Is your spouse a stacker?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Seriously is everything going to be blamed on ADHD these days? Is it the generic diagnosis for not getting stuff done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Stack" implies some kind of organizational principle. So no, my husband is not a stacker.

Ha! Same here. A stack would be nice. Food is left on the counter overnight, shoes near front door, a bowl on the bedside table, dirty clothes on the floor rather than in the hamper 3 FEET away, pants draped over the crib, several wrenches/pliers from a weekend project on a hallway floor, all manner of receipts and wrappers from a pocket left on a dresser rather than in the trash can 5 FEET away. Why? WHY!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

If this is an illness, my husband is terminal.

[Anonymous]

Couldn't live this way for one.single.second.

[Anonymous]

That's me and DH we just cope LOL