It is not hard for me to teach my puppy house-broken, but kind hard for me to teach my husband not to throw clothes here and there that it becomes one of house chores in my daily life and kind waste of my life and time.
2006-08-07 18:33:15 · 11 answers · asked by Snowcrane66 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Girl, I have been dealing with this battle for 12 years and the only thing I learned from it is pick your battles because just like they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
2006-08-07 18:47:20 · answer #1 · answered by Athena D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you know he was a slob before you married him? If you did your kind of on shaky moral ground here but I will do what I can to help. You could just throw away what he leaves laying around. Or provide hampers. Or cut him off. Or ask him exactly what it would take to get him to stop being such a pig. Or just have a good heavy broomstick at the ready and if you catch him throwing his dirty clothes on the floor just pick it up and whack him across the back with it. Oh yeah....faking a mental breakdown will sometimes work too.
C'mon...you're a woman. Are you saying your husband actually wears the pants???
2006-08-08 01:45:38 · answer #2 · answered by CallMeDigitalBob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never had that problem with my husbands. However, my son was the one with the problem.. Finally told him that whatever dirty clothes were not in the dirty clothes basket would not get washed.
Took him awile to understand but he finally caught on when he wanted to wear his favorite shirt and asked me where it was. I told him to try looking in the bottom of the of clothes fourth in from the door. Started putting clothes in the dirty laundry but had another problem. Pants legs would be turned wrong side out and socks wer in little balls. So I washed them that way and gave them back to him inside out and still rolled in balls.Started to get the picture.
2006-08-08 05:11:11 · answer #3 · answered by Leslie S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Refuse to wash any clothes item which has not been put in the washing hamper. Yes the dirty clothes lying around will irritate the daylights out of you but not getting clean clothes when they look for them is the only way to get the sloppiness out of them
2006-08-08 01:50:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got to make it bother him like it bothers you. Nagging works, but I don't like nagging. I never had to nag for anything before I got married and I am not about to start now. Just letting it pile up doesn't work. If dirty socks and clutter everywhere doesn't bother him, piles of it here and there won't bother him either. Here is something that will bother him - no sex. Tell him your not having sex with him until he learns to act like a grown man and pick up after himself. Don't expect him to learn as fast as a dog. He's a man so it will take 3-4 times longer.
2006-08-08 04:09:36 · answer #5 · answered by tenaciousd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest nagging. You are not his mother, you are not his slave and I would bet he doesn't pay you to be his maid. I would tell him that as well. I would also tell him the dog is smarter than him because it can be trained and he can't. My man does this too and it makes me crazy until I started nagging and refusing to wash his clothes that werent in the hamper. He was too cheap and too busy to buy more so he went without one day, did his laundry the next and asked me why I didn't do it for him. So I told him again and he FINALLY heard me.
2006-08-08 03:12:06 · answer #6 · answered by madamesophia1969 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I purchased a hamper and placed in the bedroom, that worked for me. Also another thing I did early on is don't wash anything not in the clothes hamper, when he ran out of underwear that got the message across..
2006-08-08 08:58:00 · answer #7 · answered by roeskats 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't know. For me, I don't think it would work just not to wash them. He would go out and buy new ones and those would pile up too. He also leaves his boxer shorts hanging on the bathroom doorknob. Once I decided to stop removing them and they piled up. 4 pairs, and then he started putting them on the towel rack. It's amazing.
2006-08-08 02:07:27 · answer #8 · answered by Becca 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont pick his stuff up, and dont wash it if it isnt in the hamper, let it turn into a horrid mess if you must, when he asks why he has no socks tell him he didnt see fit to get them in the laundry basket or hamper and you are sick of having him act like a baby.
2006-08-08 01:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if anyone knows the trick let me know i have been with my husband for 8 years and can't break the habit. i hate lifting the couch cushions and finding sock wads.
2006-08-08 02:01:11 · answer #10 · answered by RocKsTaR 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋