What can I do about this. I'm tired of it. If you not going to wear it hang it back up. I pick up after my kids, not a grown man who claims to know better.. What can I do about this?
2007-10-23 19:58:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Throw his clothes in the hamper, clean or dirty. When he complains, tell him you assumed that he wouldn't throw clean clothes on the floor. I don't know how old the kids are but to some extent you have to pick up after them while teaching them to clean up their own messes.
2007-10-24 02:14:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course your husband wants to live in a clean and tidy place as long as he's the one NOT doing the cleaning/tidying ! For starter's have a place for everything and everything in it's place.. If he starts "dumping" things around the house- as politely as possible tell him, "that doesn't go there" Instruct him on where to put it. My husband LOVES to take his socks off in the livingroom and there they stay till I pick them up the next day... GROSS !!! So, I've been throwing away his socks. When he runs out of socks, I will tell him. Sometimes it's just that easy.. Also, some men find it impossible to use a hamper/clothes bin.. The clothes seem to magically jump outta the bin... So, I don't wash any of my husband's things that aren't in the hamper. Once/twice w/o any clean underwear usually solves this problem ! It's all in the "training process" Also, get the kids involved in cleaning and maintaining the home and you'll have an easier time when they get older. I have a 1yr. old and 3 yr. old and they know that when it's bedtime the toys get picked up and put away. Good luck
2007-10-24 03:31:29 · answer #2 · answered by pebblespro 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband does the same thing, tell him if you find clean clothes on the floor again, you'll throw them away, worked for me... or just pick out what he's going to wear the next day and have it set out for him... For dirty clothes, I have a laundry hamper right outside the bathroom door... he's learned to put them in there.
2007-10-23 20:03:22 · answer #3 · answered by Laurie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Haha isnt marriage great? Yeah sounds when he said he likes a clean home he MEANS he wants someone to clean up his house, not that he would actually do it himself. I would wait him out and let the clothes lay where they land. And if they are dirty clothes, leave them there, he will eventually get tired of wearing his cleanest pair or dirties and decide to put them in the hamper :)
2007-10-24 05:12:43 · answer #4 · answered by Mommy to 1+triplets 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The husband is usually the biggest kid of all.
Please, start with a laundry basket, or hamper on his side of the room, and one in the bathroom, and maybe a hanger on his side of the bed, or on the bathroom towel rack, to get the hint of where to place his clothes as he takes them off.
Next, and this is important, please help your kids (in a good, fun way) learn to put their clothes away where they belong. When I was in third grade, I can remember specifically, the rule was come home straight from school, put our books on the dining table. Go to our rooms, change from school clothes to play clothes, meet back at the table, do homework. Snack okay while doing homework. No friends, no phone calls, no tv, etc. till after homework was done.
At the age of three yrs on up, if you let your children help you with tasks around the house (that are simple for them to do), they will learn these good habits.
As for your husband, please sit down with him, talk with him, and let him know that this is expected of him from now on, and if not, he will find his clothes in a pile on the floor on his side of the bed, and he will have to learn to do his own laundry, from start to finish.
Take care.
2007-10-23 21:07:51 · answer #5 · answered by SAK 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have learned to be blind...it is really hard, but I was mad all the time and that wasn't good for me! If the clothes aren't in the basket I don't wash them. If they are in the basket, I don't check pockets! I always wash my clothes separate. If someone is coming over I tidy up by throwing all of his "stuff" on his side of the bed. You have to decide if you are going to continue to fight a losing battle.
2007-10-24 17:19:16 · answer #6 · answered by Angela C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set a dead line time for everyone to have everything they value up and off the floor.
Anything left on the floor after the dead line gets picked up & thrown away. It only takes one time of this for spouses and older kids to pick up after themselves.
2007-10-24 01:02:38 · answer #7 · answered by YesIDid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Men are all the same ,my hubby has a pile of clothes at his side of bed but i never know whats clean and what needs washing so leave them till he needs summit clean then he moans so i just tell him you were told to put all dirty laundtry in basket so its your own fault not to have clean stuff .stepson aged 11 and half is same so i have now given up .
2007-10-23 21:47:52 · answer #8 · answered by rudd_linda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tell him if he didn't try to follow the good habit you wouldn't bother to pick up his clothes to wash and soon after 1 month he wouldn't hv any clothes to wear...ha ha ha
2007-10-23 20:35:34 · answer #9 · answered by veronica v 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
don't clean and lets see how he likes it.... you shouldn't be the only one cleaning all the mess. and you should start teaching your kids to clean up after themselves. cause if you don't it's going to be hard when they get older.
2007-10-23 20:02:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋