Minor AIBU - DP and I disagree about what belongs in the living room

[SarahAndQuack]

I've been doing a pre-Christmas tidy and it is bugging me (possibly unreasonably) that DP seems to have decided that kettlebells and a plastic exercise roller (the sort you put on the floor and roll your back against to help you stretch) belong on permanent display in the living room. We have a reasonably-sized house; we're not tight on space. I wouldn't mind if these things were tucked under the sofa out of site (where they could join the yoga mats DP keeps there).

AIBU to say exercise stuff doesn't need to be on display?

No that would annoy me being in sight in living room. Would make the place look messy.

Oh god, it’s SO annoying. With you all the way - tuck them far, far out of sight.

I have been considering getting a Cadillac table for my lounge 🤣🤣🤣

Now that would be a convo starter

Does your DP randomly jump up and start exercising? Like, if she's bored with Midsomer Murders or whatever, does she suddenly leap to her feet and start stretching?

If yes- let her have the equipment out.
If no- tuck it away out of sight ready for the next session of physical jerks.

Or there's a possible third option- could you disguise it in some way? Hang baubles and tinsel on it, to make an avant-garde Christmas tree? Or enrobe it in an emergency space blanket and make it 'Art' (you could put an informative little sign underneath too: 'The artist's interpretation of Life's Many Avenues, as observed from Space' or somesuch)

Any chance of tucking away like this? I keep them partially visual so I'm reminded but guests can't see and neither can I most of the time, just when I'm in that corner of accessing the sideboard..

I have a yoga mat under the sofa and a mini exercise bike under the kitchen table. I can't decide which side of the argument that puts me on 😄 because they are in public rooms but they are out of view.

We used to have a fridge in the living room, there wasn't room in the kitchen, saw it, loved it (had a picture of the Twin Towers on it pre-9/11).

I suppose it depends what type of house you have - it's hardly a stack of porn mags, and isn't something that needs to be hidden. I use my workout gear every day in the kitchen, so have a little dumbbell holder, a mat, resistance bands etc in a tidy corner there. But then again it's next to the nerf guns and a stash of goalie gloves, so maybe our house is a bit different to yours! 😂

Under the sofa is a good compromise - barely any compromise really as getting them out would take literally 20 seconds or less 🤣

Mine are in the lounge because that where I use them (place least likely to disturb sleeping children in the early hours when I get up), but tucked in a corner behind the sofa. I wish I had a dedicated space but for now that's it. I'd expect DH to be peed off if I left them in the middle of the floor, but neither of us gaf if they're out of the way

We’ve got an ottoman style footstool with various exercise/stretching things in it. My pt is always on at me to roll out the knots in my feet while watching tv, but I never remember, even if the trigger point ball is left out.

Hate stuff like that cluttering up the living room. I'm with you OP.

I'm excessively tidy and my husband is borderline hoarder. The only thing I've found acceptable over the years is for him to have some sort of area in the house for his stuff. Sometimes that has been a cupboard, sometimes a boxroom. If he leaves any crap lying about I throw it into his space. Not ideal I know but if I didn't do that there would be 20 guitars in the living room.
There was the incident when he was hoarding smelly cheese. Known as "the time mummy got cheese rage and frisbied dad's Camembert up the back garden!"