What unnecessary, inappropriate and ridiculous job did someone in your house decode to start doing in the middle of the Christmas chaos?

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Title should read ; 'decide to start doing' 🤨

My DH, Christmas Eve, 2pm, while I was rushing to get sorted before we had to go out...started clearing out the kitchen cupboards, in particular the 'drawer of shit' whilst I was doing food prep. Spreading it around and actually on top of the food!

It's been a catch all drawer of shite for the entirety of the seven years we've lived in this house.

You know when you just look at someone and go "absolute bellend" In your mind, but he definitely heard it 😂

(Disclaimer, obviously lighthearted!)

I arrived back on Christmas Eve after doing some errands and DH had starting draught proofing the house. He had the youngest with her hairdryer heat proofing the front window. He had previously discussed doing it about 1000 times

@Uberaddict 😂
my dh often chooses the hour before we are due anywhere to tackle a job that he knows will take an hour but forgetting to factor in the time to that he will want after doing the job to have a shower and then the time it takes to actually get to where we need to be.
How he has managed to run a successful business for the last 15 years I will literally never know.

This would be me! 1.30pm Christmas eve was the perfect time to hoover the dust from behind my bed and bedside drawers. And clean all the doors top to bottom.

@Uberaddict that’s so random, I clicked on this thread to say the same thing!! We’ve lived in a draughty house for ages, and my DH chose Christmas Day to start draught-proofing the house. Then looked wounded when I suggested it wasn’t the most convenient of times!

@JoeTheDrummerWhy?????? it was so unbelievably hilarious

I decided to put up a blind that has been sitting there for 4 years when I was making up the beds. I mean there's no more guaranteed way of getting a job done than giving it to the busiest person in the room, and there is not busier time of the year than xmas.

My DP, one hour before we had guests for Boxing Day, decided to spot clean all the dark marks on the carpet so there were lots of lovely wet patches on the floor. Meanwhile I was making crudités and shoveling presents out of the front room. 😕

My DP decided to go into the loft ar 11am Xmas day to investigate a strange noise, he was up there a while and still didn't find it. Think it might be the aerial loose on the roof but it will wait.

My dear old dad, god rest his soul, decided to paint his 5 bar gate on Xmas day many years ago. We turned up for Xmas lunch and he was in his overalls with a tub of creosote ! I'd give anything to see that one more time x

dh (who has ZERO diy skills) decided to replace the switches in the lights in the garage. I hadto stop what I was doing to hold the ladder.

The result is that none of the garage lights are working and we have to use a torch!

I decided that I could get rid of a load of clothes I’ve been storing for the last year under the bed. I thought they were long gone so it was a surprise to see them!

they will now ride along in my car for a few weeks before going to the clothes bin🙂

Some of them could be resold but I know I’ll never get round to it. That was my Xmas miracle!

Around 11am on Xmas day my husband and FIL were drilling a hole in the wall 🙄. Sorry if you live next door to us 😂

my fiance is super hands on at christmas luckily but I do remember a few years ago he started wiping the top of the cupboards in the kitchen down 😮‍💨🤣🤣 was he expecting the guests to come in and stand on a chair to reach that high and check how dusty they were? 🤣😭

Used the dishwasher to clean off a grubby engine part of my motorcycle. Surely this is nothing out of the ordinary ? Should have heard the fuss !

My DH waits until I have my shoes on to decide that the radiators need bleeding and then tells me he’s waiting on me when I tell him to hurry the fuck up

Yet another thread about useless men trying to dodge household responsibilities...

And these posters think it's funny. FFS

It’s a few years ago, but my dad decided to renew the sealant around the cooker top. Whilst mum and I were cooking Xmas dinner.

Without fail, every time we expect visitors my husband will start fannying about cleaning the outside window sills. Bathroom could need cleaning, hoovering needs doing, clearing up piles of paper and shit needs picking up, maybe load the dishwasher? Nope it’s always the fucking window sills.

He’s normally pretty sane, no idea what drives this??

I decided to polyfilla all the hairline cracks on my bedroom walls today, starting ten minutes before I was going for a long walk. Got home and messed around then finished it just before getting food ready. Now I have loads of snaking grey lines on a white wall that will likely stay there til at least July. Never done it before so it might actually be wrong.

Sanded the wall in the dinning room after I had laid the table for dinner on Christmas Day and painted it half an hour before guests arrived. Today has oiled the hinges of all the doors in the house.

I almost repotted a few plants at 11pm on Xmas eve. I did catch myself on though.

It’s not Christmas but my husband regrouted the whole week I was about to give birth.

also went on a 2 hour drive on his paternity leave to go and collect a bike off Facebook market place

In fairness, my DH has done his fair share this Christmas and had just laid the Xmas dinner table when he decided to draught proof

I started looking for a different watch strap - had a whole cupboard out hunting for one just as we were about to leave for relatives for Christmas dinner ! No idea why. And I didn’t find what I was looking for either ! Relatives rang to ask where we were 😁

Because he doesn't want to do those chores. He's hiding outside and trying to look busy, so you'll end up doing them.

DH.
Wanted to go out on the drive in his filthy work clothes and start chopping up a dead fall tree that's been there since the gales in Oct !

Just no please!