I'm joking but - how can you go upstairs and not notice this pile of shit that needs to be taken upstairs too? (Pic)

[Snooks1971]

OK I'm not house proud at all but bits n bobs on the bottom of the stairs annoy me. It doesn't annoy anyone else it seems.... DH, and DC 13, 11 and 9.

This is as I said lighthearted - but I'm looking at random stuff from where I type. Everyone has trekked up n down several times.

It's like the elephant on the stairs. Anyone else??

Do a fake tumble on your way downstairs. See if they feel guilty.

I HATE things on the stairs.

But I'm FAR too lazy to take them up straight away, so they end up there, but not for long, one way or another.

My friends house though, they have stuff both sides of the stairs all the way up, there's a tiny foot space on each stair, it's a safety hazard big time. It's a wonder one of them hasn't tripped over crap & fallen down the stairs. I swear some of it has been there since the eldest was born! (He's 15).

There is no amount of stuff that would prompt my dh to do anything.

I could literally barricade the first half dozen stairs with a solid wall of stuff and I swear my lot would employ scaffold, heavy dutyropes and crampons before they'd shift a bar of it

Haha we've (I've) experimented with 'hiw much can be left before someone deals with it?' The answer is infinite! My DC and DH have all been seen to skid on items when whole stairs covered (thinj shopping and washing) nd the reaction has been a) skid and carry on b) skid then kick said item c) skid then moan about the stairs being covered in crap whilst leaving it (yes DH I'm looking at you!)

My stairs always look like that, DD has the top floor snd so it only every her stuff. She also had boots like that

Yep just like my stairs and I am also the only one who takes anything up. DP will have a go that it's dangerous and I shouldn't do It- 'So here's a novel idea DP- take your crap upstairs!!'

My friend has this issue. It drives him nuts. His wife was guilty of ignoring it until she tripped and fell down the stairs one day. Two adults fighting the fight apparently helps!

Primark do wide fit? Will have to check that out. Thanks.

I had a suitcase at the bottom of the stairs which made it hard to go up and still nobody took it up ahhhh

You need this

www.hartleysdirect.com/hartleys-white-wicker-stair-basket.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6KPt5vKl1wIVF7cbCh0yAgsWEAQYBSABEgK_8fD_BwE

We have at least two -
Very good for little kids toys as well.

Well...dh considers items on stairs a health and safety issue and would bin it all.

Wasn't the intention of the thread but this is a close up of the £14 wide fit boots

Having a stair basket just means the stuff disappears into the stair basket and stays there for years (I know - I've got one). If you're tidy enough to take the stair basket upstairs and decant the crap, you're tidy enough not to need it.

Little bird thank you X but we would fill it full of crap and it would be yet another vessel full of shit that no one deals with apart from my good self X

It is invisible to everybody in your home but you OP. My family, playdates, guests on their way to the loo, young and old, pets, all automatically go to the other side of the stairs for the last four steps whether there is anything there or not. I experimented with the "letting everything build up until you have to climb over and under random tat until you can stand upright on the stairs" scenario, but they all just developed a skill in soft bouldering, readjusted and continued as normal.

I'm coming around to the idea of just bringing a blow torch to anything from upstairs that comes downstairs.

HTH.

YADNBU.

That Superdrug cleanser is amazing though. I must be on my 15th tube of it since it launched.

at least the owner of the boots has moved them.

I do wonder if they have left them on the chair!

DH not only walks past the stair piles on his way up but then complains that he nearly tripped on them on the way down

Oh this has made me laugh. Full breadth of staircase is full, including towels. They are having to use the banisters to pull themselves up and over ( aged 13, 15 and dh).

There's a book about this phenomenon! I think it's actually called "The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs". I remember a friend of mine when we were teenagers, their stairs were always absolutely covered top to bottom with stuff - mostly piles of washing. They just use to get the stuff they wanted from the pile on the stairs and put it on... Like that was its permanent home...

Same here. I am trying to establish the 'don't leave a room without taking something with you' rule. Thanks to my helpful reminders, it seems to be sinking in. Otherwise I just end up yelling 'I'm not the only one who is allowed to take stuff upstairs/shut drawers/put stuff in the bin' like a crazy fishwife.

Not unreasonable. I put stuff on the stairs to be taken up and my husband will simoly walk past it. It doesn’t matter if it’s his shoes, his jumpers, or things like toilet roll. He will simoly walk past it. I actually have to say “oi, take that stuff up”

My daughter though, when she’s home from uni, surprisingly, as she never used to, will now shout “do you want me to take that loo roll up mum”. She also used to walk straight past it, but seems to have grown out of it, my husband, her father, hasn’t. I actually find it mind boggling.

The elephant on the stairs - love it! Same here!!

It's slightly pissing me off now, one a scale of 1-10 I'm on about a 4, only because I'm under the influence of vino.
DH just said that he was "thinking about" taking stuff upstairs. Numpty.