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 dp sits when he wees, which is weird but at least I dont have to keep putting the toilet seat down.

Erm, I've never asked him but I would imagine its cos its cleaner!

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Continous flicking though the channels using the Sky remote. This then freezes the telly, so it has to be switched off, (normally at the most important part of the programme)and then wait a few minutes before switching it back on.

Leaves drawers open all the time.

Leaves his size 12 shoes in the middle of the hall, so I trip over them.

Gets both is head and feet into the car first like he's folded himself in two, then unfolds himself once in the seat. At 6'6" this looks bloody stupid, clumsy and why can't he just sit in and then swing his legs in?

Hangs his clothes around the house in various states of wearing order

Has clothes in wardrobes in virtually every room in the house

Keeps the basement in a total mess and never lets me sort it out then asks me where anything is.

He says um before saying anything

Dyes my clothes in washing machine

Selective hearing

Channel flicking

Doesn't learn from his mistakes

breath LOL

Shuts cupboard doors when I have just opened them so I can put something away - drives me mad.

Also, puts things in wrong cupboards (takes a frying pan out of one to use, then it ends up in another later)

Puts the tv on because he can - doesn't matter what is on or if he is staying in the room

I am starting to think of so many more - but luckily the postive/good things he does outweighs the annoying things.

Worst is an annoying laugh after saying something - for no reason at all, even if its like 'so its steak for dinner is it - ha ha ha ha ha!!!

dh would say of me:

losing stuff constantly - purse, keys, bags on trains, passwords, pieces of paper, shopping lists I wrote two minutes ago, money, pens that work; pinching stuff off him to replace said lost stuff.

not wanting to chat when he does

reading ALL the time

coming to bed late and then refusing to get up so he has to give ds breakfast

thinking that nobody can see me picking my nose

eating constantly (not nose pickings)

being a dour puritan about things like using the tumble dryer

persistently hanging washing out on the line (he thinks people judge us for doing this, possibly he considers it white trash behaviour)

telling people about his mental difficulties

i would say of dh;

stacking and tidying dishes (not washing up) for ages while breathing really hard through his mouth as though doing the marathon

looking at me as though he is about to expire when he has looked after ds for a whole hour

asking me 'what should I do next' in various scenarios

IGNORING STUFF ON THE STAIRS

dp mainly does NOTHING ever!! Well nothing that would be considered remotely helpful.

But he does get dressed in the dining room whilst DD is eating here breakfast(downstairs shower room)

Leaves his wet towel on the dining chair

Hangs his coat on the dining chair when the coat cupboard is about 5 steps further into the room

Takes a drink to bed every night and never even has a sip and leaves the glass there for me to remove the next day

Puts washing up in the sink instead of the dishwsher. wtf?

"IGNORING STUFF ON THE STAIRS" oh god yes.
sometimes I think about filling - say- three whole stairs with stuff and seeing if he can still step over it
saying, whilst driving in a location unfamiliar to us both, in very exasperated tones "which way now then?!?"
what's my name? satnav??
never phoning anyone
never remembering to feed the rabbit.

Automatically asks me "what have you done with my (keys, IPAQ, mobile, SHOES, FFS)?" when he's lost stuff.

Puts empty cereal packets, bottles, jars, medicine back in cupboards and in the fridge, so when I'm looking to see what we've run out of I have to open everything.

Will quite happily live in shit so doesn't respond to me leaving stuff that he won't pick up.
Ah, that's better.

Forgetting DS is allergic to nuts et all.
Packing for holidays... his idea of it is closing his laptop, stand by the door and shout "hurry up Chandra! you always make us late!" When I have been up all night (and yes, with DS allergies I have to get and pack from the bedlinen to the epipens, and all the food DS would have while away!)

Oh... and not such a small thing but everytime he sees his mum is about to have a tantrum about something that he did or din't he just says it was because I did/didn't want to .

Haven't read the thread but DP has annoyed me immensely today by

LYING IN BED UNTIL 1.30pm LETTING ME DEAL WITH THE KIDS,DRESSING WASHING AND BREAKFASTS AND GET THEM TO NURSERY.WHEN IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOINT EFFORT AS WE BOTH HAD A RARE DAY OFF WORK MINUS KIDS TOGETHER .I AM HUGELY SLEEP DEPRIVED HAVING SPENT THE LAST FOUR NIGHTS TENDING TO POOR DD WHO HAS HAD A NASTY EAR INFECTION.DOES HE GET UP?NO HE BLOODY DOESN'T

Tosser.

Other things that irritate include

Leaving dirty clothes in heap on floor that I inevitably end up sorting out as it drives me insane.What is so hard about locating the laundry bin?

Leaving empty toilet rolls on top of the toilet cistern,WHY when there is a bin two feet away?

Ditto with shampoo/conditioner bottles,on side of bath.

Ditto leaving damp towels on bathroom floor

Skidmarks on toilet not cleaned.God men are vile aren't they.Most days I feel like my sole function is that of glorified skivvy.

Sat there in front of the tv burping and farting and whinging about his hard day at work.Funnily enough I never have time to sit in front of tv at 7pm,I am either putting kids to bed or starting the ironing.

Never taking stuff upstairs.I leave toiletries/washing baskets/pairs of shoes on the bottom step in the hope that they might be taken upstairs.I once had an experiment to see how long it would take for him to take a pair of shoes up without me asking.I caved in six weeks later and took them up myself.

Not being able to find anything in the fridge.The average exchange goes like this:
Him "I cant find the... whatever"
Me "Its on the third shelf down"
Him"Are you sure?I can't see it"
Me "Yes,have you looked behind the stuff at the front?"
Him"Its not there...."
Me (loses will to live,gritting teeth)"Look its here,behind the whatever"
MEN.

Oh yes and when hes ill its always flu,never just a cold.

Snoring.Of Ken Russellesque proportions,in fact,worse.

Ahh that feels better.Rant over.Am calm now.

God this is depressing but also a bit comforting i thought that mine was uniquely useless and annoying. He does almost all of the things mentioned below - main offences would be;

Snoring like a steam engine
Lying horizontally across the bed snoring, sometimes not even under the covers so i cant get in or sleep properly
If i have washed the bedclothes and he goes to bed first will get in and fall asleep with no sheets or pillowcases
Does EVERYTHING at full volume and blames the acoustics of our house. So why doesnt it sound like that when i close the cupboards/listen to the radio/turn on the tv/walk around?
Empty packets in the fridge and cupboards
Gets up in the night and eats bowls of cereal in his sleep so leaves little trails of cereal all round the kitchen - ditto chocolate, biscuits. This one makes me laugh a bit but not enough for it to be ok
Every morning he makes coffee in a rubbish pot that just spills coffee all over the hob, and leaves it there for me to clean up.
And there are many many more but they have all been said below, that's enough for me to have vented a bit, phew!

But what makes all the little things a trillion times more annoying is that if i ever gently remind him about any of them he always says.. come on but we're both slobs arent we? No we're not, i am slightly inclined that way but the reason our house looks like this is because i cannot keep up with your excessive messmaking. Or he says we should get a cleaner. But cleaners dont follow you round the house picking up crumbs and discarded dirty pants and socks do they, that's my job!!

Strangely enough i do love him and he is slowly learning..and he cooks dinner. Good dinner though of course he does make an almighty mess and use every pan and wierd utensils (stirring hot stuff with my nice plastic salad servers). I should stop now.. calm, breathe!!

Right let me think.

Always leaves wallet keys and phone within reach of ds. They always go missing.
Leaves change lying around on bedside table instead of in his wallet. Ds always finds them and puts them in his mouth.
The way he can't do anything but look after ds if he is left alone for the day with him. He wont do the washing or any cleaning as all his energy goes into ds. It doesn't though. I always come home to ds running around half dressed, mucky face in the middle of a bomb sight with dp on the computer.

Wow, never knew so many blokes putting empty things back in the cupboard - thought it was just mine !

if I ask him to get something from town (he works in town) he always forgets

I remind him before he goes to work

then I ring him at work to remind him

he says: 'Yes, yes, yes, for heaven's sake, yes, the bread, you've told me already'

then he forgets

Empty packets back in the cupboard and not in the bin.
Put stuff on the mantlepiece in the bedroom
Not changing the loo roll
walking past the pile of clean washing at the bottom of the stairs ont he way up and the dirty cups at the top of the stairs on the way down
Taking the plate half way across the kitchen and leaving it on the side - not as far as the sink...

oh I could go on....

Skid marks.....toilet, boxers, towel.....does the man not know how to wip his bum proprerly?

He washes up but leaves a swimming pool on the counter by the sink and a pile of bubbles and bits of food in the bottom of the sink and the dishcloth unrinsed in a heap so it gets nice and smelly (about 2 seconds after moving in together I hid the sponges and bought cloths so I could go round behind him and put them in the wash!)

While washing up using the scourer on everything. Trained him not to use it on the pans now but he still uss it on glasses.

Aftr his shower the bathroom floor will always be a swimming pool and the towel will be heapd on the radiator not hung and the bath mat will be on the floor in the middle of the swimming pool even though he knows our bathroom is cold and damp and none of it will dry like that.

Eating with a spoon. If it is curry, stirfry, chilli or anything else that is not a hunk of meat he eats it with a spoon. That has to stop...I am not having our LO grow up thinking that is normal. What is wrong with a knife and fork?

He hates crowds and so always walks super fast threading around people. This also occurs in the supermarket where he pushes the trolly at high speed then complains he can't find half the stuff we need even though he has raced past it about 5 times.

Ripping off his long toe nails in the while watching TV and leaving the bits on the arm of the chair.

Just chucking stuff back in the food cupboard then complaining he can't find stuff in it when it actually does have (when tidy) a nice order to it.

Oh dear that is quite a bit...but he cooks amazingly well, he does wash up even though I have to clean up after him, he takes out the bins and the recycling and he will clean if I ask him to he just suffers from the common failing of being a man so not seeing what needs doing quite as soon as us ladies!

lol

he should meet my dh

he doesn't put anything in the bin, if he has a sweet he will put the wrapper in his pocket and it will usually end up in the washing machine

he picks his toemials and leaves the remains on the side or on the bed etc
he leaves his wet bath towels n the bed so that the bed ends up soaking
he leaves his dirty clothes all over for me to pick up

he leaves the glasses to drain directly on the draining board without rinsing them so they end up with scum marks round them

he never puts any dvd cases or games cases away
and he expects our 5 year old and 15 month old to be able to tidy up after themselves, which is fair enoughto a certain extent but then i get left tidyingthe rest on my own as "i didn;t get it out" how old are you ?

and don't even get me started on his mother

oooh i feel much better after that

This thread is v funny!!!

My dh doesn't listen to me properly , I always have to make him repeat stuff back.

He doesn't always answer either, so you think he's not heard ,you repeat it, then he says ' stop nagging I heard the first time'.

Leaves his clothes from work on floor next to the bed.

Never thinks to take the wet washing out of the machine or the dry stuff off of the airers .

Always puts off doing diy jobs and then coincidently its raining/dd's having her nap etc. and it can't be done.

Never suggests things to cook or starts the childrens lunch/dinners when we're both in. Its always left up to me to choose and cook it.

Farts really badly.

Swears too much. ( not near kids but at tv and football etc)

But he is a fab dad and dh and does do loads of lovely helpfull things too.

princessmel - have you got my dp?

What does he look like??