Easter Monday. if its on thebedroom floor it ges binned.

[custy]

i've given them all a heads up.

and i aint shittin' 'em

I wish you'd come round and sort my dh out, he's a hoarding twunt

Good on you custy. Bloody kids. My two little ones wouldn't help yesterday. Know where you're coming from. I was warned on my thread yesterday that it gets worse when they are teens. [sigh]

My Mum used to do this to me I'd get home and find everything in bin bags not in the bin though (I don't think she was that brave!)

clothes - all of it. and i havent got money to buy any more - so i guess they will be wearing the same 2 or 3 items of clothing still actually left in the cupboard.

cd's

games systems

the wires for games systems

this could be very costly. to them

I put a note on the stairs saying 'Management is giving two days notice, that unless items are removed from the stairs, it will be assumed that they are not wanted and will be disposed of accordingly.'

Like bin bag idea v much.

Wires and cables....ds's room covered in them, and none seem to lead anywhere. Like a nest of vipers playing snakes and ladders. What is it with boys and cables?

I possess no cables, that aren't attatched to something. What are they all for???!

Word of warning:- We did it once to our dd (theUrbanDryad) she came home and found her bedroom squeaky clean and empty and full of fresh air since we had opened the window. She got into her room and said "It's freezing in...oh Mum what HAVE you done?". She never forgave us for it during all the years she was away from home and only now after about eight years of separation and alienation she has come round. I'm not saying that it all began with us 'tidying' her bedroom but it played a big part. Best of luck

I used the same system that my mum used - total responsibility for our own rooms. If something is growing or breeding unnaturally (from cups/plates), it was down to us to sort out or live with it. If it smells ... oh well ...

That's what we have doors for - to keep certain things hidden from view!!

I've left it to dd now too. The only washing that gets done is what's in her washing basket - if its not in there - then tough. I do pick up school clothes though.

i would just like to point out that i do harbour a secret resentment to my mum for doing that (though i've almost forgiven you now mum )

she didn't really throw everything away, she just hid it. i'm still a messy person now, so it didn't really acheive anything!!

well. it all went to shit - as per effing usual with my great plans. my youngest son phoned ans asked for an extension to his visit to aunties in hastings - and i thought - shit yeah! stay boy stay.

so that deadline couldnt really keep.

however my eldest did move his stuff off the floor

my youngest when he came home filled 3 bin bags.

the bin men have a job on tomorrow.

the fan belt broke on the hoover

but it was tidy enough for ds to have a friend in? so kinda ok

my own mum used to do the opposite. If she was angry with my brother, when he was 17 or 18 she would go in to his room and trash it herself ie knock everything on the floor, push the mattress off the bed and pull records(!) out of their covers.

Awful woman she was.

Have they tidied yet?