The house can go from ok to loads of stuff just left out everywhere on the floor, on kitchen sides, on table, on bedroom floor in 24 hours. Not from me, from my child. Who's 12 now so it's not like she's little. She doesn't ever seem to put anything away after herself. I am very far from being someone who needs a perfectly tidy house but I just want an ok house. A house where people do put the away after themselves. It makes me feel stressed and like I can't relax.
I refuse to do it myself, all the stuff she's left out because she should be putting it away herself and obviously needs to learn.
So I leave it till she does it. But she finds it overwhelming and if I just say tidy up, she's inevitably do half then say it's done. So we've come up with me doing a list of all the little things that need putting away so she can follow it and tick it off. But obviously that's more work for me. But it's best out of the options because at least it gets done then by her.
My head feels full.