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.

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Just a few random why-oh-why-oh-whys perpetrated by DP.
Do almost all the washing up - but leave, for instance, two teaspoons in a few centimetres of water in the sink, so I find it all cold and brackish a bit later on
Touch up the paint (usually on the woodwork) at random, so the whole house is booby-trapped with dabs of wet white paint, completely invisible, until you brush against them
Attempt to "recycle" socks and pants he has "only worn for five minutes"
Follow me round turning lights off "to save the planet" - then leave the iron on for half an hour because he has forgotten he switched it on and has got distracted by something else
Use tupperware containers to mix polyfilla or other noxious substances in, thus rendering them unusable for food storage
Eat everything in sight, so I can never count on having made enough of anything to have some left over to serve the next day/freeze
Eat food I have bought for DS - for example, Muller Little Stars which to be honest I think even DS at 4.5 is a little too grown-up for

I also know the 'brackish water' thing Bluestocking - instead of putting something in the dishwasher (or even leaving it on the side if the dishwasher's clean) putting it in the sink with a bit of water in it... YIK!!

Leave socks at bottom of stairs every night, maybe in case they walk up themselves?

Leave little mysery bits of paper everywhere and loose change, which dc end up nicking.

Create jumble sale efect at side of bed, then dump it all in washing basket at the weekend.

Never, ever unpack a bag. He goes away on business regularly and each time takes a new bag until there are no more. Then he takes the first bag and empties contents into floor, among the jumble sale.

Eat things like Dora the Explorer biscuits if I don't buy him his own treats.

Not think any of the above is a problem!

Inability to remove his pants from his trousers when he takes them off. And obviously no dirty clothes make it to the laundry basket.

Takes marmite and peanut butter jars out of the cupboard to spread on toast. Never ever puts them back in again afterwards. And also leaves a knife on the work surface too, just to show he has been there.

Never ever carries anything from bottom of stairs to top of it. Leaves that for the bottom of the stairs fairy.

Never throws away any empty container.

Never tidies out his pockets which end up with all manner of stuff in them. Also seems to manage to lose his bank card with alarming regularity, possibly because he never puts it back in his wallet.

That was therapeutic

Never does anything house work related ithout being asked (thereby turning me into a 'nag' ).

Never puts teabags into compost caddy.

Doesn't put lid back on marge etc. or put things away after making sandwich/ toast/ snack.

moans at me for not checking everything locked up before I go to bed even if I go up at 8pm and he is still up a midnight

of course the never puttting anything away is very boring, but it's a man thing and as far as i can gather it's a very common problem. But the thing that really gets on my nerves is when he cooks dinner. the mess is inexplicable. Every bowl, spoon, saucepan we own is employed. Every condement and ingredent is left out. It is more work clearing it all up than if I had just cooked it my self.

O! the pockets. DH empties his around the house. I call them his little piles of crap (receipts, used train tickets which I can't throw away because they're expenses, but naturally never get sorted or claimed for, bits of unused chewing gum, lighters, loose change and the occasional paper windfall - finders keepers ). He now has a drawer for them - his ever bigger drawer of crap.

I always thought that bringing out the rubbish was a stereotypically male job. WHY???? THEY NEVER DO IT! THat overflowing bin thing with a carrier bag overflowing beside it really gets to me. Usually I'll end up emptying bin before it gets to that stage - but sometimes will leave it just to see how long it takes DP to do it. I don't test him like this any more - becase HE WILL NEVER DO IT.

thanks

I'm so glad its not just my DP who's like this! Most of the above plus:

Switching on computer first thing in the morning and then leaving it switched on for the rest of the day without using it.

On the (rare) occasion he washes up, will always leave one item unwashed at the end. He did it this morning - he washed everything up except one cup. Why??

My current annoyance is he's put lots of things on the landing under the loft hatch ready to put into the loft. They have been there for three weeks now.

Take to foil lid off the milk and leave it facing down on the sideboard! Every time!

And put his contact lenses in leaving the packets on the sink despite there being a bin right next to the sink.

And why despite telling me that he always puts his contacts in the bin at the end of the day do I keep finding them shrivelled up on the carpet?

I do love him though, he does more housework than me!

They are all the same, aren't they? Does that mean they'll never change? Should we just stop nagging and do it myself so I can be the nice carefree girls they married? Or will we become seething balls of resentment until one day a teaspoon in the sink tips us over the edge and we file a ream of the pettiest divorce cases in the history of the world?

Turns the kitchen lights on regardless fo time of day, kitchen gets loads of light so only really need them on in the winter evenings (his Mum has her kitchen light on all the time)

Leaves washing on top of the laundry basket

leaves keys where dd2 (18months) can reach them and then starts monaing at 5am (when he goes to work)O that he can't find them (there is a hook high up on wall for this reason!!

Wears a tshirt for a few hours when he changes after work and either puts it in wash bin (not dirty) or screws uo in ball in bottom of his wardrobe

Opens post and leaves it there, doesnt throw away the rubbsih and put the important stuff upstairs so I can file it

Is incapable of tidying the toy room properly, he chucks everything in 2 boxes and thats it (each set of toys has its won box ie dolly stuff, play food/plates/ jigsaws etc) so when the dd's got to play they cant find anything

I can empathise with many of these.

My hubby will get gone off milk out of the fridge, or milk the girls have just finished with and leave it on the side next to the sink.

Shoes are left wherever

When he washes up, he leaves the worktop next to the sink covered in water.

Every bit of his mess just gets dumped in his study, and has never been properly tidied in 6 years of living here.

When he cleans the girls' teeth, he leaves the tootbrush and paste wherever he was when he brushed their teeth (rarely in the bathroom) and then moans at me when he can't find anything the next day.

Leaves everything where he puts it down, and then moans at me when he can't find anything.

following on from this thread I told DH last night I will not wash his clothes unless they are IN the laundry basket rather than strewn all over the house and dirty t-shirts and socks I find in the living room will be piled on top of his playstation til he clears them up - he dutifully cleared all his dirty washing around the house last night and piled it ON TOP OF the laundry basket!!! argh - why not in the damn thing???

so - if it is a man thing - what I do to train my 3 boys (5 and 7) not to do all these things ?!

Sadly they are already showing these tendencies - like dropping things wherever they finish with them - so how do I stop their future other halves having to cope with this ?

not pushing his chair back in under the table, just leaving it sitting in the middle of the room.

And the tea towel thing? Ahh, if I had a pound.....

Piling stuff destined for the loft on the landing under the loft hatch happens in this house too.

Also.. bleaches the sink with his bare hands, walks through to bathroom where best towels are to dry said bleachy hands (unrinsed). I have loads of expensive, posh, but weirdly patchy towels now.

Oh.. and doing me a 'favour' by hanging the washing out with bleach on his hands. Grrrr.

Using a green scratchy scouring thing to clean everything including mirror finish, stainless steel kitchen appliances

Chews his fingernails off and spits them whereever he is sitting!!!!!!

Our laundry basket is on my side of the bed. DH can't be arsed to walk that far so lobs his boxers/socks/whatever across the room from wherever he happens to be. Invariably he misses, so I have to dislodge them from the lampshade, the picture frame, my pile of books on the bedside table..... Oh, and lift up the lid of the basket!

Claims to have 'cleaned the bathroom' when all he's really done is give the sink a quick wipe and squirt bleach down the loo (do the bath and floor clean themselves then?).

Leaves the washing-up marigolds sitting in a puddle by the sink causing them to become all wet inside which I discover when next plunging my hand in (ewww!)

As well as lots of habits already mentioned!

Wow - I am so pleased to have read this thread. I feel so much beetter about life now I know it's not just my DP.

Don't know if this was said but puts something in a safe place and can never find it again {grin}