To ask what "little" habits/ things your dp does around the house that drive you barmy? *lighthearted*

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Mine are:

1. He always puts the sofa cushions back in the wrong places no matter how many times I tell him!
2. If the dishwasher cycle is finished he will take out the one item he needs and leave all the other clean dishes in there.
3. He leaves the dirty dishes on the counter even when the dishwasher is empty!
4. He leaves little piles of papers everywhere to "remind himself" to deal with them, (dining table, coffee table, TV unit, kitchen counters) but never moves them!
5. He waits for the laundry basket to be empty then puts 1 small item in it which then sits there taunting me!

I mean obviously he's a heathen and I should LTB!

So what does your dp do that just narks?

It's very minor, but he has an annoying habit of leaving drawers & cupboards slightly open, and forgetting to put things away. Apart from that he's great & I wouldn't change him for the world. I'm sure I do things that annoy him, too.

@DramaAlpaca are you with my DP?? It drives me INSANE how often I have to close drawers and cupboards 😂

Putting the fucking kettle on all the live long day and sitting down/settling down in the other room having no intention of making a hot drink whatsoever!
And.... putting the big lights on around the house.... I hate big lights!

Lol

ExDP used to just scruff the expensive curtains back as far as they’d go meaning that I had to then arrange them artistically in pleats. Bastard.

I have many, but my top 3 are:

Doesn't wash his hands during cooking and always has to poke at the food several times, meaning there are saucy fingerprints all over the kitchen cupboards, fridge, sockets and worst of all across the top of the kitchen roll - RAGE!!

Putting oven on aaaages before intending to put anything in it. Can be around an hour.

Never opens any upstairs curtains. If I don't do it in the morning while rushing around trying to get out of the house at 7am I come home to the upstairs in darkness.

He won't tell me my annoying habits - he prefers to 'live and let live' I think it's because I don't have any!

I feel so much less stabby better for seeing this!

1. Putting empty packets back in the cupboards WHYYYY

1. Using the last of something, not telling me/writing it on the list then moaning we don't have it

1. Putting laundry NEXT TO the basket

AAARGH!

Feeling better now 😇

When he uses the microwave he takes the food out just before the timer is finished and leaves the dial slightly turned and the door open.
[gein]

The utter, utter bastard.
Show him this thread, @3boysandabump, move into your mother's for a week to teach him a lesson & do The Pingdom Programme.
Then LTB.

1. Noisy eating 🥵

1. Eats his breakfast from the kitchen counter on work days and uses to chopping board like a plate!!! 🤬

1. Doesn't rinse toothbrush

1. Picks his nose

1. Spilled tea on floor from putting tea bag in bin, now after 12 years has decided to leave a 'teabag mug' on the kitchen side to put teabags in to avoid spills... now I have to put teabags in bin for him and wash the mug. 🙄

Throws his dirty clothes in the general direction of the laundry basket. They inevitably miss but he just leaves them where they land.

Beard hair in the sink 😫

Always yells at me across the house "where have you put my xxx?" and blames everything he can't find on me moving it.

My DH was in the army. He irons with such speed and accuracy it’s amazing BUT he only irons his own clothes and only one shirt per day! He also uses the floor on his side of the bed as a wardrobe

Oh yes! Beard hair in the sink as well! It gets all behind the taps and as he uses a mirror that pulls out it gets all over the back of the loo as well!

Puts washing in the washing machine and 'forgets' to take it out when it's finished other than that he's brilliant

My OH is really very good around the house but a couple of things which bug me are:

1. I like things to be tidy and in their place. He just throws things into drawers and they're all messy. (Think Marie Kondo with my drawer layout )

1. He always leaves the house for work after me in the morning. I come home and he always leaves the ensuite light on and his pyjamas on the floor rather than in his bedside table or under his pillow.

1. I always go to bed before him and wake up before him. He must have some sort of sofa party in my absence because, when I wake up, the sofa is a mess, cushions out of place, blankets and throws hanging off.

I'm sure other little things bug me too but I can't think of them now. I'm also sure he hates things that I do!

What do you do that annoys your OH?

When mine does the washing up, he never wipes down the worktops and leaves the sink area with water splashed all over. It annoys me so much I’d rather he didn’t bother at all!

bathroom why do men leave it after showering like a bloody jumble sale towels and clothes on the floor hair in the sink yeuk

Piles of his crap around an otherwise tidy house. Like letters, half read magazines, books, hanky. There is a massive, spreading one in the kitchen, and two dumped in the bedroom. Ffs, sort them out, I'm utterly sick of the eyesores.

Does countless loads of washing and hangs it out only to bring it in and dump it on the dining table waiting for the magic folding fairies to come fold the fucking pile.

Constantly fills the sink with bottles to soak and never ends up washing them. Sometimes he even drains the water once it’s cold and refills it with hot water - like surely that’s enough soaking just wash the fucking things!?

My DH is a soaker too. Every day I find something with a couple of inches of rancid water in the bottom.

Leaving his dirty plates on the worktop above the empty dishwasher.
Before we go to bed in the evening he will flick through the tv guide before turning tv off. He isn't looking for anything to watch as he is about to turn it off.

My DH can't do anything without sacrificing something in the process.
Great example yesterday. I asked him to paint the utility room, there is paint splattered on the door to the kitchen and the top of the washing machine. He also dropped the roller against the window and now the window frame has a green roller print on it.
He gets so very frustrated as he has very little spacial awareness and feels claustrophobic being in any room with the doors closed so he's blaming that.

Other examples, cutting the grass and using one of the nicer extension cables and ruining it, doing the dishes and chipping cups and plates, cooking dinner and manages to get sauce on top of the cooker hood and on the walls.

He also leaves cupboard doors and drawers open when I have walked into before and nearly killed myself

He leaves things next to the thing it goes into. So empty milk bottles will go next to the bin rather than in it. Dirty t-shirt on top of laundry box instead of in it. Dirty plate next to sink instead of in it. I'm a SAHM so I of course expect to do most of the house sorting but this feels different.. the receptacle he needs to deposit something in is RIGHT THERE. It's like he wants me involved in the process.
Leaves his office desk covered in ash
Is always planting things in the house and getting soil everywhere
Leaves empty toilet roll on the holder

He's great though and these things don't really bother me

Oo another thing.. he has the big light on in his office in the daytime instead of opening the blinds.

My oh can never wash everything that needs washing up. There's always something left, usually anything that needs rinsing for recycling or the Los cups/bottles. I just don't understand it?? Just wash everything!! He's also one of those annoying sods who doesn't put the chair back under the table. And I'm sick to death of fishing his pubes out of the bath tub before I can run one after he's had a shower, just rinse the bugger out!!

Oh and if he's in alone on an evening I'll find him with the big light on instead of the lamp even though he knows it drives me mad lol

Straightens my towels! Don’t want to sound stuck up but to explain, we have a bathroom each so it’s not as though he has to see my badly folded towels every day!

Straightens MY files on MY desk in MY study

Leaves at least 4 pairs of shoes lying around in the hall

Mind you i fully accept his post about me would be far longer!

If DH empties the dishwasher he doesn't put away anything complicated, like tupperwear or baking trays, just leaves them on the side.