Shut the door!

willow23_2

lisakay wrote: »

I spend all winter telling them to shut the door, by the time it sinks in it's summer and I spend the next few weeks saying can you please leave the doors open!

This is me too! However, I can clearly recall my parents saying the same to me and so on it goes. Mine are only little really, 9 and 5, and they can't be blamed for forgetting to turn off a light here and there. Although my daughter is pretty good now, if she gets up in the night to go to the bathroom she always turns off the lights after herself.

good_advice

Read every page, how true.
We all do things we could improve on.

My adult DS thought at one time it would be easier to throw his washing in the corner of his room rather than in the family laundry basket in the bathroom. SO - I bought him his own laundry basket and stuck it in his room, Clothes not in it do not get washed.

Every day I still turn unneeded lights off and will be doing it all winter.
Constantly unplugging to save on the fuel bill. It works we are classed as low fuel users.

It seems my job to go round and shut all curtains as soon as it goes dark. To keep the heat in.

Check bedrooms for mugs, glasses
and plates. They do come down if I
leave them a few days.

Uniscots97

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

I was talking to my girls this morning about them complaining there is never any food in the house. I have a large fridge full of food, a larder cupboard full, a couple of shelves in the garage full and 2 freezers full of food but they complain we have no food. What they mean is there is no food that they can just eat now, everything else needs some kind of prep!

I too have turned into my mother :rotfl:

I've just had this with my 22 year old SS, he claims he doesn't know how to make mashed potato and the mountains of food I have in the fridge/cupboards/freezer don't equate as food. But funnily enough if I make it he eats it!


.............and don't get me started on doors/lights/switches etc :rotfl:

dibuzz

Towels!
Why are they incapable of hanging up a towel in the bathroom? I've often been tempted to screw some hooks onto the skirting board, at least there's a chance they will land on them then.

LameWolf

JackieO wrote: »

also the boys take their shirts off over their heads and leave them buttoned,again why ?

My DH used to leave shirt buttons done up, til I reminded him that with my poorly paws, I struggle to undo buttons. If I'm going to wear a garment with buttons myself, he fastens them for me, but he hadn't thought it through that I'd have trouble with buttons on his clothes, too.:D He always undoes them all now, though.:A

My bugbear is him leaving things in the pockets of his jeans or chinos when he puts them in the wash bin; he actually "lost" a door key that way, he left his keys (in a leather pouch) in his pocket, the front door key became detached from its moorings, and the WM ate it!:eek:

I actually have to remind him to leave all the interior doors in the bungalow open, because I have difficulty operating the door handles.:D It's a very tiny bungalow though, and we do want all the rooms uniformly warm, so it's not a problem from that point of view.:o

pigpen

Stray shoes and big children.. I found a cure... pick up said shoes, open back door and fling down the garden... where are my shoes?.. Where did you leave them? .. *points to spot they used to occupy*... Where did I TELL you they would be? ... cue flouncy sulking large children trotting down the garden to retrieve shoes.. Only had to do it twice with DS1.. the rest learned this would be carried out..

For little children I have a shoe basket next to my chair.

A lot of the issues are about location.. put a bag/bucket/bin next to OH's chair for his recycling.. it is so much easier to just empty that than it is to pick it up from all over and sort to the right places.. if they don't use it you are watching so can correct their behaviour.. not forgetting to praise them for using it.. 'This is so much easier, I'm so pleased you are using this it has made things so much easier'.. I think we do take them for granted at times... as they do us.. and it is nice to have some recognition that something is working..

My OH was on about putting one of his 4ft high speakers next to my fireplace :eek: no chance... he wants to take over my room with his tut! He leaves plates and things about I just boss him to take them away when he goes to make a cuppa/juice. I will give him a bag and a handful of papers and have him sort it too... he will do anything if I ask.. as for 'in a minute' I emasculate him by asking him to do something in a time frame (e.g. at some point today/in the next hour/this week would you please.... ) when we hit the deadline I start doing it myself and he takes over saying I should have said.. I did!!! lol

He is learning, love him.

Gonzo1987

I never got why my dad was always nagging me about turning lights off etc. Till I moved out.... not it's the OH that gets it in the ear about wasting electricity. (threatening to put his rent up seems to work)

carlamarie_2

My bugbears in this house........

Dh will take off his dirty clothes and throw over the handles of the exercise bike in our room and then ask 'did you wash x,y,z?' 'No because it's not in the washing basket' 'well its on the bike' ?!?!?!
Very annoying! That's without thinking of the cost of the bike in the first place, with the sole purpose of draping dirty clothes on!
He will make a cup of tea and if there's less than half the milk in the bottle, he will open a new one! That really gets my goat!
He will also put empty things back in the fridge, but he does that one to wind me up!

Ds1 who's. 6, is generally ok, although he will bring his plate and cup into the kitchen, empty any unbeaten food into the recycling caddy and place them in the sink. His knife and fork however, will sit quite happily on the table until I finish the pots and kitchen and get around to wiping the table. And I do find his socks EVERYWHERE! He doesnt wear them in the house and will kick them off wherever he pleases. We're working on this though, I bought him some pink and purple flowery socks and told him if one pair of discarded socks isn't in the wash basket every night, he will be wearing the new ones for school! He's doing surprisingly well lol!

Dd who's 5 will get undressed and throw her dirty clothes on the floor outside the cupboard where the wash basket lives.
She has a bin in her room for all her discarded bits of paper, broken pens etc, yet will put all her rubbish is the drawer of her vanity table, the bin is right next to it!
She will throw all her toys in a corner in front of her storage unit when cleaning her room. Her storage boxes don't even have lids!
If I ask her to do the blinds and lights she will turn on both big lights and the lamp in the living room. She says it's too dark, yet she will happily go upstairs in the pitch black to toilet, I follow to turn the lights on so she doesn't fall.

And the youngest, well he's quite good at aged two, but I'm sure that will change!

Oh the joys!

Rummer

Rolled up shirt sleeves when the shirt has been dropped on the floor next to the laundry basket. Leaving the toothpaste and brushes on the window ledge.

I should add that I adore my hubby and DD and both of them have highly redeeming qualities, however I am human and these little personal quirks irk me

Icey77

My biggest bugbear with DH is that he treats the bathroom like a wet room so after having a shower the floor is awash, the bath mat is sodden and there is water all over the window ledge.

It make a I really unpleasant to go in for a shower after him :mad:

Also, he leaves the window open for the bathroom to air out ... so far so good, but he leaves the door open as well so that the whole blinking house gets an airing too along with the heating