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Annoying things my husband does...
This is not a great post following the "look how handsome my husband is" post, but it needs to be said!
What are some annoying things that your husbands do?
Re: Annoying things my husband does...
leaves all the lights on in the entire house. I swear I'm going to start paying the electric billout of his personal account
and slurps when he eats soup or cereal. I can't stand it.
- Throws mail on the table, like instead of going through it, he will just throw it there and go through it whenever he feels like it...which seems like never.
I love my husband dearly, but he does tend to annoy me at times. I guess it's hard to train an old dog new tricks.I think because of my hormones, there are lots of things Dan does that annoys me.
But the classics are:
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That's probably enough for now although I'm sure there are other
The list of things that I love about him is way longer, I swear!
This and that he keeps every piece of mail FOREVERRRRRR. He has this filing box he puts it all in every so often but before he does that it sits on our desk for months because he has to "go through it". But he usually doesn't and ends up throwing it all in the box because he's in a rush to clean up. If I get to the mail before he does, I throw out all the things we don't need to keep before he can even see it.
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Stand up for something you believe in.
Ahh! Same here! How does he accumulate that much crap??!! He doesn't even drive to work, he carpools! Gahhhhhhhh! *pulls hair out*
Oh, and another thing, he "claimed" the garage as "his" just liked he "claimed" our family room/basement as "the man cave" Seriously, he can't just take all of the fun rooms and give me "the kitchen"
Ahhh, where do I begin!? Lol:) I must preface this by saying he's wonderful and I do love him....but....
He doesn't put his laundry in the hamper...just somewhere near it.
He lets his mail accumulate on the table or desk foreverrrr until I beg him to go through it.
He leaves cups, tissues, receipts, coins...on his nightstand only to be removed by me when I dust it. Grrr.
He also slurps soup, tea and coffee. Very annoying.
He complains when I buy "too many" things for the house, but then he spends $300 on a bottle of Jameson or wine.
He always has 3-4 bottles of hair gel or deodorant sticks open at the same time. Mostly they are in the bathroom but I've seen them in his car and in his suitcases too.
He loses things and then buys them again in multiples only to find them the next day (see above).
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Am I a biotch because I like this post? lol
K annoys me by procrastinating important tasks then gets aggravated with me when I offer to do them. Our taxes have still not been then and I'll gladly file but nope he insists they'll get done.
In relation to the above he'll put high priority on meaningless tasks and drop hints until they get completed.
The baby responds well to a schedule which K doesn't always like to follow and he gets impatient when the baby is cranky and wonders why.
- Leaves all the lights on in the house, even when he's sleeping.
- Talks about wrestling NON-STOP.
- never throws the dirty diapers in the diaper genie after he changes Ellie
- Leaves trash on the counter instead of throwing it in the trash
- Leaves poor Finn in the crate all morning until I come home at lunch to let him out.
- Overseasons my steak when he grills.
- Leaves hairs all over the sink after he shaves.
- Doesn't wipe up the pee off the floor when he misses the toilet. This is the grossest of all his habits.
I could go on, but I'll stop. He's a wonderful, loving husband and father so I let a LOT of things slide.
Stand up for something you believe in.
Let me preface this by saying, I love my husband very much and most of these don't usually annoy me as much as they do today, because I'm am really in a shittastic mood....
Organized by room:
Bathroom
~ leaves shampoo bottles open and on the edge of the tub. We have a shower rack for the bottles, but he never uses it.
~ also guilty of leaving hair all over the sink after he shaves.
~ leaves wet towels/wash cloths in a crumpled pile on the floor instead of hanging them to dry. I'd be satisfied if he would just haphazardly drape it over the side of the tub.
~leaves the toilet lid down. He remembers to put the seat down, but he also puts the lid down, so when I come stumbling to the bathroom in the dark, my tush is met by cold porcelain. Also doesn't refill the TP.
Kitchen:
~doesn't load dishwasher correctly. There is so much space between all the dishes, Given a pile of dishes, I can run one load and he'd need to run 3.
~will not wash pots/pans. If it doesn't go in the dishwasher, in his mind it doesn't exist.
~thinks expiration dates are the word of God. If the milk says it's "expired" today, he stopped drinking it yesterday. No matter how many times I've shown him articles about it or told him the difference between "expires" and "sell by" he still wastes so much food/drink.
Bedroom:
~also guilty of the laundry mountain. We have a hamper right next to the bed, but where do his clothes go? The other side of the bed, 10 feet from the hamper. I'd even appreciate a basketball shot at the hamper that missed.
~untucks my covers. I will make the bed, so my feet stay covered at night and right before we go to bed he will untuck it despite me telling him not to.
Other:
~when he gets home from work, he strips in the living room and leaves his clothes draped over the loveseat. THEN he will walk to the bathroom (where the effing hamper it) to pee.
~after the garbage men come, he will leave the garbage can in front of the house until the cows come home. Garbage day is Friday; I put the garbage can back where it belongs when I got home today.
~he takes the salt shaker with him to eat and never puts it back.
~he leaves balls of socks around the house, yells at the dog for eating his socks, then whines that he has no socks. Put.Dirty.Socks.In.Hamper. Problem solved. Eureka!
Okay, sorry for the novel. I feel so much better after that vent.
K-Hart, I like these two questions. Fun, in a weird way!
So, just the usual stuff (tho I have to say, after reading the other answers, that I am grateful he doesn't piss on the floor):
--Leaves glasses/dishes in the sink. Rinses them off, but can't muster the energy to open the dishwasher a whole 6 inches away and put them in there?
--On a related note, also leaves soda cans on the counter by the sink, instead of just putting them in our recycling bin.
My two biggest pet peeves tho:
--Leaves his clothes in a jumbled mess on the top of his bureau. It just makes the otherwise tidy room look less tidy.
--He untucks the sheets on the bed, and I hate that. I have to sleep with the sheets all smooth and tight and tucked in. Apparently I liked being swaddled as a baby!
I probably do a LOT more things that annoy him but these are the ones that kill me.
- Leaves piles of stuff on our tv stand by the door like mail and notes/money/things out of his pocket until it's out of control. Then the pile moves to the coffee table. And then I lose it.
- Leaves hair on the bathroom floor. Gross. I shed like crazy but I clean up after myself.
- Narrates/asks rhetorical questions while we're watching a show/movie at home. Oh my God. I've never seen this before either so why don't you be quiet and we can find out what happens together?
OMG, how could I forget this one? B constantly heckles whatever TV show/movie I'm watching. Not so much asking questions but just making annoying comments.
I think we should get them together to watch TV and they can talk over eachother!
I'm glad someone else's husband does this. He drives me insane. But then I shoot him a look and he feels bad about it. But then starts right back up again! Enough already!
It's so annoying. Thank god for Tivo and the pause button so I can rewind and hear what I just missed. But it's beyond rude. I don't do that when he's watching something.
puts his cups and plates on the counter above the dishwasher. apparently he doesnt have the energy to open the dishwasher and place dirty items in it.
not only does he leave hair on the sink when he shaves or cuts his hair, but he doesnt move stuff from the sink so sometimes i get little beard hairs in my toothbrush. this makes me irate.
i wash, fold, and carry the laundry upstairs where it is already separated into his and hers baskets. his only responsibility is to put his clothes away...i take care of all towels, sheets, etc. typically it takes him two to three weeks to put stuff away. it really annoys me when i go to do laundry and only have one free basket.
Definitely the piles of bills! This drives me CRAZY. He stacks up his mail on our dining room table and it just sits there forever. As I was leaving this morning, I said "I did so much cleaning this weekend and this place is a mess already" which was my passive aggressive way of saying please pick your sh!t up.
Also, he never puts his dishes in the dishwasher, just stacks them up in the sink. It's literally a foot away. Not that hard.
And on the rare occassion that he unloads the dishwasher he asks me where things go, like a baking dish or colander. We've lived in this house for a year and a half. It's a cryin shame that you don't know where basic kitchen tools belong by now.
Ditto a lot of things you all already said, but specifically:
Doesn't handwash pots and pans. Like someone said, if it doesn't go in the dishwasher, it is going to sit in the sink. Same with leaving regular dishes in the sink. Dude, the dishwasher is RIGHT THERE, and only requires you to bend down a little bit. And sorry for putting the recycling bin so far away from the sink (4 feet) that all your beer or soda cans find their final resting place next to the sink.
He's been known to put leftovers in the fridge without saran wrap, foil, or any kind of cover. Gross! But I think I cracked him of that!
it's all little things that get to me.
-leaves cabinet doors open. I actually brought this up in our premarital counseling and he thought I was joking, but once he realized I was very serious, it's gotten much better.
-leaves his beard hairs all over the sink. And then insists he cleaned it up so those can't be his. Um, are they MY black beard hairs? I clean the sink every night before bed anyway, though, so it's not a huge deal, I just wish he paid attention to what he was doing.
-leaves his stuff everywhere. Mail, keys, eyeglasses, clothes, books, dishes. I don't mind picking up after him except he never returns the favor.
-he can't see things that need to be done himself, I have to ask him to do it. His excuse is "he's not looking around", but I do, and that's part of taking care of your house so it's totally not a valid excuse.
-he never feeds the cat. If I go away for a few days, she doesn't get food. ?!?! it worries me for when we have children.
-he promises to do house fix-it things that he knows how to do but I don't, and never does them. I broke our cellar door a YEAR ago, he said he'd fix it, no problem, and it's still not fixed. He pulled the molding off around the back door in December to do something to the insulation, but the molding's still propped up in the corner of the kitchen.
-he b!tches about how messy our house is, but doesn't help clean it and always acts like it's my fault. If I initiate cleaning he'll help, but I'm tired of having to say "let's clean today!".
-he is completely incapable of loading the dishwasher. He has never had one before we moved into this house, so that's probably part of it. We also had to have a tutorial about what does and does not go in the dishwasher.
-he insists on always using non-dishwasher safe pint glasses and old-fashioned glasses, but doesn't actually wash them.
-he doesn't understand that part of cleaning the litter box is sweeping up the litter that Pansy flings everywhere. Why does he think a dustpan is kept by the litter box?
-his stupid "I miss you so much" letters from his mom. 3 times a week, they cost her almost $2 to mail, they're filled with newspaper clippings and she has never once mentioned me or included anything for me. Even when she sends cookies or something, it's always addressed to him on the box, and the note inside is only to him. I know that's not something about him, but he doesn't see anything weird about it. Stuff from my parents is always to both of us!
We worked out the toilet seat issue with not much trouble. Our medicine cabinet is above it, and I tend to knock things out when I open it. Also, Pansy likes to jump up on the toilet, so we just leave the lid down all the time.