I am NOT unreasonable, I am quite REASONABLE in fact, but I am RANTNG!!! My blardy daughter.....

[Psychomum5]

......JUST CANNOT KEEP HER ROOM TIDY

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she is 12, she has dancing, drama, stage classes, scouts (and camping like tonight), other lovely things........all I ask s that she keeps her room as tidy as possible, and that when she comes home from camp (like last october......), SHE EMPTIES HER BLOODY BAG!!!!!!

god I am so farking wound up at her, and she went to camp over 2hrs ago now!

she has camp (obviously), and I asked her 3 days ago to sort her room, and start sorting her clothes.

she tells me she did (and to be fair, I should have checked, but I have had a shitty week with DD3 and MIL being in hospital for heart probs culminating in an op yesterday), and I believed her till today.

tell her this morning that I need all her bits for camp so I can pack, and she tells (promises) me that she will do it as soon as she gets in from school. (she gets home at 3pm while I am on the school run for the others, meaning she has 1/2hr spare.....)

anyhoo.....I get home running late and yell for her and DD1 to make sure they are ready for dancing (they also had ballet and stage classes tonight!)......also ask her if the clothes were sorted.

"yes mummy, they are all on your bed, is it okay for you to check and pack for me?".."yes, thats fine" I reply, thinking that it should be fine....

anyway....drop all the girls and DD2's friend at ballet, and return home. only ONE outfir on the bed (she needs 3), and no bag or waterproofs.

of I head to find them, only to have to delve under her pit bed and then find......HER BAG FILLED WITH ALL THE CLOTHES MISSING SINCE LAST OCTOBER, and not only that, they were dirty as well!

(hasten to add tho, she went on camp, and then the day after she came home we had a really bad car accident so she does have a kind of escuse, but still.......3 months

mind boggling at the dirty knockers that Never collected

oh dear duchesse, how embarrassing! Let me see, 2 teenage daughters plus me....yep it's possible!We are trying to reduce water usage!
LOL!

lol at the mis matched pjs! Mine have loads of lovely sets but never wear them matched!

Exactly smartiejakes-both DDs do it-and their favourits? DH's old running T-shirts!

not one of my three wears matching pyjamas. I'm torn between frustration a manic desire to reunite the bloody things all the time, and admiration that they deliberately set out not to match, a sentiment I can only admire (in fact, they've inspired me to mismatch mine...)

I Know what you mean duchesse, there is a certain chutzpah about DD2's attire.....but still have to fight the urge to make them wear a set.
At leats my lovely DD3, aged 8, still wears a matching set of brushed cotton classic gingham jimmies.....love her!

OMG this sounds like my 9 yr old ds......except minus the ballet and stage classes lol....can't imagine him in a tutu lol

lol @ the matching pj thing...I am forever telling ds1 to put on a "pair" of pj's

"put your pj's on"
ok
no no put a pair on
but these will do
i said no put a pair on if i wanted you to wear odd pj's would i buy a pair? No now change into a pair please.

comes back in one of my t-shirts

fgs is that a pair of pj's

no but i don't have to worry about it matching as it is too long for me to worry about wearing trousers under night mum...

GRRRRRRRRRR oh and its me with OCD in this house.hangers have to face same way, cup handles face same way, shoes must be put in pairs, plus many toher things....think dp is happy now we don't use pegs as i had to use all the same coloured pegs until they ran out then move on to the next colour and if i found someone had done it wrong i would take it all off and rehang it with the right coloured pegs.

I'm lucky if mine makes into her pyjamas [slob emoticon]

I have a solution to the PJ problem. Dont bother.
It does get a bit weird though when your naked 10 year old decides to climb into bed with you for a morning cuddle.

I should be thankful then that mine sleeps in her clothes .

lol at the pj thing.....mine at least DO wear matching, altho that may be my OCD tendency's coming out, as I don't hand back mis0matching ones after the wash, and roll the matching ones up for them!!

I am here praising DD1 and DD3 today tho, as they took over the room and DD2's mess that wasn't done before scouts, and tidied for me.......altho that may backfire tomorrow when DD2 returns and finds everything not where she likes it.

What I think is really weird is the the two boys took to night time nakedness really well, but are still prudish during the day. Whereas DD is constantly cold and wears about 6 layers at night but is relaxed about casual nudity.

well, altho mine DO indeed go to bed all matching and lovely, they very rarely wake up that way........the house gets rather warm at night (even if the heating is low too, which for me is fab as I run on cold ALL THE TIME), and so they wake in various stages if nakedness.

and then about 2/3 wks later (or moths as in DD2 case), I pull the bed out to sort and what do I find.......

ABOUT 5/6 PAIRS OF PJ'S. And that is each of them too!!!! (thinkng that makes it sound as tho mine have far too many pj's to cope with now)

I erupted last night, pulled everything out of 12 year old DGD's wardrobe, (she couldnt find her DS, swore it wasn't in her room.

Every item of clothing she had here was scrunched up at the bottom of the wardrobe, Grandad had ironed it all and hung it on the outside of the wardrobe door for her to sort.

Her sorting.............. open the door and fling it in .................

I pulled everything out from under her bed, ands I didn't want to even look what it was, stormed downstairs told her that if sh thought her girly night and shopping today was going to happen till it was sorted she could think again, after much but but but buting, she finally went upstairs, with a black bag.

Thing is we have a cleaner, so she doesnt have to hoover her room or anything, just tidy so that the cleaner can see the surfaces.

AND AT THE MOMENT SHE IS ONLY HERE AT A WEEKEND!!!!!!! How can one child make so much mess in two days!

Saying that when her father moved out of home at 20, I threw every stick of furniture out of his room and fumigated and cleaned the carpets, decorated the lot. He was the epitome of grunge.

Wouldn't mind, but I'm quite houseproud, so they dont get it from me.

oooh....maybe its something in the air then.

I too seem to have made a child who thinks opening a door and throwing things in makes them magically hang themselves up on the empty hangers.

not that I can talk in some ways......my tupperware cupboard is one of those that you open and throw and quickly slam the door befoer in all falls back out at you!!

Psycho lolol same here

Am amazed that you wouldn't have found all the dirty clothes during a snooping session! Am a D/Insp and our household is subject to regular search ops Doesn't make it any tidier!

Arn't Tupperwear cupboard suppose to do that

I went away for a few days once & when I came back there were 18 towels on DD's floor.....all used just once....

I do snoop normally, but that got taken up with DD1's room and the DS's too......and xmas got in the way.

it has been known for them to return from school to find a volcano has erupted in their rooms with all the crap special stuff I find from under the bed

and shoshe......i am not alone

Yeh, what is it about towels, do they think they crawl out of their rooms on their own? And why is it my fault when there are no more in the airing cupboard. Am I the only one who dutifully hangs the towel over the radiator so that it dries ready for someone else to use, until it starts to smell that is.

And why oh why when I have said no sweets in the bedroom do sweet wrappers appear under the bed????????

I hope there is a special place in Hell reserved for people who deliberately resurrect old threads!