Spousal/partner habits that drive you crazy.

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I am not liking those wine “tumblers” everyone is using now. I like my wine glass with a stem.

I almost always bring my lunch to work and hand wash the round glass container immediately after my lunch. Some of coworkers may not wash it right away ; they take the dirt dishes home. I could not tolerate this way because it may smell toward the end of the day.

We actually do not use our dish washer very often at home. It could heat up the room and we do not like it.

We almost never drink wine. Do not drink beers at home either. So we do not have wine glasses. We are not against drinking wine. We just do not like its “taste”. (I.e., almost any other drinks taste better than wine or beer, IMO.)

I don’t like those wine tumblers either. Seems like I’m drinking wine out of a juice glass. Might as well be a mason jar lol!

If my H does load the dishwasher and it is a rare event, he does the best job ever. Everything is just so, I have a habit of throwing things and and hoping for the best. :slight_smile:

I have learned that if I’m going to rearrange the dishes in the dishwasher to wait until DH is not around to do it.

I hate delicate wine glasses. They break too easily whether in the dish washer or not. Sorry to hear that thicker glass wine glasses may not let wine aerate properly.

Oh well, wine does not last in my glass for very long so it would proably not have a chance to aerate regardless of what glass I use.

I like the wine glasses without stems. We even put the Waterford ones in the dishwasher.

Several years ago my brother was taken by ambulance from his workplace to the hospital (they thought he was having a heart attack). During those minutes of panic, before she found out that he was fine (he’d passed out due to low blood pressure, I think), his wife said she felt sick recalling that her last words to him were b****ing about his leaving a dirty dish in the sink.

When my s-i-l told me this story, I was baffled because I thought putting the dish in the sink was a good thing. In OUR house it is. Our instructions for washing dishes start with “Step One: Find the dirty dishes. Look around the table, counters, computer desks, coffee table, TV stand, floor, bathrooms, etc.” (Proud of keeping dirty dishes out of the bedrooms for the most part).

I wonder what it is that makes a relatively easy job seem hard? No one likes loading the dishwasher here, either. But at least we have a dishwasher. (Although I would like it if someone would invent a household dishwasher that actually cleans the dishes–if I could load without practically washing them beforehand, that would be nice.) Nine people in my family growing up, and old fashioned heavy duty cooking every night. Lots of pots and pans. And no dishwasher. And no air-conditioning, either. (Bad childhood memories of slaving over a hot sink in the summer. . .)
It’s all in how you look at it. My younger brother has 6 kids, also no dishwasher and no AC. When their kids were young, he and his wife made a deal–one would wash the dishes and the other put the kids to bed. Every night they would fight each other for the privilege of washing the dishes!
I suppose there is a “shaming video” about how to fold and put away laundry-- that is the job I never seem to get done and is H’s #1 complaint about me. #2 is that mail and papers pile up–lots of clutter.

In our house, "under the bed’ is another specific place to look, especially in D2’s room. Don’t want to think about what her college single looks like this year. :o

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I don’t like those wine tumblers either. Seems like I’m drinking wine out of a juice glass. Might as well be a mason jar lol!
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…and what’s wrong with that? :wink:

Actually, I like the stemless wine classes. I don’t have anything against the stem ones, but the stemless ones are fine, too.

If the dishwasher is full, I get that one might not be in the mood to empty it, so the logical place to put a dish or cup would be in the sink.

If the dishwasher is empty, what rationale is being used for putting dishes into the sink instead of taking half a second more to put the dish into the dishwasher? It’s RIGHT THERE.

Of course it’s not the end of the world. Pretty much none of these things mentioned are. They are all the little aggravations of life. Some things that bother one person wouldn’t even be noticed by another person. And their pet peeves might seem inconsequential to someone else. That’s the way of pet peeves.

I thought that stemmed wine glasses are the way to go because when you hold the stem, your hand isn’t warming up the wine. I guess that doesn’t matter any more?

Not if you are drinking it really fast.

@VeryHappy I guess that would be true if you’re holding the glass constantly. Less so for those of us who set down between sips…altho I have no objections to @oldfort 's method. :wink:

Hold white wine glasses by the stem, red wine glasses by the bowl.

After reading through these, I’m applying for “Husband of the Year” honors. I do most of the dishes in our house. W usually cooks, but that is because it’s her hobby and she likes it. I worked in restaurants during college and have no problem cooking. I finagled second row tickets for “A Chorus Line” when she said she had never seen it. I clean bathrooms and do the ironing. Almost 52 and still have 6-pack abs.

My big drawbacks, according to W: not rich enough, don’t look like Howie Long.

Magnetron-
That is how you are supposed to hold red/white wine glasses. You hold the white by the stem so as not to warm the wine with your hand.

** Oh, just saw that its already been explained upthread. Had to scroll back for that.
I cant stand the stemless wine glasses.

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don’t look like Howie Long.
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I love Howie Long…if my H looked like Howie Long, he could eat crackers in bed.

Howie Long – meh.

Seriously… Howie Long??