men - annoying habits

[breeze]

This might have been covered before, but my DH REALLY annoys me by cutting his toe-nails and leaving them in his bed-side cabinet, he has about 2 inchs in there now, he says i am nagging and there are alot worse annoying habits out there, are they?

oh another one, when he tidy's up, all he actually does is put everything in the nearest drawer, cupboard.

[Temptress]

Breeze I cant believe your hubby does that..its disgusting, poor you. After reading through about others DH's I realise I am very lucky with mine. He doesnt have that many bad habits that I can think of, either that or I have just got used to them all!!!

[CookieMonster]

RosieT,
my dh often offers to make me a cup of tea and disappears off to the kitchen .... I wait 15 minutes or so (not as patient as you) only to discover that he's gone out to the garage to do something (what is it about men and garages or sheds??) and hasn't even boiled the kettle!
He is also unbelievably untidy and can't put anything back where he found it - pre dd this used to drive me insane but these days the house is never tidy so it doesn't make me quite as mad.
Oh yes, the dishcloth .... whenever he wipes something up with it he just dumps it in the sink without rinsing it out, so when I pick it up either a load of crumbs fall out or else it is covered in last night's takeaway .... yuk

[Enid]

RosieT and CookieMonster - or he boils the kettle then wanders off for 10 minutes and then attempts half heartedly to make a cup with the lukewarm water...I am a tea fascist as well so find it particularly hard to take that he can't make a bloody decent cuppa - do you think he's rebelling??!!

[Enid]

And don't get me started about the dirty teatowels scrunched into a ball on top of the radiator...

[Scatterbrain]

Just don't get me started full-stop !! I would seriously not know when/where to stop !

[iota]

my dh leaves stuff lying around (eg digital camera) and then ask me where it is - not that I've moved it of course - I'm just the fount of universal knowledge. Rather worryingly DS1 has started to do it as well

[Mum2Toby]

I s'pose I'm quite lucky. My boyf does most of the house work and I can't remember the last time I made HIM a cup of tea.... he makes mine for me. But in all fairness, I work slightly more hours than him so that's my defense.
However helpful he is it doesn't stop some of his disgusting habits form irritating me to the point of despair!
He uses handtowels to dry his hair then leaves them in a damp pile on the floor, he farts endlessly, he falls asleep on the sofa at 9pm, forgets to flush the toilet!!, it takes him 6 months to get around to putting a shelf up, he offers to do the laundry then only washes clean clothes that are waiting to be ironed.....
.....>pant< >gasp<
My hands hurt,
I think that'll do for now!

[Juno]

In the interests of fairness, I should point out that my (female) partner shares several of the bad habits mentioned below! The thing about the dishcloth: yes!!! Why do they not rinse them out when they've used them??? It's disgusting! And I am the only person ever to pick all the grotty bits of yuk out of the kitchen sink!

It's funny, but I can't think of any bad habits of my own... Well, apart from being permanently late. And perhaps having been known to nag once or twice...

[Tissy]

My dh has far too many, but one of the most irritating is leaving the dishcloth lying in a washing-up bowl of dirty water overnight- it wouldn't take too much effort to tip the water away and hang up the cloth. He then complains about the smell when I boil it!

[bluestar]

Saying I'll do the washing up but what this actually means is filling the sink with hot water and piling everything into it and then saying it's 'soaking'. When he actually does finish the job in one go, he never seems to think about wiping down the surfaces etc. Saying that though he does do alot of housework so I can't complain and I'm known for leaving wet washing in the machine until it needs washing again!!

[RosieT]

Yes, wiping down the surfaces ? never seems to occur to them! And does yours always seem to leave one or two things, such as a jug with half an inch of custard in the bottom, which is no good to man nor beast or one sausage still in the griddle pan? It's as if he thinks they're suddenly going to empty themselves into the bin or wrap themselves up in a bit of foil and put themselves in the fridge.

[Chica]

My dh barely knows where the kitchen is not to talk about dishcloths!! He is spoilt beyond all belief. What monster have we created (Both his mother and to a lesser extent myself)!!

My most recent gripe is that it is summer here and I find it hard to sleep at night. He had the tv on (in the bedroom) until 1.30 last night - he was snoring beside me. I did not fall asleep until about 2.30. This morning he turns it on again at 6.00 claiming that I can "sleep anytime during the day" - I can't work here because of work permit restrictions although I would love to. He forgets that I have 2 kids who have 2 months holidays and are VERY demanding. Somehow that tv needs to become 'out of order'.Would it be too obvious?!

[GeorginaA]

Remove the fuse from the plug and make sure there are no spares in the house?

[breeze]

i am sure you could accidently break it.

As with putting shelfs up, my dh will do this quite happily, then you'll hear swearing upstairs followed by the sound of his tools being kicked around the place, followed by him saying 'thats it', then finding about 20 holes drilled, no shelfs up and him moaning about the state of the walls.

[CookieMonster]

I love this thread - it's giving me some entertainment on an otherwise boring afternoon and it's great to know I'm not being overly unreasonable!
What I would love to see is what our dh/dps would write about our bad habits!

[breeze]

NAGGING, NAGGING, AND NAGGING PROBABLY, do it right in the first place and we wouldn't have to nagg.

[slug]

What is it with men and their belief that the uterus is some kind of homing device?

[Luisa]

My boyfriend is great at fixing the car, building things and playing with the children, but has no interest in what he looks like. I realised today he's been wearing the same pair of jeans with a food stain on the leg every day for at least 2 weeks. It makes me feel sometimes like there's another child to look after! If I tell him when to change his clothes I feel like a nag. He is clean though - he showers and changes his other clothes every day, he just isn't bothered about what he looks like. I still have to tell him when to shave (he works at home so doesn't have to bother shaving every day) if we're going out, it just wouldn't occur to him. And he gobs (sorry, don't know the technical term!) loudly several times a day into the toilet, which I find absolutely disgusting but he says all men do it. So do they?!
It's great to get this off my chest, maybe I can avoid a row this week!

[Demented]

Hee, hee, these have really been making me laugh!

Some of my DH's habits include, thinking he has done you a big favour by loading the dishwasher only to discover that not only has he not scraped the leftover food into the bin but there are bits of biscuit/sweet papers in the dishwasher too. Treating the sink like a waste disposal unit. When I ask him to dress one of the kids doing daft things like not taking the vest DS2 is wearing off, just putting another one one top of it. Not putting his dirty clothes in the washing basket because he doesn't have enough time. Making a big deal of closing the bathroom door while he stinks it out then not thinking to close the door when he leaves letting the smell waft into the bedrooms (lovely). If he puts away the shopping he always leaves one bag sitting on the floor with the food still in it, usually fruit and veg as that is more complicated to put away. Not using any sense when putting things in cupboards, puts large bowl on top of small bowl as it is less hassle than lifting small bowl to put inside large bowl. Wearing shoes in the house then when he takes them off leaving them in the livingroom. Following me round the house switching off lights.

Oh I didn't think there was much, but once I got started I just couldn't stop!!! That's better mind you!!!

[willow2]

Everything they say and everything they do?

Haven't read the whole thread so may be repeating someone....

[RosieT]

Giovanna1
Loved your description of rotisserie-chicken-style bedroom antics ? I know just what you mean! Although mine reminds me more (is it the smell? the texture? or just the general ambience? I don't know) of a doner kebab, slowly going round and round. And round. Yes, he is horizontal, for those of you who were wondering, but apart from that the similarity is astounding.

[Furball]

Ok guys, the most annoying habit of my DH is.........Ready???? Picking his teeth with a bitten of nail. Luckily? a finger one rather than toe, I hasten to add!! Oh, then he shoves it down the side of the sofa, Lovely.

[Demented]

Burping and saying "baby" at the same time.

[WideWebWitch]

Demented, that is gross!! Their inability to multitask (unless it's playstation and beer) gets to me.