Just going on from my socks on the floor example LOL... I read in a book (can't remember which one) about 'training' your kids or your husband to pick up after themselves.. and it suggested calmly telling them that you are tired of picking up their dirty clothes for them, so from now on, for the sake of keeping the house clean you will be picking them up, but you will put them in a bag and put them in the cupboard for them to deal with when they're ready... and that they will soon learn to put their clothes int he hamper cos they'll run out of clean clothes. But see... to me that is HUGELY passive aggressive.. and I've never felt comfortable trying it.. cos it's so spiteful. But it can be 'justified' because it's "teaching them" to pick up their own clothes. But really... the intent comes from a mean place.. your jack of picking up their socks, so this is what you're going to do.

And yet I'm sure some people would think it's an open and honest way to deal with the situation because it's being straight forward and explaining what's going to happen. Whereas I feel it's quite aggressive and mean.