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Original poster

To think that if you have the energy and ability...

33 replies

lacktoastandtolerance · 30/09/2015 09:49

...to open a cupboard door, you should also have the energy and ability to close it?

See also:

  • putting the lid on the coffee jar
  • putting the lid on the sugar jar
OP posts:
BathshebaDarkstone · 30/09/2015 09:52

YANBU.

See also:

Turning a light switch off.

Putting toothpaste back in the bathroom cupboard.

Putting the loo seat down.

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 30/09/2015 09:59

As long as you can also

Put used socks in the wash basket
Along with pants
Turn the light off
Lock the door
Put the cereal box back (or in the recycling if empty)
Put the books back on the shelf

elQuintoConyo · 30/09/2015 10:04

Put that empty biscuit wrapper in the bin next to your knee.

Put the teaspoon back in the teaspoon pot, where you got it from, next to the kettle, where it lives, after you've stirred your tea.

Fling your side of the duvet down for airing in the morning.

Original poster
lacktoastandtolerance · 30/09/2015 10:14

The crumpled sheet of kitchen roll...

OP posts:
TheExMotherInLaw · 30/09/2015 14:09

put the jar of coffee back on the tea/coffee/sugar/kettle tray when you've used it, not 6 inches in front of the tray
put the salt pot back in the condiments thingy, not 6 inches in front of that
not leave your shoes in the doorway for me to trip over

corlette · 30/09/2015 14:23

To realise that there is no use in the world for a thimble full of milk so don't put it back in the fridge in the bloody 2ltr milk carton. Just put it on your fecking cereal/ in your tea etc etc and chuck the fecking thing away.

Dawndonnaagain · 30/09/2015 14:38

Move things to find the jar of ketchup instead of waiting until everyone else (but nobody having ketchup) has sat down and yelling for it.
Putting the lid back on the toothpaste, the flannel so it doesn't drip on the floor, and (Yes, I know it's oh so hard) bringing your washing down stairs. You're 45 ffs!
elQuinto I frequently use the latter part of your name!

TheImminentGin · 30/09/2015 14:42

If you have the energy to put an empty packet back in the cupboard then why not just put it in the bin.
Dishes in the dishwasher.

Hamishandthefoxes · 30/09/2015 15:02

If you can put your dishes in the sink you can put them in an empty dishwasher.

This one is controversial. If you have enough energy to carry your dinner into the sitting room to eat, you can carry the empty plate back out again.

emwithme · 30/09/2015 15:24

If you can change the toilet roll (and know which way round is the right way) then why the fuckity-fuck do you insist on threading the empty tube over the handle of the loo brush sits back and awaits flaming for having a loo brush rather than putting it in the bin WHICH YOU HAVE TO REACH OVER TO GET TO THE LOO BRUSH?

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 30/09/2015 15:41

If you can take something out of the fridge or larder you can also manage to take the empty packet out. Place food in mouth, empty packet in bin. Simple.

hunibuni · 30/09/2015 15:53

Replace the bloody toilet roll! It only needs to be slotted on ffs Angry

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 30/09/2015 16:24

you can also learn to shut the feckin bedroom door fully so it doesn't bang every 5 seconds annoying me to death.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 30/09/2015 16:38

If you can be organised enough to manage a department of six adults at work, why does it become an impossibility to place a pair of shoes on a shoe rack and keep track of your keys and wallet? Yes, ds2 now has an obsession with lace up shoes and will remove the laces as soon as he gets the chance. You know this and still you cannot manage to place your own shoes in the safe, correct place.
OK, here's a weird one. Why, if you went into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee and fix yourself a ham sandwich, is the soy sauce, jam and salt cellar out?
Because you wanted something that was behind them in the same cupboard. You have managed to put that item away, so why not the others.
Funnily enough, if I want something from the back of a cupboard I don't scatter its contents across a worktop and then wander off and leave it.
Oh, there are your keys, behind the jar of mustard that got left out.
How you even survived into adulthood, never mind forge a successful career is beyond me.

grovel · 30/09/2015 16:45

If you've got the energy to walk upstairs presumably you've got enough in reserve to take the loo rolls/laundry bag etc with you. They can't fly from the bottom step.

Fizzielove · 30/09/2015 17:23

To scrape off the remains of dinner into the bin and put plate in the dishwasher ! Fucking plate fairies are on strike !!

lessthanBeau · 30/09/2015 17:31

If you are clever enough to fix everyones phones and computers, why can't you figure out that a wet towel scrunched up on the top of the radiator will not dry unless it is hung over so the back of it drops down! It's not rocket science is it?

Butteredparsnips · 30/09/2015 17:33

And if you have the energy to open the post, you have the energy to put the envelope in the recycling. Not the kitchen work top .
Thank You.

Binkybix · 30/09/2015 17:36

If you text me to tell me we need some more x because it's gone off, why is it still in the fecking fridge when I get home??

EmmaWoodlouse · 30/09/2015 17:41

If you have the energy and ability to open a packet of smelly spicy snacks, you have the energy and ability to put it in the bin when it's finished with. And if your sibling has left home your mum is going to know it was you.

HellesBelles01 · 30/09/2015 17:43

If you have the energy to compress the entire contents of an already full to the brim rubbish bin to squeeze in one more used tea bag then you can take the bag out and put in the big bin outside which you will walk past on your way out Grrr!

deadwitchproject · 30/09/2015 17:48

If you have the energy to place your dirty plate and glass next to the sink, you can place them in the sink. Why, you could even rinse them and place them in the dishwasher.

whatstheplanphil · 30/09/2015 17:52

...... You could put dirty laundry in the washing machine instead of in front of it

elQuintoConyo · 30/09/2015 19:37

DawndonnaagainConyo

DH and I had lunch in a closely-packed restaurant today. The womanand her late-teenaged daughter were FASCINATED by us, FASCINATED I tell you. Lird knows why. It was very uncomfortable - poor DH felt he could only go up for one pudding, not two, for fear of 'the stares'.

¿Que coñ miras? was running through my head and it took every fibre of my being not to say it! DH gave her a stare back, but it had no effect. Bloody weird people HmmGrin

Sorry, other posters. As you were...

Eveysdad · 30/09/2015 19:42

If you have the time and energy to post on mumsnet then you definitely have the time and energy to correct all these things your moaning don't get done.

(This is a joke comment, please don't kill me k? Thanks? Bye Grin )

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