Crimeny, How Do You Live With Men!!!
Lounge By berryblondeboys Updated 9 May 2007 , 4:24pm by LaSombra
Good grief, men are impossible. We've been married for 13.5 years, but I SWEAR he still has a bachelor attitude. Last year he wanted to toss everything out of the china cabinet his mother gave us so he could put books in it.
Today, he said while playing ping pong outside. "Why do we need an outdoor table, we should sell it. We could eat at the ping pong table!!!"
While I "suppose" this is true, it's not the most comfortable place as you can't tuck your feet under and it's a big wide and bulky... what's with guys!?!!?
Anyone able to commiserate!
melissa
If it were up to my husband we would pave our entire yard in concrete and have Star Trek themed living room! 
He refuses to wash anything that doesn't fit in the dishwasher. I won't let him put the pots and pans into the dishwasher so he won't wash them since "technically" they will fit.
He drives me nuts ,but I wouldn't trade him for the world! 
If it were up to my husband we would pave our entire yard in concrete and have Star Trek themed living room!
He refuses to wash anything that doesn't fit in the dishwasher. I won't let him put the pots and pans into the dishwasher so he won't wash them since "technically" they will fit. He drives me nuts ,but I wouldn't trade him for the world!
Well, right now you can take mine. Ask me again after we have been all healthy for awhile (I'm the only one who didn't get sick) and after my little guy isn't the biggest grumpy two year old in the world.. but for now, my DH is just another kid to take care of and he's driving me BATTY!!!
Melissa
My DH is the worst when he gets sick he is such a big baby about it I would rather be sick myslef and trust me I wouldnt be able to lay in bed and get waited on. about the whole bachlor thing my DH is the same way he has a huge collection of stone cold stuff in my living room I finally made him move it up to and cove in the wall but still I hate it plus he doesnt see why I need to spend money on things like new couches and entertainment centers hes fine with his old bachlor pad stuff and the thing he would most like to buy are speakers for the car he has nice speakers in the car but he wants 600 dollar speakers so he can be like an annoying teenager blareing his music. I will give him credit though he has spent a lot of money on my cake stuff over the years neglecting to get he cherished speakers.
They definitley have their moments! I secretly look forward to his business trips so that I can have the house to myself! 
We haven't been able to have kids, so I can't help you there. I imagine though it can get pretty crazy when everybody is sick!
I think that God gave us our girlfirends to keep us from killing our husbands! 
You know, I bet that's why they complain about women spending all the money - they consider the groceries, sheets for the bed, kitchen items for cooking, etc. as "your stuff", not as "family stuff"... I spend like ZERO on me... yet I'm "spending all the money"... yep, at consignments stores to dress our kids, and Marshall's to get our towels once they get holes...
It wouldn't bother me if he didn't FIGHT me on things. I have to FIGHT to get new towels even though ours have holes. When I don't ask, he gets mad. If I ask, he says no... so then I just get them anyway as HOLES IN THE TOWELS??? Come on, we're not DESTITUTE! ugh!!!
Melissa
berryblonde..... keep two sets of towels.... he's only allowed to use the holey ones since he considers them "good enough".
Mine thinks we can live in a 3 room house. And why not? There would be room for the TV, his recliner, a place for the remote and if he can squeeze a small dorm sized refrigerator next to the recliner, then why do we need "all that OTHER" space?
He also used to tick me off when he's ask "what's for supper?" and I would tell him what I was making and then he'd whine " Oh, I don't want tha-at!" It was my daughter who taught me to say, "Oh? I'm sorry .... what were YOU planning on making for dinner?" He stopped whining soon after that.
Along similar lines, when I'd ask "what do you want for dinner tonight?" and he would tell me "oh whatever you feel like making." Then I'd reply with "Well I don't feel like making nothin' so that's what you're getting." (yes, I know there's a double negative there.)
Oh and the dumbest idea he ever had! When I fold laundry, I put each person's clothes in a separate basket (there's only 3 of us). Then each person had to take the basket upstairs and put it away. Except we never had any baskets in the laundry room because they weren't putting their clothes away..... just pulled clothes out of the baskets as needed. His solution? "We need to buy more baskets." aaaauuugggghhhhH!!!!!
So then he comes up with ANOTHER bright idea of how dumb it is to have to empty a laundry basket each time. So HE thinks it would be a good idea for me (ME!) to go upstairs and bring the DRESSER DRAWERS DOWNSTAIRS, fold the laundry and put it in the drawers and then CARRY THE DRAWERS UPSTAIRS AND PUT THEM BACK IN THE DRESSER!!!!
I said (with arms folded, leaning on one leg, and giving him that wife look that ALL married men are familiar with) "And you REALLy think that's a better idea than YOU JUST PUTTING YOUR FREAKIN' CLOTHES AWAY AND BRINGING THE BASKETS DOWNSTAIRS??????????"
Can live with 'em .... can't shoot 'em and collect the insurance, run off to Jamaica, to lay on the beach and have some young, hot island boy rub lotion all over me!
OMG, that's hilarious! LOL 
The ONLY chore my husband does is the laundry - well, he brings it down and washes and dries it. I fold it and then each person puts away their own. Now, he'll "SAY" the laudry is done... but I never get a basket back... well, I get "a" basket back, but not ALL the baskets back because he still has "partial" loads down there. Well, he then waits to do the laundry until we have LOADS AND LOADS and then he never gets to those partial loads. Sometimes I don't see clothes for MONTHS because they were at the bottom of the "partial load" for so long... I wouldn't mind if he would just be a little less picky with sorting (which is why he does laundry in the first place because I can't stand how picky he is with laundry". I'll have a load to fold that is all oranges, then all blues, then all khaki. His partial loads would be a full load of something for me, but he'd rather not do it than mix dark colors with lighter colors...
But that he wants you to carry the DRAWERS??!?!? OMG!!! Well... mine is better in his ideas at least... he thinks we should just have our dressers downstairs so that we don't have to carry them up PERIOD.
I also had to laugh about the towels. So, a year ago I did buy 4 PLUSH towels at Tuesday Morning when we were going to have overnight guests. Well guess what, I kept seeing him taking the NEW towels out of the cupboard to use! even when they were the bottom of the stack!!! I finally told him, "listen, you didn't want me to get these towels, yet you keep using them. We're going to wear them out and then I'll have to get MORE new towels for guests. Why don't you wear out the "medium" worn out towels first so that we don't have to replace everything at once or at least use them in normal rotation and not ignore all our other towels or else I'm throwing all of those out and replacing them with new towels too since you only use the new ones." And... he stopped using the new ones... he doesn't want me getting new towels, EVEN THOUGH HE LOVES THEM! LOL
I don't like "Saving" new towels for guests adn I think they should be in normal rotation, but he just totally got my goat by using them "out of rotation" when that rotation was HIS idea in the first place years ago! LOL
Melissa
But that he wants you to carry the DRAWERS??!?!? OMG!!! Well... mine is better in his ideas at least... he thinks we should just have our dressers downstairs so that we don't have to carry them up PERIOD.
Melissa
This is funny, because I was just talking to a friend on the phone the other day, and told her that if we ever build a house, I will have a huge laundry room, wit hlots of space to hang up clothes, and I'd just put everyone's dressers in there. I would rather have one room that was a family "closet" than have to put everyone's stuff away in their own room. It would be so much easier to wash, dry, fold, and put away all in the same room! Laundry is every day in this house, and I get tired of putting it all away!
But that he wants you to carry the DRAWERS??!?!? OMG!!! Well... mine is better in his ideas at least... he thinks we should just have our dressers downstairs so that we don't have to carry them up PERIOD.
Melissa
This is funny, because I was just talking to a friend on the phone the other day, and told her that if we ever build a house, I will have a huge laundry room, wit hlots of space to hang up clothes, and I'd just put everyone's dressers in there. I would rather have one room that was a family "closet" than have to put everyone's stuff away in their own room. It would be so much easier to wash, dry, fold, and put away all in the same room! Laundry is every day in this house, and I get tired of putting it all away!
You know, it really is stupid that we have laundry so separate from where we store clothes - really assinine actually. Having laundry upstairs is problematic too because if the washer ever has issues, it will flood UPSTAIRS and could do some real damage....
Hmmm... even having bedrooms upstairs is kind of silly as most people like to be cool when the sleep and the upstairs is always the hottest place. Sure, no one likes waking in a dungeon, but our basement is a walkout, so we could have a nice bedroom downstairs and then make the other "dark" section of the basement the laundry/shower/closet/dressing area... that makes SOOOOOOOOO much more sense than carrying things up and down two flights of stairs. Either that or I told my husband I want a dummy elevator built so that I can lift the laundry up the "chute" and only have to put it away and not carry it all...
But, for now, we live in a townhouse and we can't change a heck of a lot without major buckeroos!
Melissa
My husband's just as bad about getting new towels, it's funny because he's much more agreeable to me spending the same money on stuff I don't need.
As for man decorations he made lamps out of car parts, can you tell he's a mechanic, and insisted that we use them in the living room and bedroom for years. It isn't that they look bad but they don't go with what's in the rooms, he also has a thing for wildlife pictures and Native weapons, dreamcatchers, etc. I finally got him to put the floor lamp away when he decided that he had to have a corner fireplace and there was no where to put it, he wasn't happy but we hadn't turned it on in forever and it clashed with everything.
My husband gripes that I need to start charging for cakes, but yet when it comes for a party at his work he's the first one to sign me up to make the cake and he won't ask for money!!
Or isn't it amazing how clingy our husband's get when we have to spend all day doing cake related stuff. Yesterday my husband started doing it and I put my foot down. I even told him he was being clingy yesterday while I was trying to clean my kitchen and bake the cakes, he stopped pestering my then.
Try living with your husband that leaves papertowels all over the house where ever he goes. And then invites his brother to live with you b/c he's going through "hard times" and also has a hard time picking up after himself. Well it's been 6 months of "hard times" - I'm going out of my mind. AHHHHHHH. Thanks - I needed to vent. 
oh man, laundry is my least favorite chore in the entire house. I'd rather mow the lawn, take the garbage out, etc than do laundry. OK, I don't mind washing/drying. How hard is it to put in the machines...but I hate folding and especially hate putting it away. Sometimes I'll have piles of folded laundry on the coffee table in the family room for days because nobody will put their own laundry away. I always put my own away but the guys will just pick what they want from the piles
talk about men thinking girls spend all the money...I wear the same shoes pretty much everyday. I have three favorite pairs that I always wear, depending on if it's work or leisure, etc. You would not believe him and his SHOES! He is worse than the typical woman with shoes. Instead of pumps, he's got tennis shoes galore
and what is it with men and cars?? He wants to get a new car. His excuse is that it costs so much money for gas to and from work. Yes, he'd save alot of money on gas because he drives 30 miles each way to work BUT the car is only $100/month and almost paid off! If he got a new car, he'd be making more in payments than what he'd save in gas. I also mentioned to him to maybe consider a Toyota Prius because they get 60MPG! That would be great gas mileage (his reason for a new car, remember) and he says he doesn't like them because they're "ugly."
Geesh, I could be on this one all day!
Hubby will empty the trash .... and set the tied up bag either in the kitchen or in the entry hall because he's "....gonna take it out later."
Ok....so when I have FIVE FULL TRASH BAGS sitting in my hallway (because no I am NOT going to finish the job for him like he expects!), I plopped them in the laundry room. To come into the house from the garage, you enter thru the laundry room. He comes home, can't get into the house and starts loudly complaining. I, the innocent wife, just explained that I was helping him by moving them closer to the trash bins because evidently while they were in the hall, he kept overlooking them! (smile sweetly, bat eyelashes!). He tells me he knows that's a bunch of crap, "......you're just trying to teach me a lesson!"
Well, he doesn't leave full trash bags in the hall anymore, so I guess we can file this one under Lesson Learned, huh?
Husbands .... when will they learn that in the battle of wits, they are under equipped?
and what is it with men and cars?? He wants to get a new car. His excuse is that it costs so much money for gas to and from work. Yes, he'd save alot of money on gas because he drives 30 miles each way to work BUT the car is only $100/month and almost paid off! If he got a new car, he'd be making more in payments than what he'd save in gas. I also mentioned to him to maybe consider a Toyota Prius because they get 60MPG! That would be great gas mileage (his reason for a new car, remember) and he says he doesn't like them because they're "ugly."
My husband says he hates cars because they are too low, he likes to be higher, but yet he LOVES his car that's about 2 inches off the ground. It's a Camaro that he's been fixing up and his idea of fixing it includes having to move it from drive to 3 and back in an AUTOMATIC and he wanted it like that. 
My father is the worst with cars, he thinks he's really good at fixing his own stuff but if he's done more than change the oil it never runs right.
My husband could live his entire life in a pigpen and be completely happy. He calls it organized mess. His car looks like a moving trash can, his classroom is the same. He is an art teacher and says it is just his way of being creative. LOL He is just lazy. As far as his clothes, if I find them on the floor, I throw them in the trash. Yes, I do. I tell him that I invested in hampers for a reason and if he could not figure out how to put his clothes in them then he must not want them. When he is looking for a particular shirt and can not find it, I ask where he last left it and he knows if he dropped it on the floor and not pick it up, it is no longer in the house. When I finish cleaning the clothes, I hang up every shirt and pants for him and put them on a rod next to our dryer. As for his underwear and socks, they get placed on his pillow, so he has to put them away to sleep. Oh, my washer and dryer are upstairs. I figured all the bedrooms and bathrooms are upstairs, so why not the washer and dryer. I have lived here for 20+ years and have never had a leak. I have told my husband that if I have to pick up his mess because he is too lazy, then I get to decide whether to keep it or throw it. His car and classrooms are the only place I refuse to touch.
My husband could live his entire life in a pigpen and be completely happy. ......
My sister says, "A man will live as filthy as his wife will let him."
I haven't figured out yet if that's an insult to the husband or to the wife!
OH MY GOSH!!! These guys are something else. Don't fret--mine is that way too. Clothes on the floor, trash everywhere, you name it. My biggest, well okay-one of the many!!) is he will take the trash bag out of the can and never put a clean one in. I open the trash can and just drop in something and I hear it hit the plastic!! How frustrating!! I work shift work and so does he, but when I'm on 3 days straight and he's been off--I know I have TWO full days of cleaning ahead of me!!
jen1977 - AWESOME idea about having the dressers in the laundry room - can I steal your idea?
Indydebi - I swear our hubbies could be related - that sounds like something mine would say, only rather than carrying the drawers he would most probably tell me to roll the dryer down to each room in the house, LOL... such idiots they are really.
My best friend has a nice explanation for this kind of behavior: she says it's a GENDER DEFECT. Of course, it goes both ways - our need for chocolate could be construed as a gender defect for us, LOL...
Just got back from 3 months with in-laws in India. I took my daughter back in January and hubby joined us beginning of April. I really had a GREAT time and then it all ended and I came back to - well - CHAOS.
I got back a week ago and am STILL cleaning, although he claims is really did try (yeah, RIGHT... but he had time to watch every single new release on video now that he was free to see in peace without wifey and our baby around to disturb). He didn't keep up on the bills either so that is another mess. Then to top it all off, there were still dirty dishes in the sink waiting for me... from MARCH.... !AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now he tells me I have to stop doing cakes because things are tight and unless I can do for $$ forget it. I was planning to rent space out and get insured so I can advertise and make some $$, but now looks like I am done. But guess who is still buying beer and cigarettes and videos?
GENDER DEFECT???
This one touched a nerve, especially after this past weekend.
We just got a puppy and of course it took a lot of work over the weekend to get her settled in. I work graveyards Fri, Sat and Sun . . . I got about 4 hours sleep on Sat. Sunday I come home, get puppy settled in, and then go to bed.
Two and a half hours later I wake up to him calling me from downstairs. I ignore him. A few minutes later, he comes up and dumps the puppy on the bed and tells me he can't deal with it anymore. (She is a bulldog and keeps biting things constantly.)
He was obviously not watching her because she chewed his laptop cord, a shoe, and pottied under the coffee table. Until that point there had been no problems because I had been watching her like a hawk.
I was of course irritated so I started straightening up the house . . . I'm an "everything in its place" person and my honey is a bit messy. I swear if that didn't make me want to KILL him!!!
Dirty socks and shirts from the past few days crammed into the corner of the couch .. . dirty dishes on the coffee table . . . in the bathroom he had thrown a magazine on the floor--next to the basket I bought for his magazines!!! . . . there was a toilet paper roll on the ground--next to the trash!!!! . . . I was fit to be tied.
I love him to death but I get tired of being the maid. He's never been one to put things away and I certainly can't get him to participate in keeping things picked up so the puppy doesn't get into them.
Oh well . . . like my mom says, at least he is a good provider. I wouldn't have a lot without him.
***I had to edit this to add: The topper was when he wanted to know why I was so grumpy and I replied that I was exaused. He says, You got 2 1/2 hours. I was so angry!!! Just because I work nights and sleep days . . . does not make my bedtime a NAP!!! If he got 2 1/2 hours of sleep he would be whining and complaining forever . . . me? I get 2 1/2 hours and I should be happy????? GRRRRRRR!
Their behaviour must definitely be a gender defect.
I have to say that on this topic I am very lucky. My husband is cleaner then I am. I have never picked up a pair of underwear off the floor. Nor a dirty dish. I think because his mother was such a slob, he went the other way. When I do laundry, I just pile his stuff on top of his dresser and he puts it away. 
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