Are you a "Pile-maker"??

MrsDrCook · January 2011

OK, so DH and I got into it this morning because he is sick of all the "piles" I leave around the house and generally thinks I am untidy. Interesting because I am always picking up garbage and dishes he leaves around the house...Anyway, my piles usually consist of clothes. Unlike what he leaves around, I can handle "my mess" because it doesn't rot or mold and our apartment isn't dirty just cluttered. I don't mind doing laundry but I hate putting it away so there tends to be a constant rotation of clothing piles in our bedroom and living room (where they are folded) It is also important to mention that we live in a tiny one bedroom apartment in the city and any mess is that much worse because of such close quarters. Is anyone else horizontally-challenged (meaning if there is a horizontal surface it tends to get covered by mail, papers, "stuff" in general)??

Shanin8 · January 2011

This is my DH. I generally make some random piles throughout the week...but whenever I get a free moment, I will tackle one of them and put them away. My DH however will continue to build them. Usually of papers of some sort. Oh, and clothes for sure. He refuses to put his clothes away, to the point where he will start piling dirty clothes on top of his clean clothes. The clean ones...he has already dug through to get out what he wants to wear, so they are no longer folded... GRRR...sorry. I have no way of knowing what is clean and what is dirty, so I end up probably doing 2-3x as much laundry. I was actually having an emotional moment about it this morning. He was saying he was sick and that is why he was being grouchy to me and not helping me clean. Then he left for karate. My opinion?? You aren't too sick. Slight vent over, but thanks for the release lol!!

liladelphia215 · January 2011

Definitely a pile maker here, and it is starting to get bad. I really need to get to them. However, if DH dared to say anything to me being 35 weeks pregnant, I would tell him that he has two hands and to deal with it himself. We do share the "dirty chores" like dishes that definitely need to be picked up and cleaned very regularly.

dee1369 · January 2011

Sometimes, although this is more of DH's thing. He makes a pile of clothes and papers in the dining room (don't know why) all the time that I am constantly cleaning up.

There tend to be piles of my clothes in the bathroom these days, because I don't feel like trekking up and down the stairs for laundry so I keep everything I wear regularly downstairs, either folded in the laundry room or bathroom. I hate it though.

Dishes and other "dirty" chores get taken care of each day so that's not an issue.

Etta07 · January 2011

Yes! I make piles of mail, bills, stuff to be filed, stuff to be shredded, and stuff that needs to be gone through. Then DH will come home in this cleaning frenzy sometimes and just start either trying to go through the piles not understanding they are actually organized or he just starts putting them all together and then hides them in a cupboard. I get so irritated when he does this especially when he just hides them in a cupboard because then I have to go and find where he hid them.

mirdamae03 · January 2011

**Raises hand as she stares at the pile of clean, folded laundry on the loveseat**

greyt00 · January 2011

LMAO I am queen of the piles. DH is not really a fan. It's not too out-of-control, but I'm about to start cleaning up this place like crazy. I've got the itch now. The worst thing I probably do is lean papers in between the railings on the landing of the stairs. Eventually I take them upstairs and file them away. I always tell him that if I didn't take care of the papers there wouldn't be piles on the stairs but he'd never know where anything was, and it would all probably just get thrown away!

ColieM · January 2011

Oh, yes I am. But - it's not like the piles stay there. I used them to separate and then put away or handle.

But I have learned that I do this genetically! My mother comes over to help and she is worse than I am! It's her that I get frustrated with because she moves my stuff before I can get to it. She undoes what I do - but her piles are bigger.

But it's not like I live in a lot of clutter - it's just my system. The worse for me is mail and sometimes laundry. But I'm on modified bed rest - so as I look at my coffee table I just counted five piles....

JYeagersGrl · January 2011

I pile laundry but that's it. DH on the other hand piles EVERYTHING. We have a huge sectional and most of the year I can't find the one half of the sectional cause he piles things up on it. He "cleans" which means he just piles stuff and its not organized its just chaos piles. He went through the kids toys and piled the ones up to get rid of well guess what they are still there and the kids of course went through them again.

I'm on bedrest right now and its driving me batty cause my house is just a huge pile and I wanna nest and I can't.

TiffanyTheMom · January 2011

I have 3 baskets of clean clothes that need to be put away in the kid's room!! Yes, I'm a piler.

But like you say, my piles are CLEAN- they just need to put away, and I'm in so much pain right now that I can't physically put them away. It's hard enough on me to carry those baskets upstairs, and it's just too much for me to put it away. But yet, DH gets on me for it! And yet you can look in HIS mancave and see it's a huge, disgusting disaster- his desk is so piled up with garbage (literally, used tissues, granola wrappers, hammers and paints and papers and screws...) and underneath is crammed with more garbage, and his couch in there is COVERED in boxes and papers and files and helmets and car things... and he even has filthy dishes hanging out in there. Ick! I tell him that as outright nasty as that office is, he will NEVER have a foothold to tell me my piles of clean clothes are a mess! (And besides, if they bother him that much HE should put them away!!)

Lucky_Dragonfly · January 2011

I'm a pile maker, but my piles are usually piles of papers. It drives MH nuts and for the most part my piles are on my desk. I absoutely HATE when he tells me to clean up my desk because the pile is too ig for him to handle. Hey its my desk and I'll do what I want with it. So what if there is this giant pile of whatever on it. Its only one pile and I know what is in the pile.

MiniMadness · January 2011

Oh wow. This sounds EXACTLY like my life....this is MH and me. I try so hard to get out of the pile making habit, but even when I de-pile they always come back. But it's completely ok for him to leave dirty socks on the couch and dishes on the end table. ARGH!