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Dirty boots and divorce! 1 Attachment(s) My husband is on vacation this week from work. He's on my L A S T nerve and it's only Monday. :eek: I'm just about ready to lose it with morning. He works in construction and this is an ongoing argument in our house. It's not just construction be he downs with cement driving a cement mixer in the city of Chicago. He claims he has a clean job and that he doesn't bring dirt (cement) into the house when he WEARS HIS WORK BOOT IN MY FRICKIN HOUSE :mad: Everyone else in our house takes off their shoes in the laundryroom when they come home except him. He will get ready for work and put his boots on in the bedroom, walk through the house before leaving, into the kitchen for a cup of coffee, into the laundryroom and out the door. When he comes home he will walk in the house and come to look for me to say hello. When I say something to him about this work boots he will show me the sole of the shoe with no dirt (which I agree) but the tops and sides of the boots are full of dried cement. Take a look at these thing and answer this question: Would you allow anyone to walk around your home with these on? :confused: |
LOL...never, no, no way, no how! Rule at my house is "outside shoes" are removed at the door and you wear "inside shoes/slippers" or walk around in socks/barefeet. |
LOL I would give him points for thinking to come and say hi to me before he thought of anything else. ;) My husbands boots don't look like that but I have to say he is the same, everyone else takes them off at the door but not him. :rolleyes: |
Jodi these boots bring back memories of long ago, my deceased dh was a construction worker lol...be proud of him at least he goes to work :D |
Sounds like my DH Jodie :( He is office manager for a concrete company and doesn't get as dirty as the drivers, but he still has crap on his boots and he farms too. It took about 10 years to get him to take his boots off on the sun porch, but then he carries them inside and puts them on in the morning. He walks from the kitchen to the living room at least three times before he leaves and usually there is a trail of dried mud or worse cow manure:eek: I am right behind him cleaning it up and ranting. Ya'd think they would rather just listen and do what we ask instead of hearing us gripe about it. Men can be such pigs..lol |
Try meeting him in the laundry room so he doesn't have time to come looking for you with his boots on. If by some chance he does make it out of the roo with the boots, then sneak them back in there so he isn't trouncing out of the bedroom with them on in the morning. Though to be honest, after 23 years of marriage I have never taught my DH to throw his dirty socks in the laundry...sigh. |
Easy solution. You get a pair of boots, dirty them up, and wear them to bed. Marge would pretty much explode. Even when I was on Active duty and came home with muddy utilities and boots, she would meet me at the door with a smile and a Command to take them off. Not much has changed in 40 years. |
:eek: "I" am "THAT" person in our house. I wear my barn boots into our house, LOL. |
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I put clean clothes & socks at the door when dad is out mowing the lawn, working with garden chemicals, and generally getting dirty outside. He is good about removing shoes before entering the house. |
I am a germaphobe no outside shoes in the house type person. DH is pretty good at doing it. He does grumble if he is grilling and slipping shoes on and off going in and out. During the "shoe training";), I did move his shoes to where I wanted them to be. It helped him get in the habit of removal. I am still trying to get him into the habit of putting snack dishes into the dishwasher instead of stacking in the sink and waiting for the elves to show up and do their magic!:rolleyes: |
Nope I have a 3 year old and 2 yorkies that play on this floor... nope would not allow it! |
Is there a chair he can sit on while taken off his boots? Seriously, that can be a big help. How about a chair a small table with a cocktail and a loving note? |
I have a crop farmer to deal with! He refuses to take off his work boots til he's ready to take his evening shower :( |
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Oh wait you were serious? :rolleyes: |
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I cured my husband of walking around in his boots by having my carpet cleaned professionally and presenting him with the bill. I told him, " Go ahead and walk through any carpeted room you want but YOU will have to pay the cleaning bill next time." He now takes his boots off at the door. We do have a coat rack with a bench in the entry way of our house. We also clean Molly's paws every time she comes in from outside. |
I don't have this problem with my BF, but my step dad has a radar that tells him when mom has freshly washed the floors, it tells him it is time for him to walk through the house in his fishing boots that smell of Ode de Fish and Diesel fuel. I sadly don't think there is much of a cure... In terms of training men though, I think the bill for cleaning is an effective way to go... If I have a point to prove I usually put it in financial terms. For instance a few months ago I told BF that if he wanted a maid (ie me) he better start earning a large 6 figure income because if I stopped trying to become I lawyer to be a housewife, I didn't want to lose the potential wealth in my future...:D He started cooking and cleaning the next day so that I could work to pay my tuition and study :rolleyes: |
Oh Jodie I just have to laugh at your situation. (Laughing with you, not at you. :)) We have had the same kinds of problems with dirty boots through the years. My DH takes them off in the kitchen now and likes to tell my family and friends that I have nagged him into submission. :eek: I do agree with Micah My Love about how I should be being happy that my DH has a job. :) |
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There is no solution, I'm almost certain about it, maybe just time, like housebreaking Yorkies, men take about 20 yrs to housebreak!. Although he is good about boots/shoes. Towels, oh dear, the number of times I yell at him to pick up his towels. I would put a bucket, and a mop by the door he enters and have him wash his way through the house after his yucky boots. |
I hear you! My husband used to work with pigs, talk about a mess! I remember one particular incident when he work his nast work clothes in my new car. Imagine getting into your "baby" to go to work only to discover it smelled aweful and was covered in poo! |
I am so picky in my house. Our shoes always come off at the door. My husband would be in big trouble if he walked around in those in my house and he knows it. I've put the fear in him he says! LOL :) |
Those boots would mysteriously disappear one night while he was sleeping.....:) |
OOOHHH...I would be so irritated! My hubby knows better about the boots..also it's a custom in Hawaii to remove shoes/slippers/sandals before entering. But try to get him to put his socks where they belong....sheesh...:rolleyes: |
nope sure wouldn't. put that foot down on his dirty feet!! :p don't allow it! ;) dirty boots go out on the porch and clean feet come in. i don't even allow my dh to come in after mowing unless he goes to the basement shower first ;) |
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We have been together for 28 years and married for 25 years so I totally understand about the training. Believe me that I have been able to train many bad habit in all those years. This one I just can't seem to be able to break. :thumbdown He's on vacation all week and he's been working in our laundry room painting and hanging new cabinets. When he is finished I am planning on putting a small bench with storage for him to use~which he claims will enable him to remove his shoes when he comes home from work. But the real issue is that he does not understand the cement is coming off the sides of the boots and not the bottom. He will show me the sole and point out that they are clean. He really just does not get it. :rolleyes: |
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Well we have 20 yr old carpets so everybody walks on them but we are planning on getting new carpets and I will expect everyone to take their shoes off at the door. If you have new carpets I dont blame you for being upset it is very difficult to get carpet stains out |
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