to expect dh to NOT leave his pants on the bathroom floor!

[ratfly]

fgs. I am narked anyway today, but when I find his boxers hidden behind the door AGAIN, I am really p*** off. How hard is it for him to pick them up and put them in the washing bin?
Sometimes I just leave them there til a small collection builds, then chuck them on top of his computer.
Why should I have to pick them up?!?!?!?!
Rant over (for now).

kslatts - tried that. he put EVERYTHING in the washing bin - clean or dirty. so I shoved it all back in his drawers.
why is it so hard for them?!
sorry, this REALLY bugs me.

Put them in the bin.

Or hide them and tell him you have put them in the bin.

Just let the pile grow until he's no clean ones left at all.

Or bin them.

Ok, so he may go commando....

This realy annoys me, DH stand by the washing bin and throws his clothes across the room (to his side of the bed).

I might also add he will be running out of clean socks soon as he takes them off and leaves them under is desk in his home office and as i am 6 months pg i can't bend down and get them.

Pmsl laughing at this dh chucks his down the stairs from the top when he's going for a shower in the morning along with his socks from the day before. He sometimes picks them up and puts them in the wash but some days he manages to step over them on the way out the door and doesn't see them . I can't stand the way he rolls his shirts up before putting them in the wash though, they come out all screwed up but since I've stopped ironing them I don't care lol. Most days he doesn't even bother ironing his shirt just sticks it on creased lmao.

Dp puts them into the pocket of his trousers!?
And he puts his socks into his shoes, then puts them into the shoe box, then the next morning chucks them back in, or sometimes back on his feet (boak emoticon)

Why are you picking up after your men??Are they toddlers?
stop picking up after them!

If I didn't then we would probably have a modern art installation, akin to Rachel Whitread in the corner of our hall.

I would call it 'solid block of festering sock'

and?
They're not your socks so leave them.
(I appreciate that this is above and beyond normal wifely duties but so is picking up another adults dirty clothes for 40+ years)
They drop it because they know that eventually you will break and pick it up.
Be strong ladies and leave the skuddies where they are!

ok ladies, a challenge:

The next load of dirty underwear our dh's chuck on the floor, we leave it there until THEY put it in the bin.

Prize for the mumsnetter whose dh leaves it the longest

the washing bin, not the rubbish bin

DS following DH footsteps - has left his cricket box on the hall floor so it's the first thing you see when you walk in - ugh! (And how did it get there?)

I guess the winner would be the one with most pairs of pants!

Lol, yes, do we get bonus points for DH's who pick them up and put them back on again?

That'll be me - I can't begin to think about telling you about his pant recycling

don't leave them on the floor - you aer bound to crack first at the scuzzy sight of 3 weeks worth of smelly pants - stick them all at the bottom of his wardrobe instead or put them back in his drawers cos they must be clean if he's not put them to be washed, right?? that way, it won't get on your nerves but once in a blue moon they will all appear magically in washing basket

Go Ratfly! That's the spirit!
Inzidoodle,if yours ends up with no pants,who cares?
Don't be putting them out of sight in wardrobes ladies.
Leave them exactly where they are.I promise,eventually your menfolk will crack.

I have dealt with the pants on floor thing(one dh and 3x ds)
I now have a zero tolerance policy on inside out washing.(a much tougher nut to crack but less distressing on the eyes/nose)
It goes in the wash inside out then it will be returned to you inside out but clean.The message is slowly getting through.
I am the Barbara Woodhouse of the laundry world.

Just leave them in a pile somewhere obvious, I find, in the middle of the hall is quite good. ('oh dear, I must have dropped them on the way to the washing machine'). It'll be REALLY tough on you, but tough love is what's needed. It will only need you to do this once, until he has run out of clean pants and has to go (a rather sweaty and I should think sticky in this heat) commando.

Alternatively, (and I have tried this one too), get a pair of CLEAN pants, present them to your baby or small child to play with, and then drag DH over saying 'look how disgusting, Frogmella has got your dirty pants in her mouth, I do hope she hasn't contracted bubonic plague' (or some similarly unpleasant ailment). That soon sorts the problem.

You may need to embark on a maintenance programme once the problem behaviour is stamped out, and repeat the exercise sporadically should the problem look like it will recur.

Personally I don't go in for the leaving skiddy pants in bed thing....you have to lie there too remember!

Just put them back in the drawer when he chucks them on the floor. See how long it takes him to notice that he' been wearing scuzzy pants

My Dh is running a bath now, guaranteed there will be smelly pants and socks on the floor, if I dont put them in the wash basket later, he will put them back on in the morning {{puke emotion}} is it just my DH who will wear pants and socks 2/3 days running,

No, Toady, my darling DP would happily wear pants and socks for two or even three days - he sniffs them and announces "plenty more life in those".

YABU, most blokes are like this, its a pain in the arse, but its a man thing.