What are the minor irritating things your OH does?

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I am trying to make light of DH's infuriating little habits so I don't end up making them into a bigger issue than they really are. A reality check really....

So I wondered if anyone else wanted to share so we can all have a collective " [hmmm] , Men!" instead of stewing and making those mountains into molehills.

So here are my first ones:

• Only ever doing half the washing up and always leaving the big bits for me to do the next day when all food has to be chiseled off!

• Putting the empty Vitalite pot back in the fridge instead of the bin - WHY?!

• Leaving empty cartons/milk bottles on the side or by the sink instead of rinsing and putting straight into recycling bin.

• Putting stuff in DS2's car seat when DH uses the car on his own so when I take the kids out I carry DS2 to the car only to have to empty his seat one handed before putting him in.

• Ditto putting clean washing from our bed (where waiting to be put away) into DS2's cot.

• Leaving his worn clothes all over the living room and getting arsey when he can't find them coz I've put them in the wash!

Oh God, I ddn't realise there were so many! Anyone want to join in?!

Seriously, thisxgirl, after this thread and your other one, why are you with him?

He pisses in the sink?

Irriating things DH does....i could also list all the things DH DOESNT do!

• Leaves the toilet seat up!! Also includes peeing around the bowl, and on ocassions on the floor!

*Never lifts a finger in the house unless i ask him to do something in particular

• Wees loudly with the bathroom door open in the mornings and wakes me up

• Trims his beard and gets hair ALL over the bathroom and fresh towels! Yuck.

• Farts loudly if im still in bed...he wakes very early!! Thinking that because im upstairs that i CANT hear him.

• DOESNT line the toilet with tissue before opening his bowels, so i basically hear everything....eeewwww...just the thought makes me retch!

• Gets black fluff from his socks all over our beige bedroom carpet...usually after ive just hoovered

*Would starve himself ALL day waiting for me to make him lunch instead of making himself a quick sandwich

*Picks up dog pooh in the garden..then washes his hands in the KITCHEN sink!!!

*Doesnt rinse his cereal bowl after having weetabix, so by the time i wash up its all stuck to the sides and a nightmare to scrape off

I could be here forever

• constantly asking me where his stuff is without looking for it first
• leaves window closed and bathroom door open after taking a poo
• snaps at me unreasonably and refuses to apologise even when he knows he was wrong
• leaves dirty clothes on floor, never in basket *only does housework 'when he's in the mood' then decided it's time to blitz the house and complains about how messy/dirty it is all the while
• bear with a sore head in the morning, either that or walking zombie.

OMG plenty more but I'll stop there. I'm particularly pissed off with him this evening.

I do so many of the things on this thread - DH gets so fed up with me!

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He breathes............

God, I do most of those things too and definitely outdo DF in the slob stakes.

DF is a professional broadcaster and he thinks it's really funny to put on a cheesy 'Tony Blackburn' type DJ voice all the time.

Drives me nuts

Claims he can't find things if they are not directly in his eyeline.

Physically incapable of placing dirty laundry in the laundry basket. It all goes in a pile on the floor right where he has taken it off, yet complains when he has no clean clothes, Futile, as he knows the rules.

Blames me if he has lost something, broken something, forgotten something etc...
He manages to some how make most things my fault. He recently blamed me for the fact he ate a hot curry and spent the next day letting off the worst farts. In some convoluted causal way this worked out to my fault so I had no right to moan about the pong.

Hides towels.

Points stuff out to me like 'There's a stain on the carpet', 'The milk carton is out on the side' 'That towel in the bathroom is a bit dirty'... but never actually carries through the necessary action.

Never puts anything away after he has used it.

Mine has many major annoyances (so much so I sometimes feel like sticking a knife in his back but hey ho, that's another thread). The "minor" ones:

• Is incapable of emptying a full bin. Instead, will create "pyramid" of rubbish and/or stuff so much into kitchen bin that the lid gets covered in muck which he is oblivious to

• Is incapable of emptying water out of iron - it would take seconds - so why not ??

• On the few occasions he washes up never sees (or cares) that the worktop is awash with water due to him chucking stuff willy-nilly on draining board - and if I point it out, gets all huffy because I'm apparently supposed to feel grateful that at least he's made an effort

• Never allows me to be ill. Whatever I have, he's always got something worse, or something similar ..... like he has to even out the effin "score" somehow. And when he's ill, moans and groans like it's the end of the world (I keep quiet about all except the very worst aches and pains and just get on with it usually).

• Is permanently glued to the effin laptop/Blackberry because, OMG, he might, heaven forbid, miss something "important" on effin Facebook. Blackberry goes on all days out and he pathetically lies that this is for work - which it isn't - but I can't prove 100% otherwise. I go to the loo and I guarantee when I come back the BB will be in his hand. Loser.

• Makes "helpful" remarks about my cooking when something's not quite right. I'm a damn good cook most of the time and he's struggle to boil an egg. But he won't come right out and say it - it's always something like "have you added an extra ingredient to this" ........ ungrateful-speak for I don't like it. Well, tough.

• Is damn greedy. Hoovers up leftovers, always "goes large" or chooses the "hungry" option ...... and then claims that his 13 month pregnant (at least) belly is because he hasn't got time to exercise (for the last 8 years) ..... funny how I can lose weight simply by eating less.

• Smokes (major annoyance)

• Snores (major annoyance)

• Grinds teeth (major annoyance)

• Talks / shouts in sleep (major annoyance)

(...... am on a roll now)

• Can't leave the house without fuffing about wasting time immediately before we were due to leave ..... "I'm just doing so and so, won't take a moment" etc

• Picks his toes / feet (and nose when he thinks I'm not looking)

• Rinses plates into half-sink - but imagines all the bits left behind somehow magically disappear all on their own. Again, gets huffy if I say anything.

• Similarly, imagines that sinks, toilets and baths clean themselves.

• Sits on the sofa with his flies open (to alleviate tightness of waistband apparently - well effin well lose some weight then) and hands down pants .... not fiddling or anything (most of the time anyway) but like he needs to keep hold of them in case they vanish .....

• Always manages to slop bits of cat food all over the place - instead of in their bowls - when he feeds the cats. Again, I am supposed to be grateful for the "effort" because they're "my" cats

• Insists on talking inane rubbish to me when I am working (from home) and yep, you've guessed it, gets huffy when I'm short in return cos I'm trying to concentrate.

• Has selective hearing when it comes to our daughter calling that she needs something.

I could go on ..... and on .... and on. Dunno why I bother really ?

NGNL I love your folding up dirty clothes idea. Think I'll adopt that!

Mine will leave the cardboard insert on the roll holder and balance the new roll on top. Grrrrrr...

My DP very kindly loads the dishwasher until full. But then doesn't switch it on. So then when I come to load it up after tea, I can't fit anything in.

He also leaves the door wide open after using the downstairs loo. Ooh, I hate that.

Hadn't read all thread but just spotted "DOESNT line the toilet with tissue before opening his bowels."

PMSL

Asks me where EVERYTHING is
Assumes I have medical stuff for very ailment he has yet would never buy paracetomol etc
Keeps endless old music magazines which he will never read and keeps buying more
Goes on and on about guitars like a teenager eg I might save up and buy a blah this drives me mad as ds is 15 and never harps on like his dad
Every few weeks says he's going vegi but never does but on a sunday when we have a roast says without fail'the veg are the best bit'which drives ds and I mad
God that was a rant really PMT anyone?

Mine sometimes eats like a dog. Especially crisps. Makes me incandescent with rage.

And refers to the toilet as the bog. I'm not really prudish but I hate that word.

Otherwise he's grand. I'm sure I piss him off more.

annoyingdevil My DH is a professional broadcaster too and instead of cheesy Tony Blackburn DJ voice he just doesn't bother talking to me when at home because he's fed up with talking at work

Just thought of another one: he always asks me did I buy x when I went to the shop. Well if you didn't put it on the list and I didn't know you wanted it then NO I DIDN'T BUY IT YOU PLEB!

Mine

• is a vegetarian who dislikes vegetables, thus making menu planning a trial
• once bought himself a new hairbrush rather than looking for his old one (I pointed out that this involved, the cash expenditure aside, a walk into town and looking for an identical hairbrush in Boots, so why couldn't he look at home? ... but frankly I don't think he took it all in).
• never farts and his feet don't smell - I can't tell his clean socks from his dirty ones - making yours truly feel like Waynetta Slob in comparison
• loses everything, and every time the loss takes him by utter surprise as if he has never lost anything before in his life.
• does the ironing but leaves things of mine "it looked too hard."

and there's more.

always walks mud through the house & doesn't clean it

when cooking he uses every pan and utensil we own (can you tell I tidy the kitchen and am a lazy cow?)

he insists on mowing the lawn at least once a week in summer. but he is a total slob in the house - spend the time picking up clothes you've dumped on the bedroom floor - who cares if the lawn gets to a few inches tall?!

similarly he will clean the bathroom every now and then with a tootthbrush because apparently I 'don't clean it properly' - probably because I am too busy tidying things away after him! Don't clean things with an f$%*ing toothbrush just tidy up after yourself.

moans about the amount of time I spend mumsnetting, says it's destroying our relationship, but then gets twitchy when I say turn off the crap American film that you've seen about 5 times already

thinks he has the right to get pissed off with the kids when he has spent about half an hour in their company - try 15, mate, then I might think you had a point

obviously still believes in magic - yes the laundry/cleaning fairy does everything so he doesn't have to

never feeds the cat/dog moans about how needy they are

pretends he's not competitive - he is

there is more.....

ok...

toenails (stored in bedside table for chewing at some point)

Shit splashes always left round rim of toilet for me to clean off (bonus - DOES NOT piss on seat as ex did)

hands constantly down trousers whilst watching telly

spends most of the time on football forums

our time off work is conveniently when the ashes or some other sport is on...will watch baseball till 4am if doesn't have to get up for work next day

never finishes diy jobs and then begins another

does the tying up of crisp bag thing and throws into fireplace (no fire there but must think it is a dumping ground)

always puts extra ingredients into curries/chinese etc even though not in recipe

if I buy booze, he's quite happy to drink it and then if we run out, he isn't that bothered about buying anymore

never really cleans up the house unless I leave it in such a state that it annoys him

drives miles and miles to save a few pence per litre on diesel

leaves clothes on floor

does not change pants/socks unless i steal them away

when weeding garden has been seen to throw weeds into hedge rather than the bin

that said...i do love him:-)

could probably go on and on if I think realllllly hard!

My goodness, I might be married to the perfect man!

I don't think mine does anything which irritates me really. Except maybe giving himself ridiculously long lists of things to accomplish in the day- but he has considerably more get up and go than I do, so I can't knock it really.

Mine is usually quite good (I'm the messy one around here ) but does annoy me that:

-he gets home from work & literally has to sit still for at least half an hour before he can do anything or talk to anyone

-gets annoyed with DD if she wants to talk or play with him having not seen him all day coz he's 'too tired' after work...clearly doesn't think me working part-time, being pregnant & looking after toddler is tiring

-stacks all the dirty dishes in the sink, without even soaking them, claiming he'll wash them later...so then when I ask if he's going to wash them he complains that all the food's crusted on now!!

-leaves all his dirty clothes lying around on the floor then complains that none of his clothes are clean

-leaves toilet seat up so when I get up in night to go to toilet (25 weeks pregnant so quite regular occurence!) I have to fully wake up to remember to check or get an unpleasant suprise

-complains that I go on MumsNet too much but spends all his time playing stupid computer games...apparently this is ok coz he needs to "relax" after his long hours at work!

-acts horrified when on his one day off a week I ask him to spend some time with DD so I can have an hour or two to myself...he seems to think that coz he only gets one day off (his choice) he should be able to spend it in peace...spending time with his family... ever??!

-constantly tries to match me whenever I'm feeling ill etc...eg. when we went to my 12 week scan (where I had to have full bladder) he spent whole time complaining that he "really really needed a wee" yet afterwards he miraculously didnt even need to go to the toilet!!

-thinks he's doing me a huge favour on the rare occasion that he puts a wash on...but doesn't seem to understand that there's no point if I've already done one that day & therefore there's no space left to hang clothes to dry

Wow, there's actually quite a long list already...could write more but he'd then complain when he gets home from work to find me in a mood with him "for no reason"

The OP's DH sounds really untidy and messy! I wouldn't call those "irritating little habits" - he's a lazy slob!