Do you tell the other person?

[Alpo]

Pat posted a meme. "My wife didn't tell me she moved the coat rack". The coat rack, with a couple of coats on it, is standing in front of the curtained sliding glass door, and in the dark backlit by the street light it looks like a home invader in your bedroom.

 

Not so scary. I buy my kitchen trash bags at Sam's. They come two large rolls in a box. I have one roll underneath the sink and the other is still in the box. The box was in my foyer. I realize that's not where it should be but - so what. I knew where it was. My daughter came to visit and decided that they did not belong out there and she moved it to some place that she thought it should be. She didn't tell me where it was. I was down to one trash bag before I found where she had moved that box full of bags to. With a hundred bags left, I was going to have to go buy another box of bags because I could not find where the hundred bags were. Again, not so scary, but annoying.

 

In Sixguns by Keith, Elmer has a chapter on fast double action shooting. He tells about a man that kept a loaded 1917 revolver in a holster hanging on a hook inside the closet door. One night is he's getting undressed they're suddenly appears a home invader in his bedroom doorway. He statues (really otto? He statues?? He snatches) that pistol out of the holster and whips around and pulls the trigger click click click click. Took him four times before he realized the gun was not going bang. That's how fast he was pulling the trigger. The home invader, seeing that large pistol pointed right at him, turned and ran. The man's wife, feeling a loaded gun was dangerous, had unloaded the pistol. But she didn't tell him.

 

So, if you move something, do you tell the other person that lives in your house. The other person that might want to use it and now discovers it's not where it was. Whether it's your spouse or your kid or your roommate or it doesn't matter. Would you tell him that you did it or would you just do it?

Edited October 31, 2025 by Alpo

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

Pat posted a meme. "My wife didn't tell me she moved the coat rack". The coat rack, with a couple of coats on it, is standing in front of the curtained sliding glass door, and in the dark backlit by the street light it looks like a home invader in your bedroom.

 

Not so scary. I buy my kitchen trash bags at Sam's. They come two large rolls in a box. I have one roll underneath the sink and the other is still in the box. The box was in my foyer. I realize that's not where it should be but - so what. I knew where it was. My daughter came to visit and decided that they did not belong out there and she moved it to some place that she thought it should be. She didn't tell me where it was. I was down to one trash bag before I found where she had moved that box full of bags to. With a hundred bags left, I was going to have to go buy another box of bags because I could not find where the hundred bags were. Again, not so scary, but annoying.

 

In Sixguns by Keith, Elmer has a chapter on fast double action shooting. He tells about a man that kept a loaded 1917 revolver in a holster hanging on a hook inside the closet door. One night is he's getting undressed they're suddenly appears a home invader in his bedroom doorway. He statues (really otto? He statues?? He snatches) that pistol out of the holster and whips around and pulls the trigger click click click click. Took him four times before he realized the gun was not going bang. That's how fast he was pulling the trigger. The home invader, seeing that large pistol pointed right at him, turned and ran. The man's wife, feeling a loaded gun was dangerous, had unloaded the pistol. But she didn't tell him.

 

So, if you move something, do you tell the other person that lives in your house. The other person that might want to use it and now discovers it's not where it was. Whether it's your spouse or your kid or your roommate or it doesn't matter. Would you tell him that you did it or would you just do it?

 

I don't move anything without telling her. Isn't worth the 2 days of ********, I mean complaining.

[John Kloehr]

33 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

I don't move anything without telling her. Isn't worth the 2 days of ********, I mean complaining.

Generally agree. There is on occasion a good reason to move something. Avoiding it getting damaged, or finding something leaking. Needs to be a good reason. I'll usually text this info just so I don't have to remember later (and maybe forget).

[Duffield, SASS #23454]

The person moving something is responsible for telling everyone who lives in the house when and where it was moved.

Unfortunately, the world is full of irresponsible people.....

[Eyesa Horg]

Yes 😉

[Michigan Slim]

Why not? Retaliation for her cleaning my garage. Good God woman, where is everything?!

Edited October 31, 2025 by Michigan Slim

[Jiminy Cricket]

My wife and I had this discussion before we got married.  I think I’m the only one that’s adhered to the agreement.  Things don’t get moved around too much without both of us being present but when they do, I always tell her.  However, I’m still looking for some hedge trimmer that I left on a bench in the back yard, and she can’t remember where she put it.

[Cypress Sun]

2 hours ago, Michigan Slim said:

Why not? Retaliation for her cleaning my garage. Good God woman, where is everything?!

 

Wait until she cleans up your reloading bench. You know, condensing all those bottles of powder into one.

 

 

Edited October 31, 2025 by Cypress Sun

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I have helpers. They put my things away for me. I'm not disorganized but they wash things and make guesses about where stuff goes. It never ceases to amaze me at the choices they make.

[Michigan Slim]

40 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Wait until she cleans up your reloading bench. You know, condensing all those bottles of powder into one.

 

 

She has but knows better than that. Lol. 

[Calamity Kris]

Uno is one of those gradual people.  Things gradually get to where they belong.  He will bring something in from the garage. to his office.  When he goes to take it back out, it moves from one desk in his office to the other desk.  Then some time later it will move to the kitchen counter closest to his office.  Some other time, (day, week, month) it will move to the kitchen island, which is closer to the door into the garage.  IT will eventually move to the buffet counter, which is next to the door to the laundry room.  Some time later, it will move to the laundry room sink counter.  At that point, if the item is large enough to be in my way, I will move it to the folding counter in the laundry room.  He will eventually put it on the drier, which is right next to the door into the garage.  "I'm staging it you know."  At that point I will threaten him with bodily harm if he doesn't put it away.  That's how things travel through our house.  It's no wonder he can't find anything.

[watab kid]

5 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

I don't move anything without telling her. Isn't worth the 2 days of ********, I mean complaining.

me too , sometimes i dont complain if i disagree with her choice , its not worth the hassle , mostly we discuss things like that and agree on them tho - that would be a bit disconcerting in the middle of the night when i get up to use the facilities 

[Wild Eagle]

One night after my wife went to bed I rearranged all of the living room furniture.  She seemed unhappy when she tripped over the couch the next morning.  Maybe I should have woken her up to tell her.  I'm not sure.  The short story is that I got to put the furniture back where it was.  I'll never understand women.

[Alpo]

My wife used to rearrange the furniture. This was always shocking to me. At my house the furniture was arranged and everything worked and that's the way it stayed for years and years and years. And my wife seem to need to rearrange the house every 6 months or so.

 

So I was working the 3:00 to 11:00 shift and it was about 1:00 in the morning, and as soon as I open the front door I saw that she had rearranged the living room. I didn't want to turn on the lights and wake people up, so I'm just standing there in the doorway and I pull out my mini mag and I'm just got it turned on flipping it around the living room seeing, you know, what has been done, and what path I need to take to make it to the bedroom.

 

And from the bedroom I hear a very loud CLICK!

 

"Uhh, Baby. It's me. Put the hammer down."

 

I decided that the next time I came in and found the room rearranged I would turn the overhead light on and the hell with worrying about waking people up.

[Michigan Slim]

My wife rearranges regularly as well. 

[DocWard]

No, I don't. Let us both experience the excitement of forgetting where I put something, I say!

[Subdeacon Joe]

It depends on what it is.  "Dear, I'm moving your life saving medicine from the right side of the top shelf to the left side of the 3rd shelf down!"  Yes. Might not have ever used it, or only once, but it's important to know exactly where it is.
"Dear, I'm moving the jar of shrimp soup base from the middle shelf to the top shelf!" Nope.  We don't use it that often and it's no big deal.
 

In the kitchen, there are a few tools that I use almost every day so I put them in the top (silverware) drawer so I don't have to bend to the 2nd (tool) drawer.  But they're tools, so Dear Wife puts them in the 2nd drawer.  (reminds me, time to clean out both of them)

Don't sweat the small stuff.  Moving a minor piece of furniture a couple of feet is small stuff, removing cartridges from a firearm is major stuff, even if the gun is put back in the same spot.  But, in general, since we are both, like, actual, like, thinking and competent adults, we have the ability to use our eyes and brains and quickly figure things out.  We don't need to be spoon fed, "Dear, I moved the can of coffee up one shelf."   "Love, I moved the TV remote to the caddy on  the coffee table instead of just having it on the table."  Nope.

 

Besides, half the time it's "Dear, do you remember where I put the (fill in the blank)?" 

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

I dont even go looking for it anymore. 

I just ask the wife where is this or that now ?

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

14 hours ago, Calamity Kris said:

Uno is one of those gradual people.  Things gradually get to where they belong.  He will bring something in from the garage. to his office.  When he goes to take it back out, it moves from one desk in his office to the other desk.  Then some time later it will move to the kitchen counter closest to his office.  Some other time, (day, week, month) it will move to the kitchen island, which is closer to the door into the garage.  IT will eventually move to the buffet counter, which is next to the door to the laundry room.  Some time later, it will move to the laundry room sink counter.  At that point, if the item is large enough to be in my way, I will move it to the folding counter in the laundry room.  He will eventually put it on the drier, which is right next to the door into the garage.  "I'm staging it you know."  At that point I will threaten him with bodily harm if he doesn't put it away.  That's how things travel through our house.  It's no wonder he can't find anything.

I LIKE this man!

[Laramie]

I don’t have to wonder where my wife put something. I just have to remember where she used it last!😆