Any other men run around the house turning lights off?

[MaxxumUSA]

LOL.

Talking about after your RW comes to live with you.

Anyone?

[Simoni]

Totally the opposite.

She runs around turning the lights out I have on. 

Even like the study light, when I plan on keeping on doing more research.  I leave for 3 minutes, she turns the lights out.

She's right by the way.  Can you imagine if every person in the US would only use lights when they need them?  We would conserve lots of energy.

[I/O]

Any other men run around the house turning lights off?

Yep..............!!! Then I shout, which fixes the problem for about 2 days............

I/O

[groovlstk]

Ditto here, i also find my other main household task is wrapping up bread left lying on the kitchen table and returning milk to the fridge 

[BC]

and turning down the thermostat in winter.

[Turboguy]

Yep,  Doesn't matter where the lights are and where I am.   If the light is left on in the Bathroom on the second floor and I am in the basement doing something she expects me to go up and turn it off even if she was standing beside it when she saw it.   It is called trying to turn your husband into the type of man you really wanted to marry which only a RW would try.

[Simoni]

Looks like I am the lucky one here.  I have a full service light girl here.

[I/O]

my other main household task is wrapping up bread left lying on the kitchen table and returning milk to the fridge 

LOL...............yep...!!! Spot on here! Did you marry my wife's sister?

I/O

[Jumper]

Well -
 completely the oppisite on all counts.

i like all the lights on,, and often leave them ALL on  everywhere in the house..lol  thats just me.
(i hate a dim ,or dark house,,i tease her that if we wanted to live in a cave,, it is the wrong period of time and history to do so..)

she's the one always turning them off ,even if i just left the room for a second..


and heaven forbid bread left on a counter?
 i'll never see anything like that here..lol
*everything* has it's proper place,and it must be there or the world is just not *right*

I'm not a sloppy person, and put things away as they should be ,,
,but i'm not a  neat freak.

My wife  likes everything in perfect order, and perfectly spotless.
Almost to the level of obsessive complusive. lol

It doesnt bother me at all, as why not everything in its proper place..?
but i do tease her about it...
(example: refrigerator magnents actually have a *proper* place on the fridge?? of course they do! and dont move them either !and of course i cant resist doing so )




 
 

[Simoni]

Ditto here, i also find my other main household task is wrapping up bread left lying on the kitchen table and returning milk to the fridge 

Well, she does turn off lights that don't need turning off.  But like Grove's girl, Marina DOES leave the milk out.  Cheese too.    And orange juice. Cheese is no problem, milk is.

Leftovers?  On the counter, not to the fridge.  That's my job, cuz I'll be eating it the next day...fridged or not  

[BC]

Well -
 completely the oppisite on all counts.

i like all the lights on,, and often leave them ALL on  everywhere in the house..lol  thats just me.
(i hate a dim ,or dark house,,i tease her that if we wanted to live in a cave,, it is the wrong period of time and history to do so..)

she's the one always turning them off ,even if i just left the room for a second..


and heaven forbid bread left on a counter?
 i'll never see anything like that here..lol
*everything* has it's proper place,and it must be there or the world is just not *right*

I'm not a sloppy person, and put things away as they should be ,,
,but i'm not a  neat freak.

My wife  likes everything in perfect order, and perfectly spotless.
Almost to the level of obsessive complusive. lol

It doesnt bother me at all, as why not everything in its proper place..?
but i do tease her about it...
(example: refrigerator magnents actually have a *proper* place on the fridge?? of course they do! and dont move them either !and of course i cant resist doing so )




 
 

Well AJ, it's probably about time y'all have a couple kids instead of just bluffing.

[BillyB]

The more important question here is if you and your spouse are in agreement if lights should be on or off when making love. I prefer to see what's going on.

[Bruce]

My wife is the kind that always leaves the lights on, and sometimes the stove and boiling water on the stove and the TV, though the behavior has diminished over the years.  Our heat is set at 70.  Milk and juice does get put away though.  Having the baby gave her more legitimate reasons for the behavior, but lots of counseling has stopped the stove being left on, the boiling water and shut a few lights.  I am just waiting for her to leave the car on.   

[jb]

I am just waiting for her to leave the car on.

My wife did that.  It ran all night until the tank was dry.  Of course it was my fault.  Funny stuff here.

[MaxxumUSA]

Maybe this thread should be moved to the anything goes>humor section?  Holy cow...  jb...  your fault?  Of course!  You should have told her to turn it off?  LMFAO.

Worst part about this thread is I need to hide it from my wife.  I have said NOTHING about the lights.  I think it's not a big deal...  just an observation that when I go into a room that is UNOCCUPIED I usually flick the light off when I leave that room.  No biggy.

Don't want her to think it's a big deal to me... because it's not.  Just an observation.

 

[Phil dAmore]

Nina loves to sit in the dark... except of course when her daughter comes over, then the place is lit up like a casino.

It took almost 2 years to convince her of the need to cover and refrigerate unused food.  Of course now she thinks that they will keep indefinitely.  Unless I stay on top of things our 'fridge  will turn into a warehouse for all manner of science experiments.

Nina is incapable of returning anything to it's proper place.  Wherever she puts it down, that's where it stays.

[Yozhik]

It took almost 2 years to convince her of the need to cover and refrigerate unused food.

I can definitely relate to this! 

What about not separating colours in the washing? I'm just waiting for when wearing pink is trendy again! 

Cheers
Yozhik (who is in so much trouble if Mrs Yozhik sees this post!)

[I/O]

Yozhik (who is in so much trouble if Mrs Yozhik sees this post!)

'Nother one I'll tuck up my sleeve for timely usage.

I/O

[Serebro]

Well -
 completely the oppisite on all counts.

i like all the lights on,, and often leave them ALL on  everywhere in the house..lol  thats just me.
(i hate a dim ,or dark house,,i tease her that if we wanted to live in a cave,, it is the wrong period of time and history to do so..)

AJ, lol, you are definitely my type of a man... 
As for me I like light in the house.
My best friend is quite the opposite, I would never be able to live in one house with her. She has a small apartment and every time she leaves a room for more than 3 minutes' time she turns lights and a TV set off.Even if she goes to the kitchen to wash a couple of cups...
I live alone and I always have lights on in the corridor at night when I sleep.But at night it has another reason-I am afraid of being  alone at night when it's dark.

[KenC]

 
Whew, glad to see I have company.  Thought I was the only one turning on the heat in the winter, a/c in the summer, turning off every light in the house (twice), putting the milk into the fridge and throwing away food on the counter just before it can leave under it's own power.  I have to replace the light bulb inside our dryer about every year because Lena can never understand that the door needs to be shut.  (I cannot ever remember replacing a bulb inside the dryer before)  Thinking about buying covers for the thermostats with locks.
KenC

[Jumper]

Miss Silver- for me it goes beyond lights , i chose our house because it had a lot of windows..and tall ones, and an open style to it, so that daylight is like you are almost outside.
i'm an outdoor kind of person LOL    
(its one reason i dislike clubs and bars, to me its like smokey cave..BLECH!,
now give me a seaside/beach outdoor style  club ,i am all for that!

Phil, my wife also used to liked the room less lit,and used to tease me about liking so much light , like a casino....lol  but its funny as she has really grown to like the house completely lit up.I never would have guessed it..
but then when she was first here, ice in a glass of tea would cause certain death,
however NOW  a frozen magarita, or one on the rocks, is fabulous and quite tasty.

BillyB- either is fine.. we agree on it.  

BC- ha! That would likely loosen her grip on everything being in its precise place.
children will dramatically change aqnyones perception of each thing being it its proper place every instant..(my son is naturally a very neat and ordered kid,,so they fit each others quirks lol )

but i cant imagine a day I would ever see any milk , or anything ,ever left out..
heck it has only one exact spot within the 'fridge, that  it MUST be  in.
 

jb- thats crazy,LOL!  and of course it was your fault!
 
did YOU turn the car off.?
the defendent will answer with a  simple yes or no? LOL
 its obviuos ,"no" you did not turn the car off,as it was still running.
 so it was your fault.  
  it doesnt ,matter if you were near it, saw it,
or even knew if she drove it,
you dint turn it off.
as you know very well, a (russian) womans logic is very hard to debate ..
 
me? i wouldnt know i thing about that..    

[I/O]

a (russian) womans logic is very hard to debate ..

Logic? What logic? Give me a break....!!! The only thing they use which seems to come close to logic is the theory if they argue long enough hopefully everyone else will give up.

I/O

[Bruce]

Yozhik, do not worry - washing machine and dryer operation are extremely important.  Buying a new state of the art washing machine was the healthiest thing I could do for our marriage when she first arrived in the USA.  Separation of whites and colors (blacks, blues etc. for their own separate wash) are extremely important.  My washing machine is cleaned after each wash by my wife.  Wearing clean properly washed and ironed clothes is a very high priority.  Remember, it is always more important to have clean pressed clothes than clean hair and body, though living in the West will change that phenomenon over time. 

For those of you with science experiments on the counter and in the refrigerator have your wife take a microbiology course.   That was the best one thing my wife studied in college. 

[Markus]

Maxxum,

If I forget to turn off the light, my wife definitely says, "light" everytime. But, I'm so used to hearing "take off your shoes", "wash your hands, "change your clothes (after work), that I'm used to her giving me orders. I actually like it when my wife tells me what to do, except when I want to do what I want to do, like drinking a few with my buddies. I got smart one day and decided not to ask but do it and then tell her what I was doing. That worked much better for me, but, I was kinda still in the doghouse. One night of sleep and things are back to normal. And, that is not a RW thing; It's an AW thing meaning All Women.

Mark

[MaxxumUSA]

Maxxum,

I got smart one day and decided not to ask but do it and then tell her what I was doing. That worked much better for me, but, I was kinda still in the doghouse. One night of sleep and things are back to normal. And, that is not a RW thing; It's an AW thing meaning All Women.

Mark

Hmm...  Some of you actually ask permission to be men?  With ALL women -All nationalities  - I have ever dated I simply state my plans and ask if she would like to join me.  If I am out of the house and unable to ask her to join me...  then I do what I want without asking.  When the cell phone rings I answer and tell her where I am and inform her she is welcome.

I erase the line between respecting her and being a man...  It IS possible to do both.  Obviously going out every night without your wife is a very bad thing.  But stopping for an couple beers with the boys once or twice a week should be fine.

I work at home...  so after a day of work I might say...  "I'm going for a few beers.  Care to join me?"  (BTW 99% of the time she joins me)

I NEVER say:  "Honey...  can I go for a couple beers at the bar with the boys?"  Sorry...  that just wreaks of weakness to me.   IMO a real man will state his intentions in a sincere manner, let her know she is welcome because you love her and she's your wife, but be firm and not waiver if she has some other intentions of changing your plans.

I won't give examples but I can tell you I have not had a problem at all in the last few months since she's been here.

And...  BTW it works BOTH ways.  When she makes plans with friends or says she is going somewhere....  I don't ask her for (too many) details or in any way imply she needs my "Permission"  - because she does not.

Oh well...  going off topic a bit but I started this thread so no biggy.