while dh is away..

[edgarcat]

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Tell me more about the oven cleaning man! Just found website but no prices?

I throw all of the junk he collects out when he isn't looking. He stores things in places he doesn't think I'll find them and when I do I go through the same old routine of where did you get it, what do you want it for, why are we keeping it, does it have to be kept there and so on. In our area of London people throw out the most amazing things and even though he has brought back some great stuff, fridge, stereo, tv and so on a lot of the stuff he brings home is just junk. Things like white medical floor tiles, copper piping and so on. He is a hoarder and I'm not so that is probably one of the main things we argue about.

I'm always getting the cleaner in to do my ironing and not telling him.

When I think about it there are loads of things I don't tell him about. There is also the £500 in parking fines I racked up that I haven't told him about but have just paid.

how sneaky you all are!
edgarcat, along the lines of the "throw out your microwave if it smells" advice presented to you by another poster, may I recommend you to "buy an aga and never have to clean the oven again". Bargain at about £7,000. Luckily mine came with the house, but it is a joy not having a revolting job like that festering quietly in the corner of the kitchen.

actually, I've just thought. I wax. Can't do it with him in the house - so inelegant if he were to walk in on me struggling with my bikini line...

wiltshirelass at your 'buy an aga' advice. Edgarcat, I too would like to know about the oven cleaning man. I tell dp everything but it's so boring sometimes I bet he wishes I didn't.

While dp is away I get my boyfriend around for a bit of passion.

Then he cleans the oven for free.

I eat everything he doesn't like, in vast quantities, and watch all the telly he also doesn't like.

Have not contemplated our oven for a long time. Suspect dp does it, as it appears not too appalling.

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I get an ironing lady to do all the ironing while dh is away, so I don't have to do it myself. And I try to make sure it's a big pile.

Motherinferior, I also eat food that dh doesn't like when he's away (like curry). I usually take the opportunity to hire out a 'chick flick' video too, so that I can watch it in peace without comments from dh like, "I see you're watching one of your Women's Weekly movies again." - GGRRRR.

Definitely watch allthe telly he doens't like - luckliy with Casualty/Holby City it's pretty easy to pick up the story lines!!

Also Crossing over with John Edwards on Living TV - (the programme is about john edwards - i don't watch it with him!!)

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1. Eat lots of pasta (dh doesn't like it)

2. Rent lots of chick flicks to watch

XAusted - I'm a pasta eater too! I thought my dh was the only person in the world not to like pasta, but I'm obviously wrong! Still can't understand why anyone can't like pasta though.....

I have crisp sandwiches for supper. My dh cannot understand how anyone can eat something so unhealthy, and believes I have completely given them up (it was part of my staple diet before we were married)

I go food shopping with ds (nrly 8) and when the two younger ones are in bed, we cook scrummy things like duck and plum sauce, then gorge ourselves stupid whilst watching blockbusters like 'Titanic'. Also get into pyjamas at ridiculous times (like 6.30!). Forgot to mention the wine, but that goes without saying Oh and also play chess with ds who usually hammers me esp after the wine (me, not him!) Generally, I find the younger kids take up lots of my time, so over compensate with ds1 when dh is away.