What shall I do with the plate?

[LunaHardy]

So I got home from work yesterday. Sorted the kids. Did the dinner and cleaned the kitchen. Kitchen was spotless. Left dinner for DH on a plate in the oven. He got back late and ate his dinner, left the dirty plate on the side. We have a dishwasher - it was almost empty. My question is - what do I do with the plate? I don't want any silly comments like just put it away and to stop being so petty. Sensible comments only like put it on his pillow with the dried food still intact.

I think you should leave it for a week and take photos every day of said plate doing things- and then send him the story “the life of the unwashed plate” ending with “although I’ve had lots of fun more than anything plate just needs a bath” 🤣

Laptop bag is where such things belong.

Sometimes my OH will leave smelly socks on the living room floor- I always pack them in a work bag, hopefully they will be the thing that pops out when he opens his bag at a client site.

I there was another post a while back with reference to a sock which the OPs DH had left on the floor. In this instance the OP had erected a mini fence around said sock to draw attention to it. I think it remained in situ for quite sometime.

Have you ever seen that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where the have a standoff over a luggage bag dumped on the stairs?

I would leave it exactly where he left it. Possibly expedite a bit of mould growth.

@chickenyhead

Serve todays dinner of dry toast crusts on it's amazing unwashedness

Yep this one

Steal his phone, take a photo of it and make it his Facebook or Linkdin profile picture.

Post it to his work address.

when he gets in dance around shout Hoi and smash it against the floor.

Tell him you thought that it was Greek week

Empty his underwear drawer. Put it in there. If/when asked: "Sorry, I thought you were starting a game of Put the Plate in the Most Annoying Place Possible

Please do this one op!

And take a photo 😂

DH's size 11s left in doorways and high traffic areas used to get hand-lettered "Police Aware" labels from me.

He learned eventually.

@CokeEnStock

Do you really stress about this stuff? Either put In dw or just leave it-and tell him. I have a teen where dishes multiply at an alarming rate. I would spontaneously combust if I took it to your level

Oh gosh yes taking it to the level of a jokey lighthearted thread on mumsnet. Clearly the OP is about to combust with stress! Or not.

What kind of humourless and judgemental person has to have these bonkers suggestions actually pointed out as lighthearted?!?

@Nearlgranny love the police aware labels! I am copying that! 🤣

Use it as a bobble plate (careful it doesn't fall behind the loo).

Make a very loud (fake) telephone call to a dishwasher engineer, making sure dp is in the room when you do, explain that you need an engineer urgently as the dishwasher door wont open. It was fine when you put a few things in it at 9pm but come 11pm it was glued shut as your dp couldnt access it to put his dinner things in. Be really melodramtic about washing up schedules and yada yada. Should at least be enough to get your dp up to test the door and then you can hang up and give him THAT look

Or large neon sign pointing to dishwasher activated by motion sensor whenever dp walks in the kitchen, assuming your dp is the tallest and the sensor is at a level where only he activates it (big assumption i know)

We have a rule in our house that if you leave underwear on the bathroom floor it ends up on your head. (You have idea how often dirty undies are left behind the door).

Not sure how long it would stay on his head though.

this thread has made me chuckle on a sleepless night.

If this was a long term reminder I would be putting in, in the garden.

short term, I would let the dogs and cats lick it clean and photograph it and place it on it

Make a very loud (fake) telephone call to a dishwasher engineer, making sure dp is in the room when you do, explain that you need an engineer urgently as the dishwasher door wont open. It was fine when you put a few things in it at 9pm but come 11pm it was glued shut as your dp couldnt access it to put his dinner things in.

🤣 I like this one best. My partner would find this very funny as well.

My dad was always leaving things around that my mum was expected to pick up. She used to deliberately not pick them up. There was once a cup that my dad left on the living room coffee table that got left there for 7 months. My mum would actually give me updates on the
‘cup situation’.... I shit you not. I’d regularly get told things like ‘your dad walked past ‘the cup’ 4 times today and it’s still there’ or ‘your dad actually put the bowl he was eating from down next to ‘the cup’ today, then put the bowl in the dishwasher but ‘the cup’ is still sitting on the coffee table’. My favourite one was when I got told ‘your dad actually knocked ‘the cup’ off the table today and then picked it up and put it back’....🤣 Crazy bastards the pair of them.

PMSL
I need some of these suggestions for myself as I'm drowning in housework and don't possess a dishwasher.
I have a lot of items 'soaking'. Weeks some of them - the heavy pan, the big mug, the baking tray. Soaking merrily away until they dry out and I superciliously squirt some fairy liquid and hot water on to let them soak some more.
I am your husband.

Michael McIntyre does a good sketch on this particular phenomenon actually. His wife goes berserk when he leaves things in the general area of the dishwasher lol.

Personally, I'd throw it out and demand a new set of fine boned china to replace it. A complete matching set worth a grand.

Serve breakfast on it then lunch , dinner etc . ( as it looks now)

Dry it out(hairdryer if necessary), with manky food stains and all. Cover in cling film. Serve dinner for him on it again.
Add another layer of cling film to manky plate if he doesn’t get the hint and serve again. Eventually he will clean the plate or you will discover a new antibiotic....

@RunningHoops

Use it as a bobble plate (careful it doesn't fall behind the loo).

What's a bobble plate? Very funny thread btw

I’d just put it in the dishwasher and tell him the dishwasher fairy hadn’t come tonight so I had to do it.

Some of these responses are funny but some have real side. Everybody has off evenings, if he doesn’t do this sort of thing often I wouldn’t make too much of a deal of it quite honestly!

Hair bobble plate: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/636548-A-plate-has-fallen-down-the-back-of-the-loo