re: Things around the house you're irrational about?

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If I repair something in my house and bring up some tools from the basement, I leave them on the Dining room table for a while and they may stay there for a while if I don’t need them again soon for something else. But, the DR table hasn’t used at all in the last 15 years or so.

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This would drive me nuts. I am super OCD about my tools. They all have a place, and they have to be cleaned and put back in that particular place when I am finished, or I will start vibrating. I have two 27" top cabinets with nothing but screwdrivers in them, roughly 500 screwdrivers, and every single one better be in its drawer and place in that drawer. I do admit to having a tool fetish, but I never spend time looking for a tool, and I know every single tool I have.

Empty boxes in fridge/pantry.
Water on the floor- kitchen or bathroom.
Unflushed toilets.
Lights left on.
Not turning on the exhaust fan when showering.
30 minute showers from my 15yr old son (we all know)
Using a different cup for every drink of anything.
Dishes/trash in bedrooms.
Clean clothes in the dirty clothes hamper (or on the floor).
Socks/shoes left in living room.
Strategically placed Amazon tripping hazards.
1/2-3/4 full drinks strewn about- inside and out.
The unnecessary high volume of TV’s in other rooms.
Legos.
Anyone on their phone (especially FaceTime) when we’re getting ready in the morning.
Anyone watching YouTube shorts.

I'm pretty bad about this exact same thing. I'll even empty the bathroom trash bins into the kitchen trash to fill the bag out before I waste half a bag! I go around straight looking for trash.

After having 3 kids growing up in my house there is one thing that I go sideways on.

Capri Sun straw wrappers. They are everywhere, drives me freaking insane.

So you're poor and disgusting, nice.

Stanley cups.

Thsts it. Stanley cups.

Can we not drink out of a damn glass. I drink out of one of two glasses every day. It’s dirty you wash it and dry it and put it back up

Stanley cups? You gotta unscrew the lid, take straw out, take the little lid apart wash four things and you still have a nasty arse straw you had to run hot water thru.

That and my wife leaving the door open in the morning so the dog can come back in.

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To solve the problem of leftover chicken for trash cans put the leftovers in a ziplock freezer bag and put it in the freezer until garbage pickup day. Then put it in the outside trash can. Keeps the smell and flies down to a minimum.

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I do the same thing with seafood peelings if we get like 8 pounds of crawfish just for us. freeze it until trash day.

I can't stand when a fan is left on and nobody is using it. The motors on those things will burn out.

My wife will take a tupperware of old leftovers out of the fridge and put it in the sink. Doesn't empty the container, doesn't wash it, just puts it full of old food in the sink.

Also, she has some sort of mental block in her head when it comes to loading the dishwasher effectively and efficiently. Cups right side up is the most mind blowing thing.