AIBU - my wife tore up my cardboard box and I'm mad as hell

[StephenEmmet]

I saved a cardboard box from Lidl which was exactly the right size for the thing I wanted to do. I left it in the porch. It wasn't in anybody's way. I came back to the porch within an hour and my wife had torn it up and put it in the recycling bin. We had a big bustup over this and she won't admit her mistake. She offered me another box from her collection but it wasn't the same size so not as efficient for the thing I'm trying to do. AIBU?

I agree, you are mad.

😂

Wtf. Are you 5?

Are you a cat?

Fucking box-ripping bitch

Do you typically leave stuff lying around?

Did you tell her you wanted to keep it? If not YABU.

He’s a cat, she’s a chick.

Story as old as time.

I call reverse, the unreasonableness would happen if he told you he wanted to keep it. If it was abandoned without a word and stuff is generally left for you to tidy away then he is being unreasonable

I need to know more about your wife's collection of boxes.

If it was big enough to warrant tearing up, it was in the way in a porch.

Sometimes I save boxes for specific things. I do that by making sure that dh knows I am keeping it, and not putting it somewhere that looks like it wants to be thrown out.

WTAF do you trolls not go out on a Saturday evening?

Good grief.

Leave her.

No-one should have to put up with this level of abuse.

Your DW has a collection of cardboard boxes?

Another box from her collection? She has a collection of boxes?

ltb

Are you concerned her collection may soon include a dh shaped one...?

Why does your wife have a collection of boxes?

It was a cardboard box with nothing in it. How was she to know that you cherished it as your special, irreplaceable box?

Next time put a note on it if you want it saved, or put it to it's intended use instead of leaving it lying arount.

If you hadn't told her or stuck a note on it, yabu. How was she to know you wanted it?
This really made me laugh, thank you for being so ridiculous

dh is that you??

OP don't leave stuff lying about, one day you'll leave a cup on the side by the dishwasher and she will leave you. It's the little things.

LTB.

(lose the bitch).

You shouldn't have to put up with this in your own porch.

I keep my cardboard boxes in my (10-door, huge) wardrobe, so no box-thief can get at them.

Interesting post.
Think we'll get rid now.

Actually, my ex-husband would have gone mad at something this trivial and not spoken to me for days as a result.