My husband shopped around to buy toilet treatments in the same colour!

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Today we had to go out to buy some bits. I needed to go into one of the budget stores and suggested to my husband that we get the cleaning products in the same place. He's never been in but spent ages wandering the aisles! He picked up some branded toilet cleaner but wouldn't by the toilet discs that go in the cistern because they were a different colour to the toilet duck! He went into a further two stores before finding the same colour.
I wasn't arsed and would have bought the first pack in a different colour.
What weirdness have you seen done in a similar vein or is he all alone in his oddness

My very weird neighbours directly across from me, change the colour of their front door to match their car, every time they change it.

I hate matching things they make me very uncomfortable.

@AngelasAshes red ones are faster made me laugh, my son used to have a red lightning McQueen jumper and that made him fast too

Wow S1naidSucks that’s a car replacement with some optional feature! If they have a second car, does that match as well? Do they have a garage attached to the house with matching coloured door?

i used to be like this...colour coordinated etc...cant be arsed now as im to old to care about it, got better things to do with the time i have left lol

@GibbonLover yes you do, they dye the water! If I can be bothered I get purple ones as they make me happy

I buy different hand soap to match the bathroom and kitchen. I only buy purple toilet blocks as I think they go best with the colour of my towels. I only buy white toilet roll. I buy dish towels and oven gloves to match the jars in my kitchen.

When I ask my other half to peg the washing out he matches all the same colour pegs on each section of the rotary drier

I can't believe the matching pegs...
I dont even wear matching socks most of the time! Would it upset people to know I dont even separate knives,forks and spoons into their gender slot in the drawer thingy? Just chuck them all in.

I bought a handwash dispenser to put soap into, does that count?!!

I buy on smell. I mean it turns out my bathroom is white and grey and pale aqua and I like the ocean smelling bathroom stuff but it doesn't stop me buying yellow loo blocks if the lemon is on offer.

I'm a rebel like that 😆

@demetedma I'll get a picture the next time he does it. It really tickles me! He is a bit OCD though!

I really hate those toilet blocks that you place in the loo. They are revolting remind me of public toilets. Yuck!

Wow S1naidSucks that’s a car replacement with some optional feature! If they have a second car, does that match as well? Do they have a garage attached to the house with matching coloured door?

Unfortunately they only have the one car, because I’d love to see who gets the final decision on the door colour. 😁 I may now be forced to have a loud, sympathetic conversation with my youngest, next time I pass the house, regarding the unfortunate ‘fact’, that is very sad that they can’t afford to paint their garage door to match. 😈

I only buy white toilet roll.

You can only buy white toilet roll nowadays! This was something I only realised a few months back when I was watching an old episode of a programme and in the background there was pink Andrex and I thought to myself 'haven't saw that for a while'.

I’d find a leaflet from local paint shop with an advert ‘we mix any outdoor metal paint colour to exactly match your RAL number’ and put it through their door anonymously then watch the story unfold

pivot I bought Toilet roll last month, thinking it was white, turned out to be more a cream colour. Ruined my bathroom.

Oh I dislike coloured toilet cleaner, one of the reasons I bought Ecover though thye have now put some nasty smell in the new ones

I use to buy the turqouise Fairy so it matched the kitchen but OH prefers the original (and does most of the shopping). I try not to say anything

DontCallMeShitley you should never decant cleaning products into different bottles, especially bleach into unlabelled bottles.

Dh will only buy lemon Finish dishwasher tabs, he seems to take a strange pride in the fact they are the only ones that have ever been in the machine!

I've bought non lemon and non finish in the past which are swiftly donated to my mother and replaced with the 'correct ones by the next time I'm in the cupboard. He even has alerts set up so he know where and when they are on offer!

Would it upset people to know I dont even separate knives,forks and spoons into their gender slot in the drawer thingy? Just chuck them all in.

How can you live like that?!
We have several sets of cutlery in the drawer, DH and the kids think nothing of getting a knife from one set and a fork from the other and think I'm ridiculously fussy for demanding they give me matching pair when they set the table.

Other stuff I'm not bothered about. I don't like matchy matchy decor. We've just moved and redecorated and many people were most perturbed when the asked what my colours were, to be told I didn't have a 'scheme'.

This is why I love MN. When you get an insight into the things other people do which I have just never considered. Please, none of you come & visit me. We have red blinds and a couple of red accessories in the kitchen, yellow Mr Happy handsoap and green washing up liquid. Can I claim I'm going for a rainbow theme? Or would that involve having to actively buy things in the missing colours (and I don't like purple so would really struggle with that).

Each item of washing on the line has to have the same 2 pegs. So a tshirt can have two yellow pegs, a pair of trousers has to have 2 pink etc. I haven't enough of one type for the whole line to be matching but that's the dream

Watch out, OP - there are a lot jealous people on MN and some of may or may not covet a DH who cares to match cleaning products

I expect many will be jealous of a DH who cares about cleaning products at all.

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Insanity!

I do a bit of that myself but wouldn't go so far as the clothes peg colour matching! I know a lady who does though and she is fanatical about every aspect of her home. So time consuming.

What has surprised me is learning that there are MEN who do it too! Never thought men were remotely interested in this kind of detail around the home.