I do love them BUT……

I am quite happy to remember all DH's good points and to admit that I have traits that drive him made, but right now we are letting off steam about the things that drive US crazy.

So here is mine:
since he hurt his shoulder three years ago, DH has never done a washing-up, although he could without hurting himself.

I was building a log pile, and when I had got the first ten or twelve rows of logs piled up DH comes and says, I should have placed the two outer logs on each side of the pile in the opposite direction to the others to prevent the stack from slilpping.

It would have been nice to have been told that when I started and not an hour later when the stack started slipping.

I have never built a log pile in my life before - so how was I meant to know that? When I asked he just said, "But everyone knows that" "No, dear, they do not. Only those who have built a log pile before know this!"

My neighbour sneezes so loudly we can hear when he is downstairs and we are upstairs

MissAdventure

Yep.
You'll probably hear a ghostly trumpeting great sneeze... and know they're with you in spirit.

Or clearing their throat!!

Yep.
You'll probably hear a ghostly trumpeting great sneeze... and know they're with you in spirit.

True, but you;ll miss them when they have gone/died and will wish you still had the mess !

I think leaving drawers and cupboards open and never putting things back is a man thing! My other half does it and I know many women who complain about this!! My mum always said " they all come from the same mother as they all have the same gene"!!

Oh M0nica and Esspee...I think we might be married to the same man......??

My DH leaves dishes to soak in the sink, why? Either wash them, dry them and put them away or put them in the dishwasher !

It would be interesting to read what the OHs have to say in response to the above comments.

My OH loses things, entire cross stitch kits, 1kg bag citric acid, a beehive? He 'tidies them up' and they are never seen again. God help us when we move

Well, no-one is perfect but my DH does none of those things.

I've got another loud sneezer here Witzend. He also blows his nose loudly (think an elephant trumpeting) at least 30 times a day.
He is a great cook for which I'm grateful but he cooks with the cutlery drawer open so I have to clean the drawer of bits of food afterwards.
Just to add, he is lovely, kind, caring and generous.

Work surface blind,fridge blind,cooker top blind,putting lids/tops back on securly and back in the fridge and leaving crockery on the side,not in the bowl.
Other than that lot,he`s pretty good especially when he`s asleep.

GD2 was very impressed when Grandpa broke his record of 6 repeated explosive sneezes to 7! I had left the room after the first one and the cat had shot upstairs to hide under the bed!

MissAdventure

I really hate loud sneezing.
My first reaction would be to lash out at the sneezer, it irritates me beyond what is reasonable.

You couldn’t be around my husband then.....he sounds like a gas explosion!!

Always finishing.......my sentences ?

Toilets rolls - I think I am the only person in our house who (1) knows where the toilet rolls are kept and (2) knows how to put them on the holders. Oh, and knows to put the old tubes in the bin

Mine was in the forces for 25 years but seems to be unable to lock a door. He brought the bins into the garage when the wind was really bad and I forgot to check he had locked the garage door. It was unlocked for 2 days but fortunately I had remembered to lock the door from the garage to the house after him!

I really hate loud sneezing.
My first reaction would be to lash out at the sneezer, it irritates me beyond what is reasonable.

Seriously explosive sneezing is my dh’s speciality. I’ve long given up saying anything, though. If he couldn’t/wouldn’t stop ages ago, after making a very tiny new dd so frightened she cried - and he was mortified - he’s never going to stop now.

Another was not reading labels when food shopping, so coming home with e.g. pork mince when I’d clearly written ‘beef’. He actually likes food shopping so it was never a case of ‘I’ll mess it up so she won’t ask me again.’

That one seems to have stopped, though, probably after my ‘kind suggestions’ that actually reading labels in future might not be a bad idea.
Apart from those, though, he’s ace.

M0nica

I think we all also need to remember that we too have faults that drive our DH nuts.

One of mine is when DH gets something out to use and I put it away before he has used it! How can you tell the difference between something liying on a table with a purpose and one that has just been abandoned there?

Happens in our house too. Paperwork, unopened mail left lying on the coffee table until I move the lot to his study. Various items brought out to use can lie unused, I eventually put such items away.

We are, however, very content together and I can live with his little foibles.

I’m sure there will be certain things I do which drives DH nuts but, I doubt it. ?

I think we all also need to remember that we too have faults that drive our DH nuts.

One of mine is when DH gets something out to use and I put it away before he has used it! How can you tell the difference between something liying on a table with a purpose and one that has just been abandoned there?

DH never finds what he is looking for in drawers or cupboards. In exasperation, I ask where he has looked, stop whatever I am doing and hand him the item that definitely was not in that drawer. He has been doing this for 49 years!
Pontificates for ever before finally deciding to attend to matters. Drives me crazy as I am the opposite and need things done and out of the way/off the to do list.

He does have many good points but are all men the same and just don’t see what needs done around the house?

Oh my goodness are all men the same!? My DH is also fridge blind , I leave what I know he likes at eye level and he still can’t see it, makes a sandwich crumbs everywhere - never clears them up. Makes a beaker of tea, uses the last drop of milk from the container then puts the empty container back in the fridge, it drives me mad! Apart from that he’s a keeper !