Does Your Wife Ever Clean Up Your Stuff?

I love my wife dearly, but the one thing she does that makes me crazy is when she decides to "clean up your stuff". Every once in a while she gets frustrated over things in the basement or garage - she waits until I'm gone for the day and then she "cleans it up" and decides to throw some things away. It takes me days to find things, reorganize it where it should be and recover the good stuff she planned to throw away. She would kill me if I did this to her things, but she can't control her urge to clean up. Rant over!

Never. My basement is a real man cave - block walls, cobwebs, spiders etc. Just how I like it. She hates going down there. It’s my little sanctuary.

I leave a hat and sunglasses on the granite bar in our kitchen…like 24/7 unless they are on my head. She’s hides the damn things when she cleans and doesn’t tell me where.:thumbsdown1::laugh:

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Originally Posted by ttranger

I love my wife dearly, but the one thing she does that makes me crazy is when she decides to "clean up your stuff". Every once in a while she gets frustrated over things in the basement or garage - she waits until I'm gone for the day and then she "cleans it up" and decides to throw some things away. It takes me days to find things, reorganize it where it should be and recover the good stuff she planned to throw away. She would kill me if I did this to her things, but she can't control her urge to clean up. Rant over!

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But I bet she would be there to take care of you if you were sick...

My mom used to do that and it drove me crazy. My wife doesn’t clean up my stuff, her stuff or the kids stuff so your problem isn’t as bad as you think. Our heads work completely different…I take care of stuff now so I can have downtime later, she wants her downtime (Hallmark/GAF movie) now and will worry about everything else later usually when it’s an emergency (someone coming over).

Yup your not alone. Same here, I have a wife better than I could ever deserve but she is OCD organized and I am not. It makes her crazy. so we have an agreement that when she gets in the mood and does these cleaning sessions she hast to leave things in piles for me to go through later. She will never throw anything out on me. It’s sort of a compromise we have. It’s funny how they think you can’t find anything but we always know right where everything is :laugh:

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Originally Posted by unknown angler

But I bet she would be there to take care of you if you were sick...

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Yes she would, but she would wait until I was too sick to do anything and then get rid of all my stuff !!!

At least your wife cleans.

She will tidy up the den and around the computer from time to time, but not down in the basement that's mine and is all handled by me and the tool area too. Her area of the cellar where she has her decoration for holidays and outdoors is always a little messy I keep telling her I'm gonna organize it and she'll straightened it out ...LOL

My wife is guilty of moving things during her cleaning and then forgetting where she put it. Then the craziness ensues while she is trying to find it and remember where she put it.

Nope not unless she wants me to go through her shit!

Cyclone girl ... not a chance. I'm the housekeeper, gardener, cook, chauffeur and nightly entertainment.

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Originally Posted by ttranger

Yes she would, but she would wait until I was too sick to do anything and then get rid of all my stuff !!!

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Nope, I'm the OCD person in our house. She never messes with anything in the garage, fishing stuff or tools. I know where everything thing is and it amazes her when I send her to the garage to get me a tool and tell her exactly what drawer and part of the drawer it's in. Her on the other hand doesn't possess the same organizational skills :laugh:

Yes! Came home a couple of weeks ago and everything on my dresser was in a little basket. I didn’t blow my top but said why did you move my stuff into the white basket and her reply was if someone came into our bedroom it would look neater,I replied something along the lines of “are you thinking of becoming a swinging couple”? Nobody goes into our bedroom! We live alone!

My wife and I have a deal that’s worked for 45+ years. She doesn’t mess around in my workshop or boat garage, and I don’t mess up her house.
She’s been my guardian angel this week. I had a 2nd back surgery on Tuesday. Wenzel fusion of the L4-L5, L5-S1 vertebraes. She’s been doing everything for me including taking my place as our Golden Retriever pup’s personal playmate. She can clean up after me all she want for the foreseeable future.

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Originally Posted by RazorCat

My wife and I have a deal that’s worked for 45+ years. She doesn’t mess around in my workshop or boat garage, and I don’t mess up her house.
She’s been my guardian angel this week. I had a 2nd back surgery on Tuesday. Wenzel fusion of the L4-L5, L5-S1 vertebraes. She’s been doing everything for me including taking my place as our Golden Retriever pup’s personal playmate. She can clean up after me all she want for the foreseeable future.

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Yup, you got a good one!

I'm the organized one in our household. Everything has a place and everything in it's place. The wife is 180 out and will leave anything and everything out for everyone else to navigate around. Ever trip over a file box left in the living room traffic pattern at 5am in the morning? Conversation goes like. .. why didn't you turn the light on? Why? Because I know where I'm going. The box shouldn't have been there.

Yes all the time. My projects all start off by trying to find my stuff before I start.

When I was a young policeman and didn't have kids yet. I would keep my gun on top of the refrigerator. The wife cleans the house and moves my gun. Doesn't tell me where she moved it. Well time to get ready for work and can't find my gun. I called the school where she was teaching at the time. I asked to speaker her. They said she was teaching and would give her the message. I told them I was starting to run late for work and couldn't find my pistol.

Well needless to say they went and got her so she would tell me where she moved it.

Nope! I import spiders to my shop areas to keep her out. Tried snakes but she really wasn’t afraid of them too much. But spiders are like kriptonite to Superman.

I've been cleaning up 'my stuff™' ever since My Mom threw out my baseball cards, lose some real gems and You learn a valuable lesson...

And ever so often I read where another has passed and relay to my anima (note to Jungians: not that one...) that I had that card and then picture it in my mind's eye...

Yep my wife is a problem sometimes, with that kind of stuff. The worse she has done is donate 2 of my Tilley Hats, 1 really nice jacket, 1 set of 100mph rain gear. Now she pretty much stays away from all my hunting and fishing gear and my tools. She has her own set of tools now

Yup, she moves everything of mine & when i go looking for something I can't find it.

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She did clean up my stuff a couple times, but not anymore! We don't talk about that! However, she will keep after me to clean up my den and the end table beside my chair in the family room. She won't touch anything in my area of the basement or garage. But, she will sit stuff around in the garage that I have to walk around...:mad:

Never touches stuff-in my room downstairs or the garage.. she has absolutely no idea what I have and couldn’t care less.

I don't think my wife would do anything like that. We both respect one another's stuff and spaces. I would be pissed if she went behind me and started doing that.

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Originally Posted by WPS456

My mom used to do that and it drove me crazy. My wife doesn’t clean up my stuff, her stuff or the kids stuff so your problem isn’t as bad as you think. Our heads work completely different…I take care of stuff now so I can have downtime later, she wants her downtime (Hallmark/GAF movie) now and will worry about everything else later usually when it’s an emergency (someone coming over).

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Sounds familiar. But on the upside she leaves my stuff alone.

The only thing my wife does is infringe on "My Space" which is the garage. It is the only space in the house that is truly mine, yet she's constantly sneaking in her junk when ever I'm not look'in.

What I mean by junk is the stuff she saves, which is pretty much everything. (And 80% of which needs to meet the trash man) She's not quite a hoarder, though she's packed every closet or unused room in the house she can get away with, but you can tell that she does carry the gene!

When she has "over flow" she finds a place or two in my garage/man cave/shop/boat parking spot and puts her stuff there, figuring I won't notice. Well I do and I clear it out asap leaving it somewhere she'll find it, like on top of her shoe and pocket book collection. Despite this, she never gives up because she's to sly for that. Instead, she just sits and waits in the deep shadows, like a female tiger waiting to pounce.

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Originally Posted by OBT

The only thing my wife does is infringe on "My Space" which is the garage. It is the only space in the house that is truly mine, yet she's constantly sneaking in her junk when ever I'm not look'in.

What I mean by junk is the stuff she saves, which is pretty much everything. (And 80% of which needs to meet the trash man) She's not quite a hoarder, though she's packed every closet or unused room in the house she can get away with, but you can tell that she does carry the gene!

When she has "over flow" she finds a place or two in my garage/man cave/shop/boat parking spot and puts her stuff there, figuring I won't notice. Well I do and I clear it out asap leaving it somewhere she'll find it, like on top of her shoe and pocket book collection. Despite this, she never gives up because she's to sly for that. Instead, she just sits and waits in the deep shadows, like a female tiger waiting to pounce.

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Wife and two grown/out of the house daughters who use our house as a storage locker. I’m pretty easy going about a lot of stuff but I absolutely cannot tolerate clutter. I regularly sneak boxes out of the basement (after checking them for important papers/valuables etc) , load them up in the truck and into the dumpster at work they go … no reason on earth to store mismatched shoes, a traffic cone you stole while drunk in college or T ball participation trophies.

For years we played the game of “Go through this box to see what you want and what can get thrown out” only to find the same box a year later with the same shit in it. No more.

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First they start by throwing away your stuff then it's a joint Facebook account. It then gets so bad that you have to ask permission to go fishing or buy tackle.



Usually the guys in that situation refer to their wife as wifey.

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Originally Posted by Mark Perry

First they start by throwing away your stuff then it's a joint Facebook account. It version so bad you have to ask permission to go fishing or buy tackle.

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That is just one step short of matching sweaters.

I worked a summer job during college with an old timer who smoked a pipe. He told me that after he and his wife were first married, he came home from work one day and she told him that his pipes were so nasty that she washed them...in the sink...by hand...using soap. He told me that he told her, "Don't you EVER touch anything of mine again!"

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Originally Posted by dean c

I leave a hat and sunglasses on the granite bar in our kitchen…like 24/7 unless they are on my head. She’s hides the damn things when she cleans and doesn’t tell me where.:thumbsdown1::laugh:

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My wife started hiding my hats recently and I can't figure out where so I guess I'll start leaving more out until she caves because I have a lot of hats.

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Originally Posted by Mark Perry

First they start by throwing away your stuff then it's a joint Facebook account. It then gets so bad that you have to ask permission to go fishing or buy tackle.



Usually the guys in that situation refer to their wife as wifey.

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:laugh: or we.

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Originally Posted by Transom

That is just one step short of matching sweaters.

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Oh Gaaawd Noooooo :laugh:

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Originally Posted by Transom

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Originally Posted by ttranger

I love my wife dearly, but the one thing she does that makes me crazy is when she decides to "clean up your stuff". Every once in a while she gets frustrated over things in the basement or garage - she waits until I'm gone for the day and then she "cleans it up" and decides to throw some things away. It takes me days to find things, reorganize it where it should be and recover the good stuff she planned to throw away. She would kill me if I did this to her things, but she can't control her urge to clean up. Rant over!

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I am 100% right there with you, not a day goes by that i don't go looking for something and she put it in a different place because it looks better there, or it doesn't belong where it's been for 56 years. Then when i ask she tells me in a way that i should know where it's at, i got it bad :laugh: I think shes bored out of her mind sometimes, she retired back in 2016, she's always had something going on until she retired. I guess we better just learn to live with it and keep our mouth shut :laugh: