Is your spouse a stacker?
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Anonymous
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Seriously, DH can not put anything away. Books are stacked in front of the bookcase, tupperware on the counter near the drawers they go in, and laundry stacked on the dressers but not in the drawers. The kids come by and knock it over then I need to re-fold and put stuff away. I know this is a small thing but it just doubles my work. I have asked him to put stuff away to no avail.
Oh, he never puts anything back in the fridge--juice, milk, etc. |
Anonymous
leave the milk out overnight. pour him some for his cereal in the morning. 
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Anonymous
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Every surface in our house is covered with stacks. DH's dresser is covered with a teetering pile of misc clothes and mysteries. The dresser drawers are empty.
Is this an illness? |
Anonymous
| Kitchen shelving (instead of cabinetry) is all the rage these days. Time to re-do your kitchen! |
Anonymous
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oh geez, i'll do this sometimes when I'm pressed for time. Right now I have a stack of neatly folded shirts on my dresser because I moved a few months ago and still haven't adjusted to having a MUCH smaller closet than before, and I'm still trying to figure out where to store stuff. I'm also bad about papers - I have stacks of papers everywhere. One stack for receipts, one stack for stuff to file, one stack of my daughter's artwork, one stack of stuff to shred... it's a curse. I'm pretty neat otherwise.
Does your husband have ADHD, perhaps? If he went to put stuff away and then got distracted, that might explain what's going on. there are medications that could maybe help him stick to a task until it's complete. |
Anonymous
| I'm a stacker. Wife here. I'm sorry. |
Anonymous
| I barely even stack...DW here. |
Anonymous
| I'm a serial stacker. I'm the wife. I find it annoying myself.... |
Anonymous
| "Stack" implies some kind of organizational principle. So no, my husband is not a stacker. |
Anonymous
Me too. I wish my husband was not a stacker because our house is a mess. |
Anonymous
| Another woman who's organizational mantra is "everything in full view at all times." God help me, because my poor suffering husband can't. |
Anonymous
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My husband is a mover. When he takes the clothes out of the dryer they make a weeklong journey to the proper place.
Day 1 - moved from inside dryer to top of dryer Day 2 - put in hamper Day 3 - dump on bed Day 4 - fold & stack them somewhere Day 5 - move stacks to dresser, unfold clothes that should have been hung up & put on hangers Day 6 - if he hasn't worn most of the things by now he usually puts them up Me Day 1 - fold & hang as removing from dyer, hang clothes in closet, folded clothes do get stacked on dresser (I'm not perfect). In my defense 90% of our clothes are hung up. |
Anonymous
| 13:53, what about the step where the clothes that are clean but too wrinkled to wear just go back in the dirty laundry basket? That's usually Day 4 at my house. |
Anonymous
He will then take the one item of clothing he wants to wear and throw it in the dryer to de-wrinkle it. Of course that means he has to take the load that was in the dryer out starting Day 1 of the six day cycle. Which is why he says he has to put the load on top of the drawer since he was in hurry to get to work..... |
Anonymous
Me too. |