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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be really annoyed by this chair usage?

45 replies

GGabcd · 20/05/2015 08:11

To set the scene:the bedroom I share with my spouse. Containing, among other things, 3 chairs/stools.

1 rocking chair
1 dressing table stool
1 additional stool just because it has no where else to live.

So AIBU to be really annoyed that every morning when I go to use the dressing table my spouse's jeans are over the dressing table stool? When there is another stool, or the rocking chair, right there?!?!

The spouse has to actually move the stool out from under the dressing table to throw the jeans on it!

Should I LTB or just remove the dressing table stool to another area of the house (I don't know where) and bring it with me every morning after my shower?

Do I really have to say lighthearted?

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FelineLou · 20/05/2015 08:15

Just spill makeup, lipstick, least favourite perfume on them each day. Nail varnish will be the last resort. Or throw them out the window. Or LTB.

Fudgeface123 · 20/05/2015 08:15

LTB and take the chairs with you?

TwerkingSpinster · 20/05/2015 08:17

I'd use them as a bath mat.

TwerkingSpinster · 20/05/2015 08:18

I read bathroom......still....

GGabcd · 20/05/2015 08:21

Oh, there's an idea Twerk!

It should also be noted, BTW, that the extra stool? Is right next to spouse's side of the bed. And spouse sleeps in a tshirt and pants so strips off jeans, moves stool out from under dressing table, throws jeans, walks past the other stool to get into bed.

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HSMMaCM · 20/05/2015 08:21

Sit on them and pretend you didn't see them. I'd just tell him

CaTsMaMmA · 20/05/2015 08:21

put them into the washing machine, on a long hot wash...shrink the buggers and make them unavailable

by the end of the month it should have hit him that putting them somewhere else out of your range might be a better idea.

capsium · 20/05/2015 08:23

Take to leaving your dirty clothes on his side of the bed? Just because, you know, it is the most convenient place to leave them when you take them off...

GGabcd · 20/05/2015 08:23

Oh I have told him. Over and over and over again!

And I can't sit on them because he leaves his keys in the pocket and it hurts!

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BumWad · 20/05/2015 08:24

My DH is the same except it's a soggy wet towel

capsium · 20/05/2015 08:25

Knot one leg and laugh when he confusedly struggles to put them on?

capsium · 20/05/2015 08:27

Cheerfully chuck them at him saying 'Here's your jeans!'

50ShadesofNope · 20/05/2015 08:28

Hide them every morning. In the bed,in the shower, in the kitchen... He'll soon learn!

TwerkingSpinster · 20/05/2015 08:31

Sew the bottom of one leg closed. And one pocket.

Shodan · 20/05/2015 08:32

Is it a bunch of keys? If so, take off his front door key. Leave some of his dirty clothes on the front doorstep. When he comes home, sees the clothes and then can't come in the house because he has no key, shout through the letterbox telling him what he's done. Tell him you'll keep hold of his front door key until he sees the error of his ways.

That'll learn 'im.

Chunkymonkey79 · 20/05/2015 08:33

Yanbu!!! I have a similar issue, with the dressing table mirror!

We have a dressing table with a built in mirror, and stool. All of my products are kept there in the drawers.

Also:
Wardrobe mirror.

Magnifying mirror ontop of a set of drawers.

Bathroom mirror.

Spare bedroom mirror.

Every bastarding morning when i want to sit at the dressing table to do my hair/makeup DP is sat there plucking nose hair/putting on hairgel/general faffing that could be done at any mirror! It gives me the rage Grin

GGabcd · 20/05/2015 08:36

You guys are brilliant!

I have to go out now, but I'll be checking for more great ideas!

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TheBooMonster · 20/05/2015 08:38

I would hide each of his keys in a different room so he has to scramble round to find them each morning till he stops leaving the trousers on your stool!

WorraLiberty · 20/05/2015 08:44

Fill his pockets with dry cornflakes.

LetThereBeCupcakes · 20/05/2015 08:44

Shocking behaviour. Not on at all.

Empty the entire contents of your wardrobe onto your OH's side of the bed. Then get in and lie on YOUR side of the bed and look all peaceful and content.

Burn the jeans.

Wagglebee · 20/05/2015 08:55

Yanbu, that's one of the most annoying things I've ever heard.

Swap the stools around and see what happens. and report back

capsium · 20/05/2015 11:47

Decide to put your feet on that stool when you clip your toe nails. Don't pick up the clippings.

abigamarone · 20/05/2015 11:51

Don't sew the bottoms up, take the seam in on both legs. A little bit every day.

abigamarone · 20/05/2015 11:52

Just around the knee area

GGabcd · 20/05/2015 14:28

So he thinks he's shrinking? Or growing? I'm not much of a sewer!

In any case, I will take all of your ideas under advisement! Grin

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