I’ve never even heard of one of these for home use! WHAT? And without discussing it?
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Does he (or you) frequently wear clothes that require dry cleaning?
It has a mirror front so at least it can be useful as a mirror. It was likely on sale. Other than that… no idea!
HaHa! Last night he was telling me he’d like to take a cross-country train trip (my nightmare!) to S’s graduation; I told him he could ride in the freight car, inside the dry cleaning machine! 
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Realizing I may be the “husband” here but I do say my husband’s attitude is that we have his stuff and our stuff, meaning I’m not supposed to move, weed out or get rid of pretty much anything. And I get total “ wasting money” attitude when I replace OUR worn welcome mat, for example, with a new prettier one.
My husband would save that matter for an “emergency.” We have broken laundry baskets and I’ve bought new ones, now we just have a lot of laundry baskets.
I knew when I had the audacity to go away to college that my room that a sibling would claim my room immediately, and any belongings I left at home would be claimed/disappeared. Therefore, I took everything I owned to college and put it in my half of a 10x12 room.
Sorry, college roommates. I didn’t have a choice, and I couldn’t talk about it.
I want to paint our bedroom. This means either I move/toss H’s mess, or he does it. He won’t, and I refuse to clean his mess on principle. Too many times I’ve wound up cleaning his stuff because it bothered the $#@& out of me.
And no one touches anything in my sewing room!
Once when I was away for a weekend, my husband decided to move the dishes and glasses to the pantry and put the food in the cabinets. It was completely illogical from an efficiency standpoint and also from a size and shape standpoint. As a stay at home mom, the kitchen had been my domain for 20 years so it was as if he’d invaded my private office. He’s been pretty good about not touching my things after that incident.
I have the opposite problem with throwing things out- he retrieves them and thinks he’ll “find” a use for useless stuff.
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My H saves shoes he’s owned for 30 years, before we even met, because he could wear them again. He has a pair of golf shoes I’ve never seen him wear. Old sneakers he could need for some unforeseen purpose. Thankfully, they’re a box in the garage, probably making a home for some mice.
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My H is very much the same. We moved younger S out of his college apartment for the last time. He found a very nice mini-fridge last summer, but he no longer needs it. He thought he might try to sell it, but never got around to it. S and I wanted to put it on the curb for people to take away. No, said H. We should be able to use it, so we carted it home and put it in our shed. We already have two full-size refrigerators (one in the shed that is mostly empty, just holds beer) plus a stand-up freezer. Our household is TWO PEOPLE! We already have one full refrigerator per person! Ugh…
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Old shoes? He needs them for painting projects, my H has a ton of clothes for this purpose, I don’t think he’s painted anything in the past 20 years though.
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And lawn mowing he tells me! But the golf shoes are the best - “what if I play again?” They’re from like 1995.
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It’s dawning on me that many of you have mentioned spouses (usually H’s mentioned) that move or dispose of things…when you are away from the house. I have to wonder, if these things were bugging them or they thought they had a better place for things (like the dishes in the pantry) why don’t they discuss it or suggest it when the spouse is home!!! Why doesn’t leaving the house give them permission to make their move!!? 
Do they really think the spouse won’t notice or say anything when they return? I call CHICKEN!!! 
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Are we married to the same person? Mine needs a “back up” of everything. He will not open a package of anything if we don’t already have one on hand. Drives me crazy!
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I’m the one who rearranges when H is away. He’s always saying “NOW where did the fill-in-kitchen item go?”
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Perhaps for the golf shoes you can point out to DH that many courses no longer allow metal spikes because they harm the grounds and are therefore banned. There are newer, kinder golf shoes and these are the only types of shoes allowed on many courses these days.
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Well then he’ll just save them for aerating the lawn 
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At least he’ll be out of the house!
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I’m laughing at the familiarity here. Our garage holds a dented half sized fridge that college son’s apartment neighbor left by the dumpster two years ago. It’s not even plugged in and it keeps getting moved around as H finds more things he needs to hold onto just in case.
And the old clothes saved for messy projects that never happen wardrobe. 
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Thank goodness DH has an office with a door that can be closed so the rest of us don’t have to look at his rat’s nest of stuff. However, the pile in the garage is growing in the 5 yr that we’ve been living in our current location. Like the ‘COVID wood’ that he bought 3 yr ago when the world shut down due to the pandemic…he was going to build all sorts of outdoor furniture. That never came to pass. But we still have his plywood and 2x4’s in the garage.
I’ve slowly chipped away at the scrap wood pile in the garage. Used 2 methods for that…burning it in the fire pit outside and throwing it away Shawshank Redemption style 1 small piece at a time. DH has not noticed because the scrap wood pile was rather big.
We still have his snow skis from 25 yr ago. He can’t bring himself to get rid of those. Those are in the garage as well.
Also in the garage is this stupid “grow tent” thing to grow stuff hydroponically. I’m a big time gardener, but I do well at growing stuff in the ground. Not interested at all in hydroponics. He spent about $250-$300 on it and grew 2 tomato plants for 2 months, then disassembled the whole thing…but for what seemed like forever, didn’t want to get rid of it. Even though he wasn’t going to ever use it again. He finally gave me the go-ahead to chuck it. It’s going out at the curb at the next bulk trash week, which is coming up soon.
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