DS18 has fetid pot noodles, crisp packets, entire packs of eaten choc biscuits, stinky underwear & sweet wrappers all dumped on his floor;
DS16 has a variant with smelly orange peel, crisps, energy drink cans, all my dinner plates;
DS13 leaves all his clothes, wet towels, sweet wrappers on his floor.
When oh when do they 'get' that it's unhygienic, dangerous & that if they were in a private or council rent, they'd be thrown out for not keeping their flat clean!
Why do think it's ok to keep it like that, even though I ask until I'm blue in the face for them to just take a bin bag up, fill it, put it out?
How long do I wait before I just clear it all myself (thus teaching them that if you wait long enough, a female will do it).
It sickens me to think they feel it's acceptable. I'm one of 3 sisters and we were messy but not downright filthy dirty & living in squalor. It can't just be a 'boy thang' surely?
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Oddoneout63 · 13/02/2016 21:12
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