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How DO you make men understand..

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twiglett · 29/03/2004 11:23

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motherinferior · 29/03/2004 11:34

You HAD an empty space? Pah. Pah.

DP moans that I shove his stuff in a box. In fact, I now shove his stuff on TOP of a full box. In due course he will get fed up. Won't he? WON'T HE??

Marina · 29/03/2004 12:49

Oh, God, I don't know the answer to this Twiglett. I am still trying to offload dh's A Level French vocab books. Dh = 41 next week.

SoupDragon · 29/03/2004 12:50

What's an empty space??

WideWebWitch · 29/03/2004 12:54

burn it and tell him it's your hormones

WideWebWitch · 29/03/2004 12:55

burn them i mean

vivat · 29/03/2004 13:11

a subject close to my heart twiglett. I have spent the weekend clearing out the spare-soon- to-be-baby's room - and do you know what he said yesterday.

'I feel you are shortening my footprint in this house'

Still not speaking. Baby only due in 5 weeks. Gggggrrrrhhhhhh

wog · 29/03/2004 13:16

I just put it all in bags and boxes one day and put it up in loft. He asked me "what if I need some of that stuff" I have been with him for 7 years and he has NEVER needed any of that stuff!

bea · 29/03/2004 13:16

ha! ha! this all sounds so familiar... how many holey tracky bottoms and boxer shorts does dh need???... not to mention the scruffiest of scruffy trainers!

i dread to think how on earth does he manage to make holes in boxer shorts....???

motherinferior · 29/03/2004 13:43

I used to go out with a museum curator, who made a virtue of preserving his junk, nicely labelled.

Just walked past dp's pile of crap. Mind you, I can see the file with my MA thesis on it from here. When, I wonder, will I really need a 17 year old dissertation on Edward Lear's limericks?

jac34 · 29/03/2004 14:05

I can understand you not wanting him to keep the Tesco receipts, but mine tries to burn receipts, bank statements in the garden (refuses to buy a shredder).

Yes bea, DH manages to get holes in his boxers, one pair I found recently hardly had a crotch left in them !!!
And the old tracky bottoms he says he'll keep to do DIY, would be a good idea except, I do all the DIY.

sis · 29/03/2004 14:27

Oh this is very reassuring - I thought it was just dh who was like this.

motherinferior · 29/03/2004 14:29

Always remember that Men Are Very Odd. Many, including the father of my children, are charming and delightful. But fundamentally still Very Odd.

ks · 29/03/2004 14:38

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suedonim · 29/03/2004 15:12

Dh comes from a long line of hoarders hence our loft/garage/cupboards being stuffed full of cr*p. A friend has the same problem with her dh. She tried to throw away his A Level papers and he said he needed them so that when he was senile he'd be able to find out what he used to know!!!!!! Only a man could come with that one, surely??

MrsDoolittle · 29/03/2004 15:25

I agree with you, ks.
"I feel you are shortening my footprint in this house"
I love it!!
My answer would be, "Your damn right I am, we've got to fit a baby in here!"
Dh has no concept of this!!!

Blackduck · 29/03/2004 15:43

I find little (okay not so little...) piles of receipts on every surface in the house (drives me up the wall...), but pet hate is the amount of (unopened) mail on the hall table......has no concept of urgency, hence fine for not registering motorbike as 'off the road'.....

marthamoo · 29/03/2004 15:58

Suddenly, having to keep all dh's MSc notes (he finished it years ago) and back issues of New Scientist doesn't seem so bad. Every time I threaten to throw them out he tells me he "might need them." Now, I'm not a scientist but how much relevance can a copy of New Scientist from 1986 have today?

Also still has the suit he wore for his first interview - it was his grandad's and looks like it, but apparently has sentimental value. Not enough to wear it again though.

dolbear · 29/03/2004 22:21

mmm , seems i have the opposite prob , my hubby is anal about tidy and organised , he is an engineer , its the unplugging of everthing that REALY gets on my tits , although the atatchment to receipts is there
He is the one that has packed and repacked the hopital bag etc , and if I hear one more thing about the mobile fone situ , I will swipe hime

StripyMouse · 29/03/2004 22:30

LOL twiglett. ok when there is only two of you and the box room can be just that...can totally empathise - my DH even insists on the original foam and polystyrene blocks are kept intact for God knows what reason - makes stacking impossible.

MrsDoolittle · 29/03/2004 22:32

well I asked dh in the supermarket in the what snacks he might like when we have to go to hospital (Baby expected this week!) He looked at me incredulously "But I don't intend on missing any main meals!!!"

vivat · 30/03/2004 14:40

how do they get such big holes in the crutch of boxer shorts. Do they all have iron balls or something ??

MrsDoolittle · 30/03/2004 14:43

I think they would like to think so!!

oliveoil · 30/03/2004 15:02

It's all the rearranging they do, pocket billiards I think it is known as.

Kayleigh · 30/03/2004 15:10

Blimey, my dh is a bit of an oddity then
If he had his way we'd live in rooms with empty shelves and wardrobes where you can swish the hangers back and forth along the rail as there are so few clothes in them.
He hasn't got a sentimental bone in his body. He would even have thrown out the cards we got when ds1 and ds2 were born if I hadn't insisted we keep them.

Kayleigh · 30/03/2004 15:11

dolbear, just seen your post. My dh is an electrical engineer. Maybe it's in their genes and they can't help it

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