The line between homemaker and maid
I like doing the laundry. It's one of those tasks that makes me feel like I'm really taking care of my family.
I do NOT like dirty clothes being scattered around the house, though, as if it is my job to collect them all for laundry day. The one that gets me almost crazy is my husband's dirty socks. When he gets home from work at night, he takes his shoes and socks off right by the front door and puts on his slippers. Somehow, his socks never make it up to the hamper. At this moment, there are about six pairs of dirty socks by the front door. Today is laundry day and he knows it. Those dirty socks are staying right where they are.
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We are married to the same
We are married to the same man. Mine takes them off in the living room (actually, he pays the kids a quarter to take off his boots and socks). And since half the time he falls asleep on the sofa, his jeans and shirts wind up out there, too.
I'm trying to nip it in the bud with the kids. They like to watch cartoons or Disney channel in my bedroom, but they like to leave their shoes in there, too. When they do, they get grounded from TV in there for a week. It hardly happens anymore, so it must work. Too bad there is nothing to ground husbands from! LOL! (Ok, well, there is, but that's such a rare occurance, it doesn't have any significance anymore with four kids from 2 months old to 8 years. LOL!!).
put a small hamper by the door
If he can't be bothered to use it, well, at least it's there for you to pop them into. John always left his at the side of the bed. After years of my indifference to his having clean socks (sometimes involuntary, sometimes not) and years of little kids piling their stuff on top of said socks, forcing him to dig, he got his own mini hamper that he keeps at the foot of the bed and puts his socks in.
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
No wonder I am single
I just would not tolerate this stuff, honestly. Anything that was not in the hamper would not get washed. Period. If it really bothered me having dirty socks etc all over the floor, I would put it all in a bag and throw it in the bottom of his closet.
Intolerant, ME??
Hide them!
Perhaps from an educational standpoint, it might be best to make them disappear rather than leaving them there. When he eventually runs out of socks, perhaps he'll reconsider where he stores them.
I tried once to put all of
I tried once to put all of DH's clothes on his side of the bed. No matter where he left them, I piled them over there. I was going to teach him that if he wanted his clothes washed, they had to be in the hamper. Wanna know how he retaliated?
He would search thru all the dirty stuff to find the things he wanted cleaned and put THOSE in the hamper. Yes, I know, it would have been easier for him to just throw it all in the hamper. Apparently that didn't cross his mind.
And so I just live with it.
Maybe I'm lucky
My husband always puts his dirty clothes where they are supposed to go, and he even does his own laundry!
When I saw the name of this post though - it made me think of cleaning up his messes else where in the house though. I don't want to be his maid - or anyone's!
That is one thing I will have to watch once we have child and she gets older - I want to take good care of her - but I want a life of my own too and not to just be her and my husband's maid!
Yeah, tried that once.
He bought more socks.
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
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