The laundry basket fight

[MumJ21]

Why oh why can DH never put his dirty clothes in the washing basket? I have asked 100 times, told him anything left on the floor is going to stay there, but then it’s there for days he just walks over it, so I always end up picking up after him!

Now it’s just like an ongoing joke between us but I know this can’t just be my DH who does this. The washing basket is right outside our bedroom door and I even put another downstairs but still he seems totally oblivious to it.

Tell me I’m not alone in this!

Tell him if you have to pick it up, it's going in the trash. That's what I tell my kids.

Our laundry basket is actually IN our bedroom but quite a few of my DH's clothes don't seem to make it in there! I think he tends to chuck stuff in that general direction but quite a bit misses the basket so I too am forever picking things up off the floor.

No fucker uses the laundry basket in my house - drives me nuts

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Fuck picking up after fully functioning grown adult.

Most children can manage the simple task of laundry in basket.

Fuck picking up after fully functioning grown adult.

Most children can manage the simple task of laundry in basket.

He doesn’t need to put his washing in the basket..

My mind works in a strange way, I thought you each had a basket each and were going to fight at dawn - maybe because I live alone so if the clothes aren't in the bin it can only be my fault.

Scoop it up and put it on his side of the bed. He’ll soon start moving it when it’s in his way of sleep.

Do you share a wardrobe? If not just do what I do and chuck all his dirty clothes in his wardrobe and leave them for him to sort out

Pick it up, fold it nicely and place back in drawers : when they’ve gone to effort to get it back out probably after nice shower / just about to go out ...then they will maybe get the point

Is he fuck oblivious to it. He holds down a job doesnt he? And you believe him that he has no idea depite being told multiple times that there is a laundry basket to put his clothes in

Worst case scenario he's enjoying upsetting you
Best case scenario. He doesnt care a shit about your feelings

Id prob be passive aggressive and send him that link she divorced me because I left my dishes by the sink. And in the meantime UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES PICK HIS CLOTHES OFF THE FLOOR

OH had a bath and shoved a big ball in the washing machine.

Is that your polo shirt and sweatshirt all pulled off inside out in a ball.

Yeah sorry.

There' a wash basket in the spare room you know.

He's trying, they're not on the floor. (he's an adult blah blah blah)

Tyne that was the first video I saw of Kinne's he does some funny stuff.

@thatslow that's my trick too - works a treat!

@TyneTeas that is funny!

@SauvignonBlanche that’s just how I feel, how hard is it?!

@SingaSong12 maybe I’ll suggest this to him

Luckily DH does cook dinner every night and cleans the kitchen down afterward so can’t complain too much!

Ours has a lid and DP likes to place his clothes on top of the lid

Apparently this means that it does need washing but if he is nipping to the car or something later in the evening he will put it back on for 10 mins

I told my husband once that the next time he doesn't put his clothes in the washing basket I will put them in the toilet.

He didn't call my bluff.

@LittleMe03 yep we have the lid trick too!

OP and Littlemo i had one of those too. In the end I just enforced the rule that if it's not in the basket, it doesn't get washed. DH eventually ran out of boxers and T-shirts, moaned about it and got 'the stare.'
He's not perfect now but the rule applies and if something's on the floor and he wants to wear it, he looks kind of sorry for himself but doesn't moan

Your not alone!

My partner always leave a huge pile of clothes down by the side of the bed. I used to pick them up and put them in the washing basket. Finally after like 3 years I've just though fuck it I'm not doing it anymore. I've told him numerous times to put them in washing basket but never happens until he basically as no more room left. So now I just leave them on the floor. I used to wash his work clothes (he's a bricklayer) clothes are filthy muddy. I have stopped washing them as he leaves tshirts inside of jumpers, socks inside of sock (he wears 2 pairs or socks to work) I now refuse to wash them. He washing them without complaining put waits until he's almost out of clean work clothes.

Throw them in the garden... thats what i do with dh's socks if he leaves them in the livingroom...

Does he bring a laptop bag, backpack etc to work. Empty it out and put the clothes in. Otherwise put it in the bin.

I leave it on the floor, and I don't care how long it stays there as it is by his side of the bed where I never have to go
When he is short on shirts he moves everything to the laundry basket himself.

I know someone who, when their DH did this, they hung them back up in the wardrobe.

Cue her DH pulling clothes out of the wardrobe and finding they were dirty.

Took him a week to get the message.

Pick them up and hide them. When he's got none left, ask him where the fuck they went, because they sure as hell weren't in the wash basket.

Then give them back and tell him next time you'll burn the fuckers. I don't have anger issues