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Teenagers

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Leaving lights on

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AnyFucker · 15/10/2016 12:31

A small thing but part of a bigger picture of thoughtlessness, laziness and downright inability to take any responsibility.

Several times a day I am switching lights off that have been left on. I hear the two teens go in a room, even in broad daylight and the light is switched on and left on.

Me and DH leave early for work, we come back to find several lights in the house left on all day.

Repeated nagging, appeals, warnings etc are having no effect. There is other low level annoying thoughtlessness too (nothing out side of normal teen behaviour, I accept this) but this is Getting My Goat

I am seriously considering splitting the electricity bill into three and charging them but DH thinks that is unreasonably drama llama. (one works FT and pays board and the other is at college)

What does everyone else do ?

OP posts:
gerryraffles23 · 20/02/2017 17:50

I know you thought I was a troll and commented on my thread to warn people to not 'feed [me]'. I don't know what you think now. But allow me to say that this is one of the biggest non-problems ever. Do you really want to be the guy splitting the monthly bill for your 40W energy savers with your three children? The mind boggles.

Ellarose85 · 23/02/2017 13:14

Oh my word, some of these posts could be written about my DP... he's 37.

Hopefully he will realise why I'm always nagging at him when our DCs are teenagers!

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