The hate the gift my DH bought

[rabbitsy]

DH recently bought a huge inflatable armchair for the kids and it's caused me nothing but stress. There's been fights over who gets to use it and thrown around the house like a ball, I've had to move it out of the way from the stairs and doorways. The one time I packed it away it was just taken out again, blown up to a ludicrous size and DS blocked the valve with glue and tape.

I don't hate fun, and I like to think I can take a joke but the fact that that they've actually gone to the point of stopping me from packing it away feels like the last straw. DH doesn't seem to care, and I feel like I'm left cleaning up a mess he created

Pop it

Put a large puncture in it when he’s not there! Blame the dog/cat/kids.

It won't last long, something will burst it and it'll be dead.

In the meanwhile let your DH deal with the fallout from his purchase.

Every time mess is created by it, ask him to tidy it up.
Don't do it. Just don't. Let me see the havoc it creates.

Big pin….

Just put a pin through it underneath, it'll deflate slowly, the hole won't be visible, and they won't be able to reinflate it as they've glued the valve up....

It would be a terrible shame if it popped, wouldn’t it?

Put a pin hole in one of the seams when you go to bed this evening.

Put a pin in it and any future ones (discreetly of course 😁).

Do you want to borrow my cat? She loves popping balloons and has popped 3 inflatable paddling pools so far...! Have her over for the afternoon, job done

Just kill it.
Chair that is. Not husband.
Or both.....

Get a cat or use a kitchen knife. (I’m not sure which is more extreme).

Deliberately damaging something the children like ?

how on earth can it make a mess ? It sounds like you are a fun sponge

Why would he do that when he can see the chaos it’s causing?! I think you have a dh issue!

It’s obviously a great success of a gift with the DC. I think YABU and a wet blanket. An inflatable chair doesn’t make any mess. It’s not like the 10,0000
piece jewellery kits for example where you have thousands of beads escaping under the sofa and ending up in the dogs water bowl or stepping on them or glogging the hoover.

I disagree with the pp suggesting you destroy it. That would be cruel to the DC.

Keep putting it his side of the bed every time you move it, so it inconveniences him.

For those who don't get it, have you never banned balls etc from being thrown around inside? I imagine this to be a similar thing. It gets fought over, becasue there's only one. There's possibly no sensible room for it. I'd be carefully piercing a seam too.

Either that, or dh needs to draw up a rota for who has it and when, and it stays in the kids room when it's their turn.

Commandeer it and sit in it so they can't mess about with it. The novelty will soon wear off if it's just being used as a chair.

Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix.

A narrow screwdriver through the blockage in the valve...

whichever mid came up with the idea of gluing the valve isnthe own you want to invest in most uni wise etc

I Employ a lot of people, this initiative is superb!

don’t overreact, one day that kid may well be choosing your nursing home

Whichever kid not mid!

It's just an inflatable chair. Your house doesn't need to look show home ready all the time. It makes your kids happy. Get some perspective.

OP Who left the lego all over the floor?

DC Chair did Mum, you know how messy it is.

The one who glued the valve is over the coming weeks going to learn about how air escapes from inflatables. And he won't be able to blow it up again.
That chair is a dead chair walking. Or bouncing.

It’s obviously a great success of a gift with the DC.
It's obviously quite the reverse, as they can't stop fighting over it.