Part 7 of '10 Ways to Change Your Man into a Grump'

Frequently reorganise his things and throw out the stuff you don’t think he needs anymore.

This might seem like something really petty and insignificant. However, what it boils down to is that you are not respecting his things.If you don't respect his things, you don't respect him.

I love organising and having everything in its place. I have containers, files, etc. for everything. I hate things being left lying about the house or office.

Although my husband is pretty neat and tidy, he does tend to bring home papers and bits of paper with things written on. It used to really annoy me. I’d just tidied up and now here were these messy papers spoiling the whole look of the room. I wouldn’t keep it to myself. I’d complain and ask him to tidy it up. When that didn’t work, I would take it upon myself to go through his things and throw away what I thought wasn’t important… needless to say, I got into a lot of trouble for doing that when he couldn’t find something important and so was banned from throwing anything away before checking with him first.

Now I will just put his papers in a neat pile. I still reorganise things but nothing too drastic and I will always ask if he likes the way I’ve done things and most of the times, he does... :-)