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Eliz87

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 06:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When he eats ice cream, he bangs the inside of the bowl with his spoon to make sure he gets every drop. Very annoying.

Nutsy

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 06:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Twinkie - I hear you on the kitchen mess ... I always know what he's had for lunch/snack because there's a trail of plates, crumbs, cutlery, wrappers, etc.

The thing that gets me the MOST though - is that his favorite game is playing Jenga with the garbage. How many things can we balance on top of an overstuffed bin? LOL! We've had many discussions about it, but I think it's a missing gene...if it's full, throw it out, ya know?

Halfunit

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 06:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Garbage Jenga...? I think we have that game too! :)

Floridagirl1010

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 07:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Garbage Jenga? LOL!!! I can relate! I also can relate to the spoon banging...he knows that it irritates me b/c he'll just look up at me and laugh!
How about dressing the kids? This part is scary to me...even my ex has a problem with this...pj's are not meant for a whole days attire! How in the world can they find the WORST outfit to dress them in amid all of the really NICE clothes?
But he is the best dad in the world...to our daughter and his stepson:)

Alinthehouse

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 09:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Floridagirl...I can relate to the clothes. Years ago when our little one was in preschool hubby had to drop her off. I could not believe it when I picked her up. Nothing matched. He had her in mismatched prints. It was so bad the teacher commented that she knew I hadn’t dressed her.

I love my hubby dearly, but the thing that drives me nuts is his talking during TV shows and movies. He will not shut up. He is like a sports commentator, play by play! He comments on everything. I have to tape shows that I care about since I miss what is being said. I have to rewatch them after he goes to bed. I am constantly saying, “shhh’. The funny thing is, he’s quiet during the commercials. I have repetitively asked him to wait till a commercial, but he won’t! I try to plan dinners during shows that are important to me (his mouth is full...can’t talk).

I don’t have to worry about laundry. He learned his lesson. Years ago, I wore a lot of pink and red. He thought he would do laundry. He did not sort well. He put his white work socks and undies in with my clothes. Well, his clothes turned pink. There was no time to get new socks before he had to go to work. He had to go with pink socks (he works construction). He has not sorted clothes since!

Floridagirl1010

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL!!! We had a red felt tip marker go through our laundry - my son left it in his pocket - DH didn't check so we ended up with not only pink clothes but red dots on everything - oxyclean didn't work nor did bleach - I think it was a signal for mom to buy new socks and underwear;)

Mack

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 10:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey! Not fair! I sort laundry better than my DW does. In fact, I consider doing laundry one of the more rewarding aspects of housework. Where else can you such gratification? Dirty clothes in, clean clothes out. Not complicated and it's not like you have to take them down to the creek and pound them on a rock. Now....if I can only find the "folding fairy".......

Djgirl5235

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 10:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, Mack - if you can locate the folding fairy - please send her to my house!!!

Jeep

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 11:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I guess I'm going to be the oddball here. Hubby certainly is not perfect and drives me crazy at times, but I really can't complain.

Because I have to spend so much time with my 82 year old mother who has Parkinsons disease, he is really a big help. He cooks, washes dishes, vacuums, does his own laundry (I don't let him do my good clothes) as well as various "man jobs" around the house. He even mows my mother's lawn and helps me take her shopping at Walmart every weekend. I couldn't keep up with our house and mom's if it wasn't for him. When he has to work overtime or has to help his own parents (88 and 92 yrs old) I really miss his assistance.

Now if he would just take out the garbage before it spills over onto the floor he would be a saint.

Mack

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 12:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My shortfall....laundry good, folding bad! DW didn't know that I lived out of the easy chair in my apartment before we got married. Every time she was going to be there I'd rush around and fold everything and put it away.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 08:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
wow, jeep, can you send that longevity my family's way? too cool! i am so glad your husband is such a help to you. one household is hard enough, but to run your home and your mom's home--kudos to you!!

Tabbyking

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 08:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh, and as far as clothes......when i worked as an e.m.t. nights my husband and i literally passed in the driveway just before 6:00 p.m. i stopped home one morning at 4:00 or so, and went in to check on the kids and give them kisses; they were maybe 3 and 5 at the time, and i really missed the nights i couldn't put them to bed. both kids were in bed, filthy dirty, clothes and SHOES on. when i took off their shoes, sand poured out of them. i was ready to bean my husband!

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 11:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, Tabbyking, but I bet the kids built up a lot of immunities. They are now saying it is better for kids to get dirty. So if they slept in the dirt, that is even better. LOL.

Ddr1135

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 05:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hubby once dressed my son in clothes that I had thrown in utility room to be used as dust rags. I could not believe he had done that! There was also the time he had put our son in a shirt of our neighbor's daughter.

Jeep

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 09:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, Tabbyking, I am lucky. I hope the longevity comes my way, but I have to sit on my butt 8 hours a day in the office where they were all very active in their life. Hard work doesn't kill you. MIL had 9 kids, too! It's a wonder she survived that.

Hubby cooked dinner last night, standing with his bare chest and harry armpits over the stove. When I came in the door, I just said "will you pleeessse put on a shirt". One day he's gonna go up in flames!

Denecee

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 02:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ddr1135, lol!

Ddr1135

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 03:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
One night Hubby was going to cook rabbit for a couple of friends. He was giving us "Julia Child" attitude on how he knew how to cook, blah, blah, yada yada. Then he turned to me and asked how to turn the stove on. (Stove had controls on backsplash, not in front like typical stoves.) I haven't let him live that down.

Ddr1135

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 03:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I just remembered something hubby used to do. He'd leave his used toothpicks on the end tables in the living room. That would drive me nuts! After months of begging, pleading, threatening for him to pick them up and throw away, I just gave up and started putting them in his wallet.

Tabbyking

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 06:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ddr, your stove anecdote reminded me of some friends where the husband doesn't lift a hand at home. they had his boss over to dinner so the guy decides to be a help; in front of the boss, he asks his wife if there is anything he can do to help. she is surprised, but hides it and says, "oh, could you set the table for me?" and he said, "sure. uh, where do we keep the plates?" they had lived in the house for more than 10 years!
i guess the boss never let him live that down, so the wife doesn't have to give him whatfor! lol

Ddr1135

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Tabby. At least my hubby knew where the plates were.

Eliz87

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 07:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi! Reviving this thread... This may sound stupid or selfish of me, but I hate it when I cook breakfast for my husband and he takes a shower while I'm doing so. Something about it just grates at me, like I'm serving him or something. My home is not a restaurant!!! It's not like he's getting ready to go somewhere or something like that. UGH. It would just be nice if he offered to help first (breakfast is not an everyday event in my house).

Anyone who knows me knows that I l-o-v-e my husband. But I hate that he does this. I haven't said anything because I don't want to sound petty.

So...am I being petty or do I have a reason to b*tch?

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 08:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Liz, why not make the breakfast AFTER he showers? Better yet, talk to him about it, he probably doesn't know what he's doing. (Guess you can tell that I'm single, huh, lol!)

I have an annoyance....whenever I ask the b/f to take out my trash he ALWAYS answers "Okay", then does it on his own time, as opposed to when I asked him. At that point, I wind up sighing and taking it to the trash room myself, ignoring his pleas of "Stop, you know I'm going to do it!" When I ask him to take it out, I want it done IMMEDIATELY, not when he gets ready!!

Eliz87

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 09:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
SBG, he doesn't go take a shower until I START breakfast! And if I'm not cooking, he sits and waits like he's expecting it. UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH One of those perks of married life I guess. (His mother was a lifelong housewife -- I think he expects me to behave like her. NOT.)

And I so know what you mean about the trash.

I swear some men are like overgrown teenagers.

Ummm...I think I might in a sour mood today. LOL

Sweetbabygirl

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 09:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
{{{{{{{HUG}}}}}}} to Liz!

Grooch

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 09:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, I understand your bf, SBG.

I hate it when my husband asks me to do something, I am expected to drop everything right there and then and obey his commands.

I was asked, and I will do it in my own sweet time. :)