A question for the ladies here...

[AndriaD]

Never give up! Persistence pays off! You just have to be the most neurotic person in the house. I have a huge hoard of found items that are now mine, due to the finders-keepers rule. I make them pay me(usually in chores and favors) in order to get their stuff back. I currently have my son's phone. It oughtta be good for a whole weekend worth of yardwork. *evil laugh*

I always have and always will confiscate all money found in the washer and/or dryer -- it's my tip, and it encourages people to clean out their pockets! (back in january when my husband and I both had colds, he left TISSUES in his pocket! I made HIM clean the shreds out of the washer!)

Andria

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

I have a question: how does your wife feel about your vaping? Is she somehow, in some way, hostile to it?

Oh my, no. She is quite proud of the fact i’ve stopped smoking. So proud in fact that she celebrates my success with a new pair of shoes each week.

Unfortunately for her (and by no fault of mine of course), since I had to buy brand new e-juice she just realized she’ll have to wear the same pair at least twice.

 

[freeatlast!]

I can sure identify with all these stories! In my house, I'm the neatnik. My SO thinks that any open space not immediately in use, must be filled with something. Put something away? Ha! He can't even push in a chair he's pulled out to sit on. I'm better at knowing where his stuff is than he is; he'll buy something, set it down in some inappropriate place and if I don't move it (& mostly I don't), he forgets all about it and when he actually needs it (IF he actually ever needs it) he buys another because either he's forgotten he bought it the first time, or he's forgotten where he put it....I HATE it, but after 27 years, I'm learning to live with it - to a limited degree.

We once knew a couple, newly married and so much in love, where the husband was a neatnik. REALLY a neatnik. I don't think she was a slob, but he just could not deal with anything being out of place,apparently even temporarily. They had bought a beautiful house, but one day they sold it and rented two adjacent apartments - one for her, one for him! Sadly, that didn't work either, and they divorced....

 

[HauntedMyst]

My son is like that. He has pretty bad ADD and has lost more things than we can count. His friend is on the autism spectrum and has ADD as well. We joke with his parents that when the boys grow up, they should work for the government disposing of sensitive information because once they get their hands on something, its pretty much gone for good.

On the other hand, we have a couple of OCD freaks in the family too, my sister and my cousin. Its funny to mess with my cousin. He is a professor and like most professors, he has lot of books. All of them are evenly faced on his bookshelves. If we're say, watching a movie, when he leaves the room, I'll get up and randomly push 2 or 3 of them back and then sit back down. When he comes back in the room he sits down and then 30 or so seconds later subconsciously he notices them out of the corner of his eye and gets up and fixes them. It usually takes 3 or 4 times of me doing that before he realizes I'm doing it on purpose. lol

 

[Robino1]

Ok you smart ladies. Here’s the deal…

While I concede that my e-juice was in Mrs. Kodiak’s domain, it was carefully positioned right behind my special blend of imported Columbian coffee. Put on a shelf I was “allowed” to have all to myself I might add. (I have witnesses to this effect). I put it there (on *my* shelf) because every time I reached for the coffee I’d remember to shake my e-juice. A brilliant example of male laziness if I do say so myself.

So, there shall be no sides taken in this. No manipulation of the facts using your feminine wiles. There shall be no blind defense of another member of the female species. This is one of those rare and documented moments in history when an actual male is clearly innocent of all wrong-doing.

And now I have a milk maid costume to put on. I hope it still fits.

Oh darlin', I never placed blame on you. I accept the fact that she did wrong to you and you're absolutely blameless in this little bump.

I think we need pictures of the costume though
Only if they are ECF friendly though!

 

[Equilibrium]

Come on Kodiak.. waiting....

 

[Moaufan]

I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread. I'm single and I find things that I forgot I had and can't find things I know I had. The dog has been asked many times if she was the culprit. If she drops her head I go to her favorite hiding place and if she wags her tail I keep looking. I usually end up finding it right where I left it.

 

[Equilibrium]

LOL... my cat's notorious for stealing things. Small things, of course. If my ear buds come up missing, I know right where to look - behind the couch - usually chewed up. I learned not to buy nice ear buds the hard way. Had two pair of "beats" get chewed in half.

 

[AndriaD]

I can sure identify with all these stories! In my house, I'm the neatnik. My SO thinks that any open space not immediately in use, must be filled with something. Put something away? Ha! He can't even push in a chair he's pulled out to sit on. I'm better at knowing where his stuff is than he is; he'll buy something, set it down in some inappropriate place and if I don't move it (& mostly I don't), he forgets all about it and when he actually needs it (IF he actually ever needs it) he buys another because either he's forgotten he bought it the first time, or he's forgotten where he put it....I HATE it, but after 27 years, I'm learning to live with it - to a limited degree.

We once knew a couple, newly married and so much in love, where the husband was a neatnik. REALLY a neatnik. I don't think she was a slob, but he just could not deal with anything being out of place,apparently even temporarily. They had bought a beautiful house, but one day they sold it and rented two adjacent apartments - one for her, one for him! Sadly, that didn't work either, and they divorced....

27 yrs here, too. But, the fact of his extreme order and organization has placed him into that most important household position: LOST AND FOUND DEPT! If I ever can't find ANYTHING, no matter where in the house, I just holler for my lost and found dept, and he usually manages to find it.

But, I'm really glad that he's not the least bit OCD about his orderliness; he can let things slide for a while, but he was a Marine for 7 yrs, so at some point, those organization skills he learned come out to play, and he tidies things up -- and thank god he does, because if it was all up to me, the whole house would resemble my desk!

Andria

 

[Oddnoun]

I have one room in my house that Mrs. Oddnoun is not allowed to clean. I am responsible for all cleaning and putting stuff away. If she borrows something she has to put it back where she found it. Penalties include I get to buy what I want, I get to go out to eat without her, I get to see a movie without her or pretty much whatever I want. This is to compensate for her moving my .....

 

[Towmotor]

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. This is one of those rare and documented moments in history when an actual male is clearly innocent of all wrong-doing.

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However: "If a man wins an argument and there is no one around to hear it, is he still wrong?"

 

[Mogar]

To continue this thread...
I travel a lot and have a shelf that I put things I intend on taking with me as I walk out the door. The other day I set up there my wallet, my keys, a case with extra batts and vaping supplies, my meds and needles (diabetic), and my 380 semi automatic (very easily concealable that is smaller than an MVP). I put things there so that I don't have to "poke the sleeping bear" (not pointing at Mrs Kodiak) at 3 AM getting my stuff. Welllllll... The next day I get up and grab my stuff when my heart leapt into my neck, as my wonderful small handgun was no longer there. I had to brave the beast and wake her only to find that she had seen it and locked it back into my floor bolted gun safe. She is quite forgetful and forgot I was going out of town and put it away. The key for the safe is in a hidden spot across the room... wait for it, it was gone too. She, you guessed it, locked my key (hers was lost years ago) inside the safe sitting on top of my 380.
The locksmith was tickled pink when I explained the situation and will be out sometime next week to retrieve my key, make a spare and what he calls a "wife beater" which is a key with a magnetic handle that can be hidden in another spot... He has seen this happen MANY times.

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

The locksmith was tickled pink when I explained the situation and will be out sometime next week to retrieve my key, make a spare and what he calls a "wife beater" which is a key with a magnetic handle that can be hidden in another spot... He has seen this happen MANY times.

Yet another unsolicited testimonial proving once again that female DNA does indeed contain the IR (item relocation) gene.

Sigh. Gents, we'll just have to continue tolerating this defect until they find a drug for this. It's not their fault.

 

[Robino1]

Yet another unsolicited testimonial proving once again that female DNA does indeed contain the IR (item relocation) gene.

Sigh. Gents, we'll just have to continue tolerating this defect until they find a drug for this. It's not their fault.

Ya know, I WAS on your side till this

 

[Mogar]

Careful Kodiak... That is how they lure us in... they trick us to think they are on our side, they make us lower our guard then BAM they move in and we have to deal with lace doilies and that damn soap in the guest bathroom that we cant use!

 

[wheezal]

Sigh. Gents, we'll just have to continue tolerating this defect until they find a drug for this. It's not their fault.

Ya know, I WAS on your side till this

There's a crystallized carbon based drug that tends to work wonders. and you cant overdose, in fact more of them seems to illicit even more favorable responses.

 

[Robino1]

There's a crystallized carbon based drug that tends to work wonders. and you cant overdose, in fact more of them seems to illicit even more favorable responses.

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Hah! That won't work with me. I don't like wearing jewelry.
The only piece that I own is my wedding set. It took me months to get used to wearing just that ring. I don't even wear a watch.

 

[wheezal]

Hah! That won't work with me. I don't like wearing jewelry.
The only piece that I own is my wedding set. It took me months to get used to wearing just that ring. I don't even wear a watch.

*Gasp* she's built an immunity! this is how global pandemics are started!!

 

[GMayberry]

The solution is my house is "if it can't be thrown away, it goes in the garage." There is some kind of forcefield that actually keeps her out of there... If it is in the house, even if it is ok where it is today, that same spot may not be ok tomorrow, and it runs the risk of item relocation. Typically, she doesn't throw things away, she just moves them to some unknown spot. I will, at all costs, avoid asking where something went, because that is always answered with the question "Why did you leave it on the counter?" (or wherever it may have been prior to her relocation)

..... I now have the most random crap in the garage due to this solution.

 

[AndriaD]

Yet another unsolicited testimonial proving once again that female DNA does indeed contain the IR (item relocation) gene.

Sigh. Gents, we'll just have to continue tolerating this defect until they find a drug for this. It's not their fault.

Really glad I was born without that gene!!! (I have MUCH better things to do... than housework!)

Andria