We have 50 people coming over and my husband is vacuuming the unfinished basement...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH does this shit all the time.

We don't have people over often but somehow his routine is down pat:
- a few days before, we discuss that we need to be cleaned up hours before guests arrive.
- the morning of guests arriving for lunch he decided to clean the oven knobs. while i am cooking.
- he bags up the trash and recycling. it sits in the foyer.
- approximately an hour before they arrive he cleans the cat box. instant dust cloud.
- trash still in the foyer.
- half an hour before they arrive i start to get really anxious and clean the surfaces off with nice smelling williams sonoma pink grapefruit spray.
- is he going to even vacuum? oh, i see he gave our kid a crumbly snack instead!
- i vacuum.
- he is finishing up cleaning the paper piles off his desk.
- where the eff is he? in the shower.
- i run the trash, which is still in the GD foyer, out to the dumpster.
- come back and light some candles.
- guests arrive.
- he walks downstairs, smelling fresh, JUST IN TIME.

I die.

ROFL !!!

+10000. WHY DON'T THEY SEE TRASH BAGS!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This would be my husband. The stuff that actually matters, I have to do. So by the time the party starts I am a raving bitch. Hard to come down from that and try to enjoy myself.

I feel the same way. No more parties at our house.

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I am laughing so much as I read all the comments. This is how it is normally at our home. Today I had a meeting at home for a benefit, I was busily trying to finish sewing 72 bags, knowing I was going to have people over and my house was a wreck! And Then HUBS Cleaned the house! I got my project done, hosted some lovey ladies.. in a clean house.. Lucky Lady today.. But I will still b picking up and cleaning after him for the rest of our lives, lol.

[Anonymous]

I am laughing so much as I read all the comments. This is how it is normally at our home. Today I had a meeting at home for a benefit, I was busily trying to finish sewing 72 bags, knowing I was going to have people over and my house was a wreck! And Then HUBS Cleaned the house! I got my project done, hosted some lovey ladies.. in a clean house.. Lucky Lady today.. But I will still b picking up and cleaning after him for the rest of our lives, lol.

[Anonymous]

Mom, Is that you? Sounds like my dad!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So funny, my husband does the exact same thing. I'll ask him to help clean when we have people coming over, and he'll clean, like, the inside of the upstairs linen closet. Drives me nuts.

I was frantically trying to clean before 12 of our friends arrived for dinner. Sink full of dishes, stuff still out in the living room, a lot of food is prepped and on the counter or stovetop. 30 minutes before arrival time, he enters the kitchen with a drill and wants to install and the under cabinet lighting that has been sitting in the storage room for six months. At the time I thought WTF but now it is really funny. I suggested that I didn't want to get the wood dust all over the food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll go on a limb and guess that DH didn't want these 50 people coming over in the first place. He's probably in the basement thinking "why the fuck does my wife create chaos and extra work for me?"

Not necessarily. This happens when we are having a big group of DH's friends over.

I think I am more wired to make sure the "must be done every day" things are taken care of, to keep things moving. Th things that don't immediately affect me every day - like dirty dishes - stay off my radar. If someone in my house were to vacuum an unfinished basement, it would be DH. There are things in our house that would *never* get done if DH didn't do them, but sometimes he chooses inopportune times to take care of those (important!) tasks! I think it comes down toa difference in ability to triage the situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Typical fat lazy wives complaining about their husbands. You all would be pissed if he was just sitting around doing nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:My trick to prevent my family messing up clean areas in the house before a party is to lock places up.

Yup, I clean the powder-room and I LOCK it up. I clean the guest room and I LOCK It up. Ditto for basement etc...

Yes, we all have to make mad dash up to the upstairs bathroom to pee...but tough luck!

I have other tricks too that I use because I do entertain on this scale a least twice a year. And I do most of the cleaning, shopping, cooking by myself.

I would love to do this, but nothing locks in our old house, except the doors to the outside. So I should just kick everybody out

[Anonymous]

I thought of this thread when just 10 minutes ago I came home to a dining room full of dog poop, a toddler just waking up from his nap (ie, super late), a husband who still hasn't packed for his week long business trip (leaving in 90mins) and instead of going to the store to pick up something needed he goes out back to apply weed killer. And when I look out the window to get a break from the carpet cleaner fumes... he's inflating a pool float.

FML

[Anonymous]

My husband too- he was finishing his taxes instead of driving me to deliver our baby - scheduled C-Section though...30 mins late. Doctor was mad at me until my husband asked him for a stamp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH does this shit all the time.

We don't have people over often but somehow his routine is down pat:
- a few days before, we discuss that we need to be cleaned up hours before guests arrive.
- the morning of guests arriving for lunch he decided to clean the oven knobs. while i am cooking.
- he bags up the trash and recycling. it sits in the foyer.
- approximately an hour before they arrive he cleans the cat box. instant dust cloud.
- trash still in the foyer.
- half an hour before they arrive i start to get really anxious and clean the surfaces off with nice smelling williams sonoma pink grapefruit spray.
- is he going to even vacuum? oh, i see he gave our kid a crumbly snack instead!
- i vacuum.
- he is finishing up cleaning the paper piles off his desk.
- where the eff is he? in the shower.
- i run the trash, which is still in the GD foyer, out to the dumpster.
- come back and light some candles.
- guests arrive.
- he walks downstairs, smelling fresh, JUST IN TIME.

I die.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man, that was well written. I was so there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband too- he was finishing his taxes instead of driving me to deliver our baby - scheduled C-Section though...30 mins late. Doctor was mad at me until my husband asked him for a stamp.

W.O.W.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought of this thread when just 10 minutes ago I came home to a dining room full of dog poop, a toddler just waking up from his nap (ie, super late), a husband who still hasn't packed for his week long business trip (leaving in 90mins) and instead of going to the store to pick up something needed he goes out back to apply weed killer. And when I look out the window to get a break from the carpet cleaner fumes... he's inflating a pool float.

FML

Stop!

[Anonymous]

my dad did the "pack in the middle of the night before you leave for vacation" thing, hahaha!! I totally forgot about that until I read this thread, LOL.