{"id":1548,"date":"2011-07-08T17:07:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2011-07-08T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T21:07:38","slug":"manfaq-friday-the-clutter-question-part-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"ManFAQ Friday: The Clutter Question, part D’uh."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, and that means answer time! For those of you who have commented with questions from previous ManFAQs, thank you. I’m adding yours to the list of questions women have asked about men over the years, and I will answer them all in turn – to continue to demystify the more malodorous gender for those of the gentler. Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n

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Question:<\/strong> Why is his “man room” always a mess? Like, we find places to put things, buy baskets or boxes or drawers to hide them in, but without fail, it all ends up on the counter – change, pens, change, rubberbands, crumpled up receipts, etc.\u00a0 Drives me nuts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whoa.\u00a0 The obvious first question is, why are you in the “man room?”\u00a0 Dude, he’s got a designated space where he’s not going to worry about cleaning to your standards, and you’re going to beat him up for not cleaning to your standards?\u00a0 He doesn’t know you’re in there, does he?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Obviously, and I’ve covered this before<\/a>, he Just. Doesn’t. Care.\u00a0 It’ll get cleaned one of these days, probably 10 minutes before your parents (or his) come over.\u00a0 What you identify as “man room” he thinks of as “safe zone,” which means he has no intention of picking up after himself in there more than once a month, if that.\u00a0 Besides, if he waits long enough, the cleaning fairy might come pick up for him, while he’s out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My advice – don’t do it.\u00a0 Just don’t go in there at all.\u00a0 If you can smell the room from outside the threshold, give him his orders (for instance, “My mother will be here in 20 minutes”).\u00a0 Otherwise, I’d say give it up as a bad job and get on with your life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Now you know. Please, feel free to comment! Also, forward any questions you’d<\/strong> like answered to BUMD – at – biguglymandoll.com!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Why is his ‘man room’ always a mess? Like, we find places to put things, buy baskets or boxes or drawers to hide them in, but without fail, it all ends up on the counter – change, pens, change, rubberbands, crumpled up receipts, etc. Drives me nuts.” Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}