I'm a little irritated with my husband right now.
We've been doing some house projects, specifically painting and putting up new trim in the living room, dining room and hall. The tools have been all over the place for weeks, I have compresser hose rolled up in the dining room, several saws, two different routers, nail guns, drills, and then all the little tools and of course he just drops them everywhere. I bought a laundry basket just for the tools but I still end up being asked where he put stuff. 
Well now he's working on building a shed outside and couldn't find his tape measure. We spent 20 minutes with three people looking for it yesterday before I went and borrowed one from his parents. He had looked in the basket THREE times. This morning I was told that I needed to find his tape measure before I did anything else. 
I started pulling paint rollers and stuff out of hte basket to put somewhere else since the painting is done and guess where I found his damn tape measure?
Why can men not LOOK for stuff?? If he had done more than skim through the top stuff in his basket he would have found it right away. 
Okay I'm done with my rant. 
OMG don't get me started! I told hubby I was going to get him a purse because he cannot keep track of his things.
I come in the house and put my purse, keys, cell phone, etc., in the exact same place every day so that I know where they are. He puts it where he happens to stop, and his cell phone, keys, wallet, etc., usually end up in different places!
At least once a day he will ask where something is. My answer is always "Is it yours? Then I don't know where it is." You would think he would stop asking!
I've tried leaving a space on the little table by the back door, putting a basket on the table in the dining room, putting a basket on his night stand.....nope, likes to spread his stuff all over the house!
I agree with you guys. My husband wears contacts and I can only WISH I had a dollar for every time I've heard some variation of "Have you seen my eye drops?"
A purse is a great idea for my husband. I suppose you'd call it an man-bag or "European carryall" ala Seinfeld. My dh has the cleanest wallet and cell phone areound, since he keeps throwing his pants into the laundry with them in the pockets!
A couple of years ago dh would not put his laundry in the basket, would just throw it on the floor right beside the bed. So I put the laundy basket where he would have to step over it to get into his side of the bed. Did it work? Nope. So I started throwing away his clothes that he left on the floor, and HE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE.
A purse is a great idea for my husband. I suppose you'd call it an man-bag or "European carryall" ala Seinfeld.
My dh has the cleanest wallet and cell phone areound, since he keeps throwing his pants into the laundry with them in the pockets!A couple of years ago dh would not put his laundry in the basket, would just throw it on the floor right beside the bed. So I put the laundy basket where he would have to step over it to get into his side of the bed. Did it work? Nope. So I started throwing away his clothes that he left on the floor, and HE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE.
My husband has one of those igloo lunchbox coolers, that we refer to as his "purse". EVERYTHING is in it (no food).He has said to me many times , if they call that I've been in an accident FIND the lunchbox. Of course he has ocd and thats a headache because I can't find anything because he's moved it!
My husband will sit directly on top of every remote, and cell phone in a 3 mile radius and not feel a thing! Its the black hole! LOL
I'm a little irritated with my husband right now.
We've been doing some house projects, specifically painting and putting up new trim in the living room, dining room and hall. The tools have been all over the place for weeks, I have compresser hose rolled up in the dining room, several saws, two different routers, nail guns, drills, and then all the little tools and of course he just drops them everywhere. I bought a laundry basket just for the tools but I still end up being asked where he put stuff.
Well now he's working on building a shed outside and couldn't find his tape measure. We spent 20 minutes with three people looking for it yesterday before I went and borrowed one from his parents. He had looked in the basket THREE times. This morning I was told that I needed to find his tape measure before I did anything else. I started pulling paint rollers and stuff out of hte basket to put somewhere else since the painting is done and guess where I found his damn tape measure? Why can men not LOOK for stuff?? If he had done more than skim through the top stuff in his basket he would have found it right away.
Okay I'm done with my rant.
Are you married to my DH too?? We are doing basically the exact same projects and he is the exact same way. I have a stash of his tools since he loses all of them. Plus my MIL for Christmas got me a flowered set of "girly" tools for me. That way I have tools when I need them. So he usually comes to me when he needs something like a tape measure or a screw driver. When we were working on the outside of the house he needed his tape measure and he couldn't find his either. So he got to use my hot pink flowered tape measure. Needless to say he looked and found his tape measure so he wouldn't have to use mine again.
Are you married to my DH too?? We are doing basically the exact same projects and he is the exact same way. I have a stash of his tools since he loses all of them.
Plus my MIL for Christmas got me a flowered set of "girly" tools for me. That way I have tools when I need them. So he usually comes to me when he needs something like a tape measure or a screw driver. When we were working on the outside of the house he needed his tape measure and he couldn't find his either. So he got to use my hot pink flowered tape measure. Needless to say he looked and found his tape measure so he wouldn't have to use mine again.
Now my husband wouldn't care about the color so I can't do that.
What really gets me going about the tools is he doesn't do that with his good tools at work just his cheaper ones at home. If I go see him at work and open his tool box they're all neatly laid out and easy for him to find with none sitting around other places unless he's using it right then. Even the "good" ones that he's bought for home are put away or at least back in the cases. You have to understand that he's a mechanic and buys brand names for home, so they're not junk, but his work stuff is all REALLY good.
As for remotes, every time he goes to watch something he asks where the stereo remote is and he's the only one who won't get up and adjust the volume so it's where he left it.
Checking pockets is another matter, he's pretty good about checking them but sometimes he'll forget to take something out and then yells at me for not checking. I keep telling him that whatever is left in the pocket is his problem.
His real stumbling block seems to be the concept of looking under and behind stuff. The last place we lived one of the cupboards had a very small door (six inches wide maybe) and then it went to the side at least a foot. I had some food in there and he would go looking for something we rarely used and would open the door, peek in, and ask where it was. Then he'd ask why I didn't leave it where it was easily found.
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