PUT IT AWAY! *angry face*

Whenever I get ready to type up posts like these, I always think that I should start by saying "I love my husband, really, but..."  Instead, I'm just not going to say it this time and take it as an assumption that you already understand.  I've been with the guy for almost eight years now, and it's definitely not for his six pack.  :p

Why is it so hard for him to put things away and/or throw away garbage????  This has driven me absolutely nuts since we had kids.  For example, yesterday we went to Wal-Mart and got some things for the week.  When we got home, he put the bags on the counter (and blocking the entire freaking counter, another complaint I've had about him) and walked away.  In fact, they were still there this morning.  How the heck he made dinner last night with zero counter space is beyond me, but here we are.  Why it is so hard for him to get through his thick skull that when you bring stuff home, you put it away so that it doesn't take up space it's not supposed to?!??  It's not my job to put everything away that comes into this house.  If I brought it in, I'll put it away.  Seriously.  Another example:  after he got home from his trip late Friday night, he washed all his clothes on Saturday.  Kudos to him for taking the initiative to do that!  However, he never did anything with them after drying them.  I had to take them out of the dryer to stick in other stuff yesterday (Sunday), so I put all his stuff on the glider in the living room.  He can fold, right?  He's not impaired, he can do it.  They are still there.  Supremely wrinkled now, with the giant suitcase there too (he hasn't put THAT away either!), and annoying the SHIT out of me every time I glance that way.  He got annoyed yesterday that the girls were playing with his laundry but hey, I'm not going to say anything because the solution is so obvious to just PUT THE FREAKING STUFF AWAY!

With garbage, that's another thing.  Trash gets left where it is made.  I've tried to just leave his trash everywhere he's left it, but that's very hard to do when I'm more of a neat freak and the girls will get into it too.  I've mentioned it to him over and over and over to no avail.  Even if I get upset and yell at him about it, he remembers for about three minutes and then...goldfish.  How the heck do you get the guy to put his trash in the trash can?!?

Oh, and since I'm complaining about him (lol, let's just add to the list!), I'll add one more thing:  not thorough.  For example, if you're going to clean up all the alphabet blocks on the ground and put them away, you find all of them in the general area and put them away, right?  Wrong.  Apparently, you only clean up the ones easily within your reach and leave the rest where they are.  This had been a huge argument with us because then I have to go back and redo the cleaning/putting away of things because he didn't do a proper job the first time around.  And then he wonders why I get so pissed off when I'm cleaning after him.  It's almost worse than cleaning up after the girls - at least they have their ages as an excuse!