To expect DP to put the towels in the right pile in the towel press.... hand towels on left... bath towels on right!!!

[Dabbles]

HE just dumps them in the middle!!! grrrrr.... it's not rocket science!!! tis drivign me mad!! SO mad I said I woudl start a thread about him!!!! lol...

For ages, I've wanted to start a thread entitled "Am I being unreasonable ... for being annoyed with my DP for using nearly all my tupperware containers for toxic DIY-type materials" but I have felt that this would not be well-received. I'm so glad I didn't!

Oh I just got it, a towel cupboard, I was thinking of a trouser press for towels, completely confused.

YABU, I can barely get teh towels in a cupboard they tend to go straight from the swimming bags to wash and back again

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Bluestocking - I would have supported u!!!

My dh will pull everything out of the tumble dryer to find something and then leave the rest on the floor!!! I honestly believe he does not know where the clean towels are kept because they always magically appear in the bathroom (or in his hand when he shouts at me to fetch one when he is in the shower...aaahhhhhhhhhhh)

LOL VP! I missed that one.

Thanks MMJ, a good reason to eat more icecream! He has promised me a vast pile of the finest tupperware (I lean towards Lock 'n' Lock) if we ever make it to the altar.

Dabbles, I have been trying for six long months to explain my system for DS' clothes drawers to DH. It is pretty simple:

Eczema clothes with built-in mitts, top left drawer.
Socks, hats and other oddments, top right drawer.
Shorts, second drawer down, back left.
Trousers, second drawer down, back right.
T-shirts, second drawer down, front left.
Long-sleeved tops, second drawer down, front right.
Dungarees, coats and other outerwear, third drawer down.
Bedding, bottom drawer.

Not that complicated, surely? But now he refuses to have anything to do with putting DS' clothes away. Mind you, he has some really funny ideas about washing, I found out the other day that he has a system for what clothing goes where on the clothes horse, I didn't even know about it! So it's not just us...

Thanks Dabbles, I actually rather agree with you about the towels, I like the sight of a nice orderly airing cupboard!

lol@MegBusset !!!

fwiw - Bluestocking dp think yanbu!!!

MegBusset and Dabbles you should join Jaynehater and I in our ordered commune.

here

I have something similar in the dds chest of drawers to your clothes arrangement.

with drawer divider thingys to avoid the piles contaminating each other .

ok heres one for the pot....

HUBBY always telling ME off for not sticking to bath mat/hand towel/foot towel/bum towel/whatever system ...his ultimate argument is "what if you ended up using my bum towel for your face?" my usual response is, "if its been washed I don't CARE!" and round and round we go with the same argument.

sometimes if i'm a bit bored i just mix them up for the hell of it!

Hi...my friends and family have much amusement at my sorting of the wet washing before it goes into the basket to go outside...
1 bath towels
2 hand towels
3 tea towels
4 face cloths
5 adult trousers
6 child trousers
7 adult tops
8 child tops
9 vests
10 adult socks/football socks
11 child socks
12 adult underwear
13 child underwear

It sounds obsessive but it just means that it is easier and quicker to bring in the dry washing and sort into ironing piles...but I know I take things too far when I leave spaces on the line for items that I know are in the next load of the washing machine!!!

But that's the same thing as putting shopping on the conveyor at the checkout in the right order for packing into bags - chilled stuff together, veges etc.......perfectly sensible imho.
I take stuff OFF the line in that sort of order - never thought of sorting at wet washing stage.....
I
Am
An
Amateur.

lol

I do the shopping thing too.

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Registering my solidarity with the OP's OH.
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Dabbles you are a star. I've just wipe tears laughing. {WHISPER} because my DH was reading this over my shoulder. He's gone to brush his teeth now bemused by women. He doesn't know it but it drives me nuts when he uses one of our towels to dry DS and then left it in his room. I just had a shower and had to use his damp towel yuk!(DH)
Please have a thread like this every night and I'll go to bed happy

Thanks bamzooki...so I am not obsessional just organised!! Mind you I should admit that I get a great deal of satisfaction looking out the window at my matching washing on the line...and hate it when anybody else in the house hangs it out all muddled up!! (That just makes me sound deranged I know...in my defence I was taught to hang washing out this way by my mum and she even goes as far as to match up the same coloured towels or tops together)

bentneck

I do the grocery thing too!

FWIW - thanks to the women of mumsnet, dp now thinks he 'won'... Thanks mumsnet! I will never hear the end of this!!!!

Dabbles, we may not be in the majority here but I agree with and fully support you (on the towels part, not the name of your airing cupboard which is a bit odd)

Mothers, for the sake of their future marital happiness, start training your boys in the art of cupboard tidiness now.

"dabbles, it is a man thing.

they cannot follow instructions."

This is simply not true. Dabbles instructions to her husband were, and I quote, "i shove a bundle into his hands and ask him to pop them in the cupboard"

If we're not given clear, concise instructions then what can you expect? You're lucky he knew you meant the airing cupboard. I'd probably have asked for clarification on that score.

He sounds like a right vicious bastard.

It starts with towels.....