Husband's irritating habits whilst WFH!

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Just looking for a MN opinion on this to see if I'm being picky. Semi light-hearted and I know there are far worse things to get irritated about but you know how everything gets magnified times a million when you're in lockdown together for the 67 millionth day!

Husband makes a coffee around 4/5 times a day. Takes coffee out of cupboard, makes coffee, puts it back in cupboard (and this is the key bit) leaving said cupboard door wide open right opposite my line of vision from where I'm working. Buggers off back to his work space where he can't see wide open cupboard door. Would you:-

a) sigh heavily, stomp over and slam said cupboard door shut loud enough so that he can hear you're annoyed
b) get up and calmly close cupboard then ask him nicely the next time he's in the kitchen not to forget to close it
c) just close the damn thing yourself and not say anything
d) LTB

Have tried approaches a and b and he gets pissed off with me for being 'passive aggressive' !!

I vote for E

Tell him to go and shut the cupoboard door. I mean I am sure he is closing the door every time at any other occasion, so I am sure he can do it too.

The gravy in the coffee jar suggestion is hilarious 🤣

Noise cancelling headphones wont stop him from hearing you. I know, I have some on just now.
he is ignoring you instead.

Swap work spaces, hopefully he'll bang his head on the open door soon enough.

Get some fake blood, pretend you hurt yourself and ask him for a plaster.

I took cupboard doors off top cupboards!!
I am working 4 hours a week out of the house and I bloody love those hours!!

Shout 'door' everytime

I'm a bugger for forgetting to close the bread bag. OH sighs everytime

E- shout "shut the cupboard!"
If necessary walk over to him and pull the headphones aside to make sure he hears me.

Mind you I am more likely to be your DH in this scenario - but that's why I am saying to do this, I'd rather my DH did that than I didn't realise how annoying I was being

....do you have a patio?

Perhaps one that needs relaying?

"Why can't you leave the coffee jar out on the side so he doesn't need to open the cupboard"

If he wants that doing, why can't he do it?

But really, why can't he close the cupboard door?

It's so little effort, but if he cba, he might as well leave the jar out?

Maybe it's a thing (like leaving a light on), that people who don't do it just can't understand?

It's just automatic to close cupboard doors/turn off the light-isn't it?

Does he leave the fridge door open?

Glue it shut so he can’t get to his coffee

I'm seconding the idea of just leaving the coffee jar out all day. Perhaps he's pissed off about having to return the jar each time and is therefore passively aggressively leaving the door open each time.

( or is he pissed off that you vetoed his choice of self closing cupboard doors ? )

Work somewhere where you can't see the cupboard.

G - Just leave the door open? Why not?

H - Nag him to stop drinking so much coffee! Five cups in a day?!

DP's habits are also driving me bananas as we're both wfh.
One example is he sighs, grunts and generally makes annoying throat noises the majority of the time he is tapping away on his laptop.
Ugh!

Similar to sparkl I read an article where a woman left a top cupboard door open, put something away in the bottom cupboard and stood up, cracked her head and suffered quite a severe brain injury as a result. It is actually dangerous to leave it open.

The only solution to this is to make him come back and close the door. Tell him it is CBT whereby making him close it is how he'll program his brain to remember to do it.

My sister has a flare for the dramatic prank and once laid herself out at the bottom of the stairs in a twisted position, one slipper left half way up the stairs so we were greeted by this as we came through the front door, very funny when we realised it was just a joke. Maybe you could make a huge noise and then lay yourself out on the floor of the ktichen, especially if he has a schedule you can predict

Stick a post it to the inside of the door telling him to close the fucking thing!

Some of these are proper making me LOL

Just keep telling him.
I say this, both dh and I drink herbal teas that come in their individual sachets which are perfectly recyclable yet he always leaves them on the side rather than putting them in the bin, drives me mad.

I have googled automatic door closers more than once during this lockdown. My granny had one that would snap shut at great speed which made me very efficient at getting things out of cupboards. For the first week that memo ray stopped me ordering them. Now I’m imagine in a house where all the doors are shut.

Take the coffee out of the jar and put gravy granules in there instead.

This....then LTB.

Oh the other thing is he wears noise-cancelling headphones so he can't hear me yelling at him to close it!

How good is your aim with small but surprisingly heavy objects?

Just yell door everytime he does it.

If he gets passive aggressive again, just point out you're having to remind him because he's too stupid to remember.

My husband doesn't bring used coffee cup back down with him, he leaves it at desk, makes another coffee with another cup. There is currently 3 empty cups and 4 empty diet cokes cans on his desk.

he wears noise-cancelling headphones

Water pistol to the crotch.

And change your router name to "Shutthefuckingcupboarddoor"