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This thread is worryingly familiar.
I also share my home with dishwasher and bin illiterates but they like to add some variations.
Not bothering to understand the differences between recyclable and non-recyclable materials and just randomly shoving them in either bin (they're side by side).
Finding either the general waste or recycling bin in the kitchen full and just popping the item they want disposed of on top of the lid, not emptying the bin, not placing the item next to the bin or putting it in a bag just balancing it on top (!???!?)...
Not even managing to put stuff in the dishwasher (despite there being space), or even stacked next to the dishwasher to be loaded later. No instead the bonus points are gained by putting it in the sink, submerged in cold greasy, bacteria laden water and then merrily ****ing off, knowing I will find it 8 hours later and just deal with it as complaints have never altered this pattern of behaviour...
They need to put a 'domestic skills' filter on Hinge/Tinder et al. Some of you have ended up with psychopaths.
sometimes its nice living on your own
This clip comes to mind looking at this thread.
I've looked in Ikea but couldn't find a magic table, must only be available in Oz.
One of my housemates in first year of uni used to do this but with washing up instead of drying up. He had been presented with a 6-set of plates, bowls and cutlery by his parents, the result being that he’d use one then drop it into the sink. Next day he’d use a clean one, repeat. Eventually it’d get to the point that he’d be forcing his dirty plates into the sink, bending the tap in the process in order to squeeze just one more dish in there.
Also had one of those at uni. Solution was to remove *all* the crockery apart from 6 sets of everything. Then the washing up had to happen daily or none of us would have eaten. He figured out where we'd hidden everything in the end, but never went back to his old ways.
I'll save the stories about him 'storing' up pint glasses of phlegm for another time.
This thread feels like a self help group!
My list:
Closing cupboards/drawers all the way.
Putting anything away. I have stopped picking up after my kids. I let it build up and then summon to sort their mess out.
Laundry - exception one of my kids does their school uniforms each week (poorly). So they do 2 loads of the approx. 7 we do a week. We also seem incapable of getting clothes IN the basket.
Hanging damp towels up. Seems lost on them that they don't tend to dry particularly well on the floor.
Pissing in the bowl or cleaning it up.
Actually putting the dishwasher on - The other kid unloads and reloads (poorly) it pre-dinner. I sort it out post dinner and put it on the rest of the time.
Emptying the bin.
Crushing/flattening/taking the recycling out.
Putting fuel in vehicles seems to be "only with less than 20 miles of range left". Which is a problem if you are serial forgetter of purse/phone.
My wife also seem incapable of not misplacing keys, be they car or house. They are always somewhere, in one of her many bags/jackets etc. I now have put an Airtag on her car keys. Which reminds me that need to get some more.
Probably the worst thing for me is the 1/2 doing things. Well done, you've arranged dentist visit for the kids, but no I can't take them as I have a meeting. FFS
I have stopped picking up after my kids
When mine were small, I made a deal with them. We had one rule: They would put their laundry in the basket if they wanted clean clothes. I took care of everything else. On the basis that 1. I could do it faster and better than they would or cared to, and the chores got done 2. I didn't spend all my time chasing after them to do a list of shit that they had no interest in doing and most of the time did badly anyway, and 3. they would have enough time as adults and with children themselves to appreciate the fact that fact they they now had chores to do.
They got to be kids in all the messy glory they cared to create, and I got shit done. (apart from cleaning their rooms, which honestly looked like an explosion in a crayon and clothes factory)
When mine were small, I made a deal with them. We had one rule: They would put their laundry in the basket if they wanted clean clothes. I took care of everything else. On the basis that 1. I could do it faster and better than they would or cared to, and the chores got done 2. I didn’t spend all my time chasing after them to do a list of shit that they had no interest in doing and most of the time did badly anyway, and 3. they would have enough time as adults and with children themselves to appreciate the fact that fact they they now had chores to do.
They got to be kids in all the messy glory they cared to create, and I got shit done. (apart from cleaning their rooms, which honestly looked like an explosion in a crayon and clothes factory)
We did similar, own laundry basket in their rooms so it meant they didn't have dirty clothes scattered around their rooms (well, for the most part 😀 ) and before a load was going in to be washed they'd be asked once to empty their baskets into the main basket by the washing machine, if they didn't then tough shit, they're not getting washed this time round.
Any chores were/are delegated as they leave the table after a meal, dishwasher, bins, recycling etc there's no point asking them to do anything when they're on their computers or phones as they're not listening, although that's easily fixed, knock the internet off and the whole family appears at your side within 30 seconds and you have their undivided attention 😀
I do consider myself fortunate after reading this thread that Mrs f isn't one of those needing training, jobs ****** if that's the case.
The only door that doesn’t get shut is the fridge door, I can come home from work and there will be a puddle of water by the fridge because it’s been cooling the kitchen down all day.
Sounds like you need one of these!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/FRIDGGI-Fridge-Alarm-Freezer-Seconds/dp/B0813GNDB8?th=1
Adding things to the shopping list after taking/using the last one. Toothpaste, sellotape, printer paper…
Alexa (not Jim) mostly fixed this for us. "Alexa, add toothpaste to shopping list."
Now if I can just get her to stop putting the empties back in the ****ing cupboard. She cleaned out the bathroom at the weekend. Two binbags' worth.
I've removed my kitchen bin all together.
I've got a little mini shed type thing in the back garden that houses the wheelie bin and the various recycling containers.
The commute from the furthest point in the kitchen, outside, and to said bin area, is approx. a 4 second journey, with a gruelling 3 second trip back to the kitchen.
Tea bag squeezers are second in line for the scorpion pit
Yup.
We have a small utility/cloak room it’s 5 metres from the front door across the hallway
Humble brag. That's a big hallway. You've only yourself to blame.
Sounds like you need one of these!
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/FRIDGGI-Fridge-Alarm-Freezer-Seconds/dp/B0813GNDB8?th=1 <
Alexa can help with that - assuming your fridge has an alarm anyway. It can listen out for beeps and set off all sorts of things to warn you.
Can i add "get the washing in when it starts raining". Seriously, how hard can it be WFH!?