Have you ever experienced a move where the details really mattered? Well, one Reddit user certainly did, and she shared her hilarious story with the online community. It all started when this detail-oriented woman had a strategic plan for packing, but her husband refused to follow her lead. Little did he know, his lack of cooperation would come back to haunt him.
The woman, who goes by the username OP (original poster), explained that she had created an inventory sheet for each box she packed. These sheets were numbered and color-coded, making it easy to identify the contents and which room they belonged to. She was diligent in her approach and wanted everything to go smoothly.
However, her husband was not on board with her meticulous packing process. He didn’t offer any help, even when it came to packing the garage, which was filled with his stuff. Fed up with his lack of participation, the OP took matters into her own hands.
“I packed the entire house by myself (well, the kids helped with their toys). My husband didn’t do the garage [until] I forced him to,” she shared. Despite her husband’s insistence that the details didn’t matter, the OP kept asking about the contents of his boxes and added the information to her inventory sheet.
Fast forward to after the move, when the family began renovating their new home. The stress was high, as they encountered issues with borders and wallpaper that seemed to have been applied by Satan himself. This delayed painting and installing the carpet, causing even more frustration.
This is where the revenge comes in. The husband, now helping with the renovations, started looking for his tools, which were mostly still unpacked. He asked the OP about a specific numbered box, hoping she could provide him with the details he needed. But she played a little game instead.
“I can give him specific details, but tell him, that’s orange, which is the kitchen. You need blue, which is the garage,” she recounted. He went to the boxes labeled in blue, but there was a big pile of them. Frustrated, he asked her to read from her inventory sheet and point him in the right direction.
Unbeknownst to him, the woman had logged down his dismissive comments about the contents of the boxes he packed. When he asked her to read from the sheet, she didn’t hesitate to give him a taste of his own medicine.
“‘Wrenches, screwdrivers and sh– like that dear,’” she read out loud. As he grew increasingly annoyed and asked about the next box, she simply replied, “‘It doesn’t matter, it just needs to be packed.’”
The husband had to go through about 20 boxes to find the tool he was searching for. It was a valuable lesson for him about the importance of paying attention to the details. And the Reddit community couldn’t help but applaud the OP for her clever retaliation.
One member commented, “He was almost literally asking for that to happen and definitely deserved it,” while another shared, “My husband did the same thing with his stuff…Live and learn, except he really hadn’t.” The general consensus was that the husband had only himself to blame for the difficulties he faced.
Now, some readers might be wondering if the OP’s meticulous packing approach is worth the effort. Well, according to her, it absolutely is. She mentioned that she even created a zone map for the new house to make things even easier. The combination of the inventory sheets and the zone map proved to be a perfect system, especially during the renovations.
If you’re planning a move in the future, maybe taking a page out of the OP’s book will save you some headaches. And who knows, it might even give you a good chuckle in the process.
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