Kitchen cupboards

Just described this (very funny) thread to H. H wanted me to tell you that I enjoy hiding things from him on purpose and that I then plant them in place after the fact, just to drive him crazy!"

Men are not "from Mars" as the popular book would have us believe. It has been shown that there is very little difference between the brains of the sexes. It must therefore follow that if men behave this way it is because it suits them, not because of fundamental differences?

Which reminds me, shop assistants can't be relied on, either - even female ones.
Was in my local Asda, queueing at the checkout, when I heard an elderly-ish man (probably about my age ?) asking where the Dijon mustard was.
Assistant, looking slightly nonplussed: 'Oh, we don't stock it any more.'

I thought that was weird, so made a detour to the condiments aisle and there, right at eye level too, were 3 different kinds of Dijon mustard.
Went back to the bloke and showed him.

I suspect that either the assistant couldn't be bothered, or perhaps had never heard of Dijon mustard and so assumed they didn't have it.

One such 'unable to find'. episode of dh has turned into a family joke.
He went off to a huge supermarket with a list of just a few things to get, one of which was loo cleaner (Harpic or any, I wasn't fussy.)

Came back saying they didn't have any loo cleaner. At all. None. In a huge supermarket.

Me: 'Of course they did! You just didn't look properly.'
Him, all hurt. 'I did look properly! They didn't!' He swore blind that it was not a case of his inability to find anything not very clearly labelled and right at his eye level.

He had bought Cif, instead. ?

After that, if there's anything he can't find in a supermarket, he asks an assistant. I think he often asks first, to save any looking at all. But at least it means no repeat of the loo cleaner debacle/joke.

This Summer, Dd asked me would I ask the teacher if I could look for Jacob's school jumpers as he'd literally lost three of them in a week.
The teaching assistant told me that she'd put them all in the lost property box in the classroom.
She'd actually seen him, take it off, swing it over his head and let it go.
She rolled her eyes and said that he would make someone a wonderful husband.

Can husbands find what they want in their chaotic workshop?
Or mancave?

H1954.... it's simply called Bloke Looking!
All the men I've ever known have been unable to find ANYTHING even when it's right in front of their nose, it's just a huge joke as far as I'm concerned now!

Reading through these posts, I now know that DH has a bit of everything mentioned. But, I am so glad he is not perfect, how on earth would I manage, being not quite so perfect myself, although.....

Seems to me all our mere males are the same...good to know that as I use to think it was mine only that was like that...

I haven't RTWH but I read somewhere that if a man is for example looking in the fridge for butter he expects to see it at eye-level with an enormous label saying BUTTER right in front of him or it's invisible!
All these comments prove it, don't they?
It's as though the house is largely run by the wife and the husband is just lodging there.

My husband will do the wiping up when it suits him but can;t put anything away as he doesn't know where it goes!

My DH expects me to know the exact location of every item in the house! If he can't find something he accuses me of moving it! Men! What are they like

Conversation with my 11 year old grandson yesterday... “time you were out the door to school”...”ok nan”.... “ “ “have you got your door keys?” ...”no nan I can’t find them”...”are they with you mobile in pocket of school back- pack?” .... “no nan, I’ve looked, phones there but no keys”.... I go and look in pocket of back-pack and lo and behold there’s his keys!!! “Riley your keys are right here,!!! .. “ oh, sorry nan, I couldn’t see them” !!!!!!!!!!! Man in training indeed

My late DH was a typical "man looker", if it didn't jump out he never looked behind other items. I did make him put his clean/ironed clothes away he had no excuse for not being able to find them

As for map reading I was far more expert & have a very good sense of direction, also I don't panic if I've taken a wrong turn unlike DH did. My theory is sooner or later you will find a sign/signpost with a familiar name on it

Even my Boss admitted to "having had a man look" when he couldn't find something in the Office, he would come & ask one of the female staff where said item was

Leaves cabinet doors open, doesn't turn out the bathroom light, can't find things in his own closet let alone the fridge.

This is something that has to be gene related and primarily oriented towards the male of the species.

Last time he couldn't find the mustard, I told him how his X-ray vision was failing with age and he now needed to start moving things aside....

I am quite lucky I think. I met my OH when we were in our 50s. For some years he had been keeping house alone, so he knows what has to be done. He not only knows when we are running out of toilet rolls, he goes out and buys them and puts them in bathroom cupboards too.

He can however look at things and not see them. I tend to be the one who organises places for things. I am not the tidiest person in the world but I have a place for everything and can find things quickly. OH has scattered packs of batteries in his shed, kitchen drawers, the garage, in the utility room, by his computer etc, etc, etc. Just a few days ago, needing batteries for Christmas presents before wrapping, etc, I went spare being able to locate AAAs, but not AAs. So we now have a battery drawer, and for good measure I showed it to him, pointed out its existence once I'd organised the batteries into little tupperware boxes.

I have a six year old grandson that is learning this trait already

Stop moaning you lot. My DH is ultra tidy, always finds things, puts things away, very organised, clears up the kitchen when I've been cooking and more. He was hard wired as a child by his mother. Sometimes it can be a tadge ANNOYING

My DH always "lost" things in the house but knew exactly where everything was in his shed, even though it looked a total mess to me.

My DH is very well organised and tidy and closes drawers and cupboards behind me - sometimes when I'm still using them. But his specs have a habit of hiding just when he needs them.

My DH is mostly pretty capable of finding things, but as I am out a lot, I do despair when I come home to find he has left work tops and the ceramic hob dirty, and any bits of hand washing that won’t go in the dishwasher still in the sink, I think he is afraid of getting his hands wet. Also the old toilet roll and kitchen roll middles are not put in the recycling, nor a new one fetched from the storage cupboard if he uses the last one. Just little things.
He seems to want to fill every inch of the worktops with gadgets, especially ones which don’t get used by me, eg coffee machine, electric tin opener, omelette maker ( really), knife sharpener..... I must sort out the cupboards and find room for them, then he won’t be able to find them.

These man points are all duly conceded but the one that really gets me is the way my DS will empty a container (cereal/loo rolls/coffee/milk/ham/biscuits/whatever) and then put the closed, EMPTY packet back from whence he got it even though the bin might be nearer to the point of use.

It does not matter how many times I say I am not bothered about the food or products being used up but that I need to know when to renew them so there will be some there when we all (including him, of course) need them.

My late DH was ,unlike myself, organised. I was the one forever asking have you seen etc etc etc
Is it true opposites attract ?

This thread has just reminded me my other half can't find his pyjama bottoms - he swears they're not in the drawer I know I put them in. As he only puts them on at the weekend when he gets up (the rest of the time he's straight in the shower and dressed) he's taken to putting his jeans on under his dressing gown! I need to go and locate them. He also won't throw the empty toilet roll in the bin but leaves it on the window sill along with the can of air freshener which lives on the shelf below. I think he does this on purpose - some years ago he delighted in putting the tea, sugar and coffee canister lids on the wrong way round just to wind me up

Yep if it’s not under his nose he can’t find it. Drives me nuts,