He won't wear slippers or use liquid soap.Tell me about your partners idiosyncrasies

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i keep buying slippers.he keeps making them vanish

DrN my daughter loves chewing loo roll!

Puts leftover bowls of crisps and nuts uncovered in the fridge - to keep fresh. Has a completely unscientific approach to frshness - puts 'damp' things like buns in the jar with crisp things like cheese biscuits and wonders why they go soggy.

Wears any old charity shop wooly hat in winter to keep warm. Current model has shades of pink stripes.

Often wears said hat in bed.

DP always leaves some beer in the bottom of his beer cans so they have to be emptied in the sink before putting in the recycling.
He also is incapable of turning off lights or TV sets. if he watches TV in the bedroom, when he's finished he just leaves it on, blaring away to an empty room.
He is also incapable of closing cupboards and drawers.

Blu I just don't think they understand the science. Mine thinks the way to clean a peanut butter jar out is to leave cold water in it. Apparently you can soak the peanut butter off.

Never mind that peanut butter is oily and therefore only hot soapy water will do. He won't be told either.

Ditto to the beer. Luckily no fag butts anymore, though.

Berolina
DH rearranges the dishwasher too. And tells me off when I put the sugar in the wrong place.

The jam/honey pots have to go on the top shelf. Funny thing is it is the same in MILS/SILS/BILs house.

Hat in bed

I have a can't wear pants DP too

DrNorthener, I also chew loo roll. God, that is weird, I never really thought about it.

DH wont have a bath without bubbles. He 'can't'. No bubble bath means he has to have a shower. God knows.

Actually, when I think about it, why do we put the jam in the fridge? There is a reason they are called "preserves" after all. He puts the tomato ketchup in the fridge too.

Brushes his teeth using hot water
Refuses to eat fruit with a dinner ie, pizza,gammon and pineapple(oh! how '70s am I?)
When I lift his boxers out of the wash basket the socks are always dangling from them. I have no idea how he takes them of .

dp insisted water from an upstairs tap isn't suitable for drinking

Oh good thread...

struggling to think of his am still laughing at all of yours.

has to have the spoon left in his tea

always kicks back the corner of the bath mat when he brushes his teeth rather than hangs it up

Uses the banister as an extension to his wardrobe

My DP would NEVER drink water from bathroom tap - is convinced it will kill imediately!

LOL - this thread makes me realise that mine isn't the only one.

He has a PhD and is very brainy but doesn't know how to fold over a disposable nappy and stick it with the tabs to throw away.

He never uses the downstairs loo

Also refuses to wear slippers and thinks this is a feasible excuse for not taking the veg peelings out to the compost bin

He genuinely believes that the way his Mum and Dad did things when he was a child is the only way to do them - whatever it is and this is a feasible excuse not to try anything different.

He thinks he can't be friends with anyone until he has known them at least 15 years.

I could go on.....

oh yeah dp brushes his teeth with hot water too. yuck

Bathroom water isn't suitable for drinking.
it's because it comes from the water stored in the manky old tank in the loft.
Downstairs drinking water comes directly from the mains.

Won't use a small plate.

One piece of toast on a dinnerplate.

DP thinks the whole house is his wardrobe and it's perfectly ok to hang suit/shirt/jeans from every door handle, over the back of every chair and door and leave them there.

Mumscentre, the wisdom of MN has spoken. Water it is!

Lycrasilvertongue is right - One day, when I was a child, our bathroom water started running slightly brown and a bit smelly and we couldn't understand it so my Dad went up to the loft and found there was a dead bird in the water tank. I would never drink bathroom water as a result. DH doesn't care though, despite the story and will drink it if pushed.

Somebody else mentioned socks and underpants and I remembered that DH takes off his socks and pants and wipes his privates briefly with his dirty socks. Apparently he is a bit sweaty down there but why the socks and not the discarded pants I don't know.

Thankfully he puts his dirty laundry in the laundry basket and I don't have to pick it off the floor.

Not all cold bathroom water comes from a storage tank. Depends on how your house is plumbed. Ours is direct from the mains.

[email protected] I shall concede to MN Wisdom..(for now!)..lol

totally o/g lyrasilvertongue but how does that work when you live in a bungalow?

mine must be mains too because when the water went of last summer, cold water didn't come out of the upstairs taps despite water in the tank. Think the tank just feeds the heating.

No idea about bungalows. or what o/g means