Moronic DH stepped over suitcase to come upstairs

[ukholidayseeker]

Why oh why can't my stupid husband ever take stuff upstairs?!? He actually steps over things which are pretty much blocking the staircase to come upstairs. I am now going to lug the suitcase upstairs myself despite not being able to lift heavy things due to bad back.

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I step over things on the stairs all the time. And I’m the only adult in the house so I’ve put them there. Who cares

The OP does.

So infuriating. It reminds me of when I couldn't do heavy lifting, so left the laundry basket of clean clothes downstairs and asked DH to bring it up for me. Several days later there are two laundry baskets and I've asked several times.

The next morning he was disgruntled to find he has no clean pants. Yes, they're in the laundry baskets. Huffing, puffing and sighing he went downstairs, only to return with... a single pair of pants! Mind boggling. The only conclusion is that they are incapable of thinking.

You’re living alone. Do what the heck you want.

When you live with other people, esp with dcs who will learn how to behave from you, then no it’s not OK to simply ignore the needs and wants of other people in the house.
In the case, the OP has an issue with it.

Exactly the same here. In the end I just stood looking at it and he eventually got the message.

I guess there's always one odd ball Id keep my travel stuff with my suitcase as that's when you're next using it but if he has a special travel cupboard downstairs you would know that is his habit

One of my favourite ever episodes. 🤣🤣

It's in the house. It's full of laundry. It's all womanly now. The op should move it. Because...that's how it's supposed to be. 🤷‍♂️

Haha. Op, don't move it!

Yeah, I didn't explain it quite clearly but we have a supply cupboard downstairs with all the travel sized stuff. Whoever needs any just grabs it from there, and puts any extra back when they return. Also things like extra phone chargers, cables etc.

We don't have 'one suitcase' either we've got a small one, a bigger one for travelling together and rucksacks etc because we do quite a few overnights for work/family. E.g. if I go to my mum's I can get away with a rucksack because I can use her washing machine.., and borrow her t-shirts in a pinch!

"Imagine" is the wrong word in this context, as that is the reality here. I deposit something big somewhere (a suitcase, a weekly shop, a load of washing - anything, really), then get distracted by something else, so the first thing gets forgotten about. I then get distracted from the second thing by a third thing, so the second thing gets abandoned, too. It's a constant state of half-abandonedness all round, and then it all becomes so overwhelming that it's easier to go out instead. There is a bottle of shower gel which has taken up residence on the landing, but for some reason nobody seems able to put it in the bathroom, so it has been there since Christmas.
So it is not just men. As I say, my only DC who isn't like this is a boy.

Huffing, puffing and sighing he went downstairs, only to return with... a single pair of pants! Mind boggling. The only conclusion is that they are incapable of thinking

I do this, too. I hadn't realised that it was so weird, though.

Leave the suitcase. It can wait. Ask him to move it.

Who knows, but is is really that big a deal? It’s probably for the same reason I put things in the ironing cupboard and hope they magically appear ironed and ready to wear, even when DH is away and can’t do it.

This is all pretty ridiculous. If you wanted it taken upstairs you should have just asked him. Don't just dump it there and get a mard on because he didn't understand your entirely non-verbal instructions to take it upstairs

I once set up WhatsApp chat in our family called ‘Stairs’ l would post photos of the shit on the stairs.

Made no fucking difference. People would sometimes root through the shit on the stairs to find stuff, and then take that and still leave the other shit behind.