daughters bedroom

snookey

Our cats are the same. They eat food that their not supposed to but like kids you cant watch them 24/7.

Kaz2904

LOL, completely off topic but our kitty cat is very good. We could leave any food lying around and she won't touch it. UNLESS it is a pizza with chillies on them and she will come over and grab the chilli from the top of the pizza even if it's half way to your mouth! Silly moggy!
DD's bedroom is an absolute pit again tonight. Just walked in and shook my head and walked straight back out again. She'll have to clean it up tomorrow morning before we go out anywhere. Mind you, DS's is horrible too and he'll have to do the same but I feel for him because he hasn't got good enough storage solutions yet until he gets a chest of drawers or a bookshelf or something!

pigpen

Oh I am so glad it isn't just my moggies that love pizza!!! the baby dropped a bit earlier and we had growling from 3 of our cats over who was eating it! Mine are also partial to hula hoops, peas, carrots, and one loves weeto's.. and has been seen in the box!!!

DS3 has screamed the house down his evening after I made them fill a binbag and a wash basket.. apparently it looks like an atom bomb went off in there now.. and I said well it will be lovely after a vacuuming tomorrow.. it will then look like 2 atom bombs went off and hitler would have been proud (so we had a talk about it atom bombs not being used by the Germans but by the Americans.. soon shut him up on that score!) but he is having chickens and NEVER sleeping in his room again.. he has aspergers so it is all a little traumatic!

We will have more fussing when I remove the clothes from the drawers that are too small.. doing that tomorrow too hopefully if I have time.. get through everything ASAP with him to shorten the agony.. like ripping off a plaster!

The childrens rooms are starting to look habitable!!!!! not bad for 2 days!

zebramolli

I had a large room when I was young (the joy of being an only child), I was messy and never tidied up after myself and boy did my mum take extreme action. When I was about 13 she went in when I was school and put everything in black bin bags and left it outside, I came home to find it all just sitting in the back yard!

I was allowed to take my stuff back in provided it was all tidied away and the room was cleaned top to bottom with the warning next time she'd wait until bin day and give it straight to the bin men. Needless to say I always tidied up after that

olibrofiz

Great idea about taking a black bin bag up to the bedroom, think I'll try that - tidy up or i will....

Bedroom's tidy(ish) at the mo as [STRIKE]stig[/STRIKE] DD is at her dads for a week :D:D but I still found half a cadbury's flake stuffed in a pot on top of the fireplace :mad:

My mum's on an extended stay with us, and I had been sleeping with DD in her room (& trying to ignore the mess) but after getting up one night to go to the loo and standing on an upturned plug, after much :dance: around I trod on another - I've been on the sofa ever since

webitha

ive tried the bin bag thing...didnt work

now i have found THE perfect thing........i close the door, its not messy if i cant see it:rotfl::rotfl:

if thby complain that they cant find so and so ..or such and such is not washed..i shrug
then you should have put it away/in the wash basket then

snookey

Dd room staying tidy so far. How long it will stay that way I dont know but so far so good. I did the closing of the door thing but It gets to the point where even the act of closing the door stops. Too much spillage . The clothes decide they are not staying and grow feet, lol .

My son decided to bring his uniform down for washing the day before going back to school. Even then I had to ask.:( He leaves the clean clothing in the baskets that I give him despite telling him to put them away. Im sure clean clothes are mixed in with dirty when he brings them down to wash. Im going to show him how to use the washing machine. He cooks and washes dishes quiet well.

Kaz2904

Actually, a fab idea I was given by pigpen involved them being "grounded" for 5 minutes without a peep out of them (we are still using this and it's excellent advice ). Tonight, I thought OK, not "grounding" them but called them both inside from playing with their mates and said that they both had to do 5 minutes proper tidying in their bedrooms. I set the clock and said I didn't expect it to be finished in 5 minutes but I did expect them to do 5 minutes worth of proper tidying.
Well, blow me down with a feather, after 5 minutes, the kitchen timer beeped and I went up and saw a visible difference in each bedroom. DD actually HAS a carpet- I knew we bought one before Christmas but I haven't seen it many times!
I will be repeating this 5 minute thing a few times a day over the last few days of holiday and then every evening of normal weekdays.

kerri_gt

Kaz2904 wrote: »

Actually, a fab idea I was given by pigpen involved them being "grounded" for 5 minutes without a peep out of them (we are still using this and it's excellent advice ). Tonight, I thought OK, not "grounding" them but called them both inside from playing with their mates and said that they both had to do 5 minutes proper tidying in their bedrooms. I set the clock and said I didn't expect it to be finished in 5 minutes but I did expect them to do 5 minutes worth of proper tidying.
Well, blow me down with a feather, after 5 minutes, the kitchen timer beeped and I went up and saw a visible difference in each bedroom. DD actually HAS a carpet- I knew we bought one before Christmas but I haven't seen it many times!
I will be repeating this 5 minute thing a few times a day over the last few days of holiday and then every evening of normal weekdays.

:T to finding the carpet - I guess on the upside, if it's hidden from daylight it won't fade :rotfl: How about 5mins of tidying before they go out to play? Although that could end with anything and everything shoved anywhere perhaps?

diable

snookey wrote: »

Dd room staying tidy so far. How long it will stay that way I dont know but so far so good. I did the closing of the door thing but It gets to the point where even the act of closing the door stops. Too much spillage . The clothes decide they are not staying and grow feet, lol .

My son decided to bring his uniform down for washing the day before going back to school. Even then I had to ask.:( He leaves the clean clothing in the baskets that I give him despite telling him to put them away. Im sure clean clothes are mixed in with dirty when he brings them down to wash. Im going to show him how to use the washing machine. He cooks and washes dishes quiet well.

Make him do his own washing and ironing, just show him where the washing powder is and instruct him on the workings of the washing machine.