You may as well put it in the garden....

thehappybutterfly

My hubby is the complete opposite - he's a neat freak! Toilet roll tube goes straight to the recycling box in the garage as does all cardboard to the extent that he even puts away the bit with the cooking instructions that I've not finished with!

He takes a packed lunch to work with him and sure as fate, all the leavings inc banana skin, are put into the sandwich bag and brought home to be binned.

He has to download/upload his work every evening on a handheld computer thing and rather than leave all the cables/modem etc plugged in he puts everything away when he's finished, all neatly coiled and rubber banded, put in the same plastic bag he's been using for years, then packed away in a special box!

aileth

4nnabella wrote: »

He also puts empty packaging back in the cupboard/fridge/wherever he got it from. And toilet roll tubes on top of the bathroom bin (although that's an improvement from on the windowsill next to the toilet)...

Oh my god massive pet hate... The amount of times I've opened the pet food cupboard in the morning, saw the pouch box is still there, great we still have some cat food, back from work, box is actually empty, then have to go out yet again to buy some more rather than getting it enroute home :mad:

Toilet roll tubes left out, and also the toilet roll bags, use the last roll, leave the bag on the floor next the toilet!!!

Mojisola

claire21 wrote: »

There we go...rubbish next to the bin and plates next to washing up bowl, that's what I'm getting at lol

What happens if you just leave things where they've been put?

Errata

The person who invents a self emptying dishwasher will rule the world!

delain

Netwizard wrote: »

Not entirely sure why people bother with dishwashers. By the time you have messed about loading the darn thing up, you can do the washing up yourself much much quicker than the dishwasher.

My mate has a dishwasher in his kitchen, its crap. Still has to rewash half of the stuff afterwards!

Then his dishwasher needs cleaning!

aileth

Someone I used to houseshare with used to make his own jam. The problem was he put jam jars, labels and all, in the dishwasher. He'd get really confused why the dishwasher didn't work properly, and on closer inspection it was bunged up with glue and labels. Nightmare...

rach_k

We often have stuff on top of the dishwasher when it's already full/on/waiting to be emptied. I don't mind really, as long as it gets emptied eventually. What would be great though would be to have two dishwashers and just switch between them. No need to empty the clean one, just take what you want from it, use it then put it in the dirty dishwasher. True laziness!

4nnabella

Mojisola wrote: »

What happens if you just leave things where they've been put?

I've tried this. I left something somewhere to see how long it would sit there for until he put it in the bin. It was weeks, and even then I gave up and threw it away. My husband is truly blind to mess, even to the extent that it makes me, who by my own admission, is not the tidiest person in the world, seem a neat freak... :mad:

claire21

Mojisola wrote: »

What happens if you just leave things where they've been put?

Do you know I don't know lol. Sometimes I've left things there from Saturday breakfast until Sunday morning but I'm one of those who like it tidy and I don't like looking at it, so I just do it.

He is quite a tidy person on the whole, it's just small things and I wonder does he just not see it.

We have a large pedal bin in the kitchen and he can see it's full but still put more in it so the lid won't even shut but it very rarely occurs to him to empty it.

claire21

rach_k wrote: »

We often have stuff on top of the dishwasher when it's already full/on/waiting to be emptied. I don't mind really, as long as it gets emptied eventually. What would be great though would be to have two dishwashers and just switch between them. No need to empty the clean one, just take what you want from it, use it then put it in the dirty dishwasher. True laziness!

OMG you wouldn't even need a cupboard, if I win the lotto and they ask me what I'm spending it on I will say this lol