I wish I could.

Do they sell man crates? (Sorry wrong thread )

Send him home to mum?

Crossed posts...like the shed better I think.

Then everything can lie on he floor in hisroom until he runs out of clothes or the pile gets so high he cannot open the door??

The shed.

The spare room?

But not a husband if he expects to have his ironing done or his clothes picked up.

Or even a mushroom

I should understand Petra's feelings, i know, but getting to the age stage where I really can't be arsed bothered what people think of me. Life's too short to stuff a tomato

I don't iron at all. I just said I understand (I think) what petra meant.

My DH had a mother who believed that a woman's place was at home and didn't approve of working mums. Mind you sha was waited on hand and foot by her family as at 40 she diagnosed with a 'bad heart' she lived to be 86 with this fatal problem and died of a CVA.
She didn't approve of me at all.

It would never occur to me to iron OH's clothes. He can do it himself.

I would hate to think anyone thought I was looking after my husband. FGS he's a grown man! If either of us is ill, we look after each other, and we might choose to do kind things for each other at times, but I don't accept the concept of 'looking after' another adult.

petra probably means that if she didn't iron his clothes he'd just wear them creased, and people would think she wasn't looking after him. It's all very well saying she shouldn't feel that way, but I can understand it.

.....the trouble is, men had mothers

Not husband but daughters - our 2 boys were always very organised, but the girls (shock] . So I warned them first and the next time just threw all the clothes lying on the floor out of the bedroom window.
After that they improved, I did the washing and they had to do their own ironing. I was working fulltime at the time so quite short-tempered.

Seems that men aren't quite as neat or clean as us women. My DH leaves clothes next to [but on the floor] the laundry basket [his own basket] and then pops them in there come morning.He just won't do it at night time for some unknown [even to him] reason.

I don't have a laundry basket apart from the one in which I transport the clean washing to the washing line. I and the late Mr.G put chucked our used clothes on the floor beside the chair upon which the to-be-used-again clothes were draped, and then in the morning, scooped them up, descended to the lower level and lobbed them into the laundry room ready for washing. . I have to add that it was always I who then transferred the dirty washing to the machine, dried it, ironed it and put it away..... I continue this practice now I am solo - a leopard never changes her spots!

Petra - it can't reflect on you, if you don't let it. Whoever puts washing on in our home, washes whatever is in the washing basket, that will mix ok (i.e. no blacks and whites together). I do my ironing, mr iam does his, and he also did the children's ironing, whilst I took them off to riding/dancing etc at the weekend.

I have to admit to not being very fond of ironing and that mr glamma is
very good at taking care of it,we have to make sure the clothes/socks etc are put into the washing basket as our bedroom would look such a mess if we didn't and I can't cope with that,I do fold used clothes as opposed to rehanging them but they are folded onto the shleves next to the hanging space and worn for a few days ie: jeans/jumpers/joggers stuff that really doesn't need re-ironing but not bad enough to go into the washing basket.

petra You need to decide that it does not have to reflect on you unless you let it! Stop believing it is your job.

Do as others suggest if you don't like the dirty clothes on a shared floor dump them in the bottom of his his wardrobe or in a bag in the other room. It might just be fair to warn him of the starting date for your new routine.

I am not a good hanger up of part worn clothes. I do not like to put them back in the wardrobe without a good airing. I have too many memories of my mum putting clothes back into the wardrobe when they should have been washed. She always lost track of what needed a wash and what did not.

With my "only fit for the house" trousers I wear the same pair until they look bad and then put them in the laundry basket.

Yes! I pay my cleaner to do it. She and Gary have been in Tenerife for the last week and I'm running out of tops.
Oh! A beautiful rainbow has just appeared. A sign of God's covenant with mankind that he won't flood the world again!
Tell that to the people down the road from me on the Somerset levels.

Some people even get paid for doing that kind of work.

washing and ironing is work, tanith.