I'll use an example of kitchen knives but it could be any tool or implement.
My wife will use a knife and then set it down on the counter or in the left side of the kitchen sink. Whatever she used the knife for gets dried on and has to be scrubbed off.
Even if she wipes the knife off, she sets it down wet on the counter right in front of the knife block. It would take two seconds to dry the blade and put the knife where it belongs.
It drives me nuts. I've told her how inconvenient it is to have to look for something. I've explained that letting a knife air dry dulls the blade. I've mentioned these and similar things many times over the years. She acts like she understands but continues doing it.
When I complain, she gets defensive, says she was in a hurry, and brings up things about me to complain about.
I'm positive that she doesn't do that stuff to fuck with me. I honestly don't think she can help herself. When she is doing something, her mind is already on the next thing. When she says "I was busy" she really means it even if it makes no sense. I mean how much more time would it take to put a knife in the knife block instead of setting it on the counter right in front of the knife block?
And when I see a knife with food dried on it, I think how much easier it is in the long run to wipe the fresh food off of it under the faucet (it takes two seconds) instead of having to scrub hardened stuff off of it later.
When I do things, I always think about making my life easier later. But she can't wrap her mind around that concept. She makes more work later for both of us.
We have argued about this so often that I gave up. It's not worth arguing. I will admit that she has improved a little bit.
So what do you think? Do you think the job isn't finished until you put your tools away or am I being OCD? Do you relate to my wife?
(This is a light hearted question, not an angry rant. There are bigger things to get upset about.)
You're singing my song Lliam!
"When I do things, I always think about making my life easier later. But she can't wrap her mind around that concept. She makes more work later for both of us." This right here! ⬆
My husband doesn't put things away because he thinks it's somehow a waste of time when he's so "busy" doing more important things. Then he gets frustrated when he can't find an item he didn't put away and he'll just buy a new one instead of searching for the lost one. 🤪
As far as cleaning the knife and then wiping it off so the blade doesn't dull... That will never happen in my house. I'm lucky if things last nite than a week in good condition. I have a secret hiding place for my good knives and he's not allowed to borrow them.
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You and I have had conversations about this very subject. He would drive me crazy!!! He would pick up the TV remote control and take it with him when he was finished Chang the channel. He did that a lot.
But he died suddenly a week ago but now it's wose because I can't ask him where he put things. I feel so lost!!
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what a great example of little things that can drive couples to the end.
I use things and put them back. I want order and be able to find stuff. Granted, I'm not 100%. As I cook, I clean and I'll clean and dry knives and store them.
now I'm the genearl kichen house dad, so it's my job, and I make it easier on myself. I see no point leaving things laying around to dry so I have to put them away later.
I learned this fundamental from my father because of all the tools we had, it was easy to lose track. So he trained me to always put things in the same place.
I suspect those "busy minds" after using the knife are already mentally onto something else way in the recesses of their cranium. I guess there are "squirrels" in the human world... and maybe for them, it's a fun game to go around and find their "nuts"? You can find out by running experiment. My mother would put things all over the place, but she had a map in her head and would find it.
Maybe a good whack on the head would help...
Nothing goes back to where it belongs until I'm finished with it. If I put a knife away, after rinsing it off, when I am making a salad with a lots of ingredients, then I would only get it back out again to slice some cucumbers. Total waste of time and it would take me twice as long to make my salad. Same with tools. I use a screwdriver to take some screws out. I don't put it away because I know I will be using it to screw something back in 15 minutes later.
Eekk don't call me out like this, I do a lot of half jobs and unless I'm actually washing up or have cut up raw meat and want to cut something else 9 times out of 10 it'll be on the side to be washed up. And eventually over the course of a few days will end up in its place.
See often times things are messy at my home cause things are not in their places. But if I have yet to find places for these things then I can't put them away. I don't have junk drawer or anything every space I have I know what goes into there.This is why I can’t stash having roommates. NOTHING is ver where it’s supposed to be. I do not care if it’s OCD or not, There’s a functionality to to it! You want to be able to FIND stuff lol 🤦🏻♀️
I try to put things back but sometimes I put a tool down and get distracted with something else and dont get back to it. Th next thing I know i al looking around for that 1/2" socket or my carbide hacksaw.
I rarely ever put stuff back where they belong. My first job in retail was my karma
Not only am I Da Biggest Bird and an insane specimen of a Giga Chad, I also organize my chests in Minecraft in a very sophisticated manner.
I put things back where they belong every time, otherwise I would lose track of them.
I try to put things back immediately.
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