My mom did stuff like this but I just attributed it to general forgetfulness. She was the kind of person who would angrily do it herself rather than ask, if no one caught her subliminal messaging.

Admittedly, I forget everything asked of me if I don't do it right away, so I bought a white board for the fridge. I would do anything and everything listed on the board. She still left shit on the stairs.

There's a thing called "Ask Culture," to avoid frustration, and I believe it's a generational thing. Ask Culture is when you put expectations into words rather than just hoping someone will decypher your intent and anticipate your needs.

My friends and family around my age are much better at putting requests into words while the older generation gets frustrated at us for not reading minds.

As a kid if there was something in the stairs I didn’t carry up I’d absolutely be screamed at. Now I’m mom and no one but me does it and I do find it annoying. I will FULLY block the stairs with laundry baskets and have asked many times for things in the stairs to be carried up and people will do gymnastics to get around the stuff… still don’t scream or be a jerk about it though.

Someone else mentioned it’s a tripping hazard, lol that’s the point, don’t want to trip, move the stuff, if you trip you had no one to blame but you and your own laziness, myself included lol

I grew up in a house with stairs and we never did this. Seems like a tripping hazard

I always carried stuff like that up the stairs, as did my siblings... but I have yet to find out if my daughter will as she's never lived in a house with stairs.