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To leave plates in a bedroom for a month?

6 replies

MoaningMeowing · 07/07/2021 15:29

My little sister (18) currently lives in my spare bedroom.

Generally she's ok to have around the house but she's either really helpful around the house or an absolute slob; depending on how she's feeling that week.

She left two weeks ago to spend the summer living at her friend's uni house at the other side of the country. Before she left she was under strict instructions to clean, tidy up and change the bedsheets. She managed to hoover the carpet by lifting the pizza boxes onto the bed and then back onto the floor. The sheets were changed the night before she left but she got make up all over them. There's probably half the kitchen up there probably growing a new variant. I could never have any guests up there as she literally pushed everything to the side with everything she decided not to take on the floor!

AIBU just to close the door and give her quite a shock when she gets home? She is coming home to visit for the weekend in a couple of weeks but I very much doubt she'll be wanting to spend one of those two days cleaning her room?

Is it also bad that anything she's left thrown across the house has now been thrown onto her bed/floor?

OP posts:
GiantHaystacks2021 · 07/07/2021 15:34

DO it.

Happylittlethoughts · 07/07/2021 15:35

Close the door. Leave it for her to clean one her days home.

ginghamtablecloths · 07/07/2021 15:35

I wouldn't blame you. It sounds like she's taking the proverbial and expecting someone else to tidy up after her, namely you.

You could say to her that you don't care how she's feeling that week she's old enough to pick up after herself - but be prepared for her to stay elsewhere if that attitude doesn't meet with her approval. OTOH she may be quite happy to sleep in a shit pit. That's teenagers for you.

FrenchBoule · 07/07/2021 15:41

Your —not so— little sister is an adult and should be able to pick up after herself.
Leave the mess for her to deal with.

Very disrespectful

FunTimes2020 · 07/07/2021 15:43

She may be younger than you but she's not a "little sister". She is an adult who needs to clear up her own mess Hmm

BarbaraofSeville · 07/07/2021 15:47

You could always feign ignorance and pretend you haven't been in there while she was away.

Leave it and act all surprised if she says anything about the mess/smell when she finds it.

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