>>456829
I have a thing on top of my cupboard where I stick all my washing. Have you thought about getting a thing?

>>456831
There's an Ottoman box at the end of the bed where most of this gets dumped. It's either clothes she's worn already and decided it's fresh enough to get another wear out of or from when she's taken a handful of dresses out of her wardrobe at once, chosen which one she wants to wear that day and then dumped the rest in a pile.

>>456829

Why no knickers? The slag.

My other half has suddenly decided that the air fryer is unsightly and should be stored away in one of the cupboards when not in use, rather than on the worktop, bearing in mind it's fairly cumbersome as it's one of those dual-basket 9/10 litre models. She spent a good few hours yesterday rearranging all of the kitchen cupboards to make room for it, but once she'd tidied it away we had to get it out not that long after for tea. She tidied it away again afterwards and we had to get it out again for tea today. I'm not sure how long she's going to keep this up, but I might start storing things like the toaster or the microwave in there instead to fuck with her.

Missus said last night that she was probably going to be too tired from work to come over tonight and would come over Saturday, then about half an hour ago text me saying she's getting the train and coming over tonight. Fine, except I'd already got settled into the idea of spending all night on videogames and eating junk food by myself, so I'm kind of arsed.

Last week she did the opposite, of saying she'd be here Friday night, then bailed at the last minute to see one of her mates, which again is fine, but then she ended up hungover all day so I didn't end up seeing her til near 9pm on the Saturday. Not to mention I wasted the whole day waiting on her to let me know when she'd have her arse in gear, whereas if I'd known I might have at least been able to salvage the day a bit and make other plans.

I don't want to have a go or tell her to fuck off, because I feel like her heart is in the right place trying to make up for last week by making the effort to come tonight, because I did have a bit of a go at her about that (and I mean I am fairly sure I wasn't being unreasonable to do so there). But what she doesn't get is that it's not about her being here or not, as much as I do love spending time with her. That isn't my problem, it's about changing plans last minute and me having to accommodate it, which fucks me right off. Pretty petty issue in the grand scheme of things so I'm not going to make a scene about it, but I wish some people would understand how rude it is to mess people about like that.

Sage because I was in two minds if this is /emo/ or /101/ material, so in the end compromised to stick it here, because bloody women, am I right lads.

>>457777
It's not a petty issue. It sounds like there's a lack of respect there.

>>457778

You're right, but it's not something I can be arsed fighting over, frankly. I've had words with her about respect over some other things before, and in fairness she sorted those issues out, but this one I can't be arsed kicking up a fuss over. It's not like she's made a running habit of it, she's just started a new job recently and she's been a bit all over the place because of it.

If she makes a habit of it in future I'll just say "sorry nah I've made other plans/not in the mood now" or whatever, and she'll likely get the picture pretty sharpish. In relationships you learn when to pick your battles don't you.

>>446783 here again.

It's taken almost two years, but she's finally conceded that bin was shit and replaced it with a new one. One that is actually practical.

>>458429
Congratulations on the new bin and the long term relationship. Some people have it all, I guess.

My other half has decided, on a complete whim, that we need a reed diffuser in every other room. She's bought shitloads of them.

>>459855
Get a load of this guy, boasting about how many rooms he has.

>>459863
So, rooms = shitloads * 2? Yeah must have about 20 rooms.

>>459879
There's 10 rooms in my house, if we're including toilets.

>>459880
Are you counting hallways and landings? With hallways and landings, my house which is close to the smallest house you could legally have contains seven rooms.

>>459882
No. Four bedrooms. Two living rooms. One bathroom. One kitchen. One en suite and the downstairs loo.

>Scatter cushions and bedspreads – can someone explain to me what they’re for?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2025/mar/20/scatter-cushions-and-bedspreads-can-someone-explain-to-me-what-theyre-for

He's beeb trawling here for content.

>>469575
There was an episode of Coupling probably close to 25 years ago with a rant about cushions that really resonated with me. I hope he doesn’t think he’s the first person to notice this.

>>469576
Did you also post this >>437488?

>>469577
I was so utterly unsure whether that was me or not that I looked up a thread I started when I first started posting here, to see if I was here in 2020 when that post was made. It looks like I first came here in March 2021, so presumably >>437488 wasn’t me. But I’m glad that clip has already been posted.

>>469578

I am continually amazed that this site attracts any posters who haven't been knocking around since the Britchan days. How on earth did you end up here?

>>469579
I got banned from 4chan for longer than I was willing to wait out, and looked online for a list of other imageboards. You two won the grand prize of my perpetual company.

>>469579
I avoided the Britchan days because I visited once and thought you all seemed like knobheads.

I don't know what made me seek out this place, but next month I'll have been here 15 years.

Fucking newchaps.

>>455921
DVD's are a dying format, arguably with little of the percieved value that CDs and Vinyl might have (although I can't think why I won't apply the same tactile pleasure arguement to DVDs as I do CDs). It's worth considering a disc binder for your favorites - saves a lot of space.

Also sending DVDs to a charity shop isn't a bad idea - they tend to circulate for a while between homes, it's likely you'll see them on the shelves again if you ever want to watch any again.

I'd much rather rip all my discs to a harddrive but I can't figure out how to get past the encoding nonsense.

>>469585
Have you just gone through the entire thread?

>>469586
Oh shit, for some reason I thought that was a recent post. Even the 'how many rooms' string of replies.
I didn't realise this thread had been so long dead.

>>469588
At least you didn't try and revive a several year old cunt-off. It always amuses me when an old thread gets bumped and someone decides to start arguing with an old post; I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if at least one person here has unwittingly hurled insults at a post they made years ago and forgot about.

The other week a friend had a surprised response that I lived on my own given how organised and neat everything generally was, like it must be the influence of a woman. She then made a cognitive distortion that it must be because I just broke up with an ex.

Not that it matters but my ex was untidy didn't even clean up basic spillages, hoarded clutter, and actively fought against furniture arrangements that made my living space structurally neat and less cluttered.

It's a strange myth that perpetrates. Not that men are really the tidy ones, just that women absolutely just as capable of living like filthy pigs too and they don't have the same incentive to be more tidy than men anymore since they stopped linking their identity to being house wives. I'm not sure there is any meaningful correlation between being tidy and gender in anyone under the age of 50. Even then my mother will insist that the fact they live in car boot sale by way of a scrap metal dealer is my father's influence, but I lent her a book years ago and it is still sat in the exact same spot in the middle of her desk. And when I organised the tins in the pantry once and she deliberately disorganised then because the crazy person in 'sleeping with the enemy' organised the tins. And still goes on about the time I did that, I've tried pointing out that organising the tins was not the problem, and her purposefully disorganising the tins was actually the mentally ill part. but you cannot argue with crazy, that's why they ARE crazy.

I got side tracked... My point is women are dirty bitches, and upon reflection my parents are batshit.

>>469595
I also know plenty of women with piles of clutter, so I'd agree they aren't tidier as well.

I'd say women may be better at being organised and sorting out 'life admin' but I'd say a fair bit of that comes down to how they are essentially groomed into this from an early age. I remember girls at school having binders and organisers which they'd decorate, with wallpaper if my memory serves me correct, and then they'd fill with notes and plans written in; it also felt like a lot of revision planning, mind maps and stuff like that, was set up to work with how their minds operate.

Things like that aren't really seen as a socially acceptable pastime for boys, other than my super cool Money of the World collection.

>>469598
>they'd fill with notes and plans written in*

* colourful ink.

>>469595

In my wild oats days, I pulled a student nurse who shared a house with four or five other student nurses. It was the filthiest, most disgusting house I have been in before or since. I went for a piss in the garden, because the smell of the bathroom made me retch before I even opened the door.

>>469598
Mate that collection looks ace.

Back in my 20s I had a few girlfriends comment on how neat and tidy my flat was. One joked that it was "gay" levels of clean. Most were just thrilled. That sparkle in their eyes was like a seasoned painter staring at a blank canvas after a spark of inspiration. You could see the glee on their faces, like "Wow! I can't wait to fuck this place up!"

A Taiwanese girl I dated pretty much never went back to her student flat the entire time we dated because she loved how cosy and tidy my flat was. She'd rather take 2 buses to campus than deal with the pig stye that comes with living with 4 other girls even though it was 3 streets away from their campus. She was a student chef so I didn't mind her always being there because her cooking was insanely good but she was absolutely shite at picking up after herself. My kitchen was often shithoused when I got home from her practicing, she left towels everywhere, she'd leave glasses, mugs, plates, makeup, books out and clothes everywhere even though I'd told her multiple times where the hamper was and pointed out that I had a fully functioning dishwasher but it only works if the dishes are in the dishwasher.

Worst of it was the shower and sink. Fuck me I don't know what it is about women and bathrooms. Yes it's very cool that your hair is now pink and purple and I feel like I'm shagging an anime girl but when my shower looks like a jackson pollock and my towels look like a primary schoolers attempt at a tie dye t-shirt it sort of takes the fun out of it. There's only so much Vanish and Daz a man can buy.

Worst of all, and was common to many, was the period blood under the toilet seat rim where they flick the blood bullet out as they remove the tampon. There isn't enough bleach in the world. I ended a relationship after a row over that one. It really makes you question what the fuck (if anything) their parents are teaching them.

Second most egregious was just how often girls would break things. One girl managed to destroy a bluetooth speaker (dropped it in the bath), a duvet, sheets and mattress (Spilled her wine on it, NO FUCKING DRINKS IN THE BOUDOIR EXCEPT WATER!), 2 hoodies, several plates, a whole 4-pack a highball glasses and cracked a fridge drawer and shelf by slamming it whilst she had the drawer open. I despair.

oh and amusingly that Taiwanese girl pleaded "Can I still come over??? as friends??" when we broke up. Sorry darling, you lost your boyfriend as well as your maid. The 5-star hotel de shag palace is closed. Back to the pig stye.

>>469986
I've probably posted about this before, but my friend lived at uni with three other girls and their house was a constant mess. Every time I went there were skidmarks and the bathtub would be full of leg hair shavings. The floor was constantly sticky, too.

I have similar issues with my girlfriend and period juice under the toilet seat. It wouldn't surprise me if that's one of the reasons they make a big deal about the toilet seat being left up.

>>469988
>It wouldn't surprise me if that's one of the reasons they make a big deal about the toilet seat being left up.

That tracks. That becomes a big issue when they try to do the old sneaky move in. Especially when they're the only girl in the house. In the row with the girl I lost my shit at over it she bellowed "WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO CLEAN YOUR FLAT!? IM NOT YOUR MUMMY OR YOUR MAID!"

I had to laugh. She lived with her parents at 25 and her bedroom looked like an emo teenage girls. there wasn't a single surface that wasn't filthy and cluttered including her bed. All it was missing was the band bed spread. She couldn't cook, wouldn't clean up after herself, and her idea of a boyfriend was basically a servant she paid by shagging. I get that she was embarrassed but observations certainly indicate that the girls who do care about not being tramps never have to be told not to be tramps.

I find it really strange, growing up I took pride in lessening my parents burden and really didn't mind chores as they only took 20 minutes tops if you kept on top of it. I only started cooking when I moved out and I got a clue pretty quickly because you can only have so much frozen pizza and ready meals before you get fed up with the exact same flavour and limited options and start googling stuff your mum cooked. How does a girl get into her 20s and literally know fuck all about anything concerning domesticity? Any girl I've dated could give you a masterclass on makeup but would stare blankly when you opened your cleaning supply cupboard. Mad.

I'm a man of course. When I want to be I am autistically clean. At work (accounts department) I have my own office and there is not a scrap of paper on the desk in a company where people have random piles of the stuff, everything has a folder (real or on the PC) or a tray, I'm quite proud of it all. This even extends into my assistant's office, where I will go in and berate her for how she just leaves notes kicking about or hasn't tidied away the latest Goods In notes, that kind of thing. She'll just leave random staples and paperclips on the desk, on the floor. God knows what she's like at home.

So far, me and my partner just tolerate the other's habits (or try to help out) as there are some parts of my place I generally leave untidy that she likes to focus on, but she's lacking in areas I'm more attentive to. We're both working on improving but it's not been a big deal either way.

>>469988>>469995
No, no, no. The toilet seat should be down because you put it down before you flush it, preventing spray from showering the bathroom in tiny particles of filth.

A pair of very clean boys like yourselves should know this.

>>470000
Nice quads
I used to put the seat and cover down but in my cleaning I noticed the period blood and groaned. I now have a fancylad japanese toilet that self cleans and puts the lid and cover down when you get up or walk away. Highly recommend. Only downside so far is that it's easy to forget that not all toilets do this when you're a home worker and so I stand for a moment expectantly in front of outside world toilets whenever I want to piss before I realize and then do it all manually.

>>469999
Excellent quads
Did one move into the others place? or did you find a place together? I think a big part of my arseiness with a clean living space is that I considered it "my" living space and I found it disrespectful and inconsiderate when my girlfriends left messes everywhere.

Now, being married I've relaxed it a little bit and won't sigh if my wife has left her socks on the sofa or didn't fold the livingroom blanket away before she went out. She first moved into my flat first for a while though and that was perilous. She did eventually learn the things that fucked me off the most and stopped doing them and unlike girlfriends of old she was and continues to be extremely appreciative of my fastidiousness and genuinely apologetic when she slips up because she cared about my feelings and also appreciates living in a neat and clean environment.

Strangely though I also had to teach her how to clean using what chemicals and why, how to iron and fold, how to use a washing machine, how to load a dishwasher properly, the benefits of towelling off in the shower instead of walking out and dripping water everywhere etc. she did know how cook a bit though and that was massive. only the Taiwanese girl could cook, the rest survived on takeout, supermarket salads, tinned soups and toast.

>>470000
You're not supposed to flush after every piss.

The other key reason women don't like the toilet seat being left up is because they don't always look before they sit down. If they fall in is it their fault for not looking first or a man's fault for leaving it up?

>>470008

You big dirty get

>>470006
>Did one move into the others place? or did you find a place together?
Not yet. Her place is too small and mine's too far from her social network. A bridge to cross. Our tastes are similar enough that I'm not too worried, I just need my 'shed'. That's non-negotiable. And my kitchen knives, but she's hardly going to object to that.

>she was and continues to be extremely appreciative of my fastidiousness and genuinely apologetic when she slips up because she cared about my feelings and also appreciates living in a neat and clean environment.
That's another point: I'm cleaner/tidier when I live with other people because I'm thinking about them. But me on my own I'll ignore the washing up for days because it's only me and I don't give a shit.

>>470012
Looks like a move to a bigger place is on the horizon for you lad. One oddity I wasn't at all prepared for was the sneaky redecorating. Coming back from a week away for work and finding mirrors where there were none previously, pictures from her old flat going up in frames that clashed with the rest of the room, her books slowly beginning to outnumber my books which were relegated to my office, candles of every size, shape and smell finding themselves in my bathroom, the shower curtain being replaced with something more lacey and feminine the moment the old one started showing slight wear, that sort of thing.

When we moved into our house together it was fine because we picked out the designs together and aligned our tastes but having your space slowly taken over was a bit weird. Back in the flat one thing I fucking hated was her anti-slip shower mat she bought because she thought the tub was slippery (it wasn't, I'd lived there for years and never so much as squeeked my foot an inch). Grime and hair collects near and around the suction cups and begins to smell. Though I was clever about it and let it get bad then handed her a scrubbing brush and bucket of bleach, a few rounds of cleaning it and realizing that they're a bastard to clean because and it was gone. Turns out making sure there isn't soap residue to slip on is easier.

The last time I let a lass move in with me it was because her mum died and she couldn't afford the rent on the place on her own. I wasn't really against her moving in, even though we'd only been going out about 6 months, but even if I was dead against it I think I'd have felt like I had to anyway.

It was a terrible idea as it turned out she was a messy cunt and got shirty every time I pointed out that I was picking up after her, usually pointing to a single empty pop can I'd left on a table for maybe three or four hours, as if I was also the problem.

I think my ideal living situation would be two houses next to each other.

Been a long day. Just misread the OP as
"My other half has squeezed all of the washing up liquid into a Klein bottle."

Which would be better.

>>469995

>She couldn't cook, wouldn't clean up after herself, and her idea of a boyfriend was basically a servant she paid by shagging

I feel like that's just a lot of lasses in a nutshell nowadays. They are, for lack of a better word, spoiled.

>>470081
>for lack of a better word
I feel 'entitled' would be more apt. They seem to want the benefits of being an adult whilst still having the expectations and responsibilities of a child. Some men will do anything for fanny which unfortunately only serves to enable this behaviour. I still can't believe there's men out there who willingly fork over money for porn only sites like onlyclams. Some pay hundreds. That's beyond bizarre to me as porn has never been more top quality, free and widely available. How did that even happen?

>>470090
>How did that even happen?
They're paying for the parasocial connection rather than just the visual image.

Imagine buying a pedal bin with a very large dome lid and insisting it's pushed right against a corner of the kitchen so that a) the lid opens less than 10cm before it gets stuck against the wall and b) the walls end up scraped to shit through a combination of the lid hitting them and repeatedly pushing the bin back against the corner when you notice it's been pulled forward.

I have just spent the best part of 10 minutes pouring water down the hose for my vacuum until I was able to entirely clear the mass of hair that was blocking it. There's always so much hair. Same with the plug in the shower, which only I ever seem to unblock.