Backs of chairs, doors, bannisters, radiators. Anyone else live with a 'draper' and can anything be done?

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I swear it's like living in a Salvador Dali painting around here. Every conceivable place where one could drape a jumper, a towel, a coat has one of DH's items draped over it.

A bit of background. We recently swapped back from a SAHD/WOHM setup to DH being back at work and me at home for maternity leave. In the meantime, he's developed a habit of 'draping shit' everywhere. And where previously I was either too tired from work to bother, and gladly happy to delegate the keeping of the house to him for that time, I'm now at home and surrounded by it. I can round the stuff up and put it back where it's supposed to be but after a weekend, i'm back to square one.

Would pigeon spikes work? or simply create more draping possibilities?

look around you mamma! it's all there, draping, melting, festering and making rooms smaller.

Yes!!!

I didn't realise but I've got shit hanging everywhere!!!

My jacket over the door. Dc's coats on the door knob. My bag on back of high chair. Girls backpacks on dining room chairs....that's this room.

Towels from bath time over banister...clothes for tootie over banister.

I am good at not draping dirty washing I think....

Oh god- I need a support group!!!!

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I've got 'surfacers' ! Every bloody surface: they put stuff on it - it's everywhere. Drive me mad. As soon as I clear a surface, someone comes along and puts more stuff on it. Aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh !

Ah yes. Over the backs of the kitchen chairs are currently: four jackets, one body warmer thing, and one jumper. Also Ds's coat, school bag and sports kit. Miraculously, only one pair of shoes on the floor.

Oh yep, I live with a draper I've had to even delegate us our own coat hooks or my two coats get hidden in his mass of coats. We also have hooks on each door so dirty underwear and stuff gets hung on them... Yep, radiators, over doors, on top of washing basket (never in), on the ground at MY wardrobe (never his) Strangely it's only wet towels that get thrown on the bed! Drives me mental.

Ah yes he's a surfacer too! Apparently when I clear a space, it's specifically for his rubbish! How thoughtful am I?

My DH used to go one step further and refer to it as "draipsing". I killed him, of course.

XDH is a draper.

Every single time he comes to see DS he walks straight past the coat hooks in the hall and drapes his stupid poxy coat over one of my beautiful dining chairs. Every. Single. Time.

I have a pollinator. DD pollinates every surface or drapable protuberance that she comes into contact with. Like a darling little bumble bee, she leaves a trail of tiny pointless objects wherever she goes, many of them slightly sticky.

I tell her she will be on channel five in later life, my daughter the hoarder.

She is almost 20 :(

I sympathise - DH bought a sleigh bed so he could drape his clothes over it (this was 12 years ago and before we were married).

Well some of the draped items have moved and the undies by the washing machine have gone.

I said my friend was coming round this week and that I was particularly looking forward to all my friends seeing his underpants on the kitchen floor. Seemed to do the trick.

Start a blog. Photos of his crap. Get your sexiest friends to sign up to it.

My DH is a draper, dropper & pollinator!

Drives me nuts!

Occasionally I round up everything shove it in a box & say go through it & put it all away or the box goes in the bin!

Surely it's just easier to put away as you go????

But he is an amazingly good cook & great guy

yup, all very annoying when they recoup points elsewhere.

I didn't realise people didn't do this! So I guess I am a draper...

All my friends are drapers. Everyone I work with is a draper. My family are all drapers. Ahhh! I never knew.
My sister is a particularly strange one, though, as she drapes bags and coats on doors. Meaning they can't close. I have to use a lot of "exit management" at home for my dog so she is always contained away from the cat unless under my supervision. It's a bloody nuisance. I just throw her stuff on the floor though so hopefully she gets the picture.

We're all drapers together in this house. Nobody minds, nobody's home all day and nothing gets draped in the living room so we can comfortably ignore it in the evenings.

I cannot buy any sort of decorative bowl or tray and put it anywhere without dp filling it with keys and change within a few hours. Drives me potty

I'm a draper, and it offends my son, who removes the clothes / towels / etc from the banisters, and dumps them on the hall floor instead. Yes we live in a tip :-)

Mine drapes and scatters. As soon as he walks through the door, he drops his laptop, phone, bag, keys, money, flotsam, jetsam, all through downstairs. Then he strips, flinging clothing all over the backs of sofas and chairs.

Then he goes upstairs for his pyjamas bottoms, walking past all the mess. Which he then has to come back down and and sort out (otherwise it all goes in a dustbin liner, something I have only done once and is seared into his memory)

This is so therapeutic. I have a DH who is a draper and a surface clutterer. He gets it from his parents - you go to their house and we all sit at one end of the dining table (which should comfortably seat 6) because there are dusty heaps of things at the other end. Covered by tea towels. Because obviously the tea towels make so much difference

Then they come to our house and they bring piles of things. Cuttings from newspapers that DH will never read. Bottles of squash that we left there with a mm of squash left in. They try to clutter my surfaces. But I resist :)

My DH has recently attempted to go from draper to folder. So now instead of leaving the kids clothes on the floor at bath time, he folds them onto the windowsill - at the other end of the corridor from the chests of drawers where their clothes actually live. sigh.

I work from home. Being at home all day does make it all far more annoying!

yes, tea towels should do the trick!

we don't live near the in laws so the newspaper cuttings and nonsense arrives by post. super.