Cardboard toilet tubes

[m4rdybum]

I'll start by saying I'm not BU - I need a rant.

Do all DP's/DH's struggle with the concept of putting the empty cardboard toilet roll tubes in the bin? Or is it just my bumbling idiot of a darling husband? It's normally him who empties them during his half hour dumping sessions.

In my house, you have no way of getting out of our bathroom door without passing the bin - there's no goddamn excuse!

Considering trying to make a point by not putting them in the bin when I spot them, but genuinely think we may become overrun.

Another one who does it here. Getting fed up of picking up after him.
I'm never sure if it's worth an argument.
I'm a 'housewife' so cooking/cleaning/etc is my job, but surely that doesn't extend to picking up and putting away everything he gets out.

I have a plastic basket in the bathroom for toilet tubes and other things that can be recycled (empty shampoo bottles etc). Seems to work really well. I too was driven crazy by the flamin things on the floor or left on the holder with the new toilet roll on top of the bin - argh!

I drop full bags off at the infant school down the road for their craft activities, except nearing Christmas when I keep some back to make crackers

Does he think the toilet roll fairy picks it up?

Yes - and we're the toilet roll fairies. We should dress up as those ugly roll hiders with the big dresses whilst we beat them into submission.

Our schools are not allowed to accept toilet roll middles, Tiger. No idea why, since the number of people who died from toilet roll middle related infections when I, and everyone I know, was at school, is precisely zero.

I used to give them to my ratties to play with and chew. Now the puppy gets them.

My DS does this too. He changes the toilet roll and slots the middle bit onto the plug plunger for the unused bidet next to the toilet. Why, just why?

I put toilet roll middles and shampoo bottles in the bin in the bedroom but do sort them into the recycling when the bin in brought downstairs to be emptied - and don't get me started on how men can walk past an overflowing bin and not think 'maybe I'd better empty that'!

Which I put in his bed.
I applaud you!!

Crispsheets at putting them under the sheet and in the pillowcases. I'd love to have seen his girlfriend's face when she saw that.

Our puppy goes into the bathroom and helps himself to them when he wants something to chew.

We do have a recycling bin in the boys' bathroom. Does it get used? Of course not. I have just about trained them to empty the kitchen bin when it's full, but the bathroom bin seems to be beyond them. I'm just glad I'm lucky enough not to have to share a bathroom with them.

Maybe everyone is collecting enough for the latest Blue Peter make?

and don't get me started on how men can walk past an overflowing bin and not think 'maybe I'd better empty that'!

We plan a game of kitchen bin Jenga/Buckaroo in our house.

Play*, rather.

We don't plan garbage games!

When I was a solicitor and did some divorce work I visited a client at home, where the parties were unhappily continuing to live separately but in the same house. There was a proposal that the house be sold but the husband said it was in a bit of a state and no one would want to buy it. I went upstairs to have a look around and there were about 200 old loo roll middles in the bathroom, spilling out over the hall and landing, it was as though this was central to some part of feud between them!

@ExConstance that's classic!

Perhaps a tiny basket ball net above the bin would encourage him?

We've tried recycling them, they are left in the recycling bins. So no they go into the bin. And yes, everyone here leaves them for the fairy to deal with them. As there is no fairy here they pile up until DH finally put stem in the bin