Reasons my DH may end up under the patio...

[PringleMcDingle]

My top three...

1. He brushes his teeth with so much toothpaste that it ends up frothing and foaming everywhere. To wipe away this completely ridiculous amount of excess paste he always wipes his mouth on FRESH BLOODY TOWELS.

Every towel in our bathroom is covered in toothpaste. I swear on the odd occasion I've left something like pyjama bottoms on the radiator in there, he's pasted those too.

1. Instead of putting tea bags in the bin (which is right next to the kettle), he'll just leave them on the side or in something like a pan that's waiting to be washed by the sink. Why? Can someone, anyone, explain that to me?

1. Always asks me where certain items of clothing are without looking in his wardrobe. Or even worse, will ask me if he has any socks/underwear... Before just going to the sock/underwear drawer. I don't keep an inventory of sock availability... CHECK THE DRAWER.

So there, if you see me on the 9 o'clock news, you'll know that it was justified.

[NoParticularPattern]

I will confess to being the worst one for toothpaste splatter though. But then since I’m the one that does the cleaning AND I’m the one responsible for 75% of the teeth brushing in this establishment I can’t complain really!

[NoParticularPattern]

@Hall84

DH is currently working in the dining room. I have a desk in the spare room. Every day I find crap on the desk or chair or both that needs moving before I can start work.
As a peace offering he made a cup of tea today. It was anaemic

That’s not a peace offering, that’s an act of war.

[sleeplessinthecountryside]

My DH loads the dishwasher from the front back instead of the back towards the front. Is it weird that this really bothers me? 🤔

[AuditAngel]

He never tells the kids to do anything, he tells me to tell the kids.

I am supposed to anticipate his every desire and do it before he thinks about it,

[sleeplessinthecountryside]

Also he always moves the hand soap from the sink to the side of the sink. Why?
OMG I have so many......!

The classic leaving the toilet seat up. He used to put it down but has now decided this is pointless. Now I have 3 toilets with seats permanently up. Grrrrrrr!

[Fiona2020]

@PringleMcDingle

He's tired. All the time

Let me guess, no one is ever as tired as he is either?!

@PringleMcDingle THIS. I have cleaned and gutted the house for 2 days as it goes on the market tomorrow. I spent all day sorting the garden on Sunday that he dug up. I’m absolutely Shattered. Yet the dinner was made by the time he came home. Tonight I’ve been accused of kicking off and stomping about- I said I’m shattered- you don’t seem to appreciate what I’ve done. He said Well I’m tired to. Turned over and went to sleep. Arsehole .


How much room have you under the patio?! Room for a 5,10 arsehole?

[BluePheasant]

This is all easily fixable..he does this stuff because you tidy up after him.

The towels. Remove manky toothpasty towels from bathroom but DON'T wash them. You might need to keep yourself a clean towel somewhere as very soon there will be no clean towels left and he will wonder why.

Teabags. Same approach as towels. Leave them where they are. Yes it will be horrible. But you cannot crack first. Let him build his teabag mountain until he gets the message.

Asking where stuff is. Answer: I don't know, sorry. Why is it always women's job to be the keeper of all things?

[UnderperformingSeal]

@sleeplessinthecountryside

Also he always moves the hand soap from the sink to the side of the sink. Why?
OMG I have so many......!

The classic leaving the toilet seat up. He used to put it down but has now decided this is pointless. Now I have 3 toilets with seats permanently up. Grrrrrrr!

It is pointless, he might be the next one to use it. Putting it down for yourself isn't hard.

[ivfbeenbusy]

@PringleMcDingle

He's tired. All the time

Let me guess, no one is ever as tired as he is either?!

New born twins - I'm exclusively breastfeeding every 3 hours so haven't slept more than 2 hours at a time in weeks. He sleeps in the spare room and gets a full 8 hours sleep undisturbed....but apparently no one is as tired as he is 🤷‍♀️

[Fiona2020]

@ivfbeenbusy I take it back- you can have the place I wanted under the patio 😂 Imagine if they actually had to do all the this we had to in one day. That’s real tiredness !

[mumwon]

@TheInebriati mumnetters will now start a new (old) rockery fashion
much better for hiding a body

[wishes1111]

Uses the hand towel in the bathroom AND the bath mat. The hand towel ends up wet and then smells of damp because he doesn't put it on the radiator 🙄 I still have no real reason why he used a towel on top of a fluffy absorbent bath mat.

Waking me up earlier than I need to be woken by asking me where his work jumper is. Erm if it's not in your drawer it is in the wash bin waiting to be washed. If you would like it washed sooner, you are welcome to use OUR washing machine.

Leaving the glass he's been drinking out of on the coffee table and goes to bed without putting it in the sink/dish washer/quickly washing it.

Talked VERY loudly on the phone, to the point where I actually tell him to go outside because it annoys me to high heaven 😂

Hoards letters in the kitchen shoved down the side of the bread bin when we have folders labelled for car, utilities, pet insurance and vet docs etc etc.

[PringleMcDingle]

@RunnerDuck2020

Re. the teabags, you need to get one of those teabag holders to leave by the kettle! Then you can train him to leave the teabags there so at least they are in one place and can just be tipped in the bin at the end of the say when they’ve dried out.

I imagine, am sure in fact, that the tea bag would be left next to the teabag holder thingy if we had one of those.

And honestly, he wouldn't consider things like condensation in the bin.

I'm not convinced by the tea bag excuses!

YY to the beard hairs. And obviously it would be far too strenuous to put his shaver back after use too of course.

And on the subject of toothpaste again, he seems to just spit it anywhere. So long as it's generally in the sink area its fair game.

I'm thinking something like this for my new patio? Or maybe even a nice decking?

[PringleMcDingle]

Also he always moves the hand soap from the sink to the side of the sink. Why?

Oh you've given me another. Mine takes the hand soap from the sink and uses it in the bath/shower sometimes... Not a bar of soap, a squeezy bottle of hand soap. Because using shower gel or an actual bar of soap would be too normal.

Seriously, are DIY stores open?

[Thelnebriati]

Vipers! 😂

[PringleMcDingle]

@ivfbeenbusy it's a pretty big garden, I'll save you a spot

[MiaMc]

He double folds the bath mat to hang on the radiator, so it doesn’t dry properly.

Cuts nails over the kitchen bin, but most of them end up scattered across the floor.

Every time the car needs an mot/service, he empties all his crap out of the door pockets into a bag, where it stays, forever. I keep finding random bags of car crap everywhere! Just leave it in the bloody car DH!

[Luckyrabbitfoot]

Ho ho, isn’t joking about domestic abuse a laugh. Titter titter.

[vimtosogood]

I think you are underestimating the amount of effort to lift, dig and re-level three or more 2 foot patio slabs.
Mine is always asking me "is there enough fuel to get me to work next week?" You drove the car last, I haven't touched it for days.

[Figmentofimagination]

Can my DH join your DH under the patio?

• always asks me what his shifts are for the week. He is the one who adds them from his work app to our joint calendar that is on both our phones. So instead of checking 1 of the 2 apps on his phone he'll ask me which will lead to me giving a vague answer ("I think your working the evening shift on Friday") and then checking the calendar.
• today's irritation is him leaving the back door unlocked. We never ever leave it unlocked and we have a key hook to make sure we take the key out. He won't admit fault, and instead says it's all my fault as I was in the house, I may have needed to go out to the back garden, and I should have checked when I left the house. Yes I should have checked, but that doesn't stop it also being his fault as well.

In comparison to everything he does do (for example cleaned the whole house today) these things are minor but they do get me wound up.

[user1473878824]

@Turnedouttoes

Mine shaves his stubble every single time I clean the bathroom. My lovely clean pristine bathroom then has little tiny black hairs all over the place. I find them stuck to the wall and everything!

I’ve just started heavy breathing through my nose thinking about all the times DP proudly states he’s “cleaned the sink” after shaving.

[JWrecks]

Mine does this thing... this one thing... It won't be the inability to hear my voice esp when on the phone, it won't be leaving things in the bloody walkway, it won't be intentionally missing the clothes basket, it won't be nearly breaking an ankle over his massive boots... Those are things I can handle.

BUT!

If he doesn't finish a can of beer - and he never does - I find it upturned in the sink the next morning. RRAAGGEE! He falls asleep after openining a beer and doesn't finish it, and some time in the night the bastard just wakes up, takes it to the sink, turns it upside down over the drain, has a piss, and goes back to bed. Of all the stupid little things in a marriage, THIS will be the reason "we'll never need a lawyer" (his words, not mine!).

I'll just happen to be having a new patio installed any day now.

[MoreMorelos]

@sleeplessinthecountryside

Also he always moves the hand soap from the sink to the side of the sink. Why?
OMG I have so many......!

The classic leaving the toilet seat up. He used to put it down but has now decided this is pointless. Now I have 3 toilets with seats permanently up. Grrrrrrr!

With you on the toilet seat being up, but being the only female in the house it's a loosing battle 😡

[user1473878824]

@Luckyrabbitfoot

Ho ho, isn’t joking about domestic abuse a laugh. Titter titter.

Grips are in the other aisle.

[Luckyrabbitfoot]

That is such a totally original message. Well done!