My kids are slobs. Icky, nasty slobs. I tend to be laid back and let their rooms stay messy, but do make them keep the rats and bugs away by ensuring they bring dirty dishes to the kitchen and make them take their dirty laundry to the washer etc... As for their clutter, I usually just ignore it. I keep MY space nice and neat (living room, kitchen, etc...) and let them wallow in their own messiness. Sometimes,however, I just have to go in each of the kids rooms and do a banishing. I get to a point where I can't stand it anymore. Look at Huck's room. Can you believe this? I started at 10am and finished at 3:30pm. 8 garbage bags, 4 cardboard boxes of broken toys, random pieces of paper and detritus later, I emerged sweaty, with much back pain, cuts all over my legs and feet from a broken light bulb hidden under the abyss, but with an enormous sense of accomplishment.
4 comments:
go you! I need to clean up my own room. I always hated cleaning my room as kid.
Sheesh...that almost required HAZ-MAT garb. I would have been sore afraid!!
Did you smudge the place afterwards? ;)
I hate to tell you that you didn't do him a favor by doing it for him.
I wind up doing that to the girls' room about twice a year. It usually takes me a whole weekend and I get rid of SOOOOO much.
You rock doing it all in one day
Mama Kelly
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