I want to strangle DH...

[oblada]

He constantly leaves the doors opened when he steps out (outside) and no amount of 'nagging' makes any difference!!! Why?? Today we came home, he was bringing in the shopping in, I was tidying it, the front door was open, fair enough as it's a quick job going from car to house etc... But then he started tinkering with his bike and left the front door opened until I closed it (after realising how cold the house was)...he was out for 50minutes!!
And tonight he seems to be in and out in the garden (not sure why as it's bloody cold) and I came downstairs after putting kids to bed to find nobody in, back door open and of course I'm freezing!! I went to look for him and couldn't see him in the garden so it wasn't a 2second job!! It's annoying me! Yes it's petty and small and insignificant but I'm cold and tired so surely I can be annoyed! What do you think and what does your DH do that (v reasonably) annoys you no end?

My dh forgets his keys a lot. Probably 1 in 3 times when I am home but not when I am out when he is more careful. This means very frequently he leaves and then I get in the shower/loo and he rings the doorbell!

I thought about locking him outside actually when I closed the back door... But I didn't...

Doorbells never ring at a suitable time do they!

Yanu OP- this would drive me crazy! Tell him he can singlehandedly pay the heating bills from now on seeing as he doesn’t mind the expense he’s wasting.

With mine it's the friggin bank card. He loses it, leaves it in places, leaves it in shops after paying hides it on fucking purpose probably All. The. Time. Several times a week we have to have "oh my God, where's the bank card?!" Cue a full scale tracing of steps and movements, pulling out drawers/cupboards. I'm just expected to be able to read his mind and tell him exactly where he left it.

The list is endless, sadly.

Puts things in a pile on top of the dishwasher, when the dishwasher is empty.

Leaves a teaspoon on the side every single fucking time he makes a brew, not even attempting to place it in dishwasher or sink.

Never ever attempt to put cushions straight or footstools or remotes or newspapers or laptops or anything else ‘away’ before he comes to bed so every single morning the first thing I do is see and tidy his crap up.

Sheds an unfeasible amount of body hair all over our bathroom and just leaves it. Every day of my life I wipe multiple pubes off the back of the loo/seat/shower. sexy? Not.

Leaves a permanent pile of post and papers on his seat on the kitchen table.

Leaves doors open. There is an answer to that one. I lock him out. And wait a very vey very long time to get to the door to let him back in.

The funny thing is that he's from a tropical country so he should feel the cold more than me...but he doesn't...
The not putting things away drives me nuts too.. How hard is it to just tidy around you when you leave a room?
Oh and the tea bag left in his cup left on the side instead of in the dishwasher... Then I proceed to put it in the dishwasher not expecting a fucking tea bag to still be in... Still catches me off guard after many years of practice...

HE sounds like my Labrador.

I am single for reasons not dis-similar to this.

not because I strangled him...We just split up. just for clarification.

Get him a cat flap.

HE sounds like my Labrador

Are there times when your labrador DOES shut the door behind him when hes tinkering with his bike, faerie?

When DH comes home he walks straight past the coat hooks and shoes and leaves his shoes in the living room and hangs his coats on the door. This fucks me off! I told him earlier if he carries on I'll bin the lot.

Piles his dirty clothes behind the bathroom door when he goes for a shower, then dumps the towel on top of them and just leaves them there!

It's like an adventure game with DH sometimes.

Bulb needs changing. Opens his cupboard to get bulb
Cupboard untidy, unpacks cupboard onto all the kitchen sides to tidy / rearrange
Finds a screw he was looking for last week
Abandons tidy up to replace screw
While replacing screw makes a small mess
Comes down to get hoover
Finds something in hoover cupboard that is usually in shed
Goes out to shed (leaving doors open) to put thing back
Finds half finished project in shed
Starts half finished project
Bulb goes in shed
Comes to get replacement bulb from his cupboard
Can't find right bulb so 'pops out' to get one leaving house like Armageddon has been
His mate phones him while he is out to ask if he can nip round to help him with a job...

It's no wonder I drink.

Don't get me started about the dog!! We have a dog flap and he goes in and out as he pleases...chooses to go out and either bark madly at the neighbour's dog bang in the middle of me being on the phone to an important client (when I work from home) when he's otherwise chilled the other 23hours45mins of the day...or manages to get into the tiny muddy corner in the garden, get very dirty paws and walks back in slowly and covers the house in paw prints again usually when I'm very busy on the phone (but I can see him because of where I work. I swear he does it on purpose as I've never come home to dirty paw prints when I go to the office).

Iklboo - I love it!!!

Soultosqueeze - DH leaves his shoes on the way instead of tidied on the little shoe thing. I've threatened to bin said shoes and it seems to have helped.. That and the fact that the kids are getting older and reminding him...

My dh has half a banana with his breakfast porridge. Cuts it up then leaves the banana skin on the side. Every day. For the fairies to pick up?!
Also loves marmite and often leaves marmite fingerprints on cupboard doors. Grr!!

Oh and when playing a game on the x box and we need to go somewhere or there's something I want to watch coming on so I ask nicely if he can turn it off now:

'Lemme just do this bit, lemme just get that thing, lemme just.....'

I've started calling him Lemmy 😄

Hands Oblada a spade, rug and gaffer tape....

Mine leaves dirty dishes next to the sink never in the sink..heaven forbid he might actually have to wash it up.

He also squirts a bit of washing up liquid & pours a bit of water in his plate but he won't wash it. It drives me mental, it'll take less than a minute to scrub the plate with a sponge and rinse it under the pan.

Tap not pan

Loads the dishwasher like an imbecile
Puts the sharp knives in the kids cutlery drawer despite the fact DD needed stitches from the same knife
Puts his stinky cycling clothes in to wash at 40 even though they come out still reeling

Many more

Oh god I'd be here all day with ex's countless slobby crimes but the teaspoon one reminds me of one of them. Whenever he used a knife for spreading butter, nutella or whatever he'd just plonk it down right there and leave it. It would have taken 2 secs to put it in the dishwasher or the sink, but no, he just put it down on the side. I not only had to clear it up, I also had to wipe up the mess. (I know I didn't actually have to, but the other option was leaving it all day and then having it turn into an argument if I tried to ask him to do it...)

When I'd decided to end it there were a lot of reasons but I remember seeing a messy knife left on the side yet again and thinking "yooohooooo, never again!" :o

Ah yes DHs have a lot to answer for.
Using back of settee as a wardrobe (not as bad as fil who uses dining room table)
Leaving shoes in hall
Leaving recycling by back door for me to take out
Leaving dishes on top of dishwasher
Ignoring any piles of freshly ironed clothes etc which need to be taken upstairs

Leaves the toilet seat up. ALL THE TIME!
No amount of telling him, even screaming at 3am when your arse hits cold wet ceramic when you go pee in the dark.

"Leaves a teaspoon on the side every single fucking time he makes a brew, not even attempting to place it in dishwasher or sink."

This is correct. The teaspoon can be reused for the next cup of tea.