AIBU to ask you if you think thatchers are people who just aren‘t very clean or organized

[ConfusedWife1234]

Where we live it is the first/second day of the day care after the holidays. We arrived there: five minutes late, clothes I had ironed the day before already wrinkled. One of my boys had dirt on his face I had scrubbed just half an hour before...
... and this is so embarrassing, because I come from a long line of soldiers and dh served.

Does this happen to any of you too? Do you think others notice too or are they just to busy wondering if people notice the dirt of their kids face? But then other kids face never look dirty early in the morning. Iwonder how they do it.

I think some people are just naturally scruffier than others. I remember as a teenager camping in a field after a festival type thing. My sister was sharing a tent with her friend and I was sharing with a friend of mine. The next morning we emerged, all feeling the worse for wear, but DSis’s friend looked like an actual angel, dressed head to toe in white, perfect hair, ready for the day. My friend and I, in contrast, had last nights make up still smeared over our faces despite trying to get it off, hair a riot, and we had managed to spill juice the previous night and not managed to clear it up properly, so our clothes were sticky and stained.

I would like to be the girl that emerges from her tent looking pristine, but realistically that is never going to happen. I don’t put in enough effort and I think the bottom line is I just don’t care enough. I make sure my kids go out loooking presentable, but I don’t iron and if they look a riot within an hour of going out, well that’s life.

I’m well last being a child but am one of those people who can ever stay clean and tidy for long! I don’t know why not have always been the same. It doesn’t help that I don’t have much style but even if I manage to tie a scarf or put jewellery on to enhance an outfit, within an hour the scarf will be coming undone or suchlike and the jewellery will be askew 😊

My middle child was the one who would always be messy after five minutes - it’s kids 😊 that’s why the washing powder markers are so profitable 😊

Oh crap! Do people really iron their kids clothes??? Well now im embarassed!

@Grumblepants Well, it depends on the type of clothes. I dressed the boys in... wondering how the English word is.... cadet shorts??? and shirts and my girl wore a dress.

How is this called in English:
www.landsend.de/de_DE/Seersucker-Kadetten-Shorts-fuer--Jungen/pp/P_29827.html

It was the first day of day care after the holiday. That‘s why I did this.

Well, I just saw the cadet shorts (???) I linked to are no ironing but ours aren‘t and I do iron them.
I do not iron Jeans or T-Shirts.

Seersucker is a type of semi-wrinkled cotton, very popular years ago because it didn't need ironing!

Nothing gets ironed, DS’s hair looks permanently like it’s never seen a hairbrush despite it getting washed daily and brushed every morning. He is always clean and in clean clothes when he leaves the house but by the time he reaches his destination he looks like a scruffball. On the other hand he’ll come home even more filthy from nursery or the park, combined mud and sunscreen recently and gets food everywhere despite a bib. I really am not going to worry about it as long as he’s having fun and he’s clean to go to bed at the end of the day.

Yeah, I was not talking about the seersucker, but about the type if short. Here is another example www.landsend.de/de_AT/Gemusterte-Kadetten-Shorts-fuer--Jungen/pp/P_29828.html

Typically my kids wear jeansshorts or relaxed cargo shorts and t-shirts and I do not iron them, but I do iron this type of short. How is this type of short, the cut, it the material called in English again?

German: Kadetten-Short=cadet shorts????

*the cut, not the material

I inherited the scruff gene from my mother and we both served so it doesn't always match up. And I never dust my light bulbs like I was once expected to... 😂

I inherited the scruff gene from my mother

Aha I didn’t realise that it was genetic! Now I know where my daughter got it from - from
DP

DS is a scruff. His hair sprouts off from random partings and crowns that don't join up. If it's short it sprouts like a worn out toilet brush, so it tends to be longer where it lays better. 5 minutes after combing it, you'd never know it had been done. His hand-mouth coordination is not great and food gets everywhere, all over his face and into his hair. His seat at the table looks like a toddler ate there. He forgets that he shouldn't wipe his hands on his "white" school shirt. He's active and outdoorsy so gathers general dirt easily. He seems to end up with as much pen on himself as the paper. He does start each day in fresh clothes and a hygenic state, honest!

I can keep his younger sibling reasonably groomed and fresh faced.

Yanbu. I am constantly in a spin from cleaning up, but been a naturally untidy person. Nothing of mine will ever be perfect. I can scrub the kitchen make a sandwich, I leave all the stuff there and add over the hour and I have to do it again. I never wear white and I am incapable of closing cupboards after I use them, I walk in the kitchen and think a poltergeist has visited close them all, then do it next time I get something. My DC start spotless on the way to school then I see milk or toothpaste on their lips, I give them a lick wipe most mornings

I think hair has a lot to answer for, no matter how clean and well dressed me and DDs are all of us have fluffy curly hair that won't stay looking neat for longer than a couple of minutes! If DDs have been playing they often look like their hair has not even been brushed that day!