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Original poster

Dh is in the great British towel throw down challenge...

193 replies

Chlorinatedfrontbum · 31/07/2016 20:32

but doesn't know it. A towel was dropped on the bedroom floor 2 days ago. It's still there. I've entered him into the challenge to see when it gets picked up, but not told him. AIBU?

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DoreenLethal · 01/08/2016 08:23

Still there. And last night he threw his dirty work clothes on top of a basket full of clean clothes

That's OK, surely he will gather all these when he does the next wash?

SquidgyRedBall · 01/08/2016 08:25

I'm going with Tuesday 9 August at 7:32am before you crack.

DereksGotATail · 01/08/2016 08:27

I also thought this was going to be about sun loungers.

I'm betting that you crack first. It's not his towel therefore not his responsibility in his mind

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 01/08/2016 08:27

I suspect that you are going to have to take him by the hand and point of the bloody obvious difference between clean and dirty, dry and wet, husband and tosser

WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 01/08/2016 08:32

I thought this was a bizarre tv show pilot Blush

I'm going for Friday.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 01/08/2016 08:34

Find nearest roadworks and nick three orange cones.
Place round towel as an exclusion zone

FoxesOnSocks · 01/08/2016 08:40

I'm going with next Saturday - I'll put a curlywurly on it.

Though I think it might be accompanied by a comment as to why you haven't already moved it.

zofranks · 01/08/2016 08:43

blatantly place marking here

I am going for thursday in the middle of night when he trips over it to go to the loo...although if he anything like mine her will kick it out of the way rather than bend down.

MY DH walks past anything that is left on the stairs - drives me insane, I tried a stair standoff once, the stuff sat there 3 weeks before I couldn't take it anymore

Piemernator · 01/08/2016 08:43

I remember a post a few years ago when an empty shampoo bottle was left in the bottom of a bath.

Nanny0gg · 01/08/2016 08:48

Surely you picked up his work clothes and dumped them by his side of the bed?

PennyAsset · 01/08/2016 08:48

Pick it up for him.
It's your job.
He has more important things on his mind and you should be grateful he bathes your son because that's actually your job too.

NoWheelsOnMyWagon · 01/08/2016 08:52

Also thought it was going to be a sun lounger Dad's 'race'! Grin
Based on a similar incidents here at Wagon Towers - I'd go for never. He doesn't think it's his towel. A nearly intact box of maltezers on it.

Original poster
Chlorinatedfrontbum · 01/08/2016 08:56

I bloody tripped on it last night! I think it will be there until the end of time, because I'm not picking the sodding thing up.

Some of these suggestions are ace!

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Thecatmademedoit · 01/08/2016 08:57

I would put work clothes on top of said towel.

I also wanted to say, my DP does this but he puts them ON THE BED. Aghhhhhh.

My bets, from experience, is never. He will then complain and ask where all clean towels are.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 01/08/2016 08:58

I think we should all join in.
I will start next time DH leaves a coffee mug on living room side table

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 01/08/2016 09:00

Yy to work clothes on towel.
You could have a three foot tall Art Installation by the end of the week

DixieNormas · 01/08/2016 09:02

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weirdsister · 01/08/2016 09:02

Some men struggle to differentiate towels and underpants from the bathroom floor. It's a strange phenomenon which (in my limited experience) begins somewhere during adolescence.

ExtraHotLatteToGo · 01/08/2016 09:04

Because it was used for DS, I'd say he's totally disassociated from it. Doesn't even register as something that he used & is responsible for. If asked why it was still there he would probably say 'I don't know, I wondered why YOU'D put it there'

Just pick it up - you're only winding yourself up. Honestly.

If you're going to make a point about being fed up of picking up after him, do it with HIS stuff, so there's absolutely no grey area.

Don't get me wrong, he's an irritating fuck & I'd want to shove the towel up his arse, but 'pick your battles' doesn't only apply to children! There are easier battles to win this war!

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 01/08/2016 09:14

Hide things he needs under The Towel.

"your car keys? I think they're under YOUR towel"

WizardOfToss · 01/08/2016 09:15

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Giggorata · 01/08/2016 09:17

LTB.
Or perhaps you should put something vital, like work clothes, visibly under the towel.....
The Great Putting the Shopping in the Larder War lasted a few weeks until
(I murdered him) I gave in and did it...

NoobThebrave · 01/08/2016 09:18

😂 this is my favourite game. I often find I spoil it though with a snide comment that gives it away. I think you will crack by Friday when falling over it again/ all your towels have joined pile.

I have found more success (in the case of teenager) with a large box left by door labelled 'for bin/tip", obviously full of their property (that has been left on floors etc). 😬

Zaphodsotherhead · 01/08/2016 09:21

My ex used to dry himself with a towel and leave it - wet - on my side of the bed. We once had a 'shirt' stand off (if they aren't in the laundry basket but are, instead, on the floor in the bedroom then they don't get washed). All that happened was that I ended up with a very stroppy, verbally abusive husband and a whole week's worth of shirts to wash and dry in a day.

I live alone now. It's ace.

Two weeks before he draws your attention to the 'smelly towel that you left on the floor'. Two packets of Tic-Tacs (sorry, it's all I've got in).

ZansForCans · 01/08/2016 09:21

I would say if you pick it up, you've lost the battle not won it. Picking up after men because they won't do it is why so many women are knackered and stressed and have little time for themselves.

I had this battle with exp so many times. His towels stunk, and he stunk because he would use his dropped, manky towel that hadn't been able to dry properly over and over again. If I didn't nag/do it he would never, and I mean literally never, put it in the wash and get a fresh one. Bleurghhhh.