To hate Half Jobs?

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Dh is the master of Half Jobs. Example. Today he started tidying the playroom. He took a bin bag to purge us of all the broken stuff/mcdonalds toys etc.

Part of this he decides to relocate the Playmobil up to ds bedroom. Up it goes, he sets to work setting it all out. Never returns to the half done playroom. Mid Playmobil sort he remembers the draft coming in from a crawlspace behind a cupboard door. So now he is off to Homebase in search of wood to make a draft excluder he can fit inside the cupboard door.

So ds room and playroom half done.

I wont sort them. But experience has taught me neither will he.

We have a spare room which is currently boxes and stuff from when we moved in two months ago. I had to go in for something the other day and the amount of screws, drivers, other tools just lay around! It was like the staging area for DIY SOS.

Rage!!!

I have this on a much grander scale. I can sympathize.

Sitting room was being painted, family emergency arose, amoire pushed infront of the part that had not been painted . Still not painted years a while later.

Stairs, beautiful hardwood treads installed, white carved risers. New trim purchased, cut and painted. Still in the garage waiting to be installed years a while later

The 1/2 bath room, gutted, new toilet and sink, beautiful new flooring. It has an odd sized door so a new custom made one purchased and painted along with all its trim. Its still in the garage waiting to be installed years a while later.

My bedroom, all new windows installed, beautiful new trim put up, hardwood floor installed, all painted EXCEPT for a tiny 2 inch wide strip that runs between the closed door trim and the wall. Its been years a while

The front of my house had tye vec on it for 8 years as 1/2 of the repair had been done and interest was lost. 8 years !!!!. Im on google earth with tye vec on the front of my house. I may have paid someone to come fix that.

Love him to bits but he has the attention span of a goldfish He also doesnt respond well to nagging, which is mentioning it more than once a year apparently. Im crap at DIY and am banned from even being in the same room as a paint pot score.

My bedroom, all new windows installed, beautiful new trim put up, hardwood floor installed, all painted EXCEPT for a tiny 2 inch wide strip that runs between the closed door trim and the wall. Its been years a while

In the time that you have spent whinging you could have painted it. It isn’t 1908

DH does this. I call him Arfur cos he only gets half a job done.

DH does this but in reverse. I'll be sorting the bin out for example- I've got the bag,.tied it up, taken it outside, washed the bin out, got a new bin bag and then whoooo up pops DH to helpfully sort out the bin, I.e. put the new bag in the bin. Eh no, I've just done 90% of the job thanks. I've explained that there is never any shortage of housework but the swooping in really pisses me off...He doesn't get it sadly.

My DH is a swooper and an Arfur.
We've been in our house for 9 months now and I've done everything except the garden (I don't know anything about gardening, nor do I wish to learn! Plus I do enough around here). DH likes to boast that we refurbished our house ourselves, but leaves out the part where he spent a whole day sweeping leaves in the driveway and I was stripping woodchip (the bag of leaves in still in the garden!!). He joined me on the last half of the last wall.

GreenKangaroo ooooooh grumpy wee thing aint ya?

I was not whinging, I dont whinge. I was merely passing comment, serenely and with a certain level of bemusement.

Oh bins. Thats another one. When he does the bin, he never puts a fresh bag in. The job isnt completed until the fresh bag goes in!

When we are doing housework he will start in the kitchen so I start elsewhere. I do an entire room - all elements. Then the next. And the next. In the meantime hes done the dishes in the kitchen (doesnt go round collecting any), empty bin but not replace the bag, sweep the floor but the counter tops are still crumby, and hes moved on to some not importnant job like oiling the back gate

@Biancadelriosback I would ask him if he really feels that we refurbished the house. Let him know that you feel he devalues the hard work you have done by taking so much of the credit for it. Like "It's one thing you didn't really do your part of the refurbishing, but then also sweeping in and taking credit for my hard work?". You have to at least try to make him understand why you are upset with him.

I too am married to 'half a job Harry' in fact I think me and oldtrout may be married to a bigamist.

theoldtrout01876

Dear me! You need to go and get the bits you think you need to complete a job - stand about look worried .... ask his advice and Whoosh in he comes takes over and the job gets done!!

I think that's in the marriage guide

I see your half finished jobs and raise you.....

half an interior wall knocked down, and a gaping hole just left there, with exposed brickwork. For months.

reader, I divorced him.

(the divorce was for lots of reasons but the half-cocked DIY didn't help)

The problem is DH and I are both like this. Our house and garden are a litany of unfinished jobs - half a monoblock patio power washed, curtains with hems pinned up (for almost 11 years now), a meter of beading missing on the living room skirting boards... At least we’re not spoiling two other couples

This drives me nuts too. Also when he does a job he'll will pick the strangest times. For example, deciding to relocate a sofa from downstairs to upstairs when I have an arm in plaster so can't help. The result being he scuffed all the paintwork on the walls leading up the stairs (which I'd only just finished painting a few weeks earlier).

Changing a light fitting in the living room (for aesthetic reasons rather than necessity) late afternoon in the middle of winter when everything's upside down because I'm decorating the kitchen. Then complaining it's too dark to see what he's doing, so I have to break off from painting to hold a torch for him!

Dont get me started on the charity shop bags that have been sitting on the dining room table since he finally had a clearout of some of his stuff at Easter, which he says have to be taken to a particular Charity shop the next town over. If they're not gone by tomorrow I'm going to put them out in the next doorstep collection bag that comes through my letterbox.

I'm like this too, it drives my family mad!
Seriously though, I have ADD so struggle to complete tasks.

Missing the point slightly but how much clearing out and reorganizing can the playroom need if you only moved in 2 months ago?