Do your teens stuff empty food packets around their room?

[Jasmineforever]

Ds(15) stuffs empty food packets, sweet wrappers etc. Down the back of his bed, under his desk etc. He has a bin but he never empties is so once it's overflowing, he's too lazy to bring it downstairs so just shoved it where ever he feels like it.
It drives both Dh and I mad and we do pick him up on it but where I feel it's normal, irritating teenage behaviour, Dh thinks it's completely abnormal. Who is right? Please tell me about your teens.

There’s no sneaking here just blatant taking. I don’t mind, as long as they bring their pots down!

I was absolutely dreadful for this as a teenager - and my university room was probably an actual health hazard. Good news, though, I've turned into a perfectly normally hygenic adult (by normal standards. I don't wash my sheets and towels enough for Mumsnet...) so I don't think it indicates a life-long slovenliness.

Yup!

how can they lose tech when they paid for it themselves from their wages?

When mine were children, no food upstairs.
Now they are adults, DD has the occasional snack in her room, DS often eats in his room and produces serious debris. Due to the fact it’s my home, my rules and always has been, they are both meticulous about using bins, recycling bins and laundry baskets. Just like they did when they were 4/5. Mind Control and Conditioning.

Yes my teens are gross too.

This thread has made me feel better about how disgusting my teens are. So glad I'm not alone.

My ds who is nearly 12 does this. He has aspergers.

Yes. Although he has a bin RIGHT NEXT TO his computer desk, where he lives, all packets or packaging end up on the floor strewn across the room. I pick my battles though, once a week I go in and bark "this room is a hot mess! Pick up those packets and make your bed!" Then leave for another week.

Yepp normal, annoying and frustrating but normal. Even i did it at that age, its just pure lazyness.

My nearly 13yo does this all the time. For some reason, she keeps shoving empty packets and even dirty plates/bowls into her chest of drawers amongst her clean clothes. I don't know why- we have a relaxed attitude to snacks and she's a healthy weight so she doesn't need to hide that she's eating. And it would be just as easy to put the packets in her bin as putting them in the chest of drawers.

She's banned from eating in her room now.

Yep. One also brews the most spectacular biology experiments too. These are only rivalled by the ones her step brother used to leave for us to discover.

He's not done it for a while, but DSS used to leave uneaten fruit in his bedroom bin, despite being told to put perishable stuff in the kitchen bin.
Commented one day that there were "little flies" in his room, reckoned they were attracted to his tub of scented slime. No, that would be a swarm of fruit flies caused by the bag of now liquefied grapes in the bin!

That's a yes here too. It's usually wrappers from biscuits bought on the way home from school. They nip them upstairs out of my sight in case I make them share.

My nearly 18 yr old takes food to his room all the time and it drives me nuts. Today though a new find of perfectly picked toenails dropped behind settee. There are no bounds to the grossness of teenage boys.

Yes.
My older 2 have outgrown it when they went away to university. 16yr old still does it. It drives me INSANE.

We generally do not allow food in bedrooms, means he needs to come downstairs and speak to us now and again!

Yup my teens are gross too.
Dd is a nightmare but always has been for being messy. Getting ds1 to put stuff in his bin isn't the problem. For some reason NOBODY and I mean NOBODY can see when their bin is full. They don't even have to empty it outside just leave it on the kitchen side ON YOUR WAY OUT THE DOOR and I will empty it wash it out and return it to their rooms.

No because there's no food in the rooms. If food is left in rooms where we live they'd be ants and worse making their home in their rooms. This is the first time tropical creepy crawlies have their advantage .

YES! I could have written the same post as OP! I have just mucked out ds2's bedroom and was disgusted by the wrappers down the back and side of his bed.
Before the sanctimonious "I laid down the law when they were still in the womb" brigade trot smugly back, I did too but at 15 yo with 2 brothers and a single, FT working parent, he's found room to dodge the rules. He was pretty shocked himself, tbh, so I think he's changing his ways.

No food "allowed" in the rooms here either, which is why I presume they stuff the biscuit packet / cake wrapper / crisp packet / etc down the side of the bed, out of sight.