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Submitted by meneran on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:15am

At the beginning of our lives together, I used to clean the house every Thursday (big cleaning) so it would be clean for the little prince. I noticed, the house would ofcourse be clean until Friday, then on Sunday when the prince left, it would be like a pigsty. Especially bathroom.

Now i dont bother any more. I think the house is the messiest at the time he arrives. I wait till Sunday morning (midday) until he is finished with bathroom, then i start cleaning it... and the rest of the house!

How do you do it? Do you even bother?

I used to wash his sheets each week, now hes lucky if its once a month (he is eow now).

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Submitted by Auteur on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:20am

I used to clean on the weekends regardless because I didn't want to stare directly at the guilt parenting going on. It was like looking directly into the sun, you HAD to turn your head. Cleaning and gardening were good diversions for me.

It's very hard to hear "What is it Buuuuuuudddddyyyy" in a syrupy sweet voice over the vacuum cleaner. Or "dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad" over the sound of the rototiller.

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Submitted by amelie on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:51am

Upholstery Cleaning
Awesome looking website. I recently built mine and I was looking for some design ideas and you gave me a few. May I ask you whether you developed the website by youself?

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Submitted by somerg on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:42am

sunday's are my house cleaning days-with or without kids. the skids used to leave their dirty clothes "hidden" in their room like in closets or under bed's and not really "clean" anything so i finally made dh make them take all clothes home and now they have to pack back and forth, when i find clothes in their room (trying to sneak stuff over so they don't ahve to pack eowe-i sneak their clothes into their take home bags)=they hate that }:)

as a family, we start on one end of the house and we ALL move to the other end and we focus on their bedding or any "laundry" that stays at hour house for the begining of the day so they can't use the "mom's here" excuse to not finish doing their part.

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Submitted by meneran on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:51am

So they help you clean actually? I think the prince would lose his crown if he so much as folded his pyjama Biggrin

Btw, BM has called and bitched about the fact that the kid just throws his clothes at home ... so maybe she trains him finally, after 10 years....

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Submitted by somerg on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:54am

yeah they help clean cause they got tired of me throwing away all their sh!t

i will NOT play that game even bm has told them IN FRONT OF ME to make sure they do their chorse at our house so i don't throw away any more of HER stuff she let's sd 14 wear. she meant that as an insult to me but i took it as a compliment telling me that SHE was admiting i have control over HER AND HER KIDS at MY house

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Submitted by somerg on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:12am

could you not take them off her mattress and pile them up on her bed and when she asks why her room is torn up tell her to wash her sheets before bed, and dont give her a fresh set until they are folded and put away? and if she just throws them on the floor or remakes the bed with dirty sheets take her mattress away? that's how far i'd take it.

lost count how many times my skids lost their beds due to that crap

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Submitted by somerg on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:55am

o that's right...i remember that post

got to be some way to put the smack down.

something i do, when skids refuse to keep clean (they are not taught proper SELF hygene at home)...i refuse to take them anywhere, if dh wants us all to go somewhere, he knows he has to enforce them to be clean and i refuse to go if they are not to MY standards which are much higher than they are being taugh...some think this is unfair, but in some cases on this web site, them reaching REALLY high standards once a year is fair enough rofl

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Submitted by somerg on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:59am

i also play "reverse phycology with them" they have learned if they VOLUNTEER for a chore they just MAY NOT have to do it.

i'll say, "dishes need to be done, who's up for it?" sometimes the volunteer gets to do it, sometimes they don't, they never know which way i'm going to go with it i sometimes don't know until the words come out of my mouth.....WORKS LIKE A CHARM

if say sd14 volunteer's but dd and sd 13 dont' then sd 13 and dd get to do the chore, so sometimes it's a race to see who will volunteer first. Wink

I LOVE THAT havn't had to do that in a while though but it's nice when i do

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Submitted by BellaMia on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:03am

DH and I created a chore list for SS11 because he's with us during the school year. He doesn't do ANY of it unless he is told by DH. I gave up reminding because it's actually less stressful for me to do it. I just try to focus on the fact that he'll be gone this summer.

DH and SS are both less than tidy. SS is especially filthy. I honestly don't think he washes his body, let alone his room/bathroom.

As far as common areas (family, living, and game rooms), I keep those clean in order to keep myself somewhat sane.

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Submitted by somerg on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:05am

i hear taht and i guess the "volunteer reverse phyc" wouldn't work if there's only one kiddo but if you have more than one, do the volunteer thing...it may help then you can argue then start volunteering and MAYBE you wont have to do it

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Submitted by purpledaisies on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 11:03am

I don 't clean! My kids and skids do! Hey if they are going to mess it up they can clean it!

I do do laundry though!