bananas / 9357 posts
@petunia354: I do the same thing! I leave the trash at the door for him to take out. I even leave poopy diapers on the freezer in the garage (it's right by the door) and he throws them out when he gets home. Lol!
@lilyann: Hehe I can see myself doing this. I already told him I can't do the dishes because it makes me gag (partly true).
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
I don't think I ask him to do anything ridiculous...he always takes care of the many-legged bugs, because they freak me out. Most things that involve ladders, because I'm terrified to be on one. Getting things off of the top shelf in the cupboards because I can't reach and are too lazy to find the step stool? He thinks that's kind of silly!
grapefruit / 4582 posts
@Fronkinzankinsbride: so maybe there's something to the whole being in water and talking thing
pomegranate / 3863 posts
@ALV91711: @mrskc: Trash abandoners unite!! I'm so happy I'm not the only one
nectarine / 2262 posts
He has to close the bathroom door if he's brushing or flossing his teeth, and rinse/wipe the sink afterward. I have a major mouth gross out thing, so I don't like to see or hear it. So weird!! LOL
GOLD / pomelo / 5737 posts
I don't think the trash/chores are ridiculous!
I know there have to be some ridiculous ones I ask dh to do but I can't think of them right now...
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
@luckypenny: DH and I keep each other company when the other one showers.
DH does the laundry, dishes, and takes out the garbage. I know that I am a little spoiled, but I do the grocery shopping and cleaning, plus I work the longer days.
papaya / 10570 posts
How do some of you ladies get away with this stuff???! I wouldn't have a chance with my DH.... he absolutely didn't buy the "bathroom cleaners are bad for the baby" line when I was pregnant and refused to accept that my picking up the dog poop was a risk! I have asked him to consider an anti snore mouth guard (his snoring wakes me and the baby sometimes) but he refused (and goes in a mood whenever I mention it!).
I guess my answer is that I can't *make* my DH do anything!!
bananas / 9227 posts
He changes all poopy diapers whenever he's home. He's also in charge of emptying the diaper bin.
watermelon / 14206 posts
@Cherrybee: Me either...I can't make my DH do anything...I can't even think of anything that I've tried to make him do.
watermelon / 14206 posts
@Mrs. Sunshine: How does someone plate their dinner wrong? Shouldn't he just be able to have it how he likes it?
bananas / 9227 posts
@Cherrybee: @Dandelion: My husband is ridiculously bullheaded and I literally can't make him do anything. But I'm a little stubborn myself and flat out refuse to touch the trash, for example. He doesn't mind it. As for the diapers, I'm not sure how that happened actually. It used to be a joke about training DD to only poop when he's home. But now it just kind of became his expertise.
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
@Dandelion: haha you would think...sometimes when I make dinner I have a certain way I planned for the food to go & I feel like he isn't getting the full effect if he doesn't do it like that. Luckily for him, this results in me making his plate for him on the regular.
persimmon / 1363 posts
@Cherrybee: Hahahaha - mine's exactly the same way. If I try and "make" him do something, he acts like a belligerent little kid and like I am his mean mom. I just thank him and encourage him when he does something helpful and pay our house cleaner to do the rest!
pear / 1837 posts
DH comes to bed when I do because I can't fall asleep if I know he's in the other room doing something. What is wrong with me?
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
@LulaBee: DH sleeps A LOT & he gets "in trouble" for going to bed before me because I have trouble sleeping without cuddles. I have only gone to bed before him one time while pregnant because I just couldn't hang lol
pomegranate / 3105 posts
I...purposely leave the dishwasher full and clean until he empties it. I also leave vacuuming to him. He criticizes me when I do it do I just leave it for him.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
awww... you guys are all awesome, but unfortunately very few of these things are actually RIDICULOUS!! Like making a man leave a room to finish his snack!!!
That being said... hugs to everyone for manning (and/or womanning?) up and letting me know I'm not the only ridiculous one out there Aaaand we all have a bunch of pretty good SO's to put up with us, right?
pomelo / 5220 posts
I'm with @mrs. taco, anything with nail clipping freaks me out. He has to shut the bathroom door and run the faucet. Same with flossing. Barf barf barf.
papaya / 10343 posts
Hmmm if you asked him the most ridiculous thing I make him do it would be washing his hands constantly when we cook together. I'm a total germ-phobe when it comes to raw meat and I make him wash his hands every single time he touches it for even a second before he can touch anything else. Or like, if it is sitting on a plate and he moves the plate, he has to wash his hands. He thinks I'm nuts… I think I'm just health conscious
I'd say maybe the most ridiculous thing is that I can't stand touching the garbage cans (again-- germs). I don't take the bag out, ever. He always has to take all the trash out. And even if I have something not dirty that I want to go in the outside trash can (for example if I am getting rid of a shirt that has holes in it) I give it to him to take out because I refuse to touch the lid of the outside trash can.
papaya / 10570 posts
@mskeee: The positive reinforcement technique doesn't work on my DH, either! If you praise him for something, he dines out on it for weeks!! And there's no way I'd get a cleaner past him, you'd think we were destitute the way he obsesses about our budget!!
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