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We moved into a new house 2 years ago.
The old crockery drying rack we bought with us doesn’t quite fit on the draining board of the new house’s kitchen sink.
I pull it a couple of cm to the front so it doesn’t wobble (which of course is the only correct position!).
The wife pushes it to the back - no idea why - and it doesn’t quite sit properly and wobbles.
We’ve been pushing it backwards and forwards for two years now - neither of us has said anything, but there have been disapproving glances.
…she’s now bought a plastic sink bowl, which she knows I hate. So we’ll now have years of me taking it out and the wife putting it back! 🙂
I can only see this ending up with a ton of sharp sand and some good thick slabs
Every single ****ing night before I go to bed, I move the glass that my wife has put on the worktop by the sink further back as she puts it right at the front where it could get knocked off!
We've got 2 kids that are 16 and 13 so she knows about this shit. I suppose I could put it in the dishwasher but she hasn't so why should I!!.....
If any of my stuff is hidden under the guise of 'tidying' I only waste a certain amount of time looking for it before basically standing, arms folded until my other half finds what she's done with it.
My rule - as soon as you move something of someone else's you accept responsibility for it's whereabouts. However, this can also be extended to the kids' stuff - because if they don't tidy it after the 4th/5th time of asking it will either be on their bed or in the bin depending on mood.
Oh, yes, and dishwasher stacking. My wife often either moans I'm not doing it 'right' or starts moving stuff as I'm putting it in. I just turn and walk off. If she's doing it anyway, there's no point in duplicating the task.
You think I'm going to type anything on a compter screen she's reading whilst feigning watching a film... .
The loaf of sodding bread! I twist the top to keep it fresh, my husband just tucks it under if I'm lucky or it just gets pushed down a bit. It's an endless battle of me twisting the bread and him just chucking it any such way. Drives me batty!
Toilet rolls.
If any of my stuff is hidden under the guise of ‘tidying’
Don't get me started on the hidey-tidy. It is the bane of my existence.
Don’t get me started on the hidey-tidy.
Pure filth! Wash your mouth out with soap
I feel like I'm playing bingo on this thread lol! I've got a full house!
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There was just way too much to type. Maybe I need a good divorce lawyer.
That kitchen drawer picture is making me twitch already.
Appears that there’s actually only three of us on STW and the rest are alter-egos, shills or sock puppets.
This thread is quite reassuring. Not so sure about the unspoken part though. Shoes in front of the freezer door when there is a mat for them to go on which doesn't require me to move said shoes every time I open the freezer. If you're reading this, well you know what to do!
Thats set me off twitching just looking at it
Me too!!! I have to surreptitiously rearrange them so I can sleep at night.
(Also, it looks like I should have cleaned the cutlery tray before taking the picture...)
Now I know where all my bloody teaspoons have gone!
Jesus do you have a problem and steal them from hotels and restaurants?
Every time I go to the sink the drain 'catchers' are removed and left in the sinks, and the washing up bowl with drain has the drain removed and put to one side.
I neatly replace them, where they are useful and can do the job they are there for.
We also have a draining rack issue.
MrsMC doesn't have full use of her left hand so struggles to tighten and undo bottles and other containers. Never asks for help, just leaves lids loose.
Picking up anything in our house has a ridiculous amount of risk/unnecessary excitement.
Rather than bothering her arse to recharge her toothbrush, she just swaps her toothbrush head onto mine, then cunningly swaps it back when she's finished brushing.
Lids on jars that are half screwed-on but you don't find out until the jam jar lands on the tiled kitchen floor.
Anyone else have to put up with this?
Every time I go to the sink the drain ‘catchers’ are removed and left in the sinks, ......I neatly replace them, where they are useful and can do the job they are there for
It really is domestic battle bingo isn’t it!
Anyone else have to put up with this?
Two posts up!
I cam here to post about the drain catchers left upside down next to the drain, and the jars with the lids only half screwed on.
And the magnetic knife rack with everything in random places, some blade up, some blade down. some at 45 degrees.
Coffee mugs - She stacks them 2 high in the cupboard so the ones at the bottom risk chipped edges and the ones balancing on top easily fall over. I thought it was because we had limited kitchen space but when we had an extension and doubled the kitchen storage available she still does it, she just had to buy more mugs to fill the new second shelf.
There are only 2 of us in the house and I use the same coffee mug all day. Surely 30+ mugs sitting on the shelf was enough without needing to double stack them all.
If you open a tub of marg...take the tin foil bit off and put it in the recycling, it's not needed, how ****ing hard can this be?
If you decide you don't want to eat the crust on the loaf of bread and start another loaf, throw the crust in the food bin, don't just leave it to go mouldy...I don't really eat bread so it might be a week before I find the rotting bit of bread in the bread bin....
When the milk is delivered put the new milk in the back of the two rows in the fridge and bring the older milk forward...
Sure non on these are hard .
Don't get me starting on the idea that the dishwater is some sort of anti-gravity chamber.... If you want somethinging to be cleaned it has to be put in in such a way that the water can be sprayed onto the dirty surface....
Oh and don't decide which is your car and which is mine by driving "yours" until it's almost out of fuel and then deciding to use "mine"
I could go on....
I love my wife. She's always beside me.
If you've finished a sentence use a full stop.
If your sentence is unfinished use an ellipsis...
Sorry.
Every time I go to the sink the drain ‘catchers’ are removed and left in the sinks, and the washing up bowl with drain has the drain removed and put to one side.
I posted this on the Disproportionally Cross thread ages ago.
"Why do you keep taking the filter traps out of the sink drains?"
"Because stuff keeps getting stuck in them."
"... What do you suppose they're there for?"
Dishwasher stacking. We now have an unspoken truce that I will stack it properly, and that if she starts, and I am in the vicinity, she will quietly retreat and allow me my time to excel.
Knife Block! Perfectly serviceable. Accommodates all the sharp knives we have. But no, "the-sharpest-knife-in-the-world", along with all the other sharp knives, are bundled and hidden in the kitchen utensils drawer, ready to slice open unsuspecting fingers.
I love my wife. She’s always beside me.
Blink if you want us to send help
"Rather than bothering her arse to recharge her toothbrush, she just swaps her toothbrush head onto mine, then cunningly swaps it back when she’s finished brushing."
Genius.
There are only 2 of us in the house and I use the same coffee mug all day. Surely 30+ mugs sitting on the shelf was enough without needing to double stack them all.
Given your username and reputation, an obvious solution presents itself. "Oops."
If you open a tub of marg…take the tin foil bit off and put it in the recycling, it’s not needed, how **** hard can this be?
I don't think I've ever lived with a woman who hasn't believed that using butter is an exercise in gynaecology. It's packaging for shipping for god's sake, throw it away and you can butter a slice of toast whilst it's still warm.
And whilst we're on the subject, stop scraping crumb-laden leftovers from the knife back across the rim of the tub only to never be used again and worked around.
I love my wife. She’s always beside me.
I see what you did there. That's not what you told us all on the members-only hidden thread last week.
We've got a pretty good balance I reckon. She's the clean one, I'm the tidy one. I don't hide stuff when I tidy it though, I just dump it all in a mound in her wardrobe. At least she knows where it is!
I was struggling to see what the problem with that cuttlery drawer was, it looks quite well organized... For instance where's all the other myriad unused kitchen tools that are too numerous and small for a cupboard but regularly prevent the drawer from opening & closing?
Tea towel drawer close to overflowing, with tablecloths we never use.
Mugs stacked two high: check - and the two kids have the same number of plastic beakers.
My wife's approach to stacking the dishwasher suggests her belief that, when the door closes, each item will be individually cleaned by a troop of tiny sprites and Disney animals wielding little buckets and scrubbing brushes. Probably whilst belting out a jaunty show-tune.
For instance where’s all the other myriad unused kitchen tools that are too numerous and small for a cupboard but regularly prevent the drawer from opening & closing?
They're in the next drawer down. Total anarchy in there, but it doesn't bother me. If the drawer won't close, just jiggle it more or less violently to settle the contents. 🙂
(Oh, and dishwasher stacking: bowl / plate / bowl / backwards-bowl / plate ... FFS!)
Toilet rolls. She hangs off the back, I change it as I'm a 'reasonably' normal person
Occasionally I'll point out what a weirdo she is but other than that we just keep swapping it when we go to the loo
Toothpaste tube must be squeezed and scraped to get the last little dregs out and then out back rather than opening the new tube that’s in the cupboard.
Recycling bin in the kitchen filled by 2 or 3 empty boxes and the like because they are out in whole rather than either being flattened or larger items filled with smaller ones.
My wife’s approach to stacking the dishwasher
In every household there's someone who stacks the dishwasher like a Swedish architect, and someone who stacks it like a squirrel on meth.
What's wrong with the cutlery drawer by the way?
Dishwasher stacking. We now have an unspoken truce that I will stack it properly, and that if she starts, and I am in the vicinity, she will quietly retreat and allow me my time to excel.
My sister and BiL have a similar agreement. My sister (according to him) stacks the dishwasher in the manner of a crack-addled raccoon.
He is doing his best to educate their two girls (who are now old enough to do basic tasks around the house) in the Correct and Proper Way. One of them gets it and seems to quite like organisation.
The other one will place her bowl or plate vaguely in the vicinity of the dishwasher.
What’s wrong with the cutlery drawer by the way?
There's no hope for some people.
Edit: compare and contrast.
The microwave is on the work surface.
There is always 'stuff' in front of the microwave.
I move the stuff to a sensible place when I need to use the microwave.
It migrates back.
I'm way more annoying with just leaving stuff in daft places though, so she can have this one.
Toilet rolls. She hangs off the back, I change it as I’m a ‘reasonably’ normal person
There should be a support group for men like you, dealing with that kind of trauma.
Tea towel drawer close to overflowing, with tablecloths we never use.
Sorry, what? How is it a tea towel drawer if it's full of table cloths?
Not dissimilar to the toothpaste. Mrs 100th doesn't roll the tomato paste tube when using it. She just squeezes it in the middle. I have mentioned it but...
Oh, and we ride on Sunday mornings. She with a group of women who have a jolly fine time, me with whoever. Just as I'm leaving there will be the question about whether I can fix her bike. Sometimes it's trivial sometimes it's "oh I'll just take a different one" usually after stripping it down to its component parts.
Shoes. Not the buying of, that war was lost eons ago - shoe choice is the current campaign. How is it possible to pick such inappropriate footwear so consistently?
RM.
One of them gets it and seems to quite like organisation.
The other one will place her bowl or plate vaguely in the vicinity of the dishwasher.
We arrived at a holiday rental when Reeksy1 was aged 1 year and 4 months and the first thing he did was walk into the kitchen and open the cupboard doors (no safety catches). He then proceeded to remove all of the crockery and neatly stack it on the adjacent living room floor. He admired his work and then put it all back in the cupboards again.
His mother would put the entire house in a zip lock bag if there was one big enough.
There’s no hope for some people.
Wait, so although the teaspoons are all in the same space, that they're facing in different directions is the issue?
Some of you people need a hobby...
They’re in the next drawer down.
Abandon hope all ye who enter...
Rather than bothering her arse to recharge her toothbrush, she just swaps her toothbrush head onto mine, then cunningly swaps it back when she’s finished brushing
Mine just leaves our (shared) toothbrush handle and denies that the red light was flashing when she finished with it
House!
I win
I'm shuddering to think what my wife would write if she were to contribute to this thread ....
Amateurs......
#prayforblokeuptheroad
The toilet roll thing though - it really, really doesn't matter. For anyone who thinks it does, the problem is entirely yours.
The toilet roll thing though – it really, really doesn’t matter. For anyone who thinks it does, the problem is entirely yours.
I suppose you think volume knobs can be set to odd numbers too. Freak
Amateurs
Well, I have to notice that, if you were to give up on poached eggs (and why wouldn't you, there's never been an egg poached that wouldn't have been better fried), you could get rid of at least three contraptions from that second drawer
I know this. I rarely eat a poached egg and if I do, I just use a pan of water with a splash of vinegar. There are many, many things in the drawer of doom whose purpose is a mystery to me.
suppose you think volume knobs can be set to odd numbers too. Freak
The perfect volume for my speaker - when I need just background noise to help me concentrate, is 7. My wife finds this offensive.
Dishwashers seem to be an area of contention. You can find a lot out about someone by asking their methodology on unstacking a dishwasher...
In our house, we play "rinse aid roulette". The dishwasher gives a handy countdown of remaining cycles and we each try to avoid the "add rinse aid" message.
I’m shuddering to think what my wife would write if she were to contribute to this thread ….
I'm willing to bet there's a thread that pretty much mirrors this one over on the Women's forum... 😉
Also, we definitely need the Like button and the emojis working again for this one...
Abandon hope all ye who enter…
Ditto
Interesting about the toilet roll thing: Mrs Tillydog always sets it up hanging from the back (and I change it around) - she blames it on being left handed (confused emoji).
[i]SHE STIRS PAINT WITH MY BEST SCREWDRIVERS.[/i]
Pray for Harry_the_Spider!
SHE STIRS PAINT WITH MY BEST SCREWDRIVERS.
That is by far the most shocking thing I've read on this thread so far. I actually let out a little gasp of horror. If I wore pearls - I'd be clutching them!
The mug thing. Check.
The put stuff in front of things that open. Check.
The loading the dishwasher from space. Check
The squeeze the last atom of toothpaste from the tube. Check
As my daughter would say "I feel seen", but also that I'm in some kind of support group.
We don't have one of those ^^ drawers this as that kind of stuff is strewn across random flat surfaces...
However, I should add that I do plenty of stuff to wind her up.
For example my daughter and I have devised a game called “Hide Giant”.
We have a postage stamp sized picture of Giant from Gladiators that me or my daughter hides in plane view somewhere in the house and tell my wife about it. She then spends ages looking for it.
Once she has located, and binned it, we hide another one. Been going on for months. Giant #4 is doing well at the moment. When she finds him she’ll be kicking herself!
Reading this thread, it makes me realise I am a "minimalist" (well apart from bikes) whereas my wife is a "maximalist". If there is ever a world shortage of 'crap we don't need, probably doesn't work and takes up space in teh loft', I shall be married to a millionaire 😉
My other half does most of the things listed above and unfortunately my kids seem to have picked up each and every one of the annoying habits, when I moan at them for any of them they just say "well, mum does it..."
One I don't see mentioned yet but as a household of 5, I seem to be the only one who can tell that the bin is full or the recycling needs to be taken out.
My girlfriend is Italian.
Mine's from the USSR.. very forthright... but hey, we live in separate houses less than a mile apart. It's AWESOME!! 😀
Jesus, the number of times I'm thinking "I might start a thread on STW about " - and yet again, here it is.
But I need to ease in to it. I'm not sure if its therapy or a red rag.
Bet she makes a fantastic millionaires shortbread though 😉
Which reminds me, I need to lose some weight.
Packing for holiday. If the airline says bag limit is 23kg, she sees that as a target, not a maximum
I silently object to taking of so much stuff so I then pack as frugally as possible, I could pretty much take hand luggage only.
Wife then notices how little I am taking so starts to fill up my bag with her overflow. Every bloody time.