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Housework Chicken....how long have you held out?

156 replies

JensonsAcolyte · 29/04/2021 14:46

We had a delivery of 90 loo rolls (so a massive package) on Friday.

After watching 3 out of the 4 adults in this house climb over it to get upstairs, I decided to play chicken.

I’m afraid I cracked first, yesterday morning. But only because I saw that someone had opened the large package, taken out an individual pack, taken out a single loo roll and walked off.

I lost my shit and then while I was stomping around the house shouting about ungrateful lazy bastards, I actually slung the package in the cupboard where it lives.

So a six day hold out.

Please come and tell me your best/pettiest/longest lasting games of chicken.

OP posts:
andtheweedonkey · 29/04/2021 14:51

I assume you have a lock on the cupboard door, OP?
They will need to find the key to acquire a roll each... Wink

I haven't dusted the fireplace. It shows. I'm waiting for DH to break first.

andtheweedonkey · 29/04/2021 14:53

Oh, and at least a fortnight - I've drawn a cock and balls in the dust last time 🤣

Cassilis · 29/04/2021 14:53

I have extremely long tolerance. I will just not move it. Ever.

Hide the loo roll in your car and keep a roll in your drawer. Let them buy their own.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 29/04/2021 14:55

Your thread title is misleading OP.

I was picturing a cheerful, incredibly hardworking chicken who loves nothing more than to snap on a pair of marigolds and get cleaning (and when it's done, you can give it the MN treatment and get a week's worth of meals out of it).

NormanSicily · 29/04/2021 14:58

I lived in a small shared student block one summer holiday. All students working at the uni over the summer were moved to these. I was sharing with two blokes. I went on strike from clearing the kitchen and emptying the bin. They played bin Jenga. When the maggots appeared they seemed not to notice until I went nuclear. I wonder which poor buggers now have to live with them, and if they were ever house trained?

GreyhoundG1rl · 29/04/2021 15:01

After watching 3 out of the 4 adults in this house climb over it to get upstairs, I decided to play chicken.
Presumably you did the same thing? Why lose your shit?

Tiredandbored · 29/04/2021 15:02

After we returned from a weekend break some years ago my husband left his bag in the hallway. I emptied all the children's bags so I could get on with the laundry but didn't do his as he's big enough to do it himself. Three weeks later it was still in the same place. He actually stepped over it on occasions and opened it to get something from it but didn't put it away. For. Three. Whole. Weeks.

And he only did it then because I drew attention to how lazy it made him look.

Original poster
JensonsAcolyte · 29/04/2021 15:03

@GreyhoundG1rl

After watching 3 out of the 4 adults in this house climb over it to get upstairs, I decided to play chicken. Presumably you did the same thing? Why lose your shit?
I hadn’t had cause to clamber over it yet. If I had, I’m pretty sure I would have just moved it out of the way into the cupboard instead.

I mean maybe not, I’m pretty lazy, but it would have been more effort to climb over/squeeze past it than to move it five feet into the cupboard.

OP posts:
GreyhoundG1rl · 29/04/2021 15:04

You didn't go upstairs for a whole week? 😂 Or am I missing something?

UrsulaTee · 29/04/2021 15:11

@GreyhoundG1rl

You didn't go upstairs for a whole week? 😂 Or am I missing something?
Are you deliberately missing the point?
GreyhoundG1rl · 29/04/2021 15:15

No. It bothered op. It didn't bother the other adults 🤷🏻‍♀️

stackemhigh · 29/04/2021 15:19

@GreyhoundG1rl you are spectacularly missing the point.

BetterKateThanNever · 29/04/2021 15:21

I hate putting away our tea towels into a fiddly drawer so I leave them stacked up in the utility room by the washing machine. When I need one I'd rather walk from the kitchen, down the hall, through the dining room into the utility than just put them in the bloody drawer.

WhySoSensitive · 29/04/2021 15:26

Clean washing where ever I pile it.
Will slowly get used wherever it’s piled un till it’s dirty and back in the wash.
It’s a cycle.

Some clothes haven’t made it upstairs or into drawers for many weeks.

elp30 · 29/04/2021 15:29

Husband washes and dries his own clothes and puts it all away.

For whatever reason on this one occasion, he decided he wasn't going to do it. He just left the pile on his side of the bed. He moves it to his bedside table when he goes to bed. He pulls out clothes from the pile when he needs them. He the. puts the pile back on the bed. He will wash his dirty clothes and add it to the pile when they've been washed and dried.

It drove me absolutely batshit crazy!

I broke down and put the clothes away after four long and excruciating weeks.

He's never done it since but I don't have a clue why he did that in the first place.

Tambora · 29/04/2021 15:29

It took five weeks before my adult dd learned how to use the washing machine. Grin

She only did it then, she admitted, because she'd literally run out of every single clean item of clothing she possessed.

BerniesMittens · 29/04/2021 15:36

DH shaved his beard off at Christmas in the family bathroom basin. It's still there.

I use the ensuite instead. I'm not clearing up his mess!

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JensonsAcolyte · 29/04/2021 15:36

Oh yes I’ve done laundry chicken recently as well.

I’m losing (or winning? I’m not sure) as there are currently six baskets of clean washing in the dining room. They are using the room like a wardrobe.

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DinoHat · 29/04/2021 15:40

It was my exes “turn” to do the dishes (he never lifted a finger so it was well overdue). For about a week we just had to wash individual items because he didn’t do it.

Likewise with putting the bins out - he’d walk past them. Told me he’d do it “in his own time” which did the bin men didn’t operate on so we just missed bin day for weeks on end...

DontBeRidiculous · 29/04/2021 15:49

The only other person in my house could easily ignore/"not see" something for weeks or months, even if to me it's a massive eye-sore. I either ask him to do it (and generally he will, though it may take repeated requests), ask for his help at that very moment (for fast results), or just do it myself.

Springersrock · 29/04/2021 15:56

My DH bought home a bag of toiletries for himself.

Left them in the carrier bag on our bathroom floor for about 3 weeks. He just took bits out of it as required until all that was left was an empty carrier bag. I used it to line the bathroom bin in the end.

There’s currently a pair of his socks in the middle of the living room rug - they’ve been there since Sunday

Theblackdogagain · 29/04/2021 16:00

I'm fed up of picking things off the floor, my back hurts and I've stopped doing it. Lego has been accidentally stepped on, clothes are in a mess and the cats slept on everything but seeing as I'm the only one it bothers I'm waiting to see what happens.

Mummy1608 · 29/04/2021 16:02

@GreyhoundG1rl

No. It bothered op. It didn't bother the other adults 🤷🏻‍♀️
This. Tidiness is not something that everyone values equally. (I don't mean cleanliness and hygiene). Having loo rolls out of sight is not a necessity, it's something the op wants. She could have asked one of the household to do it, and they would have done it for her (not for themselves).

Things like laundry, washing up etc are different because they are necessary.

In my house, we often come back from the supermarket and only put perishables away. Non perishables often sit in the shopping bag in the kitchen for a while until we get round to it (or we need the bag again). It's fine. Yabu

Twickerhun · 29/04/2021 16:04

18 months. He left a clothes mountain out that needed to go to a charity clothes bin. He said he would take them but I knew that meant I was supposed to take them but would I Buggery without being asked or him acknowledging his laziness. It became a feature in our hallway - like a Tracy Emin installation

DinosaurDiana · 29/04/2021 16:05

I asked my DH to dust and hoover the lounge while I was at work.
Next day I realised he hadn’t dusted the TV stand so wrote his name in it, it was still there when I did it myself a week later 😡