How many days do you have? Seriously. I love him to death but he was also raised in an Indian household with a maid & is clueless about being an adult home owner. The best way I can put it is I am married to Rajesh Koothrapalli. Some of what he has done in the past week alone:
He does the empty milk thing all.the.fukking.time. Although yesterday it was an empty egg carton.
He takes off his pants the second he comes in the door & laves them wherever. I am in the living room now looking @ 2 pairs of pants on the couch.
He does not hang up the bath mat after showering so it never fully dries.
He will open a bag of chips & then not clip them shut so they go stale.
He will buy a watermelon, cut it up, then put the pieces in the fridge UNCOVERED. Sticky grossness!
He is incapable of charging his phone. If I don't put it on the charger before I go to bed it'd never have power.
I could go on & on. And it probably sounds like I hate him, but I don't. Most of the time...
I've been with my husband for 10 years now....I still have to put the seat back down before I pee. He also has bad aim and doesn't clean up. I've gotten used to peeing with my feet wide apart. I'm so sick of marching him back into the bathroom and shoving a cleaning bottle into his hands. It's fucking nasty.
See why I don't think too highly of my MIL's parenting advice? She did a fine job at giving her son guidance.
I didn't even include this because I don't consider it a stupid little thing. Well, the toilet seat, maybe (although with two daughters you'd think my H would have even more reason to oblige), but the pee on the floor is a HUGELY disgusting thing. He doesn't believe me when I say it's infinitely easier to keep the house clean when he's traveling. (He also never, ever wipes his crumbs or spills from the kitchen counter or floors.)
Post by Overthemoon on Aug 1, 2013 18:24:27 GMT -5
He disappears into the bathroom for 30-45 minutes at a time, usually when we need to get ready to go somewhere or the kids are being particularly needy.
The mouth noises, omg the mouth noises.
Clothes everywhere.
He gets caught up in productivity but he is awful at prioritizing, even if I tell him what we need to do. I was so pissed when he dumped the kids on me for the entire Saturday before our daughter's birthday party while he supposedly worked on the to-do list. I find out that he wasted the entire day cleaning out the garage, and oops didnt have time to do anything on the list so he will "just" do it next weekend. The weekend of the party. I thought for sure I was going to kill him. He does this ALL the time.
Post by Doggy Mommy on Aug 1, 2013 18:27:04 GMT -5
We have a recurring argument where he's like, "Why is the light on?" and I'm all, "So I can SEE." And then he's like, "But it hurrrts my eyeees!" and I'm like, "I CAN'T SEE IN THE DARK."
He also says "underarm deodorant" instead of just deodorant. What other kinds of deodorant are there?!
He makes this disgusting mouth noise, usually when he's sleeping, that's kind of like a smacking sound a few times in a row, and omg. I have enough trouble with sounds, but this one makes me really want to just climb right out of my skin and leave it behind for him to deal with in the morning.
When he doesn't hear/understand what I'm saying, he just changes the topic.
He doesn't use a plate when he makes a sandwich.
Making said sandwich requires leaving the bread open on on counter, the mayo open on the another, meat in yet another section, with piles of paper towel crumpled hither and yon.
He never throws diapers away. (He leaves them on top of the dresser for...I'm not sure exactly. I always trail behind him and throw them away.
ETA: Oh! And he can't bend at the waist. Like, there will be things all over the floor - toys, trash, throw pillows from the dogs, whatever - but if it's on the floor it doesn't exist.
But I leave time on the microwave and didn't even know you were SUPPOSED to hang up bathmats, so I guess I'm not a prize, either.
How many days do you have? Seriously. I love him to death but he was also raised in an Indian household with a maid & is clueless about being an adult home owner. The best way I can put it is I am married to Rajesh Koothrapalli. Some of what he has done in the past week alone:
He does the empty milk thing all.the.fukking.time. Although yesterday it was an empty egg carton.
He takes off his pants the second he comes in the door & laves them wherever. I am in the living room now looking @ 2 pairs of pants on the couch.
He does not hang up the bath mat after showering so it never fully dries.
He will open a bag of chips & then not clip them shut so they go stale.
He will buy a watermelon, cut it up, then put the pieces in the fridge UNCOVERED. Sticky grossness!
He is incapable of charging his phone. If I don't put it on the charger before I go to bed it'd never have power.
I could go on & on. And it probably sounds like I hate him, but I don't. Most of the time...
OMG the pants. Lol!!!! Yes mine does this too. I'm so tired of him walking around in underwear 90% of the time. I'm assuming your DH puts other clothes on after? Mine does not.
Oh! And, when he says he will clean up after a meal, and 4 hours later everything is exactly the same as when I finished cooking. This seriously fills me with rage to the point that when I was on bed rest, he rearranged the furniture so I couldn't see into the kitchen from the living room. Apparently, that was easier than just cleaning up the damn kitchen in a timely manner,
My mind is telling me hey shostakovich, don't even worry about that drawer - you're just going to have to open it again to return the scissors, so you might as well leave it open now! And I'm like, "Great point, brain!" and I leave the drawer open.
lol.
My H explains it the same way when I bug him about leaving the refrigerator or freezer door open, even though sometimes he'll be standing away from it for a good five minutes, probably more. At least with cabinets and drawers it's not wasting electricity!
How many days do you have? Seriously. I love him to death but he was also raised in an Indian household with a maid & is clueless about being an adult home owner. The best way I can put it is I am married to Rajesh Koothrapalli. Some of what he has done in the past week alone:
He does the empty milk thing all.the.fukking.time. Although yesterday it was an empty egg carton.
He takes off his pants the second he comes in the door & laves them wherever. I am in the living room now looking @ 2 pairs of pants on the couch.
He does not hang up the bath mat after showering so it never fully dries.
He will open a bag of chips & then not clip them shut so they go stale.
He will buy a watermelon, cut it up, then put the pieces in the fridge UNCOVERED. Sticky grossness!
He is incapable of charging his phone. If I don't put it on the charger before I go to bed it'd never have power.
I could go on & on. And it probably sounds like I hate him, but I don't. Most of the time...
OMG the pants. Lol!!!! Yes mine does this too. I'm so tired of him walking around in underwear 90% of the time. I'm assuming your DH puts other clothes on after? Mine does not.
He will continue to wear a top (shirt, sweater, etc.) but is anti-pants. It's been that way since forever. I don't get it. Maybe it's similar to my taking off the bra once I know I'm @ home for the evening? But even then it goes in the laundry basket!
Post by simplyinpenguin on Aug 1, 2013 18:53:19 GMT -5
I hate it when H wears the same articles of clothing for days on end before changing into something else. This includes his boxers as well.
The fact that he sprayed bleach on my colored walls. My lavender wall now has streaks of aqua running down and it's very noticeable. We're (I mean, HE) going to have to repaint the kitchen.
I'll get done cleaning the house, only to have him shower, leave puddles on the floor and walk out, into my clean hallway, leaving water all over that turns into watermarks.
When he plays his video games and screams at the tv like his opponent can hear him. Only it's I that can hear him and I don't appreciate being screamed at for something I have no involvement in.
He continuously leaves our gaming systems on because of this silly notion that if he turns off the tv, then everything else gets turned off. No, and now our Wii is starting to burn out because he's left it on constantly many, many nights.
He thinks that time revolves around him. I'll say we need to be somewhere at 5 so we need to leave at 4:15, at 4:15 is when he decides that a sandwich MUST be made, the trash NEEDS to be dealt with, he needs to use the bathroom, or something else. We never leave at the time we're supposed to. I hate being late. I've started leaving him behind when he gets that way. He gets pissy about that, but he's improving somewhat.
As far as DH -- he cannot stand silence. I prefer silence as a default. As soon as he walks in the door, the TV goes on until we go to sleep. He turns on his bedside radio, then LEAVES THE ROOM. It drives me nuts! I walk in and the radio is blaring and he's not even in there! So I turn it off. Eventually he comes back in and turns it back on.
H always has the TV on. The worst is when he's home on the weekends and has SportsCenter on at the same time as sports talk radio (and in the same room!), and then leaves to run an errand but doesn't turn off either. Like I'm going to keep listening?!
He also always turns on SportsCenter before bed, even if all he does is get right into bed and fall asleep. Sometimes he'll roll over and ask if I have the remote so I can turn it off.
He also listens to the car radio really loudly. If he ever drives my car, or I drive his, I am always shocked by the volume when I turn on the car after he's been in it. It doesn't even matter if the kids are with him or not, it's always super loud!
He leaves the almost empty milk and juice in the fridge, like with two sips left in it.
He doesn't dry himself properly before walking around after the shower, leaving puddles all over the bathroom floor.
H asks me where everything is, all the time.
He leaves his dirty socks on the floor or on the bed.
He leaves his entire work clothes of the day on the bed, dirty shirt, suit, belt, etc
he leaves hangers on the bed when he gets dressed in the morning. While I am STILL SLEEPING in it.
He refuses to buy produce because he says he doesn't know how to pick and I am too anal. JUST DON'T BUY THE MOLDY BAG OF GRAPES, JACKASS. i am not that picky.
He refuses to take pain meds for headaches (like advil or tylenol) and instead spends the whole day complaining about his headache.
I could go on and on and on. lol
We are married to the same person.
Mine leaves his toothbrush on the sink every single day. He also will take a new roll of toilet paper and put it on top of the toilet tank instead of on the roll. We have one of those toilet roll stands so all he would have to do is slide the cardboard off and slide on the new roll. Nope. It goes on the toilet tank.
Wipes his hand on the kitchen towel, walks off with it and throws it somewhere around the house, then gets all flustered when there is no towel in the kitchen. "omg! Why do we never have towels in the kitchen? I grab one and you get rid of itttt!". Uh, no dude. You left it on the dining room table. And the computer desk. And the frigging deep freeze.
And he always has to stick his big fingers in my chip bowl. I wouldn't mind sharing if he didn't act as if he was never going to eat again. Get your own chips and stop shoveling mine down your gullet.
He will put a dirty dish or glass right next to the sink, but not in the sink. I just don't understand why he can't move the dirty item 3 more inches. After nearly 7 years he's gotten better about it, but it still happens sometimes.
He leaves his shit all over the place. He is also a packrat which does not help. When he comes home he immediately takes off his clothes and puts them wherever, in the living room. He will not use his dresser. He has piles of clothes ON TOP of the dresser, but not IN the drawers.
Say we have a quart of skim milk in the fridge that is almost empty, and a new one of a different brand (but still skim milk) that we haven't opened yet.
If he goes to pour a glass of milk, he'll open the new milk because he refuses to mix the "two different milks."
You might be married to me. I'm sorry for all the cartons of two sips of milk spoiling in the fridge.
He needs variety. Numerous open types of cereal, milk, toothpaste, face wash, mouth wash, etc. He is the exact opposite of my finish off one thing before opening another personality.
He asked me not to do his laundry yet he doesn't get to his laundry in the timely manner that I want him to, lol.
He has glasses of water around the house in all of the places he frequents. He calls them water checkpoints and drinks from all the glasses throughout the day. That one cracks me up.
Overall, none of these really annoy me. Those are the things I like to give him a hard time about.
I have water checkpoints, and now I know what to call them. lol
We have double sinks in the kitchen. The garbage disposal is in the right sink. I don't want dirty dishes in that sink, I want it open so I can use the garbage disposal for other dirty dishes so that I can rinse them and PUT THEM IN THE DISHWASHER. Makes sense to me. Not to him, he doesn't put stuff in the dishwasher, he stacks them in the right sink so that when we (read that as I) rinse dishes, it will wash the stuff off of those plates an din to the garbage disposal too. Uh no, your dirty dishes BLOCKED THE DISPOSAL. We argue over this at least once a month.
He takes his clothes off in the family room and leaves them. The laundry room is off the family room, if he knows there are clean clothes in there then he'll just dress in there in the morning. He thinks the family room/laundry rooms are his closet.
Leaves his shoes and socks wherever he takes them off.
We have a vanity in our bathroom, it's between the two sinks. I have a small stool that I sit on to do my make-up in the morning. When he showers instead of hanging his towel, he throws his wet towel on my stool.
When he does laundry he leaves the dry clothes in the dry. Waste of my time cause I have to toss something damp in there and re-dry them to get the wrinkles out.
Leaves everything he does wherever he does it. He simply does not know how to put things away. Funny thing is his brother is the opposite, he is anal about everything being spotless and perfect. His wife had her recipe box with the most frequently used recipes in the front. He alphabetized the entire thing and chewed her out that it wasn't already done. I had have told him he was now the cook. Mess with my recipe box means you want to be the cook - have fun. I'd be over there, have a glass of tea on the table, run upstairs for about 2-3 minutes to check on the kids and come back down. Teas was down the drain and he'd washed and put away the glass. He has 4 teenage daughters - 2 are just like my H and drives my BIL nuts. I love it.
H is a pack rat. We have a 3 car garage. I constantly have to keep on him to not encroach on my part of the garage. He won't get rid of anything ever.
He will put a dirty dish or glass right next to the sink, but not in the sink. I just don't understand why he can't move the dirty item 3 more inches. After nearly 7 years he's gotten better about it, but it still happens sometimes.
this is the same theory at the worn, but not dirty clothes on the floor. He's leaving his options open to use the dish/glass again. It can't go back in the cupboard, but once it's in the sink it's done.
Doesn't put his dirty dishes in the dishwasher. Hell most of the time he doesn't even bring them to the kitchen. He leaves clothes all over the floor in the morning and evenings. He gets up about 30 minutes before he has to be at his bus stop in the morning, so he is always rushing out the door and getting mad when he forgets something or something isn't ready for him to go right when he wants it to be. He takes the cushions off the couch in the evening when he is relaxing there and doesn't put them back (not just decorative pillows either, the actual back of the couch cushions).