Just got our first dishwasher and he can't remember to put dirty dishes in it. They are piled in the sink. Come on! Develop a new habit. And I leave drawers and cabinet doors open.

Newspapers! I hate newspaper ink. So don't make me have to pickup or stack your papers you've left lying around and getting the ink on my hands. And don't get inky fingerprints on my white walls or doors. Yuck. I'm a huge proponent of reading news on the net.

I also like to leave the kitchen island clean. Salt & pepper shakers, spoon rest and some coasters are cool but please don't leave all your crap on it when you come home, its not an entry way or mudroom for gods sake. Its our cooking, prep & dining area in my small cool space.

He always leaves his brush out & usually doesn't clean up after himself (at least not to my satisfaction). but I've learned to deal with it. We all do things that annoy others.

No, we are both perfect in every way!

;^)

A kitchen full of dirty dishes when I get home from work, that drives me up the wall. To fix dinner, I have to do all of the roommate's dishes, cook, then do my own.

He's gotten a lot better now - trust me. But he does leave the shower curtain 'open' after he's done and his hairspray makes the whole counter and surrounding areas crusty.

But I leave snot rags in my pockets and it often gets all over the clothing during laundry time. Yeah, I'll work on it!

I really hate dirty dishes in the sink at the end of the work day, but what I hate even more is seeing him cook around them (something I refuse to do!), create more, and still leave them dirty for the next day. Gross.

But the worst part of co-habitating is having to deal with someone else's stuff in places that you'd never leave yours. My fiance can leave a room without a thought of what he's left behind. A grown man leaving socks on the floor, remote controls in a chair, a glass on a table, the chair pulled out from the kitchen table, really irks me. Or worse- dirty dishes BESIDE the sink, instead of inside (with the others he leaves there- see paragraph 1). Thanks to my persistent pleas for a little more respect for our shared space, things seem to be improving.

to preface, he has gotten better...but what still gets me is:

1. leaving the shower curtain liner OUTSIDE of the shower, then forgetting and running the shower so it floods the floor

2. socks, socks and more socks...dirty and left everywhere

3. saving all his bottle caps to give to his friend for a project they will probably NEVER finish

4. saving all the newspaper crosswords he can and never finishing them

5. he insists on being the 'laundry guy' but after it's clean, it will sit in the basket for a week before it ever sees its rightful place

but i know he also hates it when i take forever to wash dishes, leave my empty glasses on the coffee table and do the laundry (only because i shrink his shirts, by accident!)

everytime two or more people live together, there are going to be quirks so you take the good with the bad

there is that tooth paste droppings that would drive m crazy. he does it, i clean it. luckily, i enjoy cleaning. =D

Me? I hate that he puts dishes where he *thinks* they go, rather than remembering where they actually belong (after 5+ years).

Him? He hates that I'm incapable of keeping a tube of toothpaste clean and lidded.

DH leaves drawers open - which isn't so bad really. I'm guilty of not taking things out of our pockets in the washer & dryer lost some good lipbalms that way :(

I'm totally fine with a teering pile of dirty dishes on the counter. But if the sink is full... so is my rage. I don't know WHY. It's like... How am I supposed to get the dishes done WHEN THERE'S NO WHERE TO DO THEM.

COME ON PEOPLE

We are all guilty. Have some compassion and let the small things go...

My hubby is great about doing the dishes, but never wipes the counters or puts pieces of food down the dish disposal, so we have a tidy, but dirty kitchen when he's on cleanup duty.

I let shoes accumulate by the door, so by the end of the week, there's always about 4-5 pairs that need to be put away.

It must be written in men's DNA, because I am also going to complain about dishes in the sink, instead of in the dishwasher. Also, every night he leaves dental floss hanging over the edge of the bathroom waste basket. Gross!

I, on the other hand, leave bobby pins and hair elastics everywhere. Ooops

I have no problem with a sink full of dishes, but if there are dirty dishrags under that pile of dishes in the sink - that drives me nuts. Nothing makes a house smell more like a mushroom farm faster than a musty dishrag. I have to air them out on the porch for days.

I almost always forget to cleanup my cooking messes and take weeks to unpack when I go out of town (which is almost every weekend) so there is luggage everywhere.

DH is great about washing dishes, but has the annoying habit of leaving dishwater in the sink - which of course gets cold and yucky and then someone (me!) has to let the stopper out of the sink without getting the offending water on my hands.

As for me - Dh is annoyed by the way that I tend to leave a room, or the house, without turning off the lights.

My husband has the habit of leaving his empty plastic water bottles lying around the house. It also bothers me that he leaves the closet doors open.

It bothers him that I leave dirty dishes on the counter, and that I waste a lot of water when I do dishes.

But hey, in the end who cares? :)

My ex used to go nuts about me "constantly picking things up before he was done using them" (ie- the book he finished two weeks ago, the hat he wore last weekend still on the floor, his beer mug from two nights ago). And how I constantly rearrange and purge things.

His issues- he thought it was FINE to absoloutly DESTROY the kitchen. I mean, rice stuck to the ceiling, pop spilled on the stovetop and not wiped up, oatmeal stuck on the back of the stove, and (oh lawd) buying new dishes when I am away because he cant be bothered washing the ones IN THE SINK. Yarrrgh! Or the buying new socks because he can't "find" any (hint, try looking under the COUCH CUSHIONS where you stash them you lazy bugger!). Made me nuts. The house is spotless lately... the kids are trained to clean up after themselves, and the dog picks up her toys when I tell her to, returning them to her basket. Ahhhhhhhhhh clean house bliss. LOL

My man shaves his beard and never gets the little hairs behind the faucet. I drive him crazy with my piles of projects and plant experiments.

my bf does little things that drive me bonkers.
1. I find all his little rolled up smelly socks all over every room especially near the bath tub.
2. I find a stash of his clothes near our bath tub all the time, boxers, t-shirts and socks.
3. shaves his beard and then leaves all the hairs collected in the sink.

the main thing he gets annoyed with me about is when I soak the dishes and don't do them right away and then the dishes are sitting in cold water. He refuses to touch it.

I hate when people don't close the toilet lid. The last time mine was left open, I knocked over an open bottle of Advil PM into it while in a migraine haze -- that was a sad, achey night.

It also bothers me when people are lazy about recycling when the garbage and recycling sit right next to each other.

I've had roommates who don't open their mail or don't throw it out and just leave it to pile up. I always wonder if they think it will just disappear. I also never understood my roommates who put their coats on the back of the dining room chairs instead of hanging them in the coat closet (which is on the way to the dining room chairs...).

I know I probably annoy my roommates by being afraid of clutter in the common areas or moving their stuff into little piles in an attempt to organize :)

We both constantly do little things that drive each other crazy, but we're pretty gentle with each other about it. His oddly specific pet peeves include not squeezing out a sponge to let it dry properly (even though he leaves it soggy all the time), my getting the bath mat sopping wet when I exit the shower instead of carefully shaking off my feet first like he does (?!), and my terrible hair clogs in the shower. Mine are his toothpaste-water splish-splashes marking up our orange bathroom wall, his putting the dishes in the most bizarrely inventive different places every damn time, and always leaving empty bottles/boxes of any snack he's finished just lying around the basement. Alas, we're not perfect.

i hate when i cook and he wants to relax after dinner and clean the dishes "later" which usually means i clean them because i can't stand to let them sit there.

he hates that i squeeze the toothpaste from the middle of the tube instead of the bottom. he also hates that i get out of the shower then dry off. he prefers that i dry off in the shower instead of dripping on the mat, while i think that's what the mat is for...

anyway, no big deal. we get annoyed, then we get over it. it's the circle of life. haha

Leaving food gunk sitting in the kitchen drain. Totally grosses me out to have to fish it out.

Ahhh, he is incapable of wiping up the kitchen counters after he dribbles mustard, or glops peanut butter, or shakes coffee grounds on them. We have a tiny kitchen, and I am a fanatic about the counters being clean and cleared, otherwise I have to waste time wiping up and putting away before I can cook. COME ON MAN! Open your eyes! WIPE UP! He also does not get the concept of clean side / dirty side ... as in the dirty dishes go to the right of the sink, they go in the sink to be washed, the move left to the rack to dry, and then they move further left to be put away. If he leaves his glass on the dirty side, I'll empty it and wash it. If it's on the clean side, I'll put it in the cabinet (or use it next meal and point out what's happening). Oh yeah, don't drop off/pile up your crap on the dining table or kitchen counters. Me? Hahaha. I'm perfect. ;>

I don't think that this article was necessary, as it does not deal with apartments and how we decorate them and make them a living abode.

It seems that this rather deals with people and their personal likes and dislikes and the expectations of how they want their co-habitees to live in a defined space that is shared

I think to be big minded in the small things that is to see beyond and move on, stop being small minded over things that have no bearing in this website and what it covers vis a vis how to decorate your home.

Cee

alemonandaspoon.blogspot.com

What DOESN'T he do that drives me crazy? That's a better question. He doesn't load the dishwasher properly, or clean up his toothpaste spit, or EVER put a lid back on tightly, socks on floor every morning, Diet Coke cans that can't seem to find the recycling bin and dripped coffee on white counters everyday.

But after 22 years of marriage, I'm still madly in love with him -- quirks, pet peeves, imperfections and all, and there's an even longer list of wonderful things he does for me and the kids.

(And I'm sure he could give you a long list of my faults too!)

these comments have me laughing so hard.
mine are all listed here already! it's so funny the habits some of us have that others hate so much!

the one thing i'm guilty of that people haven't mentioned exactly is my habit of accidentally building up a water glass collection, which i move to the edge of my desk. the edge closest to the door to the kitchen... but i never seem to remember until i come back with a new one. this is the opposite of my old way of being, which was to use one water glass for the entire day, and then put it in the dishwasher at night before running it. i have no idea what happened to make me so lazy and forgetful, but somehow i keep doing it!

alemonandaspoon.blogspot.com - if you don't have anything nice or constructive to say about the post, then move on.

personally, i see posts on sites that don't pertain to me, so i don't open them up and ready them. and i certainly wouldn't openly comment about them.

It seems that my husband and I are average in this area. What a relief--sometimes I wonder.

My boyfriend leaves all the kitchen cabinets open, even though he's tall enough to sometimes bump his head painfully on the open doors. You'd think that would be enough negative reinforcement to close them, but no!

It really irritates him that I often neglect to refill the filtered water pitcher after drinking the last of it.

All of the above, and lots more.

My husband leaves dirty dishes in the sink, a pile of shoes by the front door, jackets on the backs of chairs, junk mail piled on his desk, and dirty laundry on the floor. But he also paints the walls any color I want, fixes the roof, cleans the gutters, adds new electric outlets where I want them, and helps me with all my DIY projects that I start with confidence and then realize I'm in over my head.

wow... if my SO were as neat as some of the ones being complained about in this thread I'd be ecstatic!

Mine isn't just the toothpaste all over the sink kinda guy, he's also the drop something and leave it there until it magically disappears kind of guy. It doesn't matter whether it's a dirty plate, glass, pair of socks or pants or even popsicle sticks, he used to just drop it all in a pile on the floor on his side of the couch. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why we were buying new silverware sets every month- they were all under the couch!

Thankfully he no longer stashes dirty piles under the couch, but he still collects half empty soda cans all over the house then opens another one. And now he puts the chocolate popsicle sticks and chocolate-y wrappers on the clean white tile counters, right above the trash can!! Gotta love him... ;)

Clothes on the floor, dirty dishes everywhere but in the sink, crusty food all over the floor and counters, stuff on every surface and did I mention he likes to buy useless shit (multiples of things, too!) and I'm a minimalist?

At least he cooks and has a nice bum.

I have a roommate who is a very progressive guy when it comes to politics and being pro-women, but around the house, he might as well be living in 1950. He contributes nothing to the house (if I moved out, he would have a bed, a desk, and 2 coffee mugs.) and doesn't offer to, does his dishes less than half the time, leaves newspapers, dishes, and socks and pillows everywhere, and uses my belongings as ashtrays to smoke inside without asking. He also watches my DVDs and leaves them strewn about, which drives me bonkers. All of this, and dozens more things.

But what is the worst? His inability to take responsibility for his girlfriend, who is a guest, and is over often. She's nice enough, but uses my spare things because he doesn't have any to offer her- hair clips, bath towels, band-aids, tampons, etc. He doesn't ever wash my towels that she uses without asking (there are some in our bathroom she used a month ago that are starting to mold that I doubt he will EVER get to) and I always try to let it go. But the feminist in me just can't. We've already had the whole "Chore Chart" meeting and yadda yadda, but little has changed.

Guess I gotta move out, huh?

Or just resign to living in filth. I'm sure my annoying habits are that I'm always touching his crap, because it's thrown all over the place.

Ok maybe it is because we have been married for 31 years and together for 34 but...I really have no complaints. We have worked out our issues over the years, and now generally hone to the same standards of tidiness. He irons (for which I am forever thankful since I HATE it), and I dust and sweep. We both do the kitchen, our own bathrooms, and laundry. We both try to keep things clean and tidy and after reading all the complaints on-line, I realize he never leaves trails of clothes, or wet towels, or whatever, around the house. I am a very lucky woman.

alemonandaspoon.blogspot.com , I don't see AT as just being about design, its about the home and making the most of your space. Blending styles and keeping house are on topic.

Oh, and about leaving the toilet lid up--the operative term is "fecal spew." I've tried this out in classes (I have had students come up terms after saying it changed how they and their roommates kept house) and at home--once people visualize it, they don't leave the lid up again. It was an immediate game changer; before hearing that term, I simply didn't want a cat flying into an open toilet. Now I no longer have to worry about it.

I have a funny story... My boyfriend has been leaving his stuff everywhere. Its not really like him, he's usually quite neat but has been busy lately but I think he's also getting used to me cleaning it up. There was also other stuff lying around as we recently finished construction. Well, I cleaned up one day and there was what I thought was a work goggles on the entry way table. I thought one of the construction or electricians left it so I gave it to my mother (she lives next door). Now, she can't remember where she put it. Turns out, it was the bf's motocross goggles. He almost couldn't ride last weekend, he had to drive into town first to buy another pair. Ever since then, I noticed he puts his stuff away when he comes home.

He leaves the coffee and grinder on the counter.
I get jelly in the peanut butter.

My husband never seems to do the opposite of whatever task he just did which includes:
* Opening a bag of chips/cheese/any food product but not closing it...which gets stale
* Opening a drawer but not closing it
* Toilet seat up but not closing it
* Take out the trash but not put a new bag in

you get the picture...lol...

I have bad allergies and tend to leave snot rags around the house...Im working on it...lol..

I've been living with my boyfriend for 6 years and nothing has ever bothered me. I'm pretty laid back though.. it's just not that deep.

You know, I am 45 years old and until this very minute, was absolutely sure that I was a 100% woman. Reading these posts leads me to believe I must have some man-genes on the double helix devoted to housekeeping skills. I thought MsDonnaGirl was my husband disquising his post with opposite pronouns and a femmenine name.

But for all my faults, and his STUNNING dish washing habits, he is not faultless. When I have just about finished cooking dinner, he decides he NEEDS to sweep the kitchen. And he sweeps with a masculine fury, tossing dog hair and dust into the air, just to land on the food.

As long as we make enough to pay Stella, our housecleaner, every two weeks, we will stay happily married.

funny - I just realized that I complained about my husband cleaning too much.... you all might just kick me out of AT

From the sounds of it, a good portion of AT readers are all married to the same man...

Trash in the sink! Come on! The waste basket is just under the sink! all it takes is 2 more seconds to open the door and toss it in the waste basket, not that hard babe!

Yeah, we're still working on the problem of getting his dirty dishes in the dishwasher, but the biggest issue is that it just never occurs to him to clean or tidy anything. The other day, he opened the blinds in the living room, looked down, said something to the effect of, "oh, it looks like the cat threw up," then WALKED AWAY! I was so mad I had to wait until I calmed down before I talked to him about it.

I realized later that if I hadn't been there, he probably would have never cleaned up the cat mess (judging by the state of his house when I met him).

Wow. I am pleased to learn we are average in all these areas. What bothers me about co-habitation is that he, while doing the same exact things (like leaving the peanut butter open or leaving piles of things in the entryway and living room), will sometimes grumble about my doing them. Our habits are the same: we both leave the PB knife sticky and open, we both leave our coffee cups and toast plates on our respective desks in the morning (and for two or three mornings in a row sometimes), but we work early and don't have time in the AM and are too tired in the PM to do anything about them. The other thing... I try to avoid getting crumbs all over the counter everytime I make toast in the AM. HE does not. But he makes me toast most times, so I should just shut up =)....

I leave cupboards open EVERY time I empty the dishwasher, and never ever put the caps back on anything...toothpaste, juice jugs...nothing! But I've been working on that. I've worked on him though by putting little magazine holders around his desk so that he accumulates his work papers in those, rather than window sills, tables, floors, kitchen tables, or my desk! It is working.

I think my hubby and I match each other in our little quirks that bother one another, so it all evens out in the end. I don't think there is such a thing as perfect and that's what makes it wonderful. If you can't get passed the little things then maybe you should re-evaluate your relationship/living status. I think everyone on here has a pretty healthy attitude toward co-habitating :)

Situational blindness.

No one can ever see what needs to be picked up/put away/wiped down/tidied, but everyone can see the fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies on the counter.

CLUTTER. Oh my goodness. He just puts things down wherever. There have been times when 3 out of 4 dining room chairs, a large (4 foot long) coffee table, and half of our kitchen counters were all just covered in random crap. Now, I understand leaving a thing here and there, but not when it makes our whole living room and kitchen unusable!

What's worse is when I'm too busy and stressed to stay on his case about it, I just give in and start leaving stuff all over the place too because I think, what's the use in trying to keep it neat when failure is inevitable anyway? :/

My flaw: I take off socks and just drop them wherever I am. When I do laundry I have to wander through the house picking up my socks. Pretty sure this bugs him a lot!

People who insist on slamming doors and windows if it's less than 75deg F inside.

My boyfriend leaves used Kleenexes all over the place. He has bad allergies, so he blows his nose a lot and leaves the used tissues on the desk, below the coffee table, next to the bed... We have trash cans, but...yeah...

I have a lot of shoes, and I leave them all over the place. Same thing with accessories and jewelry.

Most weeknights, My guy hangs out with me and we chat and catch up in the kitchen while I make dinner, then, 2 minutes before it's ready he runs upstairs to have a half an hour shower! He knows now not to leave me to eat by myself!!

I have the most wonderful husband... or at least, 98% of the perfect husband. He helps with the dishes, the cooking, really does his share of the chores... at least, 98% of it. It drives me mad because after he's done, he leaves a wet sponge in the sink. Why not finish the job ? He always dries the dishes, all but one or two. Why ? It's annoying that while he helps so much, I still have to supervise his job. I'd like to praise him without restriction !

He also can't throw a magazine or business letter in the recycle bin, but I enjoy doing that.

I clutter the entrance table with everything that doesn't have a place, and tend to have an overflowing "unfinished project" area in our home office.

Flatmate always leaves the tea towel on the bench when there are 4 or 5 places to hang it up and keep it germ free.

I get absolutely annoyed that the giant basket which is meant for dirty laundry is always sitting NEXT to a giant pile of gym clothes, and leaving shoes on the carpet is a big thing too, the edges around the front door clearly bear the scars even though, again, -see I have "tried" to come up with a solution- we have a perfectly nice shoe rack by the door,
as for myself, I already know, I hate cleaning up after the dogs, so I just usually pretend that I did it REALLY early in the morning and it just fell by the way side by the afternoon, ^_^ and there is nothing I detest more than folding/putting away laundry, I am definitely guilty of that, actually there is a pile I should tend to,,,,after I have some coffee,,,maybe :)

My GF just puts stuff down anywhere and then complains when I put it 'away' since she can't find it, despite me explaining that things cannot live on surfaces! Drives me potty.

I, apparently, don't empty the dishwasher gunk collecting thing at the bottom enough. This is what she ALWAYS brings up whenever I complain about anything at all....

DH tends to open a new box/jar/bag when there's a half serving left in the old one.

He hates my film of hairspray on everything in the bathroom.

My live-in boyfriend is pretty good about cleaning up, except when it comes to mail and random bits- they NEVER leave the kitchen table.
Our roommate is the worst though- he only does the dishes once every two weeks, and creates an amazingly large amount of dirty dishes despite only really cooking once a week. When he cooks he cooks for 10. He's only one person, so not only is there a ton of spoilage, he takes up all the room in the fridge. He also buys in bulk and insists on mixing our groceries. ugh.

My 21 year old daughter, in college, lives with me. When she's in classes her stuff is EVERYWHERE, like a tornado went through. That drives me nuts. The cat box living in her bathroom drives her nuts.

Oh boy... The boyfriend is guilty of:

- Not wiping down/cleaning the bathroom counter top after shaving and leaving the shaving gel on the counter (this one drives me mad more than anything else!)
- Leaving garbage lying around, period. This includes: leaving empty plastic bottles around the apartment; leaving miscellaneous, unimportant receipts on the shelf instead of throwing them out/shredding; etc.
- Leaving used dishes wherever he finished eating; or, when he's brought them to the kitchen, not washing or even rinsing them (disgusting sour milk at the bottom of his cereal bowls, yuck!)
- Leaving banana peels in his lunch containers instead of throwing them out
- Not sweeping, ever, when it's "his chore"
- Instead of starting a load of laundry when the basket's full, keeps piling clothes on top until I cave and do 3 weeks' worth (giant laundry mountain)
- Not doing dishes when he sees the sink's full - will wait until I ask for help or just do it myself

Really, though, as much as these things grate on me, I've learned to bite my tongue and just deal. I know there are probably aspects of my personality (and/or habits) that he can't stand, so I don't want to start WWIII over a few household tasks I can take care of myself. My new motto is "It's bothering ME, so I should do something about it. C'est la vie!"

I find it interesting that almost ALL of the complaints here appear to have been made by women.

every door is always left open just a crack, from the bedroom, bathroom to the front door!

half started projects that never get finished

putting plastic containers and my knives in the dishwasher (fortunately I've rescued them every time)

things left in the washer/dryer forever

ME

never unload the dishwasher

constantly organizing and reorganizing to the point neither of us know where things are

the bathroom is soaked after I use it in the morning

bumbling around in the kitchen until late at night

but we love each other anyway :)

I'll go home and hug my partner now.

P.S. note to inventors everywhere: get going on a magic peanut butter container and spreader with a no-mess guarantee, and market it as a relationship saver.

Ah, the pleasures of living alone. I'll get to it when I deem it necessary. :-)

I don't have a live in significant other, but my daughter drives me crazy when she just dumps her stuff by the door as soon as she comes in. I also hate dishes left in the living room or clutter building up on the coffee table. Teenagers are basically bad roommates who pay no rent and you can't evict. lol Love her to death, though.

My homelife is great, but I have a "problem" with my coworkers; & yes, clearly it is MY problem since they do not seem to care! Open drawers & cupboards, never cleaning out the refrigerator, not being helpful & refilling the coffee bar area, not washing out a coffee pot if one was left overnight & just getting a new one, the soggy sponge on the counter, filthy microwave, spills left on surfaces, etc.

I feel like the maid/mom cleaning up after them, but when I've tried to "relax" & leave them be it is a disaster area - & this is just with 6 of us here. When we host events it is even worse & also includes the restrooms & pretty much any other space they have
Tazmanian Deviled. Such is life, I guess!

This is why I live alone. Zero tolerance. I've come to terms with it. :)

Wow! I guess I'm the only guy who cannot stand leaving dirty dishes or having a messy house. I'm constantly cleaning and finding the most optimum practical place for each lil thing. Purging anything I dont absolutely need. She hates this. Everytime she is out for a day or two, things have been moved to a more optimum place ;)

She used to be a really messy person but has learnt to pick after herself since we moved in. It drives me bonkers when she points out some lil thing I might have missed. I mean, come on! I took a video of her room when I first saw it... never knew it will be such a huge leverage. :o)

But we get along just fine. I love you FPA

He can't be organized. Anywhere. The desk drawers are in a riot, the bookshelves in chaos, his closet is a disaster, he leaves his shoes/dirty clothes/jackets/dishes/scraps of paper/mail/dear lord ALL OVER the house. But to be fair, with only 800sq ft, it's probably not as bad as it seems!

And to be fair, he does have to put up with my collection of in-progress diy projects and crafty supplies (all neatly organized, I assure you). ;)

Ironic, when we getting ready for bed last nite, I heard a loving voice say "babe, ya know when you brush your teeth, can you keep your mouth closed cause there's always toothpaste everywhere".

I swear, no matter how hard I look I don't see any toothpaste anywhere.

The list:
Piles of soaking wet towels frequently left on the carpet, literally 18" away from the washer, so now we have mold problems in the carpet padding,

Leaves the doors and windows unlocked when away. And this ain't the country. We live in the downtown of a really large city,

Leaves the stove and oven on when away. You'd think the lesson would have been learned during the first two house fires that were caused from this,

Wipes dirty hands on the sides of the sofa. A really beautiful, blue velvet Milo Baughman sofa.

To all of the folks who are haunted by toothpaste tubes without lids and toilet seats that are left up a little too much, please take solace in the fact that your roommate or significant other's annoying habots don't require intervention from the fire department, counselors and contractors!

hahaha... The towel on the floor was one that nearly broke me and my husband up when we moved in with me! Really... the floor... you might was well roll yourself around on the carpet when you get out of the bath if your going to leave it lying on the floor. To be fair to him he now leaves it hanging off door frames, shower doors, chairs... so its taken five years but he is getting better...

Doing the dishes but leaving the cutlery...

clothes next to laundry basket...

Me... I'm perfect thank you lol

He leaves things everywhere. I joke that he's like Hansel and Gretel and will never get lost in the woods, because there's always a trail of random junk behind him that he could follow home. Keys, wallet, crumpled receipts, pocket change, odd scraps of paper, books, socks, shoes, mail, sweater, phones, dishes, remotes.... None of these things ever make it to where they should be. And they're not even in a neat pile, or 2, or 3. They will be spread haphazardly across the countertops, the floor, the furniture, so that there is no room to cook/walk/eat/sit/etc. Drives. me. nutty.

I, on the other hand, am very guilty of leaving lights on all over the house. I am otherwise perfect. ;)

The vast majority of offenses stem from roommates:
1) Don't use my stuff if you didn't ask. If you ask, the answer is almost always "yes," but if you don't the answer is definitely "no."
2) Clean up after yourself. I hate piling up dishes.
3) Take out the trash and recycling. I shouldn't be the only one doing it (though it is split pretty 50/50 with me and one of the 3 people I live with).
4) Put sponges away. For some reason, the cat likes to chew them. That's why we have a place for them that isn't on the counter.

There are a few things that are husband offenses:
1) Put clothes in the hamper.
2) Don't leave trash/food out. The dog and the cat will tag-team that as a snack. That is not fun to clean up.
3) Stop losing things in obvious places. I have the same problem as hyzen: the trail of things left behind when he enters the house.
4) Straighten the slipcover on the couch every once in a while!

But I'm trying to be less picky lately, because I know that I'm a lot neater than some of the people I live with, so I'm trying not to make my issues their issues.

1) Not wringing out the dishcloth and/or sponge, causing it to get that, can't get rid of, sour smell.

2) Leaving pools of water on the (laminate) kitchen counter tops. It's warped the top in spots and has leaked into the seams, making them bigger. I hope they'll last long enough for the planned kitchen remodel.

3) A pile of dirty dishes on the counter and/or in the sink.

3) Putting an empty box/container back in the fridge or cabinets. This has bit me a couple of times when I wanted to make something, just to find out I DON'T have that ingredient and it can't be substituted.

4) Not putting something back where they found it (or putting it back empty).