Dad stuff...

I hung shelves and helped my rug rats organize their room today. They've only been cleaning their room for about 3 years now. I have absolutely no idea why it doesn't get, or stay, clean. Let me explain.

Two weekends ago we cleaned out the closet. Behind every imaginable molecule were stuffed clothes, toys, scraps of paper and weapons of mass destruction, seriously. These kids are bad mutha fuggers, don't mess with 'em.

Anyhow, we had a 'talk' about the clothes. They were deliberately shoved behind stuff instead of having been put in the proper places.

Fast forward seven days...we clean under the beds. No clothes under there, but tons and tons of 'things.' Little stuff, like uber-miniature groceries, millimeter-square scraps of paper and crayon shavings. We cleaned that out and went over where the trash can is, the purpose of the said trash can, the proper proceedure to follow when the trash can is full, and so on.

Fast forward another few days to today. We're hanging shelves, have already removed an entire car load of toys to the Salvation Army (have another load tomorrow, literally), and also removed 6 bags of trash...junk from school, broken stuff, and trashed clothes.

The room is finally in a condition where I can vacuum the floor. I lift the blanket hanging over Brianna's bed and there is a stack of clean, folded clothes.

I have no idea why their room is such a dump! Guess it's time to go back to nightly inspections. What a pain in the ass that is.

So my question is, did you keep a messy room and what did your parents do about it...and did it work?