If your SO has a habit of leaving everything everywhere...

how do you contain it?

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I do this and DH hounds me till I put it away. He's constantly asking me "do you need this" or "is this garbage".
So I just put it in a pile till I'm ready to go through it.

Sorry I couldn't be more help

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i'm working on "training" him to put certain things away in specific places.

i'm starting small--w/ his keys. i have a cute little dish that is just for his keys.
some days it works and some days it doesnt....

Message edited 11/3/2009 9:59:51 PM.

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consistent pestering...i mean reminding ;)

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I do it

He does it

When I get home from work I do a wuick "sweep" of the place...

by the next afternoon I'm right back where I started

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Posted by Mssissy

I do this and DH hounds me till I put it away. He's constantly asking me "do you need this" or "is this garbage".
So I just put it in a pile till I'm ready to go through it.

Sorry I couldn't be more help

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The worst is the shoes - EVERYWHERE!

we have a basket thing next to the front door for shoes, but i still trip over them in the living room and in the middle of the hallway.

Whoever has words of wisdom, please help!

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I do the worst thing....I clean up after him. I know I shouldn't but he will leave his stuff everywhere for weeks if I don't do it.

Nagging & asking doesn't work. His mother messed everything up for me. She did everything for him & now I get to deal with her creation

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OK, this is what I do with DH stuff. I literally go around every few days and pick up all the stuff hes left laying around and lay it on his side of the bed. This goes on for a few nights usually. Then he gets annoyed that he has to keep cleaning it off before he goes to sleep every night that he puts it away.

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Posted by eddiesmommy

OK, this is what I do with DH stuff. I literally go around every few days and pick up all the stuff hes left laying around and lay it on his side of the bed. This goes on for a few nights usually. Then he gets annoyed that he has to keep cleaning it off before he goes to sleep every night that he puts it away.

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Posted by Beaver2be

I do the worst thing....I clean up after him. I know I shouldn't but he will leave his stuff everywhere for weeks if I don't do it.

Nagging & asking doesn't work. His mother messed everything up for me. She did everything for him & now I get to deal with her creation

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Posted by eddiesmommy

OK, this is what I do with DH stuff. I literally go around every few days and pick up all the stuff hes left laying around and lay it on his side of the bed. This goes on for a few nights usually. Then he gets annoyed that he has to keep cleaning it off before he goes to sleep every night that he puts it away.

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Posted by Mssissy

I do this and DH hounds me till I put it away. He's constantly asking me "do you need this" or "is this garbage".
So I just put it in a pile till I'm ready to go through it.

Sorry I couldn't be more help

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Posted by greenfreak

Posted by eddiesmommy

OK, this is what I do with DH stuff. I literally go around every few days and pick up all the stuff hes left laying around and lay it on his side of the bed. This goes on for a few nights usually. Then he gets annoyed that he has to keep cleaning it off before he goes to sleep every night that he puts it away.

I got tired of him leaving his clothes on the floor of the bedroom RIGHT next to the hamper. So I shoved them in his pillowcase.

He was SO mad. I said, if you can't walk two feet to the hamper, I'll pick it up and walk two feet to your pillow.

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My husband gave up having his own desk in our house. I think that was a big mistake! His old desk is now my scrapbooking area. He now works at the kitchen table from his laptop. I should be thrilled with this arrangement but now the kitchen table and my scrapbook desk and much of the rest of the house have become a mess of his stuff. I thought that him giving up his desk was a huge favor to make space for me but it was really a way of getting me to be the one to organize his life. I do not mind but it is not what I expected when he said he didn't need his desk anymore!!!!!

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I gather it all up and throw it on his dresser. That gets him to put it away REAL fast.

I also read in a parenting magazine that a woman had nice wicker baskets and she had all of her kids put their stuff in there so they didn't leave it around. At the end of the week, they would put the stuff away. You could try this with DH (if he even remembers to put it in the basket) or if he's still uncooperative, you could throw it all in the basket when you straighten up and he could put his stuff away where it belongs at the end of the week.