Housework venting...

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I don't let my 16 year old leave the house with his friends until he cleans his room and does his chores. Yours are a bit young for that. how do you do all that anyhow? Maybe you should trade legal advice for housework.
 
best thing to do is to watch Hoarders or How Clean is Your House with them. They get to see that filth isnt healthy at all. My son used to be a pig and still has his moments however since I had him watch those shows he has figured it out. Dishes not allowed out of kitchen, his laundry done at least once a week without fail, bed changed once a week (thats his minimal laundry per week , lol)
If he doesnt do his laundry he has no clean clothes, he has exactly 8 pairs of underwear- do you think I was thinking when I did that one????
 
My dad took the door off of the hinges to my bedroom when I was a teenager to get me to clean it up ! Try that...
 
Taking the hinges off the door wasn't done at my house! But we lived in a very small town so one day, when he knew I would be gone for a while, he completely emptied my bedroom and put the entire lot on the front lawn with a sign "In my house, if you don't clean your room, I will be happy to do it for you. FOR FREE". I never, ever had a messy room again! I was never so embarrassed; I was the butt of the town jokes for a very long time. What's worse is that I had to put it all back.

I feel for you Mess! :D
 
I know with the girls at times the word SLOB comes to mind!!
Aarghh.
They'll ask where's this shirt or pair of pants?
My reply is it was supposed to be put away in your last pile of laundry that went in wasn't it?
Hopefully someday soon the neat n tidy bug bites them.
 
Me and my SO are both in school full time so I feel your pain. We also just finished a kitchen reno. With the little ones we give them Monopoly money for cleaning up after themselves, my 5 year old loves to vacuum so I got a small vacuum and she does ALL the vacuuming every week. Then they can use their "money" on a movie night or a trip to the park, or a popsicle which doesn't cost us a lot but they think it's super special.
Also when your overwhelmed take a deep breath and accept that when you have kids houses can be messy. Or pick a room to be your neat and tidy room so you have one room to escape to when the mess is overwhelming. My Living room is almost always spotless, so I can escape to it.
Good luck.
 
I remember when I was about 12, I got really upset with my dad and I walked out of the house and slammed the door behind me. I was about 1 1/2 blocks up the street when I heard him yell (my dad never would yell down the street)...he was calling me...Carol..Carol...come here, come here. I thought something was wrong at the house. I ran back to the house I got inside and he said "Now, you can go out that door again and close the door properly" Nothing else just that little sentence. Then I was furious but I knew if I slammed the door again, what my consequences would be. :-)

How I wish I could go back to those "easy" days from where I stand now. lol lol
 
My guys rooms are pretty clean. I tell them as long as their beds are made, and floors are clear I'm happy. They're 15. 13 and 10. I pretty much do all the housework around the rest of the house as I am a bit of a neat freak and like things done a certain way. Of course with the baby and a full time job I'm starting to think that maybe the boys need to pitch in more as I am pretty much wiped out all the time.
 
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