Why on gods green earth do people step over stuff on the stairs?

[Yellowleadbetter]

It’s there because it needs to go upstairs and as you are on your fucking way upstairs, fucking take it with you.
FFS.
It’s not rocket science, it’s simple, surely it’s simple?

Tell me about it! Even large items like laundry baskets that are full of their clothes which have been washed and folded for them! Aargh!

Usually because my hands are already full of other stuff

It's almost, but not quite, intriguing. It doesn't quite make the grade into 'Intriguing' because it's very lazy and annoying.

It's a real Fuck You to the house elf who has to do everything else as well.

Excuses include, 'I didn't realise it was supposed to go upstairs'. It's shampoo. The bathroom's upstairs. Where do you think it goes, on the television?

Well then Hiding you are of course excused because you are doing what needs to be done in the first place.
You are efficient and quite frankly, marvellous.

Putting something that belongs to someone else on the stairs, expecting them to take it up is the very definition of hope over expectation.

Honestly, having clear stairs is one of the biggest advantages of an empty nest

Yes to shampoo to the bathroom, 100% this!

They think the magic fucking fairies carry it up, at least that's what my two teens think!

I'm guilty.....don't know why I do it. I think its because when it gets upstairs I think know I have to do something with it.

As I live alone, I put stuff on the stairs to remind me to take it up later (like the aforementioned shampoo), especially after unpacking a shop.

This is probably because I'm getting on and a bit forgetful!

I don't know OP but you are definitely NBU.
And whoever said that it's a big F YOU to the house elf..thank you. I'm using that!!

PMSL, I currently have shampoo and conditioner on my stairs, I've decided to see how long they stay there.

I've often considered doing an experiment to see just how long things will stay on the stairs if I didn't take them up myself. In our house we would probably end up with the entire contents of the rest of the house waiting on the stairs while other members of the family abseil over them obliviously.

Russel I have no words except to tell you that you let yourself down, you let your household down, you let me down.
Pick up the shampoo and take it to the bathroom. Simple.
😬

Top tip… place items in the middle of the stair, not at the side, right there in their face in the centre of the stair.
See how long it stays there.. and I swear to god, if someone moves it to the side I shall blow my shit..!

Apropos of nothing, but during the Boston Strangler's reign of fear, single women would put cans on their poorly lit stairs and hallways as a sort of alarm in case he was after them.

@Yellowleadbetter

Top tip… place items in the middle of the stair, not at the side, right there in their face in the centre of the stair. See how long it stays there.. and I swear to god, if someone moves it to the side I shall blow my shit..!

Sad to report this still doesn't work.

(Still no eyeroll emoji Mumsnet?)

My husband does this, he thinks I know where everything in the house goes (I do) and genuinely believes by leaving it alone it’s less annoying than him putting it in the wrong place.
He’s a lovely husband but that particular train of thought completely baffles me.

I put the heavy full washing basket right in front of our bedroom door when my back was bad and I couldn’t carry it down. DH squeezed past it on his way down empty handed 🙄

🙄

I struggle to carry washing up or down. So with dh working from home and going up and down stairs a lot we have a system. If it's at the bottom it's going up and if it's at the top it's going down. However recently that has gone to pot....the other day I struggled down with a basket of dirty washing onlyntondiscover he had taken it back up again!!!

I think it is the same genes that render poor household members here also totally incapable of opening curtains, making a bed properly and never putting a baking tray back in the storage box but propping it just beside it 🙄

You are definitely not being unreasonable!!

See also walking/stepping over all the recycling on the door mat instead of picking up and putting in the recycling bin that they will be passing as they leave the drive!!

@Yellowleadbetter

Well then Hiding you are of course excused because you are doing what needs to be done in the first place. You are efficient and quite frankly, marvellous.

Well that was unnecessary

I know the answer to this.

It’s because they are fuckwits.

People have space on their stairs?
/Little Vicky house with enclosed staircase here