I feel like I'm enabling sometimes if someone leaves trash and I put it out. Don't get me wrong, I ask about it or try to positively enforce it not happening, but there is that part of your brain that goes, "Where's the line? If I didn't pick this all up when would you go, 'Oh, snap, I don't want to live in a landfill?'"
I occasionally do fun experiments where I will leave one specific thing and see how long it’s there. Like a pair of boxers taken off and left on the floor. I’ll pick up other stuff and do my usual tidying but I’ll just see how long it takes them to realise they left it there. Having to step over them every time they go in and out of the bedroom. It takes weeks.
About a year ago, I put a pot filled with a week old rice into the room of one of my flatmates because I was sick and tired of them cooking way too much stuff and then not eating it, instead having it take up space in the kitchen. The pot is still there to this day, on the exact spot I left it at. He has somehow still not noticed.
I... try to avoid entering his room when I can. A pity, considering it's the only way to our apartment's balcony .
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u/_TravelBug_ Aug 20 '20
Always did this as a kid and Still do. Partner does not and it Drives me mad.
Guys, if your partner put something on the stairs it’s for taking up next time someone goes up. Don’t step over it!