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

[Witsendagain]

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?

Moving really quickly around the house, often bounding and jumping: it's a teenage habit of his, that his mum called "bouncing". No amount of nagging would stop him doing it, but the one thing cured him was when we had cats: he kept frightening them with his movements, so now he moves more delicately. Occasionally he'd bump his head on a door. Out and about, he still strides everywhere with a sense of purpose; if he wears a white shirt in the supermarket, he's sometimes mistaken for the manager.

he kept frightening them with his movements

Have just chortled til me eyes went damp. Thank you @wanderings x

The only thing he does which winds me up is leaving the bathmat down after he's had a shower or a bath. He'll then walk over it in muddy boots to use the toilet. Not only that, but my cat comes in and out via the bathroom, so there is often blood and mouse guts on the mat too. So much for having a clean area to walk on after a shower!

I do tend to pick it up each time, but think why should I?

Using a teatowel to wipe sweat off his face when he's mowed the lawns then putting it back so I use it unwittingly.

I think you are married to my XH. Good luck!

Sits around doing FA, until ten minutes before we have to leave, declares he needs a shower, panics about where his shoes are, rushes around, whilst I’m sitting by the coat rack waiting for him...and then as he’s hopping into his shoes and trying to o out his his coat on at the same time turns around and says “hurry up, don’t just sit there, we’re late!”
So I tend to leave the house and wait in the car.....in case I murder him.

If i've loaded the dishwasher and started it he will sneak in the kitchen open the dishwasher and restack it.
Every. Damn. Time.
I dont go near the disher now and leave him to it as it was making my blood boil and i'd not so much LTB but i'd happily put him under the patio

My DH opens a jumbo size box of tea bags and decants a few into the airtight box we keep in the tea/coffee cupboard. So he might take 60 out of a box of 240. Then he leaves the 180 remaining teabags in the open box to go stale instead of putting them in one of the myriad lock and lock boxes stacked up 5 feet away. So 60 teabags stay fresh and the rest of the box are ruined. When the airtight box of 60 are used up he will happily replace them with 60 stale ones. God knows what the final ones must taste like having sat unwrapped in the cupboard for a few months Luckily I don’t drink tea!

Oh and also

Leaves cupboards open

Cant bear to watch him cook anything cos he leaves a mess. Makes me twitch.

And why , why WHYYYY when i have cleaned everywhere and everything before i have an afternoon/evening out with friends is he so fucking incapable of keeping it that way?? Omfg this really gives me the rage. Nothing i hate more than coming back in to a shithole. Really stresses me out. And it will only get worse now we have gone from 2 dc to 4 with twins now here.

Mine cleans the toilet by putting the blue toilet duck AROUND THE RIM OF THE SEAT. As in, not around the bowl where it should be to clean the bowl with the brush.
THEN, he scrubs the bowl with the brush and LEAVES IT, like a cave man. Blue goo around the seat until I become the exorcist and he wipes it.

And he NEVER remembers that I ask him not to do this, despite cleaning the toilet once a week for a decade.

My husband never finishes a drink. Yet, uses the largest glasses and pours to the top. I can get over chucking water away, but 3/4 of a 300ml tumbler full of my ruby breakfast juice, discovered on the bathroom shelf makes me furious!
Every day. Pints of squash, half mugs of tea and coffee, half drunk bottles of pop. The waste makes me crazy

There are probably more but these are the ones I can think of right now;

• Attacks the butter block with a spoon so when I go to slice a piece off with a knife, it invariably it looks like a small child has been using it as a substitute for Play-Doh.

• Fills his tea/coffee cups to the brim and then holds the cup on the piss so our kitchen floor always has a trail of tea/coffee stains on it! 🤬

• Doesn’t always think to put his car key in the drawer when he gets home so will then cause himself unnecessary panic when he suddenly can’t remember where he put it (most of the time it’s in his coat pocket).

• Can never find anything he’s looking for without involving me first. Swears blind it isn’t there and when I look I find it first time! 🙄

• Splashes water everywhere when he washes his hands in the kitchen sink (usually after I’ve just wiped it down) 🙄

• Uses the tea towel as some kind of crotch warmer after he’s eaten as generally when I can’t find it to dry my hands, he’s sitting there with it draped over his lap

• Never lets the kettle boil ‘to save electricity’ - instead, he waits for it to nearly boil and then flicks the switch off!

• Insists on eating any stale bread up as he doesn’t like waste - he’s even eaten it with (green, not black) mould on before! 🤢🤮 Will also eat yoghurts well over a month out of date because he hasn’t rotated them in the fridge when he’s bought more.

• Won’t throw out or donate any of his old clothes to charity - they have to be worn until they are deemed completely knackered. He doesn’t get annoyed about much but he does go apoplectic if I dare to discard any of his clothing.

However, he does put all his dirty washing/towels in the washing baskets and the toilet seat back down when he’s finished using it so he’s not all that bad!

Another one who has a DH who puts stuff for recycling on the side instead of in the sack about 30cm away. I once got so cross I started leaving it in random places all over the house.

He has a tub of raisins and nuts in the kitchen cupboard and will grab a handful when he passes. Invariably he ends up dropping stuff which just gets left there.

He licks the wooden spoon whilst cooking... and continues to use it after

@PositiveVibez

The box of crap is genius! I'm stealing that idea!!

Instead of stacking the dishes he just lines them all up next to each other. We don't have a big kitchen either so it drives me BARMY! Also he refused to wash dishes as he brings them to the sink. He will rinse them ready for washing but he will only wash them when there's is enough for a sink full

Puts stuff on top of the dishwasher rather than in it.
Likewise puts the knife he’s just used to butter his toast on the edge of the sink. No reason, we have enough knives that you can use a fresh one.
Leaves piles of random stuff about the place then moans like hell about having to tidy it up before the cleaner comes.
Takes forever massively over thinking a diy job but won’t let me do it. The annoying thing is that a friend complimented him on how nice our house looks and this must be because of the planning he puts in. Now it’s justified.
Hugs me while I’m in the middle of making dinner.

I'm puzzled why you find their laziness, ineptitude and professional incompetence so amusing and endearing.

Personally I would prefer a relationship with an adult.

Does something really insignificant then announces what he has done and expects praise like some kind of desperate dog

Steps over things that shouldn't be on the floor... like a million times until I say "can you please pick that up"!!

Leaves cupboards half open

Put his dirty washing on the floor next to the basket

Loads the W/machine, adds all the liquid etc. Sets up the cycle and then doesn't press play - we come home and it's still sitting there waiting to be washed

Hogs the bathroom... centuries pass while he's in there

Moves the bathmat away from the bath for no apparent reason. Gets into shower (above bath) and gets out dripping onto floor leaving a puddle. Because he’s moved the bathmat. I forever have wet socks.

1. He cannot hear a running tap. He will do dishes or run a bath, finish up and the tap will either be dripping or trickling. The noise drives me nuts.
2. washing dishes but when I take them out the cupboard or from the dish rack they're either still dirty or put back in the cupboard still wet.
3. leaving trays in the oven and then not telling me so I'll put the oven on and the trays will still be in there. They get wrecked too quickly because of this.

There are a few, but the most irritating is when he gets in the shower in the morning, he pulls the bathroom window shut but doesn't actually put the handle down so someone could still get in from outside. Either leave it open to air the bathroom while everyone is getting showered (my preference) or at least secure it properly instead of doing this half arsed activity which requires me to check every morning that the window is shut properly.

Oh and puts bottles ready to go in the recycling without emptying the dregs out of the bottom and removing the lid so I still have to step in to finish the job. Why? Either do a job to completion or don't bother.

Leaves greasy pots and pans "to soak" by filling them with water and leaving on the bench... then doesn't bother actually washing them! Drives me mad having to remind him that he had left manky pots on the side...

Puts dirty clothes in the ironing basket despite being in a DIFFERENT room! I swear he hunts it out!

If it’s my turn to cook, after ive dished up he will then go into the kitchen and look for a particular sauce or chutney etc or even start cutting up salad stuff to add , so that mine is getting cold waiting for him to stop faffing. He does this every single time.
Thing in, I don’t really mind because I love him. However, if my exh has done this I would have screeched at him because I didn’t love him if you see what I mean!

Oh great let of steam thread 😊

Toothpaste has to fill the length of his electric toothbrush from the middle of the tube - gave him is own and own drawer so I don’t see it
I say watch the weather washing is on the line if popping out to shops -
Come home in the rain washing soaked still out. Apparently didn’t know it was raining
Vacuums daily uses every tool and leaves them lying where he changes next tool.
Can’t find things in fridge where’s the butter ham milk - in the fridge I say
Likes a cool bedroom, fan on full pelt - me turning it down him turning it up till one off us can’t be bothered getting up. I took fuse out took him ages to suss it 😊

Small niggles, I most likely have some too, he’s a keeper though works hard great with our children and very loving.
BUT SO ANNOYING 🤭