Sounds like you need SOMETHING to be upset about. If it wasn't a basket with clothes it would just be something else.

Anonymous wrote:I hear ya, OP. We went out of town over a month ago and dh's partially unpacked suitcase is still sitting on a chair in the living room. I usually wait a week or two and then pick it up and say, okay if I put this in your office? But we're scheduled to go out of town in another week so maybe I'll just leave it there for now.

OP. I do that too. The office thing. Works great.

To the PP that asked, my kids are 6 and 3. My older one helps fold if I do it while he's awake, but that is why they're not doing their own laundry.

I hear ya, OP. We went out of town over a month ago and dh's partially unpacked suitcase is still sitting on a chair in the living room. I usually wait a week or two and then pick it up and say, okay if I put this in your office? But we're scheduled to go out of town in another week so maybe I'll just leave it there for now.

I leave clean clothes in the laundry basket also. Folding children's clothes is my least favorite chore!

If this is your biggest complaint, your marriage is amazing and you should STFU and go love on your man.

Anonymous wrote:Meh. I'm like that and my DH gets on me to fold stuff and helps out and it gets done faster. Everyone has their failings.

In our house the folded clothes go in the basket and he is to put his clothes away.

BUT, DH prefers to leave the basket out right in front of his messy dresser and pick out boxers each day and leave the Tshirts and socks for as needed.
Today I brought up a basket with the clean laundry and set it right down on top of last week's folder boxers on the floor.
He has no system in his dresser so I'll be damned if I know where to squish in clean stuff.

Just another slob who was used to his Mommy doing everything for him. He likely doesn't even know clean clothes are supposed to have their own drawers.

It is football season, he doesn't care about laundry and why aren't the kids doing their own laundry?

My kids love doing it especially playing with the pods before the dissolve in the water

If that is the only thing that irritates you, you are one lucky women.

Anonymous wrote:Today I find two laundry baskets filled with clean clothes in the back corner of our bedroom tucked almost behind my husband's bedside table (where I wouldn't normally see them walking in and out of the room).

Me: Are those clothes clean over there? (Mentally connecting the dots as to why it seems like half the kids clothes are missing and I haven't been able to find a few things.)
Him: Oh, yeah. I put those over there so we wouldn't trip over them.

WTF???????

I think the baskets have been there for days and would have sat there indefinitely.

Clothes?! who needs their clothes!?

Maybe he has ADD and stumbles through the house thinking about office work or when his next email will come in.

Meh. I'm like that and my DH gets on me to fold stuff and helps out and it gets done faster. Everyone has their failings.

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you help him fold?

Help him fold! I do the folding. The baskets were sitting in the hallway so I could bring them downstairs to fold. Until he disappeared them so we wouldn't trip over them.

next time put the baskets there but with all of HIS clothes there.

see if he puts them away properly or just uses them out of the basket (i.e. lazy). if the latter blame his mother for his wonderful adult habits.

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you help him fold?

? Why does she have to help him fold? Is he 3?

Why can't you help him fold?

Today I find two laundry baskets filled with clean clothes in the back corner of our bedroom tucked almost behind my husband's bedside table (where I wouldn't normally see them walking in and out of the room).

Me: Are those clothes clean over there? (Mentally connecting the dots as to why it seems like half the kids clothes are missing and I haven't been able to find a few things.)
Him: Oh, yeah. I put those over there so we wouldn't trip over them.

WTF???????

I think the baskets have been there for days and would have sat there indefinitely.