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?

I HATE big lights too!! They’re so intrusive

I know people (always females) who call it “my dusting etc” as in “need to do my dusting” or even “DH has done my cleaning” when surely it’s the cleaning.

My DH spontaneously hoovers, tidies and does kitchen cleaning but never ever notices any disorder in the fridge or freezer, nor would he ever dust, clean the bathroom, tidy or clean cupboards unless I told him to. “What needs doing” really annoys me because I never ask him what needs doing, I just know.

All of the above minus the tidying ones.
We have different standards apparently

Perches his mug right on the edge of the table.
Moves things on the kitchen counter about 3cm away from where they were.
Leaves the fridge door open.

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

Why does that bother you? You aren't there and he prefers the big light?I would want that too as my eyesight is shit.

Anyway, mine is, DH will "put things in to soak" which basically means he gets to pretend he has done something when in fact it's fuck all. It all still needs washing up.

Any time he is doing a DIY job, he gets all ready and then says "I just have to go to B&Q" Despite having two sheds and a garage full of DIY shite. He would rather go and buy more than look for the things he needs.

Leaves lights on when he leaves the house.

leaves windows open - not just little ones, big ones that a burglar could easily climb through, invalidating house insurance.

DH empties the kitchen bin, and throws the bag out of the kitchen window onto the front lawn. Drives me f*cking mad. I've even locked the window and hidden the key so he throws it out the back door instead. He turns off every light and unloads the dishwasher in the dark so he doesn't realise that it's not washed and he's unloaded the dirty. Shoves paperwork into a car so I miss paying my car tax or paying a bill. Using a teatowel to wipe sweat off his face when he's mowed the lawns then putting it back so I use it unwittingly. Uses my kitchen scissors to cut dead skin off his feet and then puts them back unwashed.

He brings a whole new meaning to disgusting habits..........

He walks into a room to tell me something and then leaves the door wide open.

He leaves the tea towel on the kitchen counter rather than hanging it up.

He puts a couple of pieces of kitchen roll on top of some cat poo or vomit and leaves them there rather than mopping up.

Oh this could be some much needed therapy...!

Rolls dirty socks into a ball and leaves them down the side of the sofa, or on the bed, or on the kitchen work surfaces. Fucking infuriating.

Refuses to put things in the dishwasher as he thinks it is a pointless machine, but then either just leaves dirty stuff on the side, or makes a massive deal of using 10 gallons of hot water to wash a single knife.

Leaves wet towels on the bed.

Leaves muddy running shoes all over the house, with a trail of mud behind them.

As others have said, if we have guests coming in half an hour, he'll decide to reorganise the spice rack, rather than, you know, vacuuming the carpets or cleaning his piss stains off the toilet.

Stirs porridge in his bowl for about it 10 minutes until I want to kill him.

That'll do for now. It feels a bit better already.

If he cleans the bathroom any hair from plug hole goes on side of bath. If he's killed a spider in bathroom, it goes on side of bath. I hate spiders

Salts food before tasting ......WHY

My ex would never hang the bathmat up for it to dry.

He would also empty the washing up bowl and then turn it on its side in the sink, so when you turned the tap on you either had no room to put your hands/cup/kettle underneath it; or the water splashed off the bowl-side and went everywhere.

@Oysterbabe 7. Order thousands of things online and return 99.9% of them.
At least he does return them! My DH orders lots of things, which then go unused, so we have more clutter, and less money.

There used to be things he said that I objected to, but maybe this says more about me than him. While I'm generally a very helpful person, I don't like to feel that I'm being bossed about.
Him: (slightly demanding tone) Have you made a shopping list yet?
Me: No, because you haven't asked me to make one!
I find use of the word "yet" objectionable if the request has not been made. He also used to say "I should have made you buy milk." I don't like hearing "made" there, to me it means "coerced".

Gets something out of his wardrobe and leaves the wardrobe door open.

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!

Mine did this until I made him a 'box of crap'

Anything he leaves lying around for more than a day, gets put in his box of crap. Now I can't get accused of 'losing' his important papers.

Worked out quite well actually.

Mine puts the recycling (Empty drinks cans etc) on the kitchen worktop. He only needs to turn around and open the pantry door to get to the recycling boxes but that's too much trouble. Drives me mad and clutters up the kitchen. I've told him so many times!

DP is generally really good except he always finds a job to do just as I'm serving up dinner. Drives me insane! I made you food now eat it whilst it's hot!!!

Empty packets/ boxes back in where he has taken them ... so if he has uses all cereal bars the box will remain in the cupboard so I end up thinking we still have some left.

@misslomi My DH starts vacuuming the kitchen just as I'm getting a roast dinner out of the oven. Most weeks.

• he will offer me a cup of tea, boil the kettle, and then piss off to do something else for half an hour.

• he NEVER shuts cupboard doors.

• he will just put stuff anywhere. Honestly. I’ll spend half an hour tidying up to come back into a room to find his coat on the sofa, briefcase on the kitchen side, empty shopping bags on the floor

He is lovely and does so much around the house but he is just a walking mess-maker

Hangs on to all the clothes he has ever bought, oh the trauma because I suggested he got rid of trousers that he bought 20 years ago and hasn't worn in 15 years.

He has clothes that he "wears" piled beside his bed, because he cant get them in the drawers. I opened one of hid drawers completely full of jumpers he bought in the 1970's!!!! So old I had forgotten them.

Always losing his keys. At Xmas I bought him a gadget to attach to his keys, works with an app on his I phone, he hasn't set it up and spent 2.5 hours the other day searching for his keys!

He never, ever finishes a cup of tea. I've poured enough cold tea down the sink to rival Alice's pool of tears.

1. leaves dirty cups/plates/cutlery wherever he used them
2. uses a new cup for every single drink even if it’s the same
3. takes one thing out of the dishwasher does not close the dishwasher properly so the cycle does not finish
4. leaves the milk out of the fridge
5. beard hair all over the sink
6. dirty laundry just on the floor
7. doesn’t rinse toothbrush therefore slaver and paste tricking onto the holder 🤢
8. leaves shoes wherever he took them off
9. throws rubbish on the floor in the bedroom next to his side of the bed 😂
10. will spill something food/drink and never clean it up
11. will leave paperwork in random places ( the floor) and be upset when I’ve put them away somewhere more safe
12. will not tell me when something has run out and then complain he does not have it because I normally get it for him before it runs out usually 🙄
13. will complain whenever it does get a bit ott that the wardrobe room is a mess but will never tidy it up himself

There’s a few more but I personally think 13 will do it. Regardless of them all I love him and he’s a darling. Though a child.

And now I’m reading more and have another 5 to add to the list. He’s a fucking animal HA!

Brings out cups/plates etc from cupboards rather than rinse and re use ones already out.

Brings out clean dishcloth but never takes the dirty one away. So the clean one is sitting next to a dirty one. Fucking rank.

Leaves shoes in hallway when he takes them off, instead of putting away in cupboard.

Uses the wrong towel on floor for getting out of shower. (I have black towel for this but he insjsts on using the naice hand towel instead.

Straightens MY files on MY desk in MY study

Arrrrgggggh!!!!!
I think you're within your rights to hire a hitman for this one, @proudestofmums.
There isn't a court in the land that would convict you.