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The Husband and I are chalk and cheese #1

Written by on October 10, 2009 in BLOG, THE MADNESS OF LAURA - 37 Comments
My bedside table ...

My bedside table ...

The Husband's bedside table ...

The Husband's bedside table ...

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37 Comments on "The Husband and I are chalk and cheese #1"

  1. Andrea November 16, 2009 at 1:44 pm · Reply

    Brilliant! They look exactly like our bedside tables except the other way around…mine is really neat and his is a bomb site!!

  2. Victoria November 16, 2009 at 1:42 pm · Reply

    Ha, that looks just like ours! Except put Sylvanian family rabbit in place of Dora doll and and magnifying glass in place of binos. Like the matching inhalers.

  3. Linda October 12, 2009 at 12:43 pm · Reply

    Watch out Tracey Emin! Me and Neil are as bad as each other for clutter but he would claim he isn’t. I have two years’ worth of slimming magazines also piled up by the bed, half of them never been opened. Would say something about magazines under the bed but well that would be vulgar and I will leave that to others. Good day to you.

  4. Baking Mad Mama October 11, 2009 at 10:28 pm · Reply

    Ah yes, this looks familiar. Husband’s side: alarm clock and some sort of manual. My side: giant Zippy nightie case, ten lip gloss tubes and tonnes of other assorted tut. Good work!

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:14 pm · Reply

      I thank you – I am working on covering every surface

  5. Irish Mammy October 11, 2009 at 1:55 pm · Reply

    That’s too funny, kinda the same in my house. And he’s Swedish, I’m Irish, he’s a financial control freak (at home and in the office) and I LOVE to spend and….I could go on, in fact I could write a bible on it. But I love the picture – says it all. Women are just more complex!

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:13 pm · Reply

      I like that … complex … that’s what I shall say next time the husband tells me I’m a messy bugger!

  6. Dawn/LittleGreenFingers October 11, 2009 at 12:55 pm · Reply

    I reckon Sherlock Holmes (or Patrick Jane – who doesn’t love the Mentalist?) would manage a complete personality profile from this. And yes, please ‘fess up on the binoculars! What, why, who and how often?

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:13 pm · Reply

      Binoculars, the 3 year olds and he uses them often!

      Patrick Jane? I’m off to Google

  7. Tara@Sticky Fingers October 11, 2009 at 11:51 am · Reply

    I don’t for one minte believe that’s your actual bedside table.
    Where is the remnants of food, the stained tea mug, the half eaten apple a child has left there?
    You’re hiding it from us right . . . ?

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:12 pm · Reply

      No, I cleaned up right before I took the picture … Ahem

  8. Selina Kingston October 11, 2009 at 11:23 am · Reply

    Yes, yes but isn’t it much more fun to have to rummage through piles of stuff to find what you are looking for amongst your “ordered chaos” as I like to call it. Not so sterile blah blah. Trying to help here but I too cannot help wondering about those binoculars….

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:11 pm · Reply

      I know where everything is and yes, it is organised chaos!

      These binoculars are causing quite a stir – they’re not mine, they are the 3 year old’s!

  9. Merrily October 11, 2009 at 3:02 am · Reply

    seriously – what th hell is up with the binoculars?!? I MUST know!
    xoxoxoxox

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:10 pm · Reply

      They are the kids or that’s what I’m telling you!

  10. Insomniac Mummy October 10, 2009 at 11:36 pm · Reply

    I am killing myself laughing at those binoculars.

    You have a nice array of inhalers between you.

    My clutter has spilled to both sides of the bed. Husband is allowed space for his mobile and sod all else.

    :)

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:10 pm · Reply

      Are you jealous of that green one? I’d never seen one of those before.

  11. Mwa October 10, 2009 at 8:33 pm · Reply

    Mine spills over on the floor as well. In my defense, my husband doesn’t read in bed, so that reduces clutter a lot.

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:07 pm · Reply

      There are 2 shelves under the table as well which are crammed full of half read books!

  12. Josie @Sleep is for the Weak October 10, 2009 at 8:19 pm · Reply

    I am scared that Dora’s hair may set on fire from the heat of the lamp and then, spreading to the compressed air in the inhalers will cause a catastrophic explosion and set your beard alight.

    Please sort out your health and safety issues. I worry for you.

    P.S. Maybe hubby could have Dora on his side? His side looks lonely.

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 3:04 pm · Reply

      I have taken your worries into consideration and evicted Dora. In fact she is probably on her way back to Spain now as we speak … where ther are no hazardous lamps … anywhere.

      Also in terms of sahring with the husband I shall let him have the ‘noculars. They match his green inhaler.

  13. Brighton Mum-Teenage Angst October 10, 2009 at 7:55 pm · Reply

    Haha! OH and I are the opposite of yours. Mine looks like your hubbies side. OH has a superhuman capacity to attract clutter & it’s not just contained to the bedside cabinet!

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 2:56 pm · Reply

      The children seem to be attracted to my side too which doesn’t help, hence the dog, Dora and the ‘noculars.

  14. SandyCalico October 10, 2009 at 7:54 pm · Reply

    How funny! So similar to our bedside tables. Only mine isn’t big enough and my stuff is on the floor too. Yes, I want to know about the binoculars too??? :-)

    • admin October 10, 2009 at 11:45 pm · Reply

      There is a pile of magazines on the floor next to it and two drawers full of crap underneath too!

  15. Dad Who Writes October 10, 2009 at 7:25 pm · Reply

    Oddly enough, this is one of the major things – a capacity to generate ridiculous clutter – that supermum and I have in common. Though my table would be the more crowded one. Actually I don’t have a table. I have a large pile of books and bits of electronics on the floor next to my side. However, supermum has a table *and* a substantial wooden armchair completely covered in God only knows what…

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 2:56 pm · Reply

      I also have some shelves and a HUGE pile of magazines and Sunday papers still to read

  16. Bev October 10, 2009 at 7:11 pm · Reply

    bloody hell, i neglect my blog and come back and find you have gone all posh lol
    and yes mine used to be like that pre-fire now i have a lamp, a book and a load of dust on my cabinet

    • admin October 10, 2009 at 11:44 pm · Reply

      Pre-fire – what the hell have I missed? Will be checking out your blog tomorrow!

      • Bev October 12, 2009 at 2:38 pm · Reply

        no, we had the fire last year, but wasnt insured as it was our childrens birthday ( all 3 are 5 days apart) so i bought them a wii and extras adn thought i would insure house next payday, 10 days later we had a fire and lose everything, wont do that again! still got bugger all!

  17. Maternal Tales October 10, 2009 at 6:46 pm · Reply

    Hee hee. Well they do say opposites attract! Btw – why on earth have you got a pair of binoculars by the bed? Spying on the neighbours?

    • Josie @Sleep is for the Weak October 10, 2009 at 8:10 pm · Reply

      I was thinking the exact same thing!

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 2:47 pm · Reply

      I tell you, my neighbours are not worth spying on, if only they were … I’d be twitching those curtains wearing my camoflage gear and using my ‘noculars.

  18. Sue October 10, 2009 at 6:36 pm · Reply

    I’m trying to fathom a use for the binoculars – the imagination boggles!

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 2:46 pm · Reply

      You see, this is my problem, my bedside table also houses the children’s paraphernalia too! They are not my binoculars.

  19. Tamsin October 10, 2009 at 6:32 pm · Reply

    This looks like our bedside cabinets! My stuff usually moves across the room ends up on hubbys drawers when mine are totally full! Then I have to have a clear off otherwise he starts to twist :)

    • admin October 12, 2009 at 2:45 pm · Reply

      I do have a set of shelves too which has lots of ‘stuff’ on.

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