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To ask daughter to move wardrobe out of son's room when he's only there one day a week

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cotswoldsblue · 06/12/2025 18:50

This is actually on behalf of my friend, she's getting stressed and I don't know what advice to give her :)

She has a 24 year old DD and a 21 year old DS. The daughter lives at home, works ( don't know if she pays rent).The son works and has moved out to live with his fiancee in their flat, but returns every Sunday night to visit.

The daughter is really into clothes and fashion and has rather a lot of clothes- her cupboard and chest of drawers are full, and as the son is only there one day a week she's moved a clothes rail into his old bedroom, which is empty six days a week most of the time.

Obviously it would be ideal if the clothes could be moved when the son comes to stay, but it's rather a lot to dismantle- there's about thirty items on the rail. The son has now put his foot down about the things being in his room when he comes to stay and is sending rather aggressive messages to the group chat swearing about the things being in there and saying 'Let me know when you've moved it for good'.

The first advice I've given to my friend is that the son should apologise for the aggressive approach, but I don't know whose side I'm on about the clothes. To see the son's point of view, it's not fair to have a rail blocking his room when he comes to stay- you can still move around the room, but he likes to read and so on in it and 'see his room' as my friend says indulgently- I personally think with a fiancee he needs to grow out of his old bedroom, but he does still use it a bit and if the daughter wants to have so many clothes she will have to get her own place. It is the daughter's home most of the time though, and without the rail (she'd have to dismantle it completely and put her dresses etc in her cupboard somehow, but currently it's full) it will be cramped for her the other six days. Friend is moving towards doing what the brother wants- AIBU to agree with her and not fight it?

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beAsensible1 · 06/12/2025 18:57

Does her mum want her to pay extra for using the guest room?

the issue is they keep thinking of it as his room. He’s moved out and has a fiancé fgs. Start calling it a GUEST ROOM he doesn’t have rights over the room anymore.

tripleginandtonic · 06/12/2025 18:56

If he stays one night a week then actually I think it's still his room and friends dd shouldn't have her stuff in there.

CandyCayne · 06/12/2025 18:55

The man's moved out.

It's not like he's just nipped off to university and will be back shortly.

She should be free to store her stuff as long as he can get into bed.

CombatBarbie · 06/12/2025 18:55

But hes moved out? He stays 1 night a week, id be telling him as his mother. Whilst youll always have a bed here, unless you formally move back in and pay rent. Her clothes can stay.

gogomomo2 · 06/12/2025 18:54

If he’s actually moved out and not in temporary shared housing then it’s not his room anymore, it’s the guest room but unless the daughters room is smaller she shouldn’t be using an extra room anyway, you don’t get to appropriate space unless you own the house!

beAsensible1 · 06/12/2025 18:54

He does not live there. He doesn’t get to demand what goes where.

it’s not his room anymore

he needs to wind his neck in.

DonicaLewinsky · 06/12/2025 18:54

Her son has moved out, and thus pays nothing towards the household I assume? Therefore it isn't up to him to decide what the people who live in and fund the house store in there.

That said, I assume your friend is the one who owns/rents the place and so if she'd prefer DDs stuff to be in one room only, that's her decision. But she's BU to make it about someone who doesn't live there.

MessageMystery · 06/12/2025 18:53

The clothes should stay, he’s moved out and has a fiancée. It’s not his room any more it’s the spare room he uses when he visits. He needs to grow up.