Filed under: Kitchen, Bedroom, Your Home, Living Room
From toilet paper wars to the remote control tug-of-war, the home can be a breeding ground for fights. Here, some of the silliest?Over at The Nest, they're collecting their users' most ridiculous fights. And what I noticed (aside from a serious trend of couple's food issues): So many of these are caused by everyday home occurences. Not that I can't relate. I'd be lying if I didn't admit to fighting over the TV volume, folding the laundry, locking the door -- oh, sadly, I could go on. Instead, I gathered my favorite house-caused tiffs from the post and comments -- plus some new ones from our Facebook friends:
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"We fought about how many times a toilet should be flushed in a day. This was a serious, ridiculous, give-the-silent-treatment kind of argument." --LOISSA
"We got into a fight while assembling the furniture in our new house. If we made it through that, we'll make it through anything!" --AUBREYDUB
"Whether or not to tuck in the sheets at the end of the bed -- every time I make the bed, I tuck them in, and every night, he untucks them." --KDTULLY
"We had a standoff for almost a week to see who would give in first and finally buy toilet paper. For the record, I won." --STEVE+MEL
"My husband and I live in the country, so he thinks we have no need to lock the doors when we are home. I tried to explain to him that I felt better locking the doors while we are sleeping (otherwise, what are locks for?!). He became so angry with me, and started telling me I was basically saying he couldn't protect me. This all coming from the man who can sleep through ANYTHING and can fall asleep while doing any activity (such as driving my brand new car while I was sleeping in the passenger seat). We have had this fight on more than one occasion. Please keep in mind he DOES lock the deep freezer in the basement... seriously? You are more concerned with someone stealing your meat than your wife?!" --GooniesGeek247
"Our most ridiculous -- and first -- fight as a married couple was over the remote control and what to watch. The remote ended up being broken, so that fight cost us $18 for another remote." --AprilSexton
"I stayed mad at my husband for a week because he refused to take the package cover off of his ps3, eventually i gave up and let him keep it on but for some reason it still bugs me." --Doubleeep
"We fight over the thermostat. I like it cold, he likes it hot...I tell him to go put a shirt on!" --Sonya Baker
"We rarely argue, but when making decisions regarding the exterior renovation of our home the question of painting the brick or not painting the brick created some marital stress around here. Guys apparently have a thing against painting brick. Who knew?" --Christine Reuss Wisnewski
"Which direction to put up the tension rod for the shower curtain (because of the bump between the two pieces.) I must have been PMSing that day, haha." --Therese Noren
"Whether it's okay to compile stray items at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the 2nd floor (in an attempt to tidy in fewer trips) until a trip upstairs is necessary. That, and whether it's okay to leave stray socks around the house after they are pulled off." --Anissa Pinkham
"My husband and I argue about disciplining our little fur son because he pees in the house at times. He is 3 years old. I clean his little puddles and talk to him. My husband withholds his favorite treat, non salted saltine crackers, which I think is cruel. Thus we argue and I give him extra crackers." --Maria Smith
"The color of his bathroom. I was fully prepared to let him pick out the color and just give helpful advice, but he joked one time too many that I was going to take over until I offered NO advice at all and now he painted the bathroom the color of a special effects blue screen. I'm not happy." --Carol Frye Bennett
"The TV remote. Hubby either mutes commercials and leaves the room with the remote or surfs during commercials and I miss part of the show. Sometimes I manage to shanghai the remote, but it isn't worth the aggravation Captain OCD gives me over it." --Debbie Keller
"He picks at me because I stuff the trash basket till it looks like the Orville Redenbacher popcorn commercial with the lid rising; I pick at him because it's apparently against his religious principles to ever, under any circumstance, rinse a dish." --Heather Sullivan
Looking for more? Check out the rest of the piece on The Nest or these other great articles:
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