does your family do the same?

Question

before i go shopping i look into the cabinets and fridge/freezer to see what i need and dont need.

so i did this. went shopping. came home to put the grocery's away, low and behold theres empty boxes in the storage space.

come to find out my son's eat the food then put the empty boxes back on the shelves and in the fridge.

bottom line i have to reshop to replace the food that i thought i already have.

sooooo annoying. i though geat one chore out of the way. but, nope.

do your family do stuff like this?

tell what. such as buying family pack's of dove soap. but by the end of the week it's gone coz the kid's leave the soap in the tub for it to melt away. can i just say that soap (Dove) is EXPENSIVE! grrrrrrrr

tell me what annoying things your family do around the house that annoy the goodness out of you?

Answer 1

i totally understand where you are coming from! my kids leave their dirty clothes where ever it may land and they dont want to pick it up til its time for us to have company or go somewhere. they also like to eat something and if they have just even 1 bite of it left, they will put it in the fridge. instead of taking the 1 lil bite or throwing it away. its hard always having to chase behind 4 kids alone but somehow i manage.

Answer 2

If I find one more sock shoved into my couch cushions .... imma scream, LOUD. I go into crazy Tazmanian devil mom when I find those.
Also, my son kicks off and leaves his (insert explaitves here).... shoes right in the path where people walk in the house. We are forever tripping over shoes. I pick them up and throw them into his bedroom.
Lets see..... what else.... ? Hmmmm....
Oh yeah. Kids never put the shower thingee back down after showering. So when I go to turn the water on I get sprayed in the face with ice cold water. Yeah, does a real job on the ol' make-up.
And ohhhhhhhhhhh .... NEVER DO THEY EVER TURN OFF A LIGHT IN THE HOUSE WHEN WALKING OUT OF A ROOM!
The electric company really loves me for that one. I have threatened to take the lightbulbs away from them and hide them.
The one that is really annoying to me is, that they leave garbage on the counter tops in the kitchen. I guess only I am programmed to pick up garbage and walk it to the trash can.
I could go on for a week, but I have to go clean house.... lol. NO ONE ELSE WILL DO IT. ***sighhhhh***

Answer 3

Well, I'm not a mother like you... I'm 22 but still live with my folks. You have a toddler but me and my siblings are big enough to leave soaps in the tub and don't have the problems that your sons give you but the annoying things about my family is that my brother rarely flushes after using the toilet and the "boys" in the house almost seem to never close the bathroom door when they pee. >_< Ugh.

Answer 4

YES!!! I thought my family was the only ones to do this. I find empty cereal boxes in the cabinet all the time. The thing that really bugs me though is they will put an empty ice cube tray back in the freezer, or put it in the freezer with one ice cube left in it...I hate that!!

Answer 5

Yes, I find empty toilet paper roll, tissue box, cereal boxes. Just about any other regularly used household products are left deceivingly empty in it's place.
I have learned to leave it just as they left it and when the complaining starts, my point is made. I may buy it but stash it until the need is there
Slowly they are catching on

Answer 6

pretty much what everyone has said happens at my homestead. thing is, i have no kids, i don't life with my parents, just my boyfriend, he is my total opposite when it comes to taking care of things. i have taken the habbit of throwing his dirty clothes he leaves next to the hamper at him! same with the empty tp roll, empty soda bottle in fridge, so on and do on! one thing that i didn't see up there was leaving a half inch of a drink in the fridge, but he won't drink it! JUST THROW IT OUT!

Answer 7

My kids put empty milk cartons back in the refrigerator, empty ice cube trays in the freezer, empty cereal boxes, peanut butter jars, etc. back in the pantry or refrigerator. They put empty laundry detergent bottles back on the shelf...in fact, anything that was empty was put back in it's place and not in the trash can. Who knows why.

It's annoying, yes. Savor it. They will be grown and gone before you know it.

Answer 8

The rotating monarchy of the U.S. presidency seems slightly nicely...as you stated loopy. yet then lower back they have the "journey" in working a marketing campaign and pulling the strings in D.C. so i assume it particularly is to be expected. At this value we are going to have Jeb in 2016 and Chelsy in 2020 and what the heck the Bush Twins whats up 2 presidents are greater advantageous than one in 2028 sighh....

Answer 9

My "better half" can't seem to get it through his head that we do not have a garbage disposal. He skips the step of scraping plates into a garbage bin before rinsing them off, leaving a mound of soggy bread crusts, bones, noodles and what have you in the sink and then walks away. He says he "can't bear to clean up that garbage in the sink strainer -- just looking at it makes me gag." To my mind every member of the household who EATS should be willing and able to perform ANY household task associated with meal prep and clean-up.

Answer 10

Then my kids and husband can not extend their are out just an inch further to put their clothes in the hamper. Which the land on the floor in FRONT of the hamper. grrrrr!
Or whip the pee off the seat! Those dang boys!