Kids room is always a mess!!!

gibson123

Get big boxes for their toys and divide their stuff up into them, put 3/4 of the boxes in the loft leaving 1/4 behind, next week put the toys they have played with away and take another 1/4 out. Not only does it reduce the mess by 75%, the kids feel they are getting new toys every week.

gibson123

I have never had great success getting my two to tidy their clothes. My eldest is 13 and he will get up on a morning and put clean clothes on rather than unravel the crumpled heap on the floor to see if its still wearable. I once let him carry on with this until he had nothing decent that was clean to wear. The trouble was we were going out for the day when we reached this point and I had to take him out looking like a ragged orphan!

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LOL, try having a 13 year old daughter who take her clean clothes out tries them on changes her mind and drops them on the floor, then next time she gets shouted at throws them all in a washing basket.... teenagers are gross :eek:

mrs_sparrow

I think it helps to realise that most kids rooms are the same. We have storage boxes and the stuff still gets chucked under the table/bed/etc.... We have those midi beds with storage boxes underneath.

Sylvanian Families and Lego. Nasty horrible things you tread on in the dark....!!!!

tanith

Just wait till they are teens then you'll know what a messy room really looks like... and they won't want it cleaned up..

mummyroysof3

mrs_sparrow wrote: »

I think it helps to realise that most kids rooms are the same. We have storage boxes and the stuff still gets chucked under the table/bed/etc.... We have those midi beds with storage boxes underneath.

Sylvanian Families and Lego. Nasty horrible things you tread on in the dark....!!!!

as are pollypocket and playmobil

wentmad a few weeks back and put a ban onanymore little stuff coming in house...hubby bought daughter a jewelry making set with a billion beads yesterday:eek:

HeadAboveWater

Be thankful it's just their rooms. Would be worse if the mess carried on through the house!! :eek:

Our house is spotless... until you open the kids bedroom doors!! Teenagers
Can't see the bed. Can't see the floor. Can't see very much other than a mix of colours!! (then the smell of perfumes and fake tan would near knock you out!) No amount of talking/pleading/yelling/bribing/punishing seems to work.

We've resorted to keeping the room door closed tight at all times

And, only a week or so ago, decided that for every item of clothing/underwear lying on the bed or floor, 10p was deducted from their pocket money. That helped!!