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To divorce him over toilet roll...

61 replies

mysparkleismissing · 14/01/2024 13:25

.. I am JOKING but...

This happens at least weekly.

Why he can't use the last few sheets or put it in the frigging recycling I don't know.

Let's see how long this one sits on the side/window sill.... I think a week is the current record

To divorce him over toilet roll...
OP posts:
mysparkleismissing · 15/01/2024 13:32

ronoi · 14/01/2024 14:32

Let's see how long this one sits on the side/window sill.... I think a week is the current record

Why would anyone leave it? If you go in the loo next use it!

Because I'm stubborn and proving a point. There's a bin next to the toilet and it's not hard to use the last few sheets even if it isn't enough.

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LaughingAtClowns · 15/01/2024 13:34

OP, at least he puts it on the windowsill - my husband leaves the end of a roll on the holder. In 40+ years of marriage, I've never known him to put a new roll on the holder. The bastard Grin

LadyEloise1 · 15/01/2024 13:42

My dh thinks crockery/ glasses/ cutlery jumps from the sink into the dishwasher

Caerulea · 15/01/2024 13:50

This weekend I built a tower out of all the empty rolls in our loo (poked them inside one another) using the vertical giraffe holder as support & put the fresh roll on top. I've been on strike from toilet cleaning duties for a while (4 ppl in this house & I'm the only woman).

They all had a good laugh.

The rolls are still fucking there!

Please update with the legal possibilities as you learn them & if children can be included in the proceedings.

ronoi · 15/01/2024 14:35

Because I'm stubborn and proving a point. There's a bin next to the toilet and it's not hard to use the last few sheets even if it isn't enough.

I see it differently I guess. There is nothing wrong with leaving a small amount. Why would he use it if he didn't need to? Leave it for the next person.

Iwantmyoldnameback · 15/01/2024 14:38

You can now buy tubeless toilet rolls to solve this problem and save marriages.

moofolk · 15/01/2024 14:39

LTB

FuckOffTom · 15/01/2024 14:42

TravelInHope · 14/01/2024 13:55

Find some way to humiliate him in public.

Jeez - wtf?? Am hoping this is a joke and not something you would actually do?

FuckOffTom · 15/01/2024 14:46

LoveSandbanks · 14/01/2024 14:29

One of the things I’ve learned as I’ve got older is that I’m not perfect. Fortunately, my dh is the tolerant type so he forgives me my imperfections.

we have a blast together and still share the same sense of humour(after almost 30 years) so I forgive him his imperfections too

I love this response 👏
Thats what it’s all about isn’t it? Don’t get wound up over the small things.
Stuff like this has never bother me because I am also aware that I am not perfect. You have to rub along together as best you can when you live together. Everyone will have their little habits but (and I am not talking about the genuine lazy ones who do absolutely nothing and expect their partner to do it all) it usually evens out over time.

mysparkleismissing · 15/01/2024 16:09

ronoi · 15/01/2024 14:35

Because I'm stubborn and proving a point. There's a bin next to the toilet and it's not hard to use the last few sheets even if it isn't enough.

I see it differently I guess. There is nothing wrong with leaving a small amount. Why would he use it if he didn't need to? Leave it for the next person.

This is left on the side while he starts a new roll.

OP posts:
mysparkleismissing · 15/01/2024 16:10

FuckOffTom · 15/01/2024 14:46

I love this response 👏
Thats what it’s all about isn’t it? Don’t get wound up over the small things.
Stuff like this has never bother me because I am also aware that I am not perfect. You have to rub along together as best you can when you live together. Everyone will have their little habits but (and I am not talking about the genuine lazy ones who do absolutely nothing and expect their partner to do it all) it usually evens out over time.

Oh yes I am not innocent. I do try and address the things I do that annoy him.

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Newestname002 · 15/01/2024 16:16

@NewYearNewPyjamas

This is nothing. Yesterday I found DPs used trainers on the kitchen counter. The 👏 KITCHEN 👏 counter.

I hope you put them in the recycling bin? Then wait to see when he misses them... 🌹

toomuchfaff · 15/01/2024 16:20

mysparkleismissing · 14/01/2024 13:25

.. I am JOKING but...

This happens at least weekly.

Why he can't use the last few sheets or put it in the frigging recycling I don't know.

Let's see how long this one sits on the side/window sill.... I think a week is the current record

I don't hold much hope... I started a similar little jaunt, I placed the empty roll on the windowsill....

When there were 27 there, he asked me if I were keeping them for some type of crafting thing I was doing (I don't do crafting). There were so many, I actually thought if there was anything "crafty" I could do rather than just throw them away...

long story short
I threw them away.

ronoi · 15/01/2024 16:29

This is left on the side while he starts a new roll.

Oh I'm sorry I didn't realise Blush

NewYearNewPyjamas · 15/01/2024 16:51

Newestname002 · 15/01/2024 16:16

@NewYearNewPyjamas

This is nothing. Yesterday I found DPs used trainers on the kitchen counter. The 👏 KITCHEN 👏 counter.

I hope you put them in the recycling bin? Then wait to see when he misses them... 🌹

No but there was a rather loud and vigorous huff with swearing. But we laugh about these things. I'm very much in agreement with @FuckOffTom and @LoveSandbanks - I love to read things like that, warms my heart - as I know I have some really annoying habits too so we tend to just make light of it. I always leave the butter on the side with the lid off (he gives me instructions on how to put it on each time he sees it) and he never turns a light off.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 15/01/2024 16:56

In my house this was known as 'I didn't use the last of it, so I didn't HAVE to replace the toilet roll/rinse the milk bottle out/put the plastic in the recycling - and have someone ask me why I used the last of (the toilet roll, the milk, the butter) when I knew there were other people who would want some'.

Purely to save themselves. I live alone now and it doesn't happen (or at least, not often anyway).

ntmdino · 15/01/2024 17:35

Iwantmyoldnameback · 15/01/2024 14:38

You can now buy tubeless toilet rolls to solve this problem and save marriages.

This is the way.

Cuts down on waste if you're feeling pious, but really the point is to reduce the divorce statistics.

Whoever came up with the design should go straight to the top of the honours list.

TravelInHope · 15/01/2024 17:38

FuckOffTom · 15/01/2024 14:42

Jeez - wtf?? Am hoping this is a joke and not something you would actually do?

How else would you teach him a lesson?

AutumnFroglets · 15/01/2024 17:42

Let's see how long this one sits on the side/window sill.... I think a week is the current record

Only a week? Amateurs 🙄 😂 Me and STBXH had a stand off once, try four months. Strangely enough, since starting divorce proceedings, he's started removing them...

hellsBells246 · 15/01/2024 17:44

SeaToSki · 14/01/2024 13:32

My DH leaves the buttery knife from his toast carefully balanced on the edge of the sink..he thinks its helpful 😖

My h does this!! Why??!!! <tears hair out>

Northsideoftheriver · 15/01/2024 17:48

We have the non loo flushers, the put the empty box or crisp multi pack back in the cupboard hobbit. The leave clothes on floor next to clothes basket phantom. Let me think, yes definitely loo roll problem similar to the OPs. Milk dregs, shoes wedged next to front door when we have a fucking massive shoe cabinet nearby. Don't get me started on who obviously can't aim while weeing. I despair. We even have the butter shredder/attacker.

Henryhover · 15/01/2024 18:13

Haha, my partner does this aswell as leaving the milk out after making a cuppa.. then complains when it goes off quickly 🤣🤣 I don't clean up after him, I'm his gf not his wife or mother 🤣🤣

ntmdino · 15/01/2024 18:28

hellsBells246 · 15/01/2024 17:44

My h does this!! Why??!!! <tears hair out>

In case either of you wants to make more toast! Once it's in the watery sink, more toast means more washing up.

It's like the Sink Cup. It's placed near the sink, giving the option of another drink without more washing up.

C'mon, ladies...I can't be the only one?

ncforthisthreadonly24 · 15/01/2024 18:34

I have a DP AND a teenager who do this. Drive me utterly insane.

See also: not being able to see that the Carex liquid soap is low and needs refilling.

I am starting to genuinely believe that my eyes alone are the only ones who can perceive such things in our house.

MyOtherCarIsAPorsche · 15/01/2024 18:35

H does most of the things previously mentioned. The one that annoys me most is leaving his shoes behind doors so that it doesn't open fully and it bounces back into you when you try to get through.

At the moment I'm waiting for him to put the Christmas decorations back in the loft. I've usually taken them back upstairs and placed them under the loft hatch by now but I'm not bothering this year. They are evenly spaced out between rooms where they were packed away.

We've had various visitors and this advance information has not persuaded him to move them out of the way. The grandchildren are climbing/playing on/jumping off them.

His previous record for putting them away was September - even though he had been into the loft to bring suitcases down.

I have dusted the boxes and hoovered around them. The robot vacuum cleaner is utterly confused that they are in the way and huffily returns to base when coming into first contact with one. (It has a programmed route.)

There are bets being placed on when they finally get put away. I think, because I haven't carried them upstairs for him, that they will remain where they are until December.