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

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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?

I am yet to win the "great glass throw down challenge" I also cave at day 3 (can't remember who said that) its like he is "glass blind"

But I won on tissues not as disgusting as it sounds as he uses them to clean glasses with a spray before bed every night he would leave one on the bedside table... I would ask why not in the bin in the bathroom and he never had any answer why and would then shove it in the bin - it just used to bug the shit out of me and playful cat would occasionally "kill" them all over the floor.

So I put a tissue bin next to the bedside table but still they remained :( big sighs (I really hate asking him to move them as I sound like a right old nag bag and he is one of life's good people) but these tissues drove me nuts.

So I collected them, every single one left was re-homed in his sock drawer, neatly folded up.

About three weeks later I'm asked "why are all these tissues in my sock drawer"

"I thought you were collecting them" was my response "otherwise you would have put them in the bin next to the bedside table."

They now mostly find there way into the bin :)

Kittens 1
Kittens DP 0

I have this shit in my house too - kids and DP. They could trip on a towel and nearly break their neck and still not pick the bloody thing up

going with some girlie friends to see Bridget Jones's Baby in Leeds so looking forwards to it - looks great!

I have gone a step further and taken the towel rail out of the bathroom. It hangs on the wall only to have every towel dumped on the floor. I am the only one who picks them up and when I ask who puts them on the floor instead of hanging them up all three of them deny knowledge.

I am waiting for the first one to ask where it has gone

I do the "washing up" challenge - every single week.

DH has one "assigned" job to him, namely, The Washing Up. It is his job alone, as my job alone is the cooking of dinner. All others shared/gets done.but these are the 'named' task we have.

So I cook every day - fine, you have to eat! So naturally, DH washes up every day, right?

WRONG

it's a careful game of jenga and ingenuity.
The washing up gets piled up in the sink, then the draining board, then the side. HE mutters and putters about no teaspoons, will eat cereal from a mug, make tea with a dessert spoon, eat a sandwich from a piece of kitchen towel, use the tiniest paring knife to cut up bits for his lunch, all the while ignoring the pile of washing up.
Eventually after about three days of 'toast en paper towel' for dinner. He'll ask why we haven't had a proper dinner for a while. To which I will reply "well I can't make dinner, all the pots and pans are dirty, no clean knives, no utensils etc"
He'll go "oh" and then will eat his toast.

And then maybe after about day 8 he will 'crack' and have a giant washing up session which takes him about an hour. After which he'll moan about how long it takes, how his back hurts, how there isn't room for everything etc etc.

He could just spend a maximum of 10 minutes doing it every day - after his dinner. but noooo, The Washing Up has to be a dram filled exercise FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS

I think the rule on washing up should be whoever cooks, washes up.

I swear DH tries to use as many pans as possible when cooking a meal.

If I were you Binary I wouldn't cook on tuesday if Monday's dishes were still there.
We are like BestFriends, we both cook and whoever is not cooking does the washing up

The shorts and t-shirt are still by the pool. DH appears oblivious.
I actually think he was looking for the t-shirt amongst his things this morning and couldn't find it- clearly has forgotten completely. Yet he is currently about 6ft from it eating his lunch.
I am not giving in.

Ah, no no no. I resent having to wash up a load of different pans that have all been just thrown precariously in the sink when I use the minimum amount possible when cooking myself and keep clean as I go. I prefer to cook dishes where I can just chuck everything into one pan.

If you cook, you should also wash up.

As funny as all this is though, why are we parenting our husbands?! It's easily done mind, I often find myself using that tone of voice by accident. "DH, where do we put our socks when we take them off?"

But if I wash up - what will DH's daily job be???

If he doesn't cook at all, then it's different. Maybe that's why he doesn't get how annoying it is to have to try and cook around piles of washing up.

I'm a reformed washer upper. I used to be like your DH, I used to dread doing it because I knew it would take ages. Obviously, I seemed to miss the point that it doesn't take very long if you do it every day. I was genuinely surprised at how quickly I could wash up

Stop the press! The towel has moved!!! It's been folded and put on the chaise lounge, so obviously not wash-worthy, but my God, I actually shouted out in shock when I saw it!! Letter and envelope have moved too.

If I didn't know better, I'd think he's read the thread!! So, who had 4 days?!

Well I did not expect this outcome!!!

Not me.

That is amazing!

Wowzers!
So the chaise lounge is a towel rail!?
You are a posh lot

I wouldn't have guessed 4 days.
I was sure you would cave.
Glad he's stepped up.

Ooh, get you with your chaise longue! Posh or what! Well done for holding out!

Is it actually Saturday?

Chaise lounge is definitely not posh! Got it for a tenner, needs recovering as old and covered in stains and reclining mechanism is broken!

Anyway, told you I wouldn't cave!!!

Excellent.
Now all you need to do is train him to pick up your stuff!

I'm impressed op My dh could be your dh and I'm sure he simply does not notice. I'll be fuming for days and days, determined not to move whatever he's left about, but he's just oblivious. So the impact is that I'm bothered but he's clueless!! Maybe I should direct him to this thread....

Congrats op! the challenge for me is DP's sweaty socks taken off and placed carefully on the radiator (it's off). They stink. So I've started treating them like clean socks - I roll them up in perfect Konmari style and put them in his drawer. Passive aggressive, moi?

He did read the thread!! But, after he'd moved the towel! (I told him I'd written a thread about him, he didn't look but couldn't hold out any longer and had a nosy today at work)