before... clearly another dickhead on the loose.

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LindyHemming · 12/12/2014 20:16

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Mousefinkle · 12/12/2014 20:34

This be some déjà vu shit.

DejaVuAllOverAgain · 12/12/2014 20:44

Ahem...

I like FoxgloveFairy's reply Grin

thursday · 12/12/2014 20:49

One January dh left the decs box next to ds's cot for the night rather than in the cupboard behind the cot. Small boy got hold of Angela, the treetop fairy from my childhood my mum bestowed on me for my tree. And he ripped her limb from limb. I cried. But glad he didn't hang himself on the tinsel.

wickedlazy · 12/12/2014 20:59

I would be furious. Can he read? I would give all his books etc to charity, as he has obviously only been pretending all this time that he can. He'll have to pay for all new decorations, and do a lot of arse kissing to make this up.

Topseyt · 12/12/2014 21:01

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juneybean · 12/12/2014 21:13

Ffs OP has said she hasn't posted before, if you have an issue take it up with MNHQ!

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minionmadness · 12/12/2014 21:13

You can all Deja-vu till the cows come home... it's still not me.

It doesn't make me feel any better that some other poor sod has a dickhead DH who can't read either.

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BreakfastAtStephanies · 12/12/2014 21:22

Maybe your DH didn't like the decorations? Accidentally on purpose took away the wrong box. I am not excusing him, mind

Bulbasaur · 12/12/2014 21:44

Could it be he didn't take any box to the tip and the Christmas box is somewhere else?

3littlefrogs · 12/12/2014 21:48

These things do happen.
BIL took a box of antique books to the tip and left me the box of completely worthless tatty paperbacks.
DS took a box of tools to the tip and left me a box of junk.

Everything was clearly labelled, but some people can't be bothered to check. Sad

ScreamingSpires · 12/12/2014 22:06

As I said on the other thread, I carefully bagged up a load of ski gear, put it in a safe place, then a few weeks later I gathered it up myself, drove it to the tip and threw it in a skip.

All has to be replaced for the next trip facepalm

Notagainmun · 13/12/2014 08:08

I put a box of DC's toys in the garage loft, well I asked DH to years ago. Then I became a Child minder and thought it would be great to get those old toys back. They had gone. DH must have accidentally got rid during a spring clean. I was gutted as they were the favourite toys that held special memories and I wad keeping them for future grand kids.

TimelyNameChangey · 13/12/2014 08:12

Do people really imagine that people don't have similar problems to other people? This is a common problem in a way...my sister's DH did the same thing.

CakeAndWineAreAFoodGroup · 13/12/2014 08:16

Why would you put a box of stuff for the tip back in the loft?

I don't drive but if I get anything ready for the tip it goes straight in the car ready for the tip. Not put it carefully back next to stuff I need to keep. Especially not if my oh were a habitual taker of treasured irreplaceable Christmas decs to the tip.

Hmm

What have you learned from this?

littlemslazybones · 13/12/2014 08:25

To be fair, I bet this happens a lot. Junk and Christmas decs inhabit the same space in this house too. In fact, I thought this happened to is last year but thankfully I was wrong. I then promised myself I'd stop boxing all the Xmas stuff in Pampers boxes and find a proper place for them but no, I still shoved them all back into the same unlabelled nappy box.