We are off to Spain tomorrow, DS has gone out tonight with our blessing... he has a shock coming when he gets home....

[EllenWaiteourkid]

He isn't coming home (staying at a friends) which makes our leaving the house early in the morning easier, we can make as much noise as we like. Anyhoo.....

I have stripped out the pedal bin, (DH placing bets on whether he knows where the fresh bin liners are) 😁

I have put the food bin contents outside but failed to reline the bin.

The dishwasher is full to capacity but whoops I appear to have forgotten to run it before we leave.

None of it major, but all the invisible parts of how a house runs....

He'll eat takeaways so won't need the dishwasher.
He'll be in your bed with the GF so will have to work out how to use the washing machine.
Hopefully you didn't leave much in the fridge so there's loads of room for his mates beer stash.
He'll be having the last laugh, no you!

I'm sure all the bins will be wearing their best mourning weeds.
FGS. Basic kitchen hygiene is something my mum could trust me with when I was 12. Oh wait I was a girl...

In your defence OP I left my late teen dd in charge of the house with instructions to water the small tub of patio tomatoes left conveniently on the patio table a metre from the kitchen . When I returned they were dead, shrivelled beyond redemption. And why? There had been a hosepipe ban imposed the day after I left.

Ha ha no I have never left a note saying love you, in case plane crashes
Yes I would do some nice stuff, like leaving nice food in the fridge etc. But in all the last minute rush may do things like op

Miserable bunch tonight. Good luck to him, if he gets disoriented by the number of buttons on the dishwasher or tangled up in bin bags, I'm assuming he can knock on the neighbors door for help. If the house is still standing and any pets/neighbors alive when you return, give him a lollypop.

That’s what Dd would do so it would backfire here for sure!

What would be funny is if you get back to the house in a full on state from lots of parties and a note from him saying he's gone on holiday with his mates.

Obviously that's how you leave the house when you go away, so he can do likewise.

Have a lovely holiday, op !
My dh and ds laugh uncontrollably when I say I'm cleaning the house. It fascinates me ! Those cleaning fairies again 😫

I don't get it - it seems kind of mean? I don't want to be a "fun sponge" but what's fun about it? Can someone explain?

Oh my word, why so serious! Has no one noticed this is a lighthearted thread? So many offended people🤣 he’s probably a typical teen who leaves the bin full etc, he’s not been humiliated, he’s not come to any harm, he’s probably not going to cry about how utterly awful he’s been treated! He might even find it mildly amusing!

‘the grown up thing to do’? Seriously🤣 we don’t all need to go down the serious route to show out points!

he’s not going to suffer!!

I'm with B on this.

Why? You have had years to house train him. The fact you believe your failed to achieve this, and its something to make a thread about in order to do a 'gotcha' is strange and really quite petty.

btw, you forgot option C.

He throws a party, put it on social media and the house gets completely trashed and he's arrested for breech of the peace and punching the copper trying to arrest him.

God it’s a binliner not a note saying I hate you, some people need to get a grip dear god (& sorry but how how morbid is a I love you note in case the plane crashes?! Do you leave one every time you get into a car too incase that crashes??)

Ignore the fun sponges OP, the sun seems to bring them out in droves.

Well played - I'd love to know how he reacts, please update with any amusingly daft texts asking for advice! 😁

Last year we forgot to turn the dishwasher on before we went away… took a good few weeks to get the smell of mould out of it, I almost bought a new one!

I don't get it either - and I don't understand why it's some sort of gotcha to leave behind mess that isn't his? If he's out tonight it can't have been on him to run the dishwasher?

Is this you on a 'nice Mummy' day?

I dread to know what you're like on 'psycho Mummy' day!

He will just fill the bin without a liner and buy take away or convenience food if no clean dishes.
Why not just teach him how to do these things instead of this passive aggressive bullshit?

Fuck knows. Madness.

Do you hate your son?

That's the kind of petty shite my Mum would do. I really grew to dislike her for it.

MN at it's absolute finest looking at some of the comments 😂.

Sorry, this is weird. I'm wondering how old DS is, though maybe I missed it. Was this deliberately planned, or did you just realise as you were walking out the door that you'd left... minor domestic chore "booby-traps"? He should know how to handle things like replacing bin liners, but if he doesn't, that seems to be more on his parents than on him.

Off to enjoy my life as a fun-sponge, apparently!

Absolutely. What a horrible post from OP. And putting 'lighthearted' after it doesn't make it any better.

Jesus Christ. You'd think the OP has left rusty nails in bed and invited the local burglars round for a free for all. It's a light hearted post intended to make people laugh ffs. If you don't find it funny then just feel free to ignore the thread. Such weird angry responses