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WRAP THE DAMN NAPPIES!

36 replies

kirstywursty012 · 21/07/2020 11:23

This sounds so petty but its driving me mad! DH just refuses to wrap nappies up after he changes our 18 month old (you know, stick the tabs around the dirty nappy so its a delightful little poo parcel). I've been asking him nicely ever since she was born and now refuse to pick them up if he leaves one open in the hallway. The only issue is that it starts to smell then I freak out at him and tell him to go and pick it up.

He gets really smart about it and asks what the difference is. I always say its just not nice picking up a dirty open nappy off the floor but he can't actually understand the difference.

I've been asking him so nicely for so long just to wrap them but he refuses to do it - I'm starting to think that maybe he enjoys annoying me.

Is anyone else's DH this much of a bellend! Starting to wish he'd go back to the office!

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AngeloMysterioso · 21/07/2020 11:24

Why the hell is he leaving them lying around anyway? That’s disgusting...

ItWasNotOK · 21/07/2020 11:26

Not wrapping them up, I can't get excited about, but leaving them on the floor? What the fuck? He doesn't see the difference between leaving a shitty nappy on the floor and not?

My standards are far from high but that is fucking disgusting.

stormy11 · 21/07/2020 11:26

Why isn't he just putting them straight in the bin?

Sharkerr · 21/07/2020 11:27

That’s just strange. Are you not using nappy bags?

TerribleCustomerCervix · 21/07/2020 11:28

Why the fuck is he leaving them on the floor for you to pick up?

Surely disposing of the shitty nappy is part of the whole nappy changing process?

allthedamnvampires · 21/07/2020 11:29

Get the tommee tippee nappy bin and cartridges. He can stick them unwrapped straight into that then twist the handle to make the nappy disappear. He sounds gross so might be beyond even that level of basic function!

rottiemum88 · 21/07/2020 11:30

So if he wrapped the nappy but left it on the floor then you'd be happy?! I'm actually incredulous at this. Do you have some unwritten rule in your household that if DH deigns to change a nappy, you have to rush along and pick it up? Confused

Persephonecall · 21/07/2020 11:31

He is doing this because he is a filthy lazy pig and feels it is beneath him. Tell him to grow up.

SilverOtter · 21/07/2020 11:31

Just buy some nappy bags

Carandi · 21/07/2020 11:32

I agree with PP, the problem isn't that he doesn't wrap them tidily, it's the fact he leaves them lying around and isn't putting them straight in a bag in a bin. That's minging!

As an aside my husband is a bit of a bellend in that he will leave out wrappers and boxes and think the refuse fairy is going to put them in the bin, but jeez, if he was leaving something like a dirty nappy around then I'd be wrapping it tidily around his face!

20viona · 21/07/2020 11:32

Ok I was going to say my husband does this until I continued reading and realised your husband isn't using a nappy bag!!

WTF!
Nappy in bag in bin the end. Why would you be risking your child touching a filth ridden nappy.

KittyFantastico · 21/07/2020 11:34

He's being an arse about it.

You don't need nappy sacks, they're not good for the environment and they're a choking hazard especially with an inquisitive toddler, you need him to grow the fuck up and wrap the nappies then bin them outside.

SnuggyBuggy · 21/07/2020 11:35

Bloody hell, I thought I was a slob

AlmostAlwyn · 21/07/2020 11:35

Is this a "do something badly so you stop getting asked to do it" situation? In our house, disposing of the nappy is part of the changing job! He can wrap them or not, who cares, as long as it's in the bin!

pleasecaffeinateme · 21/07/2020 11:38

Wtf🤢that is vile.

To OP's DH(disgusting husband) Whether you use nappy bags or not, just put it straight in the bin! Though if you didn't use nappy bags, you'd have to wrap it so it doesn't leak out.

OP, show him this thread!

Bluepolkadots42 · 21/07/2020 11:43

If my husband left dirty nappies lying around on the floor (might have accidentally left 1 when DD was newborn due to total sleep deprivation) I would have asked him to leave house by now. That is absolutely disgusting. I get annoyed even if DH has parcelled it, bagged it and left bag at top of stairs and then gone down without taking it down to go in outside bin. YANBU- your husband is behaving like a minger I'm afraid.

Dozycuntlaters · 21/07/2020 11:45

Leaving them in the hallway? Wrapped or not, that's gross. Why does he not dispose of it once he's done it, how very very strange.

wineandroses1 · 21/07/2020 11:46

Op is he:

  • completely thick? or
  • does half a job because he thinks you should do it (wimmin's work)? or
  • enjoys the fact that you find it upsetting to see an open shitty nappy on the floor, stinking up the place and liable to be trodden on by you or your child?
  • all of the above?

Hmm. Which of these character traits make him attractive enough to live/sleep with?

I think he is a passive-aggressive twat and believes that cleaning up shit should be done by you. In my experience, this type of person is a twat in many other areas of life too.

justcheckingyourenotacake · 21/07/2020 11:47

He sounds disgusting - who leaves an open nappy on the floor? Does he want you to step in it?
And why doesn't he pick it up and put in the bin himself? Is it beneath him?

Mind you that would have never worked in our house as Ddog loves poo Blush as we discovered when DC1 was a baby and I left the nappy on the floor to my side kind of behind me and in the time I managed to put sudocrem on the baby and put a new nappy on and wriggle them back into their babygro the dog managed to run off and scoff the contents of the nappy Envy

sbhydrogen · 21/07/2020 11:50

Do a massive poo in the loo and just leave it there for him to deal with... Maybe in more than one toilet if you've got a couple.

(What he does is grim)

wineandroses1 · 21/07/2020 11:54

And Op, it's not petty at all. If he has been doing this for 18 months he is well aware how much it winds you up. As it would anyone!

I feel Sad for you that your husband actually wants you to be upset about this, because otherwise why would he do it?

Friolero · 21/07/2020 11:58

That’s disgusting, why on earth is he leaving dirty nappies on the floor? Even if they were closed up it’s still grim leaving them lying around. I mean it’s not hard to put it in a bin!

Watermelontea · 21/07/2020 12:00

DH did this plus leaving them where he changed DD, it was driving me crazy so I reminded him to wrap them so the contents didn’t fall out, and to bin them when he’d finished.
He kept ‘forgetting’ so I took to leaving them just outside the door of his home office.
After standing in one (only one that was a wee FYI!) he soon stopped messing about and binned the sodding nappies. I’m not sure if he wraps them now, but I imagine so as he has to handle them more when he’s not leaving them lying around like a dirty git.

PrayingandHoping · 21/07/2020 12:01

Even wrapped up why leaving in the hall? That's gross. Why not put straight in the bin...? And if that's not possible for some reason def a nappy bin in baby's room.

LouiseTrees · 21/07/2020 12:02

This