Am I over-reacting?

[lizzylemon]

Gawd, most of you are so lucky that you have OH's that actually know how to clean...

Yes mine KNOWS how to clean, he just chooses not too.

It's complaining about tripping on the pile of clean clothes and still leaving it there that gets me. Surely tripping is good reminder to take said pile up stairs no?

[HayleyB]

Lizzy, mine trips over his own pile of dirty clothes that I finally give in and put in the basket when the pile gets too big

[Flummery]

I'm saying nowt! (there's a first!) I'm the one that suffers from piles in this house! I heap things up then assume they are dealt with!

[Two_Sheds]

Surely tripping is good reminder to take said pile up stairs no?

Hah! I see your pile of clothes, and I twist it.
Mr Sheds came in last night and slept in a bed with a pile of dirty clothes IN it


(he'd left them there from the day before, assuming the Cleaning Fairy would dispose of them ... nah, she's on gardening duty)

[enrich100]

I'm saying nowt! (there's a first!) I'm the one that suffers from piles in this house! I heap things up then assume they are dealt with!

Thanks for being so honest about being a Piles Sufferer, Ive heard that the chemist has some creams that help

[Sprocket*]

Mr Sprocket is currently sulking after an incident this morning. I spent most of last weekend and the first half of the week in bed ill so nothing got done - he did however have to feed himself (can't call it cooking)! Was up half the night last night ill again but decided enough was enough and cleaned the kitchen to within an inch of its life this morning. In he troops as I am just admiring my hard work with two wet muddy dogs (Hmmmph), I ask him to empty the bin so he stomps over and manages to chuck most of it over the kitchen. Despite wanting to throw the bin at him I said "be careful". That was it, full blown hissy fit and he is still sulking 9 hours later....

I wouldn't mind but he does nothing else - when we got married it appears that he forgot how to look after himself. Am going to take two sheds approach, it could be fun!

[Snadger]

I'm saying nowt! (there's a first!) I'm the one that suffers from piles in this house!................!

Bit too much information there Flum!

[Two_Sheds]

Mr Sprocket is currently sulking ... I ask him to empty the bin so he stomps over and manages to chuck most of it over the kitchen. ... full blown hissy fit

Did you say Mr Sprocket or Mr Sheds?
that's the reaction I get if I ask him to do anything at all. We once had a (ridiculous) full blown screaming match because he leaves his dirty socks at the top of the stairs, then walks past them, and past the washing machine, on his way out the door.

I said "you walk past the machine, take your socks with you"
He says "you go to the machine too"
I says "yes, I put my own laundry in it. Do you ever take my laundry for me?"
No.

Ditto same argument with dirty plates, shoes, coats, drink cans and bottles. he just leaves them where he leaves them, usually next to the place where they should be, as if to say "I've brought them this far, and it was a really big effort, so you can do the rest"

[zazen999]

LOL - Mr Z isn't that bed......but having a cleaner come round once a fortnight is great for tidying up underwear.

'Do you want Fiona to see your pants'
'No'
'Well, get them in the washing basket then'.....



[Although it isn't a basket; it's an old metal trunk that was used in the Boer/1st and 2nd world wars that I bought off someone for �10 years back; we call it the treasure chest in an ironic twist].

[Hilary B]

LOL - Mr Z isn't that bed......but having a cleaner come round once a fortnight is great for tidying up underwear.

'Do you want Fiona to see your pants'
'No'
'Well, get them in the washing basket then'.....



[Although it isn't a basket; it's an old metal trunk that was used in the Boer/1st and 2nd world wars that I bought off someone for �10 years back; we call it the treasure chest in an ironic twist].

Now that one I LIKE!

'Get it tidied before the cleaner comes round.' Yep!
Must admit the problem here isn't that he doesn't put things away, it's more that he puts them in any out-of-sight location, regardless. The exception is the washing-up. Once washed up things stay on the rack until used again, unless I put them away, but I think that is because of the reaction (from me) when he piled large plates on top of small plates, and one fell out of the cupboard and smashed......
One thing he is incapable of is moving an item already in the cupboard in order to put something else underneath.....

[Scottishnewbie]

oh boy! and here was me thinking that it was only me & my OH! it's quite refreshing to see that we ALL have the same blokes if a funny sort of way. makes you feel like you arent the only one on the planet!

thanks fellow grapes...next time wont seem half so bad now that i know x

[kirsty b]

I find OH gets very vexed if I drop sweetie papers in his car, or put sticky fingers on the windows ...

I do that in his car - accidentally of course!