re: Pet Peeves: Around the house edition

Having to hand wash dishes coming out of the dishwasher....because someone was too lazy to rinse something off before putting it in the machine and now it's baked on.

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So much hate and disrespect for women. It’s ridiculous. Once again, we’re not all or close to being the same.

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Walt white-knighting for his alter ego.

Suggestion: Add “As a woman who menstruates and ovulates…” before every one of the tg10 posts. Folks will really pay strict attention and it will throw them off your track.

Adding wet dishes to a drainboard already full of dry dishes. Put the dry dishes away you lazy shite.

Not cleaning the stove after splattering grease when frying stuff to eat.

Taking a bath and not cleaning the tub afterwards.

Eating a snack and just dropping the dishes in the sink and walking away instead of washing them.

How did I forget this one:

Take the last 12 oz. of a gallon of milk in a carton from the fridge, pour 10 oz. in a cup and put 2 oz. back in the fridge.

Yeah, my wife walks in the room halfway in to a sentence without any consideration as to what I'm doing/watching.

I'm watching TV, doesn't matter, she's rolling in, already dep in to whatever she want to tell me. I've got no clue what she's talking about, and pretty irritated that she's interrupting my show.

If not for the DVR I don't know if we'd make it.

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So much hate and disrespect for women. It’s ridiculous. Once again, we’re not all or close to being the same.

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We are well aware you are not like other women.

So many good responses in this thread. A few of mine:

-Wife refuses to take out the garbage. If I am gone for 3-4 days hunting the garbage does not get taken out until I return. (This includes all boxes being stacked by the door until I take them out.

- 3 kids under 6 in the house and NONE of them have the ability to pickup toys. I am not even asking for them to be put back where they got them, just back in the room specifically for their toys and not spread around the house. Our house looks like a disaster zone at the end of every day and the kids act like someone else put the toys everywhere and not them.

- General messiness of my "roommates" is a bad one. Luckily I knew this going in to a degree so wife does have her own separate vanity and closet so I can somewhat ignore those areas. However, it does spew into my life regularly and make me irrationally mad.

- Lack of awareness of my separate duties. Somehow I help sweep, dust, vacuum, mop, etc. from time to time. She has never helped me take out the trash, cut grass, weedeat, pressure wash, blow off the carport/driveway, etc. Oh, and if I get tied into doing my chores while we are cleaning inside I have left her with taking care of EVERYTHING. I'm sorry honey, I forgot that my chores are for fun but yours are an inconvenience.

whew, that felt good to get off my chest.

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I'm sure your wife is not always a happy camper either.

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I would agree, she has an equal opportunity come post about me.

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Girlfriend refuses to group the same dish types in the dishwasher, so they don’t “nest” and we can only fit about half as many in there.

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That is ex-gf territory.


My biggest pet peeve in my home is leaving my bedroom door open so that my thermostat thinks the house is cooler than it really is in the living room. It’s a dumbass design for the placement of the thermostat but the trick is to keep the cold air from hitting the thermostat.

Old one: Throwing a dish towel in the laundry and not replacing it. Wife used to do this all the time until she came into the kitchen to 5-6 dish towels spread across the counter. After a few times of this, she's got the hint.

Current one: Wife puts empty boxes by the sliding glass door instead of walking the extra 20' to our recycling bin.