It's kind of similar, but my boyfriend always falls asleep after me, so I leave the TV on for him to watch...then guess who always ends up getting up between 3 and 5 in the morning to turn it off!?!? ME! Ugh...it's so aggrivating...
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Seriously, why can't he turn off lights???
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You could have the opposite problem. If my DH sees a light on he'll turn it off. Try going potty and watching a big hairy hand come in and switch off the light. It ruins the moment.
hahahaha.
I have to admit I've done that to my fiance a couple of times while he was in the shower. It's habit. I'll go in to pee while he's showering and as I leave, turn off the light and hear "HEY!" behind me. It's pretty funny.
My fiance is mostly really helpful and good about things. He turns off the lights when he's done in that room, replaces the TP on the roller, does the dishes and laundry (though not often enough
BUT. He forgets to flush sometimes, and that drives me up the WALL.
Plus I had surgery two weeks ago and I can't lift anything heavier than 5 pounds. so sometimes I'll need him to get me my laptop or fill some water bottles for me and I ask him to do it and he says "OK" and then just keeps doing what he was doing. Sometimes I ask him three times before he finally does it.
Mine does most of the same things!! Plus more.
He walks right by our built in hamper and puts his clothes he wears once he comes home from work there...right past the the hamper it blows my mind!!
Or doesn't push in dining room chair after he is done eating, or leaves dishes on the table or puts them on the kitchen counter instead of the dishwasher!!
Of course this time of year he says I leave used kleenex all over the place. (guilty)
He walks right by our built in hamper and puts his clothes he wears once he comes home from work there...right past the the hamper it blows my mind!!
Or doesn't push in dining room chair after he is done eating, or leaves dishes on the table or puts them on the kitchen counter instead of the dishwasher!!
Of course this time of year he says I leave used kleenex all over the place. (guilty)
see now, I have the opposite problem. Mr Pennypincher thinks that immediately upon leaving a room the light should be turned off even if you are planning on returning to the same room within a minute or so.
I am totally with him on the conservation/$$ saving thing, but when I am putting away the laundry it is like someone's turned on a strobe light!! I wonder if all that off/on business actually uses more energy than just leaving it on for 5 minutes.
I am totally with him on the conservation/$$ saving thing, but when I am putting away the laundry it is like someone's turned on a strobe light!! I wonder if all that off/on business actually uses more energy than just leaving it on for 5 minutes.
I just read through this thread and seriously, are some of you ladies dating my BF behind my back?!?!
I love my BF dearly and he really is great, but man oh man! Sometimes I just want to knock the boy on his head!
Yes, he will leave every light on in the house! As well as all of the a/c's. I swear I see my $$$$ flying out the window!
He never refills the TP roll or the paper towel roll. Doesn't load or unload the dishes. Heck, I'm lucky if his plates make it to the sink instead of the counter. If they get a rinse, well it must be my birthday!
Garbage gets left on the counter, the table, the desk, the nightstands... any flat surface really. He will take the garbage out of the garbage can if it is so bad that the mountain of stuff on the top is starting to fall. Notice how I say out of the can, that is because it will then make it next to the front door where it will sit for days until I carry it down to the dumpster
He has not once cleaned the litterbox because she is "my" cat. He will only feed her if I ask him to because I was running late or something of the like.
I'm sure there are millions of other things he doesn't do but I don't want to make him look so bad. He will on occassion vacuum. And when asked he will help do a thorough cleaning of the apartment. Plus, he is resident handyman and mechanic. I truly have a wonderful BF and couldn't ask for better
Actually, DH has been really good about not leaving the lights on for the last 4 days...of course, we haven't had any electricity. Under normal circumstances he's terrible about it!
I don't do them automatically. My husband shuts off the lights more than me, changes rolls of paper towels and TP whenever they need it, and always takes out the trash and replaces the bag. The only thing he can't remember all the time is the litter box, but it isn't a big deal as I think it is better for one person to have that job duty, just like feeding the cat, before I made it my job, she was getting as huge as a house getting fed lots of times per day!
Colin forgets sometimes too.
I feel your pain!
Mine leaves lights and tv's on. I'm constantly reminding him to turn them off! The one time I forget and leave one on I sure hear about it!
And he even has the nerve to complain about the utility bill!
But, in his defense he remembers things like taking out the trash and paying bills.
But, in his defense he remembers things like taking out the trash and paying bills.
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Been there too! Sometime last summer I let the dog out into the back yard, and could smell propane. I was pretty sure it was propane, but not absolutely. If I had smelled it in the house, I would have for sure called the fire department. So I wander out onto the porch and over to the grill. Yup. The gas was still on!! We hadn't used it in about 10 days!! I told him about it the next day when I saw him, and he had to go get the tank refilled. That is the only time he has done that, but that really scares me. I'm a chicken.Originally Posted by strange_wings
Funny, if unsettling little story about his brother leaving stuff on. We were over at the in laws one day and his brother had used the gas grill outside to cook himself something. Later that evening when we were leaving we noticed the thing was still on.
hehehe My DH is not allowed to do laundry. I have caught him doing it before. He stuffs absolutely everything into the washer at one time. As full as it can be. I don't even know how it holds water after that!
Then he will turn the dryer on for 2 hours.... even if there is just a couple of things in there. I would come home from work, he would be watching TV. I would hear the dryer and immediately run to it. It still has about 50 minutes left and everything in there is crunchy!!
After I do laundry, I put his hamper back by his closet (we have those separate too). When I decide to go do laundry, I pick up his clothes off of the floor right by the hamper and put them in there myself to take to the laundry area.
Oh well. He works 70-80 hours a week so that I can go to school and not have to worry about working. I just got a PRN shift at a hospital, so I am working occassionally. I figure that I can go behind him and do all of these things for him, although sometimes it does drive me crazy!!
