To think that of speed untidying were an olympic sport...

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Other countries need not bother entering-my three Ds would get gold, silver and bronze. They would work as a team creating a slipstream of mess and no one else would get a look in let alone a place on the podium!

Three dc-two female untidiers and one male. Think it would be gender irrelevant like equestrian

your;s wouldnot get a look in my DGDs woul get a double gold.

Fighting talk-see you in Rio

We're in - two DSs. Their casual efficiency is astounding. Imagine if I actually trained them

It's a great sport too - no travelling or equipment cost as far as I can tell. But maybe I'm naive. Could be a whole different thing at elite level. You know, altitude training (untidying upstairs?), synchronised untidying, endurance work. And perhaps you'd have to buy special standardised stuff to throw in a heap as quickly as you can.

I was quite tickled by the triathlon where they had to make sure their swimming gear was in a box or they'd get a penalty!

Well we are in Yorkshire - so going on current white rose performances my two would out-untidy you all

There would have to be an event where you scatter as many bits of paper across the floor as possible, stopping only to snip your finger with the scissors then howling for 30 mins so your mum can't clean it up.

But Molehill there would be equipment costs as you would have to ensure that your DC had several toys with numerous pieces for maximum untidiness. Some of those pieces would have to roll and other pieces would have to look pretty identical to pieces of other toys/jigsaws to maximise the amount of time it takes to sort it all out again.

The Sunday Times did a freebie Olympic scrapbook thing a few weeks ago which came with gold, silver & bronze medal stickers. DD (2.9) gets one each morning depending on her tidying efforts.

Never mind your children, DP and I could take gold in 10 seconds. Don't know what we do but literally everywhere we walk leaves a trail of destruction behind . I blame him .

The little people aren't much better I'm affraid!

I think there would have to be different events in an untidying Olympics. Mine would win gold in 'making the most mess whilst not actually sodding playing with anything' event

Don't fret-I am on the verge of cutting a sponsorship deal for the tiny piece scattering event with Lego and Sylvanian Families . Now-need to recruit team doctor next to deal with the injuries caused by treading on tiny little pieces. The kit is sorted. Luckily my two older ones had the dressing up stuff out earlier. All of it. Ironman costume with princess high heels anyone?

Ooh-another event! Untidying things (small, obviously) and putting them into different bags which are then played with for five minutes and then emptied out as far from the place they're meant to be as possible

Don't worry. I'll be the team doctor as well as volunteering my 2 yo DS for the team. His particular talent is tipping over boxes and his current favourite song is 'God Save the Queen' so he's already to sing it at the medal ceremony.

I've only got one nearly 3 year old but he's getting good at multi zone untidying. his baby brother is helping out at the moment, by being very hungry and keeping mummy distracted so that she can't contain or tidy the mess.

he does 2 main messes in his bedroom and the living room, but every night i have to collect random books and toys off my bed.

sounds like plenty of entrants for a team untidying event on mn.

Oh No, DS2 would be quite adequate all on his own... I'm sure he could win all 3 medals and then leave them strewn somewhere after chewing them for 5 minutes or so.

Yesterday, after a trip to ikea for a new loo seat (because he'd dismantled the last one), before I had even managed to get throught the door, he'd unzipped the cover of a new bolster cushion and broken the zip.. and was happily waving the over-radiator airer/dryer thing round his head in order to confuse the rabbit.

He is the most terrifying thing on the planet. I reckon if we could clone him we could cut the defence budget down to almost nothing just by having his clones dropped into hostile countries.

Wow-mumsnet alone could top the medals table in the untidying Olympics. I am misty eyed at the thought. Further thought - could my sister and other neat a holics like her (I asked her how she kept everything so tidy and she looked bemused and said "I just don't let it get untidy" ) hold the tidying Olympics at the end of the untidying Olympics thus meaning we could let ours wreak havoc knowing someone actually needed the mess?

Bartlet-the emptying boxes event would be a bit like the hurdles-on the track, run to first box, tip it over, to the next etc? Or would it be the number of boxes you could empty in a set time? This is distracting me nicely from the state of my house

My soon to be aged 16 DS is good at this but much much better at the Olympic sport of losing stuff. Money, shoes, jumpers, rugby boots, shirts, cricket bats, pencil cases, aftershave, the padlock to keep his stuff save, you name it.

safe even

Excellent idea about the tidying Olympics! I would be happy to open up my home as a training venue for that, anytime

Double gold medals here. For the dc for the mess they made today after having friends round to play. One for me for speed tidying. Dh announced at 7 his friend who has been living in the USA is home for a few weeks and he'd invited him, his wife & daughter round this evening for drinks.

In an hour I have quick tidied house, brushed patio, showered changed, lit candles outside and am now sitting with glass of wine awaiting their arrival go me!

Lord preserve me-proud as I am of their innate cross generational talent I would really love it if dh and ds weren't training for the father son event in the garden! Still, it has to get worse before it gets better

I can add two more events to the series - dirty sock hurling and miscellaneous (although normally shoe) garment losing.