Shut the door!

pollypenny

Serious question from thread title:

Can anyone explain the popularity of open-plan houses?

Surely, it's easier to keep warm in separate rooms.

MoneyMission

Can't explain about the open plan houses pollypenny. Aside from the heating issue I wouldn't want to relax in the evening in the same room as the dishwasher which would be going on!

My DD (8) takes her school tights off along with her underwear all in one swoop. So they're all bunched up together. DS is a fan of balling up his socks. Anything I find in this state I've taken to just throwing back in their rooms when I'm sorting out the laundry basket.

DD is really the messiest child ever. She leaves a mess in her wake. I once decided not to iron her clothes and just washed them then calmly sprinkled them liberally all round her room. Her face was a picture (in a slightly scared 'Mummys gone mad' type fashion!) but I told her that it was how she treated her clothes so I thought she liked it! Perhaps not straight from the Best Book of Parenting but it did feel good.

MM
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Today He Who Knows actually DID shut the back door and locked it and came into the study and a few minutes later I kept hearing a clicking noise in the garden......... He'd shut the lurcha outside and the boy was cold and banging on the door to come in, just goes to show that the male of the species can never be right, even when he is doesn't it?

moments_of_sanity

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Today He Who Knows actually DID shut the back door and locked it and came into the study and a few minutes later I kept hearing a clicking noise in the garden......... He'd shut the lurcha outside and the boy was cold and banging on the door to come in, just goes to show that the male of the species can never be right, even when he is doesn't it?

At least you have managed to teach your lurcha to let you know he needs to come in, our dog merely whimpers which is inaudible from the inside of the house. The times I have gone out after an hour or two to find him laying on the back door mat

MummyBobble

So glad to see it's not just in my house that I appear to be the only one capable of putting things in the bin! DD does put things in the bin in her room but never empties it (it just spreads onto the floor). Both DD and DS occasionally take plastic bottles etc for recycling but only to leave them on a worktop in the kitchen (within reach of the back door and the recycling bin), and as for washing going into the washing basket, why do that when you can leave it on the floor of whatever room you're in when you take it off? Despite the washing machine being on daily, after a forced "clear your bedroom floor or I'm binning the lot" I had 19 pairs of socks in the washing basket (actually rather more annoyingly it was 19 pairs plus 1 odd sock...) Can't wait to be old and getting my own back :rotfl:

moments_of_sanity

My DD's killed themselves laughing at me this evening, I had a pair of socks and didn't know who they belonged to......so I gave them 1 sock each working on the logic, they would ask the other one if they had it! :rotfl:

Phone chargers, iPod chargers, lap top chargers, in fact ANY kind of chargers get lost and then they come and 'borrow' mine, only for it to never be seen again!

Not taking shoes off to run upstairs for something they have forgotten, drives me loopy! Also front door keys go missing and get found in random places like the washing basket, in a sock???? I have at least 5 spare keys 'just in case'

pricew1970

WOW so much moaning I thought I had accidentally logged into the Daily Wail forum

Enjoy your kids, partners etc... they are all you have !!

moments_of_sanity

pricew1970 wrote: »

WOW so much moaning I thought I had accidentally logged into the Daily Wail forum

Enjoy your kids, partners etc... they are all you have !!

We do enjoy them really, this is just for us parents so we don't feel so alone with our moans.

Wouldn't be without my kids or DH and I will miss the kids when they have gone......who will I have to moan at then! :rotfl:

DODO_2

I so agree with all the posts here - but its my OH that is doing all this not the kids!!!

I have lost count of the number of times he comes in saying hes cold and he has a tshirt on!!!!!!

good_advice

Mother hen watching over her family, thats me too!