What little things does your man do that really irritate you?

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My list includes:

Putting dirty nappies on TOP of the nappy pail rather than inside it.

Hanging his coat on the door handle of the coat closet rather than inside it.

Coming home from work, putting his very expensive suit jacket on the back of a kitchen dining chair then going to the bedroom to undress. Inevitably the jacket gets something smeared on it by sticky little fingers but he never seems to learn.

Forgetting to take his wet swim towel out of his gym bag then using one of our good bath towels the next time he goes for a swim leaving the mouldy gym towel for me to deal with.

Dumping his gym bag in the hall outside the cupboard that I cleared out especially for his gym bag.

When there are only a few dirty dishes he just shoves them in on top of the already clean dishes in the dishwasher and runs the whole lot again, thereby getting the dirty dishes somewhat clean and the clean dishes somewhat dirty.

Anyone else driven to the brink of insanity by little things like this??

My DH agreed to iron some school shirts for my DD as I was feeling poorly and when I looked at them he had only ironed ONE of the sleeves so I had to sort it out
also whenever he is clearing up after a meal you would swear that he is rebuilding the kitchen by the amount of noise he makes

Hmm, DH would be none too pleased if he knew I was writing this on the internet, but anyway, a couple of things are:

• driving off before I've got the car door shut.
• hooting at other drivers and muttering that they can't drive whilst being two inches away from the car in front.
• i usually go to bed first and just as i am cosy and warm he whooshes the duvet in the air to straighten it out before he gets in the bed. I think he would prefer it if I lay in the bed in a perfectly straight line with my hands by my sides. To be fair, he has recently stopped whooshing the duvet, but he still pulls it over so the bit I have just made warm disappears and I get a cold bit instead.

That will do, I really shouldn't complain.

All these people complaining about their partners' shower and laundry habits, be grateful. At least the buggers wash and change their clothes.

I'll stop there, because if I really get started my single post will be longer than all the rest of this thread put together.

This is the best thread ever! Don't have time to join in properly, but most of my DH's have been listed on here. Apart from constantly re-tuning the radio from Radio 4 (which I like) to Radio 5 (which he likes) in the kitchen - when actually he hardly spends any time in there. Oh and shouting for me from another room - expects me to go and find him, rather than him coming to me.

A friend of mine's DP would put his pants (forever more to be known as undercrackers LOL!!! Radley) and socks in the laundry basket on the days she was working, but left them on the floor at weekends and on her one day off. Its shameful isn't it?

Sneezes too bloody loudly. It's the most stupid and annoying thing in the world. Control it man and sneeze normally like everyone else. Stop scaring the life out of me and the children! Really winds me up!

Eats his dinner really quick. When you go out for a meal he is finished in 5 mins and sits watching me incase I leave something

thought of some more
Drinks bitter a farts like a dog
Leaves work bag on floor to kill us all our break our necks
Wakes me up with his elephant feet creeping around the bedroom
Eats quick then gets hicups
drinks tea and goe arrr when taking a sip

Love him though. Sure I have more things annoying going on

LOL Bananaknickers! I sneeze really loudly too, and you should hear my Mum...

My Cousin's DH was forever leaving his dirty undercrackers (love that too) on the bedroom floor. One day she got fed up of it and declared that she was not moving them anymore and there they were to remain. I swear on my life she hoovered around them for a good couple of years, if not more.

By far the worst thing I have read on here, though, is the DH who sniffs his food before eating it. That would truly drive me insane - sorry to whoever it was posted that.

Leaves rubbish on the kitchen work surfaces instead of putting it in the bin...

He always washes the dishes so i shouldn't complain...but he never rinses the sink out afterwards...

Leaving little pieces of paper in his work shirts or trouser pockets and puts them straight into the washing machine...

Never rinses the bath out when he's had a bath or shower...

ALWAYS sits with his hands on his crown jewels...and i mean always...

...the list is endless... but i couldn't and wouldn't be without him...

The one that made me cringe was the clicking of the overgrown toenails. Eeeewww.

why do they have to toch their boy bits all the time? on the phone, watching telly,etc

why??!!

what would he think if i had a good scratch??

Many of these complaints my dh would have about me! He's a neat freak which believe me is just as much a pain in the arse.

• as soon as he's in the door he heads for the kitchen with his coat still on and starts wiping the surfaces down even though they are perfectly clean (by my obviously slovenly standards anyway!)

• constantly moans at me as though it is the most important thing in the world to him for not screwing lids on properly (fgs get a life man!)

• can't hold a conversation with me or discuss anything while doing something else

• also strides ahead of me in the street with my handbag hanging off the pushchair so I have to yell at him like a fishwife to come back. Also insists on waiting outside shops while I settle up at the till and takes my purse with him (cue more yelling from me)

• not forgetting the "man sneezes" of course! Divorce material!

Mine are:

• if he feels ill he tells me all the time, yesterday he told me 4 times that he had toothache

• doesn't look for things properly (last week asked if I new where his scarf was and I replied in the top drawer of your bedside cabinet, he then went upstairs for about 10 mins when he came back down he said he had looked in all the drawers and still couldn't find his scarf, I went upstairs opened the drawer I said it was in and there it was - on the top

• doesn't listen when I say things and then a few days later when I bring it up again he says you didn't tell me that - actually I did but you weren't listening

• turns the tv over and then says "you weren't watching that were you"

• puts a cd on and also leaves the tv on

They are always hanging onto their bits aren't they?When dp and I were first together and he had his hands down his trousers I would say(hyperchondriac style)Whats wrong because I thought he was in pain or something now 14 yrs on I ignore him!

haven't had time to read the whole thread, but...

• sets his alarm clock for 6.15 am, then lies in bed listening to me getting up at 5.30 to have a shower get the brakfast things ready, get dd out of bed, fed, and dressed, THEN gets up, has a cup of tea and is ready to leave at the same time as me and dd- if he actually got out of bed at 6.15, then maybe I could stay in bed a bit longer!

-NEVER clears the table/ worktops before he starts to cook meal, so ALWAYS gets in a tizz when he hasn't got space to put things down

-always leaves the teaspoon on the side by the teapot rather than taking a step to one side and chucking it in the bowl. I once came home to find FOUR teaspoons dried to the work top1 It doesn't matter apparently, because the worktop is brown so the stains can't be seen (yes they can by anyone who has half-decent sight)

-leaves cupboard doors open, then complains when he walks into them

• ALWAYS slams front and back doors, and oven door, even though I have demonstrtated how to do this quietly

• rearranges dishwasher after I have filled it

-when we are ready to go out, charges round the house looking for his various sets of keys (house, office, car). I have suggested that, like me, he puts them all on one key-ring, so that he is never far away from where he had them last (and it is more difficult to loose a bunch like a prison-warders), but no, it would spoil the contour of his trousers (like anyone would be looking at his trouser contour! )

• spends HOURS on the loo, then turns off the extractor fan as soon as he's finished, so the next one in gags on the smell!

• never shakes things out before hanging them on the clothes drier, so they dry full of creases

oh, I could go on....

omg kslats my dh so does all those things. Or if something he is looking for is in a cupboard and something is in front of it 'it not there'. Grrrr.....

Mine's great in many ways, but I posted a couple of things anyway yesterday.
Another irritation is that when he's doing the children's cooked breakfasts (x4) on weekend mornings (I know I know ), he expects me still to hang about being a sort of kitchen porterand general dogsbody, even though when I cook - ie the entire rest of the time - he's not around, even when at home iyswim, and assumes I cope fine, which I do of course, but he just can't seem to do anything domestic by himself ! The children are between 3 and 13, so no babes in highchairs either. Anyway the new gym I've just joined has a bodypump class at 10am Saturday mornings, so I'm planning to get up and go. Goodbye jellybelly at last ?

I've thought of another one, constantly loses thing - not just keys, anything and then asks me where it is - not like he had it in the morning and ive put it away i mean he'll go outside to feed our pets with the torch then come back in to cut up carrot for it (why he doesnt do it first and take it with him is beyond me) then he'll say do you know where the torch is..............grrrrrr

I've thought of another one too. If we're out somewhere, and I ask him to hold my bag, say if I'm going on a ride with the dc or something like that, he insists on wearing the bag, and looking like a proper fairy. Why can't he just hold it like a maaan

refusing to do DD's hair for fear of turning soft, he says "men don't do children's hair"

treating each item of housework completed by him like an olympic gold medal

socks rolled into balls scattered around the house in random places (yes looking at this thread I can see that's a popular one)

trimming beard with clippers onto freshly hoovered floor, "saying don't worry I'll hoover it up", then not hoovering it up. grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

ringing me at work on his rare day's off to ask where dd's socks are. Sorry darling can't quite see from CENTRAL LONDON where I put them.

watching football games for teams he doesn't support...surely reading the results of other non-Arsenal games should be enough? No?

Washing up but leaving 'scary looking' things like pots with rice stuck to the bottom or oven dishes.

Mine leaves his dirty socks rolled up for me to undo.

He ALWAYS leaves the pop bottle lid not screwed on right after hes finished and then if he can be bothered to put it back in the fridge it leaks everywhere.

When he gets up at 5.45am every morning to go to work he makes so much noise, especially with carrier bags??

He leaves chocolate wrappers lying around.

He balances his dinner on the table that the computer is on and almost everytime knocks it but catches it most of the time before it falls.

He also puts empty pop bottles back in the fridge??

He uses a different glass everytime he gets a drink so we end up with about 5 on the table by the end of the night.

He doesnt do dishes.

He gets toothpaste all over the sink.

He slams the doors at night when the kids are asleep.

He hangs my clean washing on the doors??? instead of on the radiators.

oh and of course he changes the channel on the tv when I've left the room for all of 5mins, but I change it back when I come back in.

SLurping his tea really loudly.
His dad does it too - think it's genetic!

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