Shut the door!

lostinrates

If it makes you all feel better I too spend my life feeling like a nag about doors, rubbish, laundry and other 'household mundanities'. I live in an all adult household, and one of the occupants IS one of my parents.

Pitsypoolisa

My DH turns off the extractor fan in the bathroom before he gets in the shower, apparently the noise annoys him

moments_of_sanity

Rummer wrote: »

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

Oh yes, forgot about the rolled up shirt sleeves. When my youngest DD goes out in the cold, she will sometimes wear 2 pairs of socks and it's not until I come to hang them out that I notice it, she sometimes wears 2 pairs of tights too! :mad: Bedding also drives me insane, the times I have asked them to do up the duvet cover once they have taken it off so that all the washing doesn't end up in the cover.......still not happened yet :rotfl:

bluebag

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

Oh yes, forgot about the rolled up shirt sleeves. When my youngest DD goes out in the cold, she will sometimes wear 2 pairs of socks and it's not until I come to hang them out that I notice it, she sometimes wears 2 pairs of tights too! :mad: Bedding also drives me insane, the times I have asked them to do up the duvet cover once they have taken it off so that all the washing doesn't end up in the cover.......still not happened yet :rotfl:

Just a small tip for the two pairs of tights (if you haven't discovered it yourself yet) separate them while they are wet, so much easier.

I have two of them that do it, used to drive me crazy.

Shirt sleeves I sadly don't have a remedy for. Scissors maybe?:D

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another of the things that my lovely late OH used to do that drove me nuts was that he could get 180 at darts in the pub but getting him to flick his cigarette ash into the bin RIGHT by his armchair was an impossibility.It used to go everywhere except where it was supposed to.I think my nagging helped him give up the filthy habit in the end I just wore him down :):)

miss_corerupted

My 4 yr is really good at remembering things like that and takes his plates out, turns off lights etc. His 9 yr half brother seems to like making his life difficult in our house. I have to practically follow him around and constantly nag just to get him to pick his sweet wrappers etc up of the floor. His mam lets him get away with murder. It drives me mad, he tries to treat me like a slave and I know he treats her worse.

miss_corerupted

oh and throwing a cloth on the floor near the spill is i'm told "just as good and wiping and stop looking at me like a moron" (i wasn't) This was 10 minutes after the spill and he was still doing it argh!!!!!!

meritaten

I am NOT my mum! who was houseproud to the point where she would complain you were 'creasing the cushions' when you sat on the sofa - and on our sunday afternoons family getogethers we are NOT allowed in the living room! as we are too messy! we all squish into the family area of the kitchen and fight over the seats!
its funny and not funny at the same time - mum has HER living room done out in creams so I can understand her wanting it kept clean - but, family are squished into a seating area for six people and she actually brings in two garden plastic chairs so that's eight and fourteen people turn up as she gets 'narky' if you don't! and us 'kids' keep a vigilant eye out for dropped crisps etc as she loves to feed the grandkids junk - then goes nuts if things are dropped on the carpet!

Emm-in-a-pickle

MUGS!!!
OH uses his own mug all the time, even for water at night and brings it back downstairs for coffee etc in the morning. I use my favourite mug all the time too. But DS and DGD always use mug after mug, leave them festering in their bedrooms (often with an inch or so of liquid in the bottom to grow Interesting Cultures...) or leave them on worktop or draining board unrinsed, while they take another clean mug for their next drink. This morning I noticed the mug trees looking a bit sparse so did a trawl, and now there are EIGHT mugs soaking in the sink.GRRR!

flubberyzing

My mum's stock phrase as we were growing up, from October through to March, would be "Push the door to". She'd put the gas fire on in the living room, but would want to keep the heat in there. Woe betide anyone who came in, or went out of the living room WITHOUT pulling/pushing the door to!

Now they've moved house, but she's still the same. Only now, the door she means is a heavy glass one that gets stuck on the carpet. So whereas with the old house, a flick with a finger would close it, this new one requires you to get up and give it a good "proper" push.

Oh, and she used to get really mad about "grubby fingerprints on the door!"
Our utility room door was white, and was where the laundry lived, and the pet guinea pigs, so we'd be in and out of it quite often. Apparently, we never used the door handle! She was militant about that door being fully shut as well, as the utility wasn't heated at all. Eventually she put a sign on the door that said "SHUT THE DOOR!" LOL.
Not thought about that in years.