Things YOU do that drive your better half crazy

[Taomist]

@overlyverbose

We recently came to a solution on this. Because he can’t bring himself to clean and Ive been staying up way too late cleaning, I hired someone. They start tomorrow, thank god.

I have seriously thought about this, but previously, I was too embarassed. There’s SO much that needs to be done; we’re in a tiny apartment, and crap has just BUILT UP over time to the point that I need to go through absolutely everything, getting rid of stuff we don’t use/want, putting other stuff into storage, etc. I wouldn’t even know where or how to tell a stranger how/where to start.

Luckily, I got laid off this week, so…come Monday, it’s spring cleaning. Like, PRAGUE Spring. Once I get working again, if a regular schedule is still rallied against, then I’ll be more comfortable having someone else clean. Honestly, I’ve done it for a living myself, it wouldn’t hurt. But right now…ugh. Just too much I can’t trust to someone else to sort out. :smack:

[Spice_Weasel]

@overlyverbose

I leave my running socks everywhere. Stuffed in my running shoes, on the floor next to the chair I sat in when I took them off, in the kids’ laundry. I’m slowly regaining control over my socks, but it’s taking a lot more work than I expected.

I once looked under the sheets at the bottom of my bed and found 21 socks. No lie.

Just to irk my husband I call any accumulation of socks a ‘‘sock garden’’ and pretend I want to nurture it and help it grow.

[overlyverbose]

@olivesmarch4th

I once looked under the sheets at the bottom of my bed and found 21 socks. No lie.

Just to irk my husband I call any accumulation of socks a ‘‘sock garden’’ and pretend I want to nurture it and help it grow.

This made me laugh out loud. I love it! I’m going to have to try that to see what he does.

Taomist, I know how you feel. I’m still somewhat horrified at how much pre-cleaning cleaning we have to do and I know that I’m going to be hard-pressed not to fall all over myself apologizing for the mess tomorrow. Luckily, I specifically went after a cleaner that had experience in helping organize, too, so I’m hoping that they’ll have had some bad enough clients we’ll look good.

I’m sorry to hear you got laid off.

[Hello_Again]

I leave the lights on all over the apartment. On the one hand I honestly prefer more light than he does. On the other hand, I leave lights on all around the apartment.

[Lacunae_Matata]

The socks! Oh God, the socks! Between the gang of them, I’d estimate that my family owns 3,628,127 individual socks. None of them match. All of them are strewn under chairs, desks, beds, and tables. (Except for the ones that the dogs have eaten, and you haven’t lived until you’ve helped extract an indigestable sock from the other end of a highly distressed dog!) Someday, I fully expect to find myself sitting in a corner, heavily medicated and mumbling about socks.

[Lynn_Bodoni]

@Hello_Again

I leave the lights on all over the apartment. On the one hand I honestly prefer more light than he does. On the other hand, I leave lights on all around the apartment.

I have to have certain lights on around the house, because I only sleep for a couple of hours at a time, and I get up and wander around at night. I need light to navigate. We’ve got some lamps that are low wattage, that are on all the time.

It’s cheaper than me tripping over a cat and breaking a bone.