The think that when spreading marmelade..

[SueBaroo]

.. it is not neccessary cover the handle of the knife with it, and a little on the blade suffices?

I know it's just a little niggle... like putting water in the washing up bowl and letting it go cold with dirty stuff in it... or taking one sock off and stuffing it down the side of the chair cushion... but it's wound me up today to yet again pick up the butter knife and get my hands coated with marmelade.

I never do anything remotely irritating, of course.

I got the evil eye because his football shorts were wet, in the washing machine, because I had washed them for him.

Apparently I should have got them out, dried them and laid them out on the bed for him to put on when he got ready to go and leave me with the job of bathing four children under 7.

I actually told him to 'bite me' for that one.

Oh and please why do they take their socks off so that they form a compact ball. Which you then have to wear gloves on your hands and a peg on your nose to unfold before washing.

'Where is Such and such?' answer. 'Where it has always been, for the last 10 years'.
Said with pained tolerance for my stupidity, 'And where is that then?' Grrrr.

oh yes with the sock ball thing. The ones that make it to the washing basket will definitely be like that, because He makes it a game to try and aim the ball for the basket.

He often misses, which is why I found a sock ball at the bottom of the stairs wedged under the radiator.

And how every holiday starts with him hunting for two hours to find his passport.

And how do they not get that when things are in a nice pile at the bottom of the stairs, the trick is not to move it all out of the way in order to get up the stairs whilst leaving them behind...

And piles of clean folded laundry..do all DH's believe they magically fly themselves into the right cupboards and drawers? Why can't they just put them away? Just the once?

christ dh is positively civilised compared to this!
although i do recognise some symptoms
dirty washing up water left to fester in sink overnight
filthy cycling man washing all at once
but it doesnt bother me
not
as much as
walking round in pants whacking up the heating full volume
and his imitation of blackpool illuminations by leaving every light lamp charger tv computer laptop on in every room he is not in
wtf
has turned me into the Energy Police

What I want to know is, How can they cook on a barbaque, without any other cooking experience, and get it right. But not be able to stir a tin of beans to stop them burning.

get up after a lie in ("what's that?", I hear you all cry)leaves curtains shut and bedroom light on.
leaves cloakroom light on all night, "Sorry, I forgot"
Clean washing on beds is NOT put away, but placed in a pile on the floor and miraculously ends up back in the wash a few days later.

AND

to top it all, HE USES MY LAPTOP>

It only took a few days of me washing the smelly sock balls as they were (without unfurling), then drying them so they were as hard as cricket balls before the penny dropped (I'm evil ).

Dh now unfurls his socks before sticking them in the washing basket, but leaves the dc's socks inside out and rolled up - which is almost worst 'cause they're fiddly titchy damn things.

dds' tights are a pain to unravel as well snooks - or do you have boys not girls?!

I hate dirty washing piling up so always keep on top of it (single handed) however at times I am tempted to do a partial strike, e.g. forget to wash his boxer shorts...find it amusing (slightly) to imagine his reaction when there are none left. It is unlikely he would "click" when he had put on the last pair!

Yes, have got 2 ds but am expecting a dd in May! Tbh I am secretly excited at being able to buy little girls' tights (mmm, spots, stripes, bright colours, woo-hoo...) but now am feeling quite at the thought of unravelling them - I know this will be something that dh will be incapable of

Am now imagining years and years stretching ahead of sock- and tights-unravelling

Place all girls clothes in a pillow case or all the tights will tangle and the pretty lace get ripped. I loved having a DD, lots of frills, fluff and ribbons. Plus she stayed a girlie girl so I could keep on dressing my 'doll' the way I liked.

DS1 has TIDIED his BEDROOM, shock horror! and I mean really tidied it. I now have a washing pile up to the ceiling. Maybe I will find some of the odd socks. I actually keep a basket specifically for odd socks, when an odd sock turns up I check to see if there is another on like it already in there, if so it gets paired. If not it stays in the odd sock basket for about a year until it twigs that its partner has run off with the milkman (oops talking about socks not the neighbor), then I turf that blatent lost ones into the play box to make sock puppets.

Not sure yet about frills and lace, discoverlife - that's far too much of an alien world to me at the moment! I've got a lot to learn

oh, i wish i could join in. this is all so familiar. unfortunatley, i too live like a slut, so cant moan. doesnt stop me being v annoyed at the soaking, the dirt tramped in from football etc etc. yes, we live in a pigsty. but its ok cause we've stopped inviting people round.

I actually found that moving to a house that has area's for the dumping of dirty stuff was a great move, also having a dining table in the kitchen that was kept clear of junk stopped them sneaking into the lounge to eat (and leaving their pots behind).

AAAaahh, sunday papers, mine saves all the money sections and magazines, for weeks, he doesn't read them but leaves them in a pile for our DD (9MO)to chew on. When i throw them out he complains,

' I was reading those'....WHEN??

Snooks - congratulations! I have 2 dds and they would be worth it even if I had to unravel 100 pairs of tights a week.

I have to join in with this one..I've notread right through, but already spotted several of my nightmares.
Put the top on the Bl**dy toothpaste.
Rinse the sink after shaving.
Set the alarm for the time you mean to get up, not 30 minutes before, to wake everyone 3 or four times with the snooze torture.

I have to join in with this one..I've notread right through, but already spotted several of my nightmares.
Put the top on the Bl**dy toothpaste.
Rinse the sink after shaving.
Set the alarm for the time you mean to get up, not 30 minutes before, to wake everyone 3 or four times with the snooze torture.

Oh, the snooze torture, WHY???? My DS does it for about an hour.

Posting everything twice must be my most irritating habit.
So called DP has ALL of the above, plus, plenty more, including:
Leaving coffee mugs out in the garden. Even at this time of year!
Coming in from trips, and leaving a case full of dirty clothes in my front room.
Coming from his house, and leaving a case full of clean clothes in my front room, and just taking out clean shirt every day.
Coming in while I am doing the "bath and story", and helping himself to dinner (I'll have left his share of everything ready to be microwaved) and only eating the meat. Because he "didn't see" the pans full of vegetables, pasta, potatoes whatever. Then feeling a bit peckish later and eating cheese and crackers all over MY computer.

Just being there is bad enough.

Ah, Sunday papers..telling me they are a waste of time and money, then READING them before me and Getting them all crumpled.

"Leaving coffee mugs out in the garden. Even at this time of year!"

Fraid thats me. The last tidy up trip I took down the garden I netted 6 cups, most of them half full of frozen blokes of ice.
Its a big garden.