Hi! I just wanted to say that I found your blog after searching for “everything my husband does annoys me” and it was exactly what I needed! So nice to hear that I am not alone. I wanted to share some tidbits of my own to get them off my chest and hopefully I will feel better! 
We just celebrated our 7 year anniversary and I feel the annoyances getting worse and worse…
1) No matter how many times I ask hubby nicely, “when you see that the trash can is full, can you take it out and put in a new plastic bag?” he will not. He will continue to throw garbage after garbage into the kitchen trash can until the lid will no longer close. He will ONLY take the trash outside if I myself, remove the bag, tie it up, place it outside on our front patio, and ask him repeatedly to throw it into the outside container. He will only comply if he is already on his way out to do something else. Heaven forbid he go outside JUST to take the trash out!
2) Along the same vein, the man does not understand the concept of recycling. I’ve told him over and over, not to throw dirty paper towels and napkins into the recycling. Seriously 5 seconds after the words come out of my mouth, I’ll see him wipe his dirty mouth/hands with a napkin, ball it up, and toss it in the recycling container.
3) If i see another random beer bottle cap on the counter I’ll scream…
4) The ‘ol “I’m going to lie down for 10 minutes” on the weekends that turns into a 2 hour nap (when I was the one who woke up early with the kids and let him sleep in). Meanwhile I’m struggling to entertain our 1 and 4 year old boys AND cook dinner. Even better when he doesn’t even tell me he’s going to lie down and mysteriously disappears in the house to take a nap as if I’m not going to notice.
5) When he washes the dishes, he will not remove the existing dry dishes from the rack. Instead, he will pile new wet dishes as high as the eye can see until they are practically reaching the ceiling. Glasses are teetering and balancing on top of pots, pots on top of our kid’s dishes, etc. What is it with men and their inability to put things away??
6) He is very neat and clean when it comes to HIS things. He will step over toys and dirty laundry, yet his office desk is in impeccable order and he will chastise me if I forget to rinse out the coffee pot (he loves his morning coffee). Nevermind the 20 other dirty dishes in the sink, his coffee pot must be rinsed/washed out immediately!
7) He just loves to buy cheap crap. Just because something is $1, he’ll buy it because it’s “cheap”. Then it goes unused and ultimately thrown away. If we’re at Ikea, he’ll insist on buying $1 salad tongs. One time he bought 3 sets of them because they were cheap! Um… he doesn’t eat salad and they were never used. Our bookcase is filled with un-read books that he keeps buying from Amazon for inspiration (he’s a web designer). in 8 years together, I have never seen him finish a book from cover to end, yet he keeps buying more and more books. In his free time he’s either lying down or watching movies yet he will complain to me later that he has no free time to read his books 
Ok I could probably go on but I think I’ll stop On the other end of the spectrum, he puts up with my nagging and constant reminders and never gets annoyed with me (on the outside at least!)
Sounds like my husband has a twin…but she shoots herself in the foot when she refers to it as “nagging”
I am 51 years old. I have been married to the same…ummmm…”man”…for 28 years. I have spent most of my life telling other females, “pick what you can put up with.”
I can do you one better on number 3…I find the beer bottle caps in the drawer with the bottle opener. I would rather have them on the counter, so I can find them sooner rather than later and throw them away.
dishes, naps, bottle caps, trash/recycling.
OMG we are married to the same guy!
Ha, ha, ha. I think Bill Cosby was referring to kids but yeah, I think of “brain damage” when I hear this. My hubby has an inablility to clean up after himself and constantly tells me how lucky I am that he is so “helpful”. Uhm, really?
My husband is super guilty of #2, 4, and 6. He puts dirty food wrappers into the recycling all the time, as well as all sorts of stuff that just isn’t supposed to go in there. He says that they separate it anyhow, so why not just recycle all of our trash? Um, no. I finally looked up all the local recycling regulations, and put a label on our bin that says what can and can’t go in. Now he just sneaks it in there, and hides the dirty food wrappers underneath the legit recycling. Tricky man. Although, I am quite guilty of #1, 3, 5, and 7, so he’s also pretty patient, I guess?
LOL, I feel relief. Thank you.
LOL I love the trash part. I can relate, to that and so much more!
About 14 years ago (7 years into our marriage), there was loads of trash to go out that he’d been ignoring in spite of my requests. So while he was at work, I bagged it all up (3 or 4 large white trash bags from kitchen and desks), took it all in one hand, opened the door, positioned the bags in front of the the door, and wedged my arm as the door closed to basically get the bags as flush up against the outside of the front door as I could before closing it.
My “logic” here was that he would see all the bags blocking his way into the house and take them to the cans before coming inside.
Nope.
He just pulled the door open, moving all the bags aside in the process, came in and engaged in his after work “free time” like any other afternoon.
If it’s getting worse now, imagine how annoyed you’ll be at 21 years LOL. Good luck!
Give him a break, “If i see another random beer bottle cap on the counter I’ll scream…” are you kidding me…but then you the ones living together…good luck
Omg this is the best! I can sooo relate!
My husband is always napping on weekends too! In the mean time I run like a crazy woman, dealing with 3 kids! Ugh! Same things,never picks up, cant take out the trash.
Mine has finally started throwing his beer cans into the recycling instead of leaving them lying around. He honestly doesn’t like to irritate me, and that was really grating on my nerves. Once I stopped getting mad and started getting sad and frustrated instead, he straightened up a bit.
I have made mine NOT responsible for any dishes or emptying of the trash cans. I’m glad because these would just be one more thing to drive me crazy. He still has a hard time remembering to soak the dishes so that I don’t have to use elbow grease to clean them. Now that it’s cold, I just leave the trash on the porch and he will put it in the bin….since I’m always barefoot and our toddler will either follow me outside (barefoot/no coat) or lock me out.
I’ve definitely learned to choose my battles and make things easier for both of us.
This sounds a lot more like my dad than like my husband, but I totally feel you!!!!
Sounds like my EX husband. My current DH does none of these annoying things. I saw those things from my EX as not annoying, but incredibly disrespectful, as it implies that everything he doesn’t do is YOUR job. Also, I was also turning into a nag with my EX, and I am not a nagging type of female, so I didn’t like who he was forcing me to become.
Make you feel better to bash men? Feminazi. Help your esteem? We call this a bully.
Yep. Husbands always screwing things up so they won’t be asked to help again. Real winners.