Worried about leaving DH

[TheMustressMhor]

….for a week while I go four hundred miles away to see our DC.

I shall be gone a week. What will he do? Will I return to find the toilet roll on the wrong way round, as I did the last time I went away? Will I discover that he didn't change the tea towel while I was miles away?

What would you worry about in these circumstances?

(Light-hearted, obviously)

Ah, I am a bit obsessed with having my kitchen work tops clear, absolute minimum of stuff on there when I come back from being away there are always, always rogue items on the work tops!.

Toilet seat left up for the entire week 😱

@CassandraCross

I think my DH has a scheme by which he whips round the house on the day I am due back and does everything he can think of so that I am not outraged upon my return.

He does always forget about the tea towel, though.

But Bokky how do you know this?

Does the silly fool he leave it up on the day you are due to come home?

I have also found the cat litter tray two inches to the left of where I usually place it.

Mine would almost certainly not make the bed all week, fail to refill the ice tray and not bleach the dish cloth. YANBU to be concerned

Not bleaching the dishcloth

Grounds for divorce, Lex234?

And will he have put the wrong pillow cases on the bed?

This happened last time I abandoned him. He put a clean quilt cover on with the wrong pillowcases which was arch stupidity IMHO.

He's pretty good but I change our kitchen cloth and handtowel every day, whereas he'll leave them until they are rank! It's weird because he has a complete hangup about 'best before' dates, yet is happy to look past a cloth that stinks because it's reeking with germs and nasties...

I have also found the cat litter tray two inches to the left of where I usually place it.

The computer is always too far over to the right, he claims it is more central but he is wrong, wrong, wrong.

On the plus side for him the toothpaste tube remains pressed up from the bottom, I'm a squeeze it any old where kind of person.

Perhaps you’ll get lucky and as a treat will have kindly painted the whole kitchen fluorescent pink and green stripes. Hopefully with a nice navy blue ceiling.

@Grumpyunleashed

I will be delighted if he redecorates the kitchen (but not those colours) as he failed to paint it the colour of my choice the last time he did it.

Another worry is that he might get purple-coloured plants for the front garden.

I do not allow purple-coloured plants.

And will he clean the inside of the kitchen bin lid?

Will he charge the phone while I'm gone?

And the coffee table will be in the wrong place.

This is worrying.

Hmm seems he cannot do anything for you.
Perhaps to complement the new kitchen redecorations he will leave you a nice art installation in the shape of Westminster Abbey in the middle of the living room consisting of every used dish and a weeks worth of take away packaging.

I'd be worried mine preferred life without moaning, nagging me and didn't want me to come back. Or that he'd moved a younger model in.

Many years ago, I went on a residential to the Lake District with a group of year 7 pupils. I was away for the full school week and my then live-in partner picked me up at the station when we returned.
On the journey home he proudly told me that he had cleaned the bathroom before setting out. Some subtle questioning later he admitted that he had, in fact, just squirted bleach in the toilet bowl!
Reader - I married him...

Years ago I went away for the weekend for a course leaving my (now X) H looking after 9mnth old DS. Before leaving I did the washing and hung the clothes on the traditional pulley ktichen maid we had in our kitchen.

When I got home after the weekend, I found he had decided to cook smoked mackerel fillets under the grill (a food stuff he had never shown any interest in before) and had fed it to DS (to be fair I think DS quite liked it!) But the house and all the washing stank of mackerel for weeks.

He also bought 8 packets of Ready Brek because it had an offer on the back for a glove puppet and you had to collect tokens off the packet.. He had sent away for the puppet and it arrived long before we had got even a quarter of a way through the mountain of Ready Brek. DS of course showed no interest whatsoever in the bloody puppet.

I would worry about mine too. He can empty the bin like a dream but can’t seem to stretch to putting a fresh bag in. Same with the recycling - it can make it into a pile by the door but never into the box. I call him Harry Half-A-Job.

The front door keys would still be in the door (on the outside) all week too.

@rosegoldwatcher

You married a man who put bleach into the toilet?

This is an anti-MN move on his part, you know.

Mind you, I use bleach in our toilet so maybe I should not be on MN either...

@The MustressMhor - 1986 or thereabouts - less enlightened times!

(So do I!)
I'll get my coat...