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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.

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Doubletrouble99 · 01/05/2021 23:26

My HD hasn't put away the continental adaptors for our last foreign holiday in Oct. 2019! They are still on his chest of drawers and all he has to do is pop them back in the box in his bedside cabinet about a meter away. I'm not tidying them up or any of the other stuff he has pilled up at his side of the bed, never.

cerealgamechanger · 01/05/2021 23:35

@StrictlyAFemaleFemale

Dh left his suit trousers in the bathroom on 18.8.19 and picked them up to wear on 20.4.20.

😂😂😂

Yellowfish2020 · 02/05/2021 00:06

I collected 17 empty toilet paper tubes from the bathroom today.
17
I'm genuinely thinking of leaving

DdraigGoch · 02/05/2021 01:51

@Mrbob

And this is why being single is great

Yes you always have to do the dusting but there is no one else who SHOULD be doing their share and no rage. As an adult I have so much more sympathy for my mum and her “nagging” which was actually just requests for her teenagers to act as normal humans

Hang on, I'm single. Are you suggesting that I should ALWAYS do the dusting? I just leave it until I'm expecting visitors and then the entire house gets scrubbed. Thankfully I had tradesmen coming in during the last two lockdowns so things never got excessively bad.

Mrbob · 02/05/2021 02:26

DdraigGoch I used dusting as a metaphor rather than something I ACTUALLY do

LindaEllen · 02/05/2021 03:02

@BerniesMittens

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!

My ex used to do this as well. I don't understand how they can be happy with the sink looking like that. He always used the en-suite so I just started using the family bathroom instead. He is definitely an ex for a reason! Bloody disgusting. How long does it take to just splash a bit of water round the sink to wash the hairs away?

KentishMama · 02/05/2021 08:46

My DH had a habit of leaving used tea bags on the kitchen counter rather than walking four steps to the bin to throw them in. After a week of playing chicken, I moved the 20-or so teabags to a more suitable location. His computer keyboard.

The argument about it was epic, but it never happened again.

ouchyouchyow · 02/05/2021 09:17

Oh god, at uni nobody ever bought loo roll. I used to keep one in my room in the end. Sneak it into the bathroom

Looking back, everyone else must have been doing the same as it went on for days

garlictwist · 02/05/2021 09:21

Before we got a dishwasher DP would never wash up and just leave all the dirty dishes stacked up.

I actually bought my own cutlery and plate and hid them so that I could use them and didn't lose my shit having to wash up every time I wanted to eat something.

I really think the dishwasher saved our relationship. Although don't get me started on how he "stacks" it...

CurlyMango · 02/05/2021 12:58

Bernie’s mittens I admire you.

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 02/05/2021 13:15

I tend to throw stuff away...if it is hanging about and I am in a good mood I will tell people where it is and issue an ultimatum, next time I touch it, which maybe a week, may be six months, it's gone.

Current stand off is dh's suit, lingering over the side of the bath...I hauled it out of the depths of the laundry basket where he put it to wash after I told him to put it away or put it in the clothes recycling, apparently he believes that is the bathroom.

I am on a huge decluttering binge and it's our room next and then the bathroom....that suit is going to be recycled.

Herbie0987 · 02/05/2021 13:32

I have always done the laundry and ironing, I do not put anyone’s clothes away except my own. My DP used to pile his clean clothes on the bedside table till it got so high it would fall over, he puts it all way properly now. When the kids were at home dirty clothes would pile up on their bedroom floors, the rule was if it wasn’t in the laundry bin it didn’t get washed, they gave up before I did as I was the only one who knew how to operate the washing machine.

GreyhoundG1rl · 02/05/2021 14:59

@Herbie0987

That's fair enough. It's a hell of a difference to someone not using a sink for six months rather than run the tap over it, or cleaning round a used glass on the kitchen side for weeks on end, just to make a point. I don't understand that level of pettiness.

Cowbells · 02/05/2021 15:36

@BerniesMittens

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!

I think you win!

ArnottsUnderpass · 02/05/2021 15:50

Last weekend DH said "I'll do the ironing!".
He did half.
The rest is still on the basket on the ironing board. I am not touching it.

Nanny0gg · 02/05/2021 16:03

@JensonsAcolyte

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.

The baskets would be in bedrooms and I wouldn't do anyone's laundry but mine till it was put away

Wejustdontknow · 02/05/2021 16:05

I am sure my dp thinks we do everything equally in our relationship, and after some nagging at the beginning we do split the housework equally but any life admin/child related jobs he is blind to and it all falls or me or doesn’t get done. Yesterday when I came home from work I saw he had opened a letter about youngest ds’s after school clubs from infant school, he is now in juniors so isn’t of any relevance. He has put the letter next to the phone on the kitchen side rather than recycling or even asking if it’s needed, it’s not in the way or causing a problem so I plan to leave it right where it is and see what happens to it 🤷🏻‍♀️ Yes it’s probably petty but I don’t care and do wonder why these things appear to be my responsibility when I’m sure it was a joint decision to have and raise children

CaurnieBred · 02/05/2021 20:59

I started my own dirty laundry pile in the bedroom a few months ago as DH seemed to have lost the ability to take his turn to take the shared pile to the baskets in the hallway. It took him a week to move the (his) pile. I still do my own but he does clear his own daily now.

Clean laundry comes upstairs in baskets and seems to sit at the end of our bed until I sorted and folded it. I have now taken to sorting into his, mine and DD(16) piles. I fold mine and theirs is dumped on their side of the bed/on their bed for them to fold/deal with.

Chrispackhamspoodle · 02/05/2021 21:04

I didn't pack my husbands overnight bag once when we were going to his mums.He had always expected me to do it with out asking or thanking me. He turned up after work with just the suit on his back and no toiletries wondering where his stuff was.He does it himself now or politely asks if I can do it.

FlipFlapFlop1980 · 02/05/2021 21:19

It was 8 weeks before DP finally got around to cleaning the family bathroom. The stain in the loo was awful and he couldn't understand why he couldn't clean it off.

I used the bathroom that I clean religiously.

It is the ONLY job he has to do in our house apart from doing his own clothes. I do everything else else, cooking, shopping, cleaning, tidying, decluttering, most of the childrearing etc.

I was determined that however long it took he was doing it.

He now cleans it about once a month. I still don't use it

FangsForTheMemory · 02/05/2021 21:22

A friend of mine refused to clean the flat she lived in with her partner because he did no housework. Every flat they lived in stank. He didn't care. She did, but she stuck to her principles.

I would have left.

GreyhoundG1rl · 02/05/2021 21:23

@FangsForTheMemory

A friend of mine refused to clean the flat she lived in with her partner because he did no housework. Every flat they lived in stank. He didn't care. She did, but she stuck to her principles.

I would have left.

Nanny0gg · 02/05/2021 22:01

I don’t understand this thing about ‘folding laundry’.

I do the laundry (my choice) and laundry is automatically folded when it comes off the line/out of the dryer/ironed.
Why would you just dump it in a pile all crumpled?

TaraR2020 · 03/05/2021 01:40

@FangsForTheMemory

A friend of mine refused to clean the flat she lived in with her partner because he did no housework. Every flat they lived in stank. He didn't care. She did, but she stuck to her principles.

I would have left.

Well there's making a point and then there's taking it to extremes

I couldn't live like that!

Hobnobsandbroomstick · 03/05/2021 02:25

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

I used to share a bathroom with my brother, who is the laziest fecker ever and incapable of putting an empty loo roll in the bin. So I started to use the 30+ ones in the bathroom to build a pyramid on top of the closed toilet seat after every bathroom visit. He still didn't put them in the bin.

I've moved out now, but seeing an empty loo roll still gives me the slight rage.

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