To be having a (secret) stand-off with DH over an empty shampoo bottle?

[Cheekyweegobshite]

Over the years it has become apparent that removing empty bottles of shampoo, shower gel, toothpaste packaging etc from the bathroom is 'my job'.

We finished a bottle of shampoo last Saturday and I duly removed it from the shower and placed it on the bathroom counter to take down to the recycling. Then I thought sod it and I left it there to see how long it would take DH to notice it.

It's still there. In the last day or two I've started moving it around - I put it in the sink, he duly removed it and put it back by the sink. I put it on 'his' side of the counter yesterday, he moved it back to the sink. I put it on the floor, he picked it up and put it by the sink.

Why doesn't he just take it downstairs to the bin???

“He's asked me to get fancy TP because his poor little bumhole is sensitive. No chance, his arsehole eats it's way through practically a whole roll every time he shits, so I'd be earning my wages just to keep him in Andrex-I'm sticking with the perfectly adequate Lidl or Aldi stuff that costs a fraction of the price and is most likely made in the same factory.

(And maybe hiding a roll or two so he's caught short when the holder is emptygrin ) “

Flatten the roll before you put it on the holder too. The non rolling action really spoils the ability to spin reams of paper off, instead it kind of stutters from side to side. You are saving him from himself really.

Sounds like something my husband has done many times. Annoying. I just became mature about it and stopped the games after a couple of years he sees theres no game to play and gets on with things silently with a smile on his face.

LTB immediately, even if you have nowhere to go.

Do it or don’t do it, but don’t be a martyr. You’re having an imaginary argument - he doesn’t even know the bottle is there so what’s the point in this other than driving yourself insane?

I once found out I had apparently been in a stand off with my DP for 6 months, I had no idea.

@LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow

I have EIGHT toilet roll tubes on the side over the toilet. They have started putting the rolls on the holder, but binning the tubes is too complex. Apparently

Also too difficult is moving the laundry basket to get under the bath to get a fresh stash of rolls for the undersink store.

We discovered 23 empty tubes in the toilet roll basket this morning. There was a family meeting and everything. The basket is next to the bathroom bin.....

My DH will empty a packet of something and put the empty packet back in the cupboard / fridge / bread bin. He also opens new packs before the old one is finished, so we end up with half finished bottles of things in the cupboard, half finished bags of veg in the fridge. When I put the shopping away I put the new stuff underneath ' behind the old stuff, so it gets used in date order, He moves half-full old bag to get to the new bag underneath. It drives me nuts

@Candyfloss99

I once found out I had apparently been in a stand off with my DP for 6 months, I had no idea.

That's the problem with passive aggression. People do it to maintain plausible deniability so they don't have to own what they're doing. But that can cut both ways. If it's plausible enough, the other person might well have no idea you're doing it.

Sorry OP it's not a 'stand off' because I very much suspect he does not give a shit. If he's anything like my DH.

We had a toilet roll standoff. The result is now that toilet rolls are left to accumulate until they reach about 20 which seems to be the sweet spot for disposal. The kids build towers out of them in different formats

Don't you have a bin in the bathroom?

You mean you expect him to actually keep it in his hand and go downstairs, depositing it in the recycling which is, presumable, in the kitchen??

Never - it’s your job to pick up after every body else.

I’m afraid I’d be saying something - how bloody rude

Oh I feel your pain op. DH is incapable of putting anything into a bin or of putting anything back where he got it from. It's genuinely baffling because MIL had him and his siblings doing loads of housework and chores growing up. He's become de skilled sometime over the last 20 years.

As an aside, anyone who needs an entire roll of toilet paper per shit needs to see their doctor.

Why are so many of you binning your loo roll tubes?! They go in the recycling bin.

I feel your pain, OP. My DH does similar. Always puts the finished loo rolls on the floor even though we have a bathroom bin not 1m away!!

Also, once I was at work and some post came - just a couple of junk mail leaflets based on what was still on the floor by the front door when I came home. I left them there to see how long it would take for him to pick them up and put them in the bin. After a week I just couldn't stand it any more and through them away. FFS, it's not enough I'm the one who goes out to work and he's a SAHD

We're having a stand off about a paper cup on the shelf over the coat rack in the hall. It's been going on months, and I wonder if he even KNOWS we're having the standoff at all. But obviously I can't ask, because then I'd lose.

Use bar shampoo

Why doesn't he just take it downstairs to the bin???

For the same reason you haven't. It's not a secret stand off, it is war.

When Dh does this with loo roll middles, shampoo bottles, paracetamol boxes etc I put them in his underpants drawer. They build up until eventually his underpants don't fit in. Then he will have a big clear out and be very pleased with himself. And then the cycle repeats.

I also used to pick up his dirty socks and underpants from the floor, fold them neatly and put them back in the drawer. Once he realised what was going on (it took a few weeks) he suddenly found the way to the laundry basket and hasn't forgotten since.

Why don’t you just tell him?

I also have a secret stand off on changing light bulbs in particular the main one in our bedroom that is made up of 6 little bulbs. Four bulbs have gone and no action so I am just waiting for the other two to when I am hoping DP will finally notice.

I am having a war over fruit stickers with DD. I have won this as I've stuck one on the inside back cover of her GCSE copy of 1984 and sealed it in with sticky backed plastic when I was "kind" enough to cover it for her. She has yet to find this.

I have a recycling bag in the bathroom. When it's full, tip it into the recycling bin. Cuts out a whole set of interactions with the waste product, and a whole world of grief.

The dog stuff for us as well-have a deep basket for all of that on the shelf under the table. Also have a fancier basket on top for sunglasses etc. Guess where DH chucks dog leads? Yep-on top of my sunglasses...twat🤬

My DH does this but also never gets a new bottle or soap bar from the cupboard. He just uses whatever is in reach. So at the moment he smells like rhubarb and custard after using the kids' Childs Farm products