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??

DH went through a phase of leaving stuff on the stairs. I got to the point where I either dumped it on his side of the bed or the laundry basket - whichever would inconvenience him the most.

That hoodie you left lying around? I assumed you wanted it to go in the wash, so it's now buried under the boys' filthy stuff in the basket. I'm sure you have another one, if you're cold.

I put each persons laundry on a different stair. "Have I got any socks?" Er you've walked past it a about 4 times in the past hour.

My parents had one of those baskets.

I diligently took it upstairs, started emptying and a spider scuttled out. Still can't touch it when I visit and that was about 20 years ago.

Oh my lord, you live in my house! There are always things on my stairs that apparently no one else sees. I don’t think I am seeing things, pretty sure they are actually there but I am starting to doubt my sanity

I hate crap on the stairs, I bought a shoe rack to stop people leaving shoes on the stairs, the kids still come home and dump there shoes down on the stairs and I have to shout 'shoe rack!' At them before they disappear upstairs.

I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry on reading "The Pile at the Bottom of the Stairs" as bits of it were so accurate

Stair baskets don't work, nothing much fits in them and when they've been taken up they sit there waiting to be brought down.

They never quite fit the stair height either and look messy and wonky.

See now it looks to me as though most of that stuff is yours?

I am a cleaner, when I was on holiday for a fortnight last year, the dh of a household decided to hoover the stairs in my absence.
He did indeed - and hoovered around all the toys left on the stairs.

We came home from holiday yesterday and I have mentioned the half unpacking to DH once and now I have left it irritating the crap out of me. So DH will unpack a bag with say 20 things in it but leave 5 in the bag/box somewhere random like the kitchen table or living room floor. I think he expects the unpacking fairy me to come and unpack the last few bits and store the bag where it belongs twat

My Dad used to do this when we were kids, then he would throw a tantrum when no-one took anything upstairs.
I promised myself I would never do it, so all the crap is put in piles on the sideboard and handed to them when they are on their way upstairs.

i have been on a H&S course (I have a certificate!) and it has made me look at things like this in an entirely different light, it really is rather dangerous to leave objects on the stairs

It's just not obvious enough OP.

Our stair basket fits perfectly , gets taken up about once a fortnight although occasionally individual bits get picked out of it . I can’t have loose stuff cluttering the stairs in case the dog falls over it when he gets up early and it’s dark .

Text is your friend

The crap on the stairs will be binned in the next 15 minuets
Time is running out

And do it ....

We have this. Drives Dh insane.

Depends. Was someone being a lazy fucker and put their own stuff there? If so, I'd have left it. For all the stuff that was put there belonging to others, YANBU. But if some of that's you're stuff and you're expecting others t take it up for you, it's not working.

Put it right in the middle of the stairs not at the edges so they can't walk past.
Or arrange it in a comedy manner eg boots on consecutive steps as if walking upstairs.
Or simply tell everyone that from now on anything left on the stairs after x o'clock will be thrown away.

www.amazon.co.uk/Pile-Stuff-Bottom-Stairs/dp/1444710419/ref=nodl_

There is a book about this (link below)

Looks exactly like my stairs OP! DH ignores unless I nag him, then he moans and says he was going to do it anyway. DC are as yet to small to carry up their own crap (usually piles of washing).

One time I deliberately left piles of fresh washing to see if DH would notice and help. He didn’t. I complained it was always me having to put everyone’s washing away. He grumbled and next time I went up the stairs he shifted… Yes… Every bit of his own washing and left everyone else’s. Selfish bastard.

He still claims that he does take things upstairs. In his imagination maybe!

I put the basket of clean laundry at the bottom of the stairs for DH or DS to take up stairs. They both step over it. I'm going to try the threat of binning it all and I'm quite prepared to do it.

I cured DH of leaving paperwork lying about by threatening to,put it in the recycling and doing so (I kept and filed important stuff but binned the rest)

My DH claims he doesn't know whether it's supposed to be going up or down and that's why he ignores it.
Well... it's already at the bottom so...
Surely this is a system that shouldn't need explaining

Our carpet is blue, and contains no boots.

Same in our house. I forget the width of our stairs as I'm so used to walking up and down one side only!

Love the boots too!

I’m so glad to hear that other families are full of people who can’t even see the stuff at the bottom of the stairs to be carried up.

Or maybe I’m actually sorry. Because if it were just me then so many of you would not be sharing anxiety and anger over this thing that should not even need to be a thing.