Only for the Other Vindictive Ladies Out There (Fun Question)....

I slowly, passive agressively assigned more and more duties to mine. I got tired of doing his dirty laundry because he changes clothes 3 times a day and leaves it everywhere. I stopped doing laundry. No towels. Not his clothes. I wash mine and the kids and the kiddie towels. Now he does his laundry and the kids and all the linens. I got tired of him leaving dirty dishes all over while I was at work. I completely stopped doing the dishes. They can pile up for a month - dont care. So he started doing them. I haven't swept or mopped in 2 years. He does it. Now, I just mention something needs to be done or that I hope to get to it this weekend, I come home and it's done! I think that's pretty evil if I do say so myself.

oooh man!! are you married to my ex husband?!?!?!?!

He kept his car IMMACULATE...but could care less what the inside of the house looked like - eeeewwww!!!

i would pile it in his truck or "his" chair....or stop giving him the stuff that he can leave around the house...you know - stop buying the food that he lives the wrappers on...no more soda, etc.

ooooohhhhh....girl! you are bad!!

Funny, as I was reading I was thinking in the passenger's seat of his car so he would have to get rid of it before he left for work. You could go even further. All his dirty clothes in the bottom of the shower when he gets up in the morning, food cans and wrappers in his lunch box, the hair (eeewww) piled up in his favorite sitting spot in the living room or on his pillow. Oh, I could be totally diabolical if given the opportunity.

Hire help and let him pay for it.

I used to try that.
Dh would leave his big clompy, outside work boots right where he took them off in the middle of the room.
One day though it all backfired though....he really needed to find those
work boots, I wasn't home, he needed them for a side job and he was
so mad that he couldn't find them when he needed them.
Not worth it.
I feel like men never or rarely ever grow up.
Stuck at age 5 or 7 years old.
I never understood how to follow the old addage "pick my battles"..until
now. I no longer hide his things, trick him although tempted. I now pick
them up as I am sick to death of looking at them and then I PICK MY
BATTLES . When I absolutely won't budge or do someething....well then I have my a leg to stand on. He then takes me seriously.
Honestly, men are grown children. To all the men out there reading this...
you may be the exception to the rule.

Put the dirty dishes in his bed....bet he won't do it anymore!

love this- I do things like this, too! Anything left on his side of the bed is great. for my DH it was socks, he leaves sweaty gross socks bunched up (so I have to straighten them out before washing- ew) on the floor. I started a 'sock strike', I decorated a paper bag with strike sayings and when I found the socks, just put them in the bag. I refused to wash them. He started doing better once he ran out of socks!

Thanks for the best laugh today!!! I can't stop!!!! My husbands truck is immaculate too, and that is a GREAT way to get his attention!! How about throwing his trash in his dresser drawer and mess it up amongst his undies and socks? Just make sure it isn't wet stuff so it won't get the clothes dirty cause you know YOU will have to rewash them!! When he leaves his half eaten food sitting around, put tin foil on it, and serve it up to him for dinner the next night. Well, not really but you can put it on the table first to get the conversation going. I'd bet you'll get lots of fun responses!!

This sounds like my ex husband!! Wish that I would've thought of this when we were married!! Same as you, he was a slob, but not in his precious truck! I love this!! I will keep it in mind if I ever choose to get remarried. :-)

This was a great question- I loved reading all the posts!
DH kept leaving his watch and various items laying around so I've since tucked them away. It's been over a week and he hasn't noticed yet. I've also resorted to doing something similar with the money. I tuck it away in an account so he can't blow it all like he's done in the past. I am forthright with him when asked- but not a moment before. I've done this with the money before and then when time got tough, I got to be the hero with the "extra money" to get us by.

Well I'm not evil (I won't mention what I cleaned up last week, Saturday morning, starting at 5:30 a.m...), but I get sick of beer bottles from the night before. Sometimes they're on the counter, but never rinsed and in the recycle bag. I have started to see if I could make a new centerpiece for the dining table by arranging them on it for a week or so and see how the collection would grow.

I don't have the heart to be mean since I've woken up and found things I left out, or forgotten. I do hate hair and toothpaste in a freshly washed sink, though. :(

That's funny. Let me go home and see what I can come up with.

You took the words right out of my brain. I was going to suggest putting the stuff in his car.

I leave it there and when he says something I tell him that he left it there and I am not his maid or mother, that I love him too much to be a nag and am allowing him to choose to clean up after himself.

That is exactly what I would have done!! Its perfect, lol, roflmbo

Early in our marriage my husband would come in from work and undress as he went through the house. He would hang his uniform over the dining room chairs but socks and underwear laid in the floor wherever he took them off. I started leaving them there - would clean under them then put them back where he had left them. One morning he didn't have any clean underwear to put on under his highly starched fatiques. I calmly explained that all the washing that had been in the dirty clothes hamper was done. After that it wasn't a problem. :-)

I love it!! Another thing, if he leaves food all over, maybe that is what he can have for his supper one night, fix yourself and kiddos your plates and load his up with his "leftovers!!" I think maybe that may paint a beautiful picture!!
Cheers!

Thank you for posting this!!! I go through the exact same thing and it's good to know I am not the only one. Just to give you an idea, it has taken 10 years to get him to hang his wet towel on the door instead of leaving it in the floor. Of course, the towel rack would be ideal but at least it's progress! My DH has a new truck as well and I think this is brillant.