The hate the gift my DH bought

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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

I'd put a pin in it, especially after the glue trick! Oh dear has it gone down?
What you cant blow it back up because you've glued the valve.
High pitched cackle

Maybe take ownership of it and use it as a reward for whoever has the tidiest bedroom, highest marked homework, most helpful around the house etc.

What did the inflatable head teacher say to the inflatable schoolboy when caught with a drawing pin in the locker room of the inflatable school?

You've let me down, you've let the school down, and most of all......you've let yourself down.

Tee hee

Two carefully placed scissor snips in the shape of a cat bite.....

That has “slow puncture” written all over it. Don’t make a big deal of it, just stick a pin in it & let time do the rest.

I'm definitely in favor of helping the chair's demise with a needle or pin, but the real problem IMHO is how your kids interact and the family situation: the chair is just the catalyst for children not minding and DH not getting involved in the discipline and supporting you.
If they can't take turns, or work something out and end the squabbles and clean up after themselves, then the chair gets locked up or thrown in the trash.
Period.
If DH can't see that YOU are having discipline problems, then it's something that needs to be addressed Now, because this sort of problem will only get worse over time. The problem seem trivial, but it shows a deeper issue you are going to have to address.

Stab it with a knife and leave at the foot of DS’s bed.

😂😂

Scissors in one hand and 'accidentally' fall over on it

Buy a super glue remover to break down the glue and deflate the chair.
If they want to use again the chair they can but they have to follow your rules, eg. to be put away at the end of each session etc If glued up again, pack it away for a few days.

I thought this was going to be a follow on thread from the bloke who wanted to buy his wife some new boobs...

Or, cut the valve right off. And when screams ensue, tell the screamers that they now know not to ever, EVER do that again!

Blend some marmite with strong blue cheese then smear it somewhere on the chair. Hopefully your hubby will take it to the bins before he pukes! 🙄

Your kids are 5 and 9, it's a chair, it doesn't cause any mess, why can't they keep something they like and have fun with? It's not dangerous, you are being very weird. Do you dream of destroying anything else or just the stuff your kids like?

Yeah that would be having an unfortunate accident with a sharp implement.
Blow up furniture, surely we left that in the nineties?

With a diagram of its movements and the various issues caused by said movements.

Personally if they have broken the item, by gluing & taping it it can’t no-longer be what it is, an inflatable & deflatable chair, so is now not safe for anyone to use & is getting binned.
If another one comes into the house it either lives in DS room, when it is not being used, & if it is left out it is put outside or punctured & binned.
Maybe I am being very harsh & dramatic over a blow up sofa but they are being disrespectful by not putting it away when they have finished using it in the 1st place & your DH is being a massive bellend about the whole thing. They were disgracefully & unnecessarily disrespectful when they decided the item will never be able to be put away again & deserve all they get in the inflatable armchair war now 😂

This 😍
Also DH is being super disrespectful too. If it was my DH he’d be sleeping on the goddamn inflatable sofa for the foreseeable 😂

My DCs would 100% be able to make a mess with an inflatable chair, and I don't have very high standards. First try would be to jump off it and crash into the sofa/floor cushions/someone else's lego creation. Then it would be put on someone's bed to try jumping from there and no doubt something would get broken.
New rule, they can only have it out when he's home and any throwing/fighting means it goes away straight away.

I popped Dds like a demented woman they fought and fought. Stick a pin in it

My eldest is 30 and still talks about the day I lost my shit and popped it 😂

How high is your hall ceiling above your stairs? If it wasn't for the glued valve, I would suggest inflating it with helium and using a broom to push it to somewhere where your DH/kids can't reach it.

Send him to sleep on the chair 😂!

When the children are in bed and your DH is settling down to relax, sit on the chair and shuffle repeatedly, the noise will drive him into a chair popping rage.
I speak from experience as when I first lived with DH all we had to sit on was an inflatable sofa and two 'classic' white plastic garden chairs, after two nights of squeaking plastic all we had left was the garden chairs!

oh my goodness. That's a porn chair. Bad porn. Gimp porn chair

I'd totally ignore its existence. Don't move it, refer to it or intervene with the arguments. The novelty will soon wear off and that will happen quicker if you're not reacting to it. You might have to silently count to ten many times but hopefully it'll be worth it