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Bin bags are sooooo useful!
How do you manage with untidy bedrooms? The YSD barely stays in her room when she is here at her dad's as the OSD barely even comes here anymore (win win) so she uses her sisters instead. However her bedroom (that she barely stays in) is a mess and refuses to tidy it, because she cant be bothered but she still gets pocket money.. I know, inspirational parenting, right?
The eldest stayed here last night for a place to crash after a party as ber mum and SD were away for the night, she went back this morning. I've just gone to check how she left her little sisters bedroom and she removed everything from the bed to sleep on, and left it all on the floor. Literally just got up and left it as is. It astounds me how these kids have pocket money.. for being gross, lazy and disrespectful.
YSD has just gone out with her pal and she has left her sisters bedroom like a tip with halloween candy all over the bed, bed unmade, curtains closed.. I asked her why haven't you cleaned it and she says... I'll do it later. Their dad is out at the moment so not here to gentle parent as usual.
So I decided I have had enough. I got a large bin bag and picked everything up off the floor, whatever was there is now in a bin bag. Said bin bag is sat on her bed. No longer a huge fire hazard.
God that felt good! Still can't work out how to use smilies on here, ha!
Last edited by LifeIsTough (11/02/2025 9:02 am)
Let them.
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We got storage totes and now use them for a variety of things.
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DH tends to keep stuff that "might come in handy some day" (think dried up, half-used pots of paint, spre parts for appliances we no longer have, etc.) and kept it all in our cellar. Well, the rest of us got sick of looking at it and struggling to find anything in there. So, one Saturday when we knew he'd be out all afternoon, I and my daughters set about filling bin bags of this(mostly) useless crap. We filled 15 50l bags...
Fast forward an hour. I'd just finished loading my car when he arrived and offered to give me a hand with them at the sorting centre. No problem, it was all hidden inside opaque black bags anyway ... So off we set to the sorting centre, declared (vaguely) the contents our load,and were directed to put it in a massive skip for allsorts.
I removed the bags and was about to start heaving them into the skip when the manager turned up and said that I had to empty them first. Gulp. My heart stopped. DH did not help me. I think he was in shock as he watched his precious treasures vanish into the skip, one after the other.
The road home was silent but my daughters found it all hysterically funny when I told them. Since then, the cellar has remained fairly tidy.
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I did not manage untidy rooms because SD's had their own bedrooms. I like your bin solution. That's a good idea.
I did take random items that SD's left in common areas, put them in their bedrooms and closed the door. After the SD's went off to college my younger BK moved into one of their rooms. DH cleaned out that SD's remaining items, she previously announced that she "didn't care about anything" in her room so that made it easier for DH to feel ok about it. We had a long-term guest for a few months and that is how DH had to clean out the other SD's bedroom. Our house is finally SD room free. It's fantastic!
Of course there is the issue of SD's still popping in for stays in our guest cottage. We may be renting that out soon and it will no longer be available to them.
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Chef is a narc hoarder. When I informed him a few weeks back we have to watch the budget now very closely due to the loan funds for rehabbing the 4 family are almost gone, and the fact that walking through the garage was like literally tiptoeing through a crammed obstacle course, he decided to sell a lot of the stuff on Facebook Marketplace.
Which means I clean up the items, post them and handle all the transactions.
It was worth it just to get it cleared out; I may even be able to park my car in the garage this winter!
I think I will pop off a champagne cork if Chef's vintage vehicle body gets out of the garage over to his half brother's house as it has been sitting in the garage for almost 8 years with no work done on it.
We still have to put away the patio furniture and umbrella into the garage and until he gets that crap out of there, there's really no good place to put it.
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Meera, be careful with renting out your cottage. Although that is a great idea to keep SD out, you have to screen like mad! There are so many professional tenants out there now it's incredible.