I love my DH very much but why does he...?

[PavlovtheCat]

Put laundry next to the laundry bin not in it.
Take toothpaste and brush out of holder, uses then puts on the side next to the holder, not in it.
Use shower gel/shampoo from the bathroom tidy and but it on the side next to the bathroom tidy, not in it.
Take off DDs nappy/pjs in the hallway and leaves them there.
Open his sock drawer fully so it hangs out, and then not close it when he has finished (same with all drawers and cupboard doors).
Leave the bath water in the bath when he has finished.
Leave spilt water over the bathroom floor.
Not make the bed when gets up after me (most of the time).

AAAAAAARGH.

Feel free to add your own

Leaves the finished toilet roll tubes on top of the loo. I refuse to move them and we end up with a game of loo roll tube jenga as they pile up. Grrrrrrr

My DH is very good about being tidy but there are one or two things ...

Leaves dishwasher tablet packets on top of the dishwasher when the bin is right next to it;
Throws away the recycling;
Empties the bin but doesn't replace the bag;
Bashes all the stubble out of his razor, into the basin and leaves it there to set hard like cement;
Leaves clothes on the bedroom floor for weeks then gets arsey when they are not clean.

opens the kitchen cupboard, takes out what he needs and walks off, leaving the CUPBOARD DOOR OPEN!! Every bloody time, and every time I call him and point at it, and he does Surprised Face, like he hadn't noticed. doors just close themselves in his world then, yes?

Gets out of bath, leaves water in, leaves clothes on bathroom floor AND COMES DOWNSTAIRS, INTO THE KITCHEN AND PAST THE WASHING BASKET

basically everything you lot have already said

oh the not putting a new bag in the bin really annoyes me!

DH last night said "have I got some clean jeans"...prompted response from me "yes because I've done the washing but have decided that if you don't put stuff in the laundry basket I won't wash it" he agreed it was fair enough...he left last night's boxers, t-shirt and jeans on the floor this morning RIGHT NEXT TO LAUNDRY BASKET!!

Pavlov, are you married to my DH by any chance?? (although I would have to add leaves the kitchen lights whenever he leaves the room - only the kitchen lights, is meticulous about turning off all other lights)

ah yes - washing up but then not taking an extra 10 seconds to wipe down the kitchen surfaces

never - NEVER - takes glasses/mugs he's used into the kitchen to be washed after use

I have my little brother staying with us at the moment - 10x worse and actually grateful for a DH who at least does housework when asked to!

Always getting in the shower just when everyone else needs the bathroom in the morning!
What is it about kitchen lights? Dh likes to have minimal lighting in lounge while watching TV but I go into kitchen & its like Blackpool Tower.

oh - I have remembered another one - he can't turn radios off - usually leaves a trail of them on behind him in whichever room (or garage) he has been working in - all happily singing to themselves.

And on the shutting doors thing - I have 3 boys who all manage to open drawers but never close them (DH is actually quite good at shutting drawers to be fair )

Puts the dishes next to the dishwasher and not in it.

Puts dirty clothes on the floor next to the washing machine and not in it.

He says it's because he doesn't know what else is in there and doesn't want to put dirty dishes in with clean or dirty clothes in with clean but FFS surely a quick look would sort that out?

always leave the light on in the cupboard under the stairs and the door open

always leave a used teaspoon on the worktop next to the kettle- it's easy to chuck it in the sink from there

always do the washing up last thing at night (not in itself a problem), then leave the dishcloth in the bowl of dirty water overnight

always turn the extractor fan off when leaving the bathroom after a poo, so that the next person in there is hit by the smell

in the days pre dishwasher - wash up - but never emptied out the water - I would always find it cold and stagnant - somehow he thought he might come back to it in a minute so left it.

oh god i HATE the washing up bowl being left...thankfully DH pours it away but darling brother is incapable...

Incapable of ever putting a lid back on anything.. toothpaste, marmalade, marmite, lemonade, etc. After 20 odd years of this, I find myself automatically tightening every lid I see when out and about.

Putting the recycling rubbish beside the bin instead of inside it. That really riles me.

Leaves all the bathroom lights and fans on, but berates me and DCs for leaving one tiny landing light on by accident.

Follows me around as I put laundry away, turning the lights off.

Leaves the telly on standby if he's last to bed.

Total hypocrite where turning things off to save electricty is concerned

Oh there are some great ones there!!!

Yes lids, I have spilt onion juice over myself in the past picking the jar up the lid without thinking, in the fridge, but not fastened, just placed on it!!!

Tigers - at least your DH empties the bin! DH, like some, stuff the bin full of more crap until it overflows, then he gets a carrier bag, and starts to fill that! He does not do emptying!

Oh I shook the tomato sauce bottle once and it went everywhere, thanks dh.

The opposite isn't much fun, sitting quietly reading and having the lights turned off. Having your stuff put back in the fridge before you have made a sandwich with it, and my personal favourite having a cup with a cm of ribena waiting for the kettle to boil and it being thrown away.

fills the dishwasher but doesn't turn it on and doesn't tell me it needs to be run so that i come downstairs in the morning with hungry kids and there are no clean bowls just a great stinking dishwasher

refuses to rinse the toothpaste canister and leaves toothpaste dribbling down the side of it

refuses to rince the cap of the mouthwash so the mouthwash goes skanky (had to start buying a seperate bottle of the same mouthwash for myself as it was too disgusting)

refuses to clean the utility room even though he uses it 10/15 times a day to roll a fag and leaves tobacco everywhere and i only go in there to fill the washing machine

insists on stirring tea as if he's whiskig eggs and splatters it everywhere, but never wipes it up

holds his hands to high and waves them about so much when washing his hands in the kitchen the whole counter gets splattered

refuses to empty the tub we keep tea bags in (have to pay per weight for rubish so tea bags go in the compost)

if he uses the last of something he leaves the empty packet/box/carton/bottle on the counter for me to deal with as if he can't find the bins

lol... dp tightens the lids on things so hard i can't open them. he's ruined all the kids sippy cups by overtightening them

Are you in fact married to MY husband?

my dp writes phone messages on anything he can get his hands on; letters, my address book, the a-z, it drives me mad. the other day we were going to visit our niece and take a birthday card and when i picked up the envelope he had written directions on it.

tab1 these are ALL my DH!!!

I am so glad I am not the only one with a DH who has trouble 'sequencing' I think it was described as!

Stuff wrappers down the side of the sofa
Put wet cloths in the sink (e.g. soaking tea towels)
Another one who CANNOT hang up a towel or a tea towel
Lose his hair bobble every night then ask me accusingly where they all are when I sleep with my hair up (/threadrot - is that weird? /threadrot)
Move his head instead of the brush when brushing his teeth (ok, this one is quite cute)
Compulsively buy: headphones, bike lights, lighters/matches, those beard trimmer things.
Start new food when we get it instead of finishing the old one
Stir the pasta with a dirty sauce spoon so the pan needs proper washing [pasta-pan-rinsing slob emoticon]

oh my god, these are all the things my dh used to do.
The tabacco and contents of his pockets everywhere, the wet towels, the empty packets left on the side - or back in the cupboard, the stubble in the sink/stuck to bathroom walls? piles of dirty clothes left on floor.

i am SINGLE now, YAAAAAAAAAAY!!
And my house? immaculate (cough, cough)

Close drawers
Throw away or even do up used nappies, yes, even shitty ones
Open fresh pasta in the fridge and eat approx half a portion (raw) so it won't do for a dinner
Spoons in the sink! (we have a dishwasher)
Kitchen light too, but the one over the hob. Always on. Turns it on for me when I am cooking

wow, I am starting to think my dh is a treasure - he only does the things in the op!