Laundry wars - gloves off!

[BuzzLightbulb]

Right, had enough of the battlefield bedroom. Haven't had a single school shirt in the wash this week and am not going looking for them.

If the two girls want to live like mingers they can. I'm emptying their laundry baskets today, ignoring the pile of wet towels on top and washing everything.

From now on they wash whatever they want cleaned. And they can learn how to remove several days of ground in foundation from their blouses themselves.

16 yr old has had it too easy too long, and 14 is easily time to start doing stuff for herself.

What odds do you give me??

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

All three DSs are generally quite good about putting all dirty clothes into the laundry basket, but DD has slobbish tendencies and leaves her dirty knickers & socks in various places in her bedroom, which I think is disgusting. She is only 9; I am not looking forward to her reaching adolescence or seeing how she deals with menstruation.

[BuzzLightbulb]

Ok, so all laundry baskets emptied yesterday.

Today dds2 basket over flowing. She causes fight with older sister over stealing clothes cos has nothing to wear.

Time to introduce the washing machine.

So there's a load in, snd washed. Still in there though. Wondering how long it will take for her to work out it needs to dry st some point.....

[ToffeeOwnsTheSausage]

survivingthechildren - I stopped washing for DS1 after him not doing what I had asked and he wasn't bothered at all. I can't remember what happened but I did end up washing it all but now you have posted I am going to do this again I he doesn't start behaving.

I keep threatening to go on strike and do the bare minimum but I always cave.

[RandomMess]

Dh & I laughed hysterical when dd2 - 11 turned up in our room one morning declaring she had no clean pants...

[AtiaoftheJulii]

I set my lot a half term challenge - find the matching socks! Started the week with 41 odd socks, and asked them to search their bedrooms thoroughly ... Have ended the week with about 22 odd socks still, but 28 pairs that didn't previously exist, lol! So another partial success

I said on another thread recently that I got fed up with 6 loads of washing suddenly appearing each weekend when I nagged them to sort their rooms out. So about 3 weeks ago I said they had to put away clean clothes, put dirty stuff in the laundry, and bring any washing up out of their rooms - every day as soon as they got home from school, with the threat of no internet and no gadgets till it was done. They were a bit put out at first, but once they realised it only took about three and a half minutes, they've done it without complaint (though not always without reminding, lol!) since. I'm wondering why I didn't do it years ago! Hopefully if we can just do it for a bit longer the habit will stick securely.

[TheresNoMeWithoutYou]

My lot aren't too bad. I have a 3 times rule. Wear no more, no less than 3 times. Bites me on the backside if they get something maukit on the first wear but if I notice I just get them to change. Bit young yet to do their own unfortunately.
Your title made me laugh. I put gloves on to dive into the laundry. What the hell is is about skid marks? They hit age 11 and forget how to wipe their backsides.

[nooka]

My children (14 and 13) do their own washing. dh taught them last summer and they've been doing it ever since. Sometimes they run out and then dd nicks my stuff and ds wears his jammies all day (at the weekend obviously) both of which are mildly annoying, but not really a big deal. dh washes our stuff and sheets/towels at the weekend, which is also when we clean the house (children included) so the kids have to strip their beds and fish out the multiple towels they seem to acquire through the week. dh does yell at them when the towel wash gets excessive. I thought I might buy them both a couple of colour coded towels and put the rest of them away.

Neither go to a uniform school which helps, and we have big North American machines so can wash a lot of clothes quite quickly.

[BuzzLightbulb]

Well, dsd2 cleaned her room on Saturday and put a pile of washing in the laundry basket. I told her I wasn't doing it, so she was shown how to use the machine.

Sunday comes, mild strop when she discovers she has to dry her clothes as well! So unfair!

This morning, bedroom has towels on the floor again, underwear thrown into her bathroom as usual.

Dsd1 asks where her favourite school blouse is this morning so tonight she will be loading the machine too!