I do love them BUT……

I won't even go into what drives me crazy when I get down the stairs and for the rest of the day.

Kate54

Draining board and worktops never wiped despite excellent washing up skills.

Mine too. Or if he does wipe them he leaves mountains of suds all over them ?.

I am the fridge-blind one in this house. I'm cupboard-blind, too. I am always having to shout for him to come and locate ingredients.

My DH washes up each night but never wipes the hob where saucepans have boiled. I go to the sink, get a cloth and clean the hob.
When I asked him why he never thinks of cleaning the hob his reply was “but you always come and do it so I don’t need to”. ?

My OH makes himself midnight snacks and I regularly come down to a kitchen I cleaned the night before, to be greeted by a crumby breadboard and dirty dishes in the sink. He’s also an absolute master at walking past little jobs asking to be done - waste paper baskets and kitchen bin needing to be emptied for example, and he’s one of those infuriating people who will leave washing by the laundry basket and not in it !! He’s just generally untidy but I think it’s a bit too late in life to spect much change.

I feel I have to balance my complaints out with the positive things though. He’s a good cook and will plan and cook at least a couple of times a week. He will also tackle any DIY task with gusto and generally make a great job of it - and I have lovely front and back gardens as he’s a keen gardener. So all in all the positives outweigh the negatives and I love him just the way he is !!

Same here Pammie1 my husband's annoying traits are more than compensated for by his kindness, tolerance and skill in the kitchen

TH is wonderful in many ways but he is a cushion slayer. He doesn't understand they are for leaning against not sitting on.

Cupboard doors open, drawers open, clothes spilling out of drawers, death trap items in middle of floor, outer doors left open till house freezing cold, outer doors banged if subsequently closed, front door never locked, fridge never shut properly, freezer too several times (WW3 ensued) car keys constantly lost, never replaced on hook, can't find house keys, train ticket, glasses, wallet, towels dropped on floor and never hung up, chaos everywhere...he is a disaster , but I guess he is my disaster. Kind, patient, clever and witty - he'll do.

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 !

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?

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?

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. ?

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.

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

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!

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

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

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!!

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 !