gloryjoy
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Jun 26, 2014 12:35:32 GMT
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Post by gloryjoy on Jul 22, 2014 12:09:11 GMT
That's kind of gross, and kind of funny.
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Post by rumplesnat on Jul 22, 2014 12:10:23 GMT
If you would've said that was a pic of my 14 year old son's room, I would have believed it. The stashes I have found over the past 6 years or so have been astonishing and enraging.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 22, 2014 12:15:15 GMT
It isn't even stuff. Younger DS had stuff under his bed, stuffed animals, shoes, clothes he didn't want to put away. Older DS, it is mainly trash. Trash he could have just put in the trash (gasp) instead of sliding between the mattress and the frame to shove it back there. I think it took more energy to hide it than it would have to throw it away. It's not more effort to 'dispose' of it that way if they are 'camped out' on their bed with phone/computer/ iPod they just shove it between the mattress and the wall and it eventually ends up on the floor under the bed. No effort needed. The garbage pail is, after all, all the way across the room! Don't sake me how I know this.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jul 22, 2014 12:16:07 GMT
This is gross and also completely what I would find with my 12 year old DS. His room is a mess. I make him clean it every once in a while and I think he takes all the trash out.
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Post by nesser01 on Jul 22, 2014 12:37:53 GMT
That is cleaning "boy style"! Definitely! My son is 8 and he started "cleaning" this way.
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anniebeth24
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Post by anniebeth24 on Jul 22, 2014 12:42:34 GMT
You are not alone. I have one kid like this, but it's my girl. . . ack.
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Post by shevy on Jul 22, 2014 12:44:27 GMT
Um, this is how myu husband cleans off the kitchen table. He piled EVERYTHING into a box and shoves it under the extra bed. I learned the hard way after I had to reorder bills sent to me to be paid. I've come to realize that he and I have different ideas of cleaning.....
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Post by MommyofTriplets on Jul 22, 2014 12:45:17 GMT
Ack!
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Post by reedina on Jul 22, 2014 12:46:39 GMT
This made me chuckle, bc my youngest fella's room can get just like that! Boys can be so gross.
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Post by anonrefugee on Jul 22, 2014 12:46:44 GMT
Sorry, another one you literally LOL'd. And made a vow to grab boy and look under his bed when we get home.
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Post by doxielady on Jul 22, 2014 12:47:16 GMT
That photo just made my day!!! I thought my son was the only one!! Thank you - I feel SO much better now.
The trash I would find under his bed was insane. And the rest of his room...well, it all matched. But he knew if I had to go in and clean it - there was no telling what would stay and what would be tossed.
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sweetpeasmom
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Jul 22, 2014 12:49:00 GMT
Kids really baffle me sometimes. Mine do odd stuff like this too.
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Post by mikklynn on Jul 22, 2014 12:54:18 GMT
Flashback! That is exactly the kind of thing my son would do. And now, his daughter! When he gets mad at his DD, I just laugh.
I seriously could not wait to attack his room when he moved out.
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Post by ihaveonly1l on Jul 22, 2014 12:56:15 GMT
My 14 year old seems incapable of throwing away Gatorade bottles. He has a ledge in front of his windows that he stacks them on. My husband and I assume he's planning for college- you know you always see that one dorm window with beer cans stacked in it.
Good luck with that mess...
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Post by joyfromny on Jul 22, 2014 13:00:23 GMT
WOW!
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Post by phoenixcov on Jul 22, 2014 13:04:43 GMT
My DS was a bit of a slob with the under bed stuff so once I messed with his head a bit. There was a couple of girlie type magazines there so I swapped them for some of my gardening mags. He never said a word, but under the bed stayed clear after that. I swapped the magazines back several weeks late. Bad Mum
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 13:27:00 GMT
My 13 YO DD does this too. It's not quite as bad, but I have to keep reminding her not to do this or we'll get ants in her room.
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Post by Miss Ang on Jul 22, 2014 13:34:51 GMT
Boys are so gross. My 15 yr. old sits on his bed to play video games and has a tv tray and a garbage can right near him. I'm talking very close; like an arms length. Every evening when I walk into his room it is inevitable that I will find a drinking glass (we have Tervis tumblers w/ lids) at least one snack wrapper of some sort, dirty socks, gum wrappers, a cough drop wrapper or two along with a pair of shorts and usually a plastic soda bottle or a soda can. That is all from ONE DAY! I make him pick it up and I'll be darned if the exact same situation isn't repeated the next day. One would think he would want to stop hearing me gripe at him day after day about the same thing, but I guess not. What is it with boys putting their garbage or drinking cups where they belong?
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Judy26
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Post by Judy26 on Jul 22, 2014 13:37:50 GMT
I am singing it with you, sister! Praise be the slovenly son, for he shall marry and drive another woman mad. Or in my case, he will speak in the language of "I think I'm going to join the Navy." and have his parents rolling on the floor gasping for breath at the thought.
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Post by phoenixcov on Jul 22, 2014 13:48:35 GMT
Just think of the revenge you can have in the future when the stories "when you were young" crop up. My DS is 34 and denies the magazine incident ever happened. I have witnesses.
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AgnesDeux
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Post by AgnesDeux on Jul 22, 2014 13:50:27 GMT
You are not alone. I have one kid like this, but it's my girl. . . ack. My girl too. And she's going to college this fall. I fear for her roommate....
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Post by snappinsami on Jul 22, 2014 13:55:10 GMT
I'll admit, that made me LOL. I've found all kinds of things when I've been brave enough to poke around in DD's (13) room. Empty cake frosting containers. Candy bar/snack wrappers. But the all-time grossest thing happened when we were moving last month, and thankfully it was DH who found it. Her bed had been a daybed (with a trundle) that had it's long end against a wall. Carpet on the floor. Well, when her bed was removed, DH found HUNDREDS of contact lenses on the floor behind it. Apparently, she was taking them out in bed and then just dropping them behind the bed. (Of course, the trashcan was at the foot of her bed. I'm sure it would have killed her to reach over there.) On the one hand, I'm glad she was taking them out. But still, GROSS!
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~Susan~
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Post by ~Susan~ on Jul 22, 2014 13:56:35 GMT
Not just a boy thing, my girls do it to. Drives me ! [HASH]$% insane!!!
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 22, 2014 14:03:29 GMT
It is the same gene that prevents them from changing the toilet paper roll. Mine will use a new roll and place it on the floor beneath the holder with the empty roll. OMG DH does this. He puts the new roll on top of the empty. I once refused to change it thinking he would. Nope, it stayed there until it was too small and then it went on the contents above
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Post by I-95 on Jul 22, 2014 14:06:06 GMT
I love this thread!!!
Thank God I am not the only person in the world who has raised a son who identifies more with pigs than with humans!!
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Post by Scrappyhappy on Jul 22, 2014 14:07:29 GMT
My daughter did this! Yuck, yuck, yuck!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 14:10:04 GMT
[quote author=" mama2three" source="/post/85983/thread" timestamp="1406028725"The granola bar wrappers tucked in every crevice around the house - yeah, I caught my kids doing that too. They didn't think I'd notice the bars were eaten. Um, the package of 60 is nearly empty and I just bought it 3 days ago![/quote] Here, too. Grrr. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Post by PinkPrincess77 on Jul 22, 2014 14:12:20 GMT
One day we looked in our cabinet and literally had NO bowls. So DH went up to older sons room and guess what we found? ALL of our bowls and EIGHT drinking glasses. Disgusting. Now we ask him every night to empty out his room of all of our dishes and his trash.
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IAmUnoriginal
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Jul 22, 2014 14:13:09 GMT
I was the messy room kid. Holy cow, it was bad. You son's mess is something I can relate to. My Dad just had his limit where he couldn't take the clutter and crap anymore. My mom wasn't a housekeeper and it drove him nuts. He was determined to break my messiness. Every now and again, he'd show up at the door of my room and declare it was time to clean. You'd think I'd learn, but I didn't. I didn't even fully learn after he cleaned my room Dad-style, although it never got super bad ever again. More like organized chaos than straight up Hoarders Jr.
The kids' rooms were on the 2nd floor of my parents' house. Dad went into my room, made my bed, left my dresser alone because I did maintain that nicely enough. But, then he grabbed his big dust mop and all the crap on the floor and under my bed and piled on top of my nightstand was shoved out my bedroom door, across the playroom that was in the middle of my room and my brothers' room and down the flight of stairs that lead to our room. There was a pile of absolute disorganization that filled the landing at the 90 degree turn in the stairs and my Dad sitting at the top of the flight of stairs. Crap! My room was cleaned out -- Dad-style.
To make matters worse, my Dad has cerebral palsy. He gets around ok but has a significant limp, balance issues and only partial use of his right arm. Going down stairs is a pain for him as he holds the railing cross body with his left arm and deals with the limp caused by his affected right side. So, Dad wasn't going anywhere until that flight of stairs was safe for him to navigate. I had to work fast (the man was hungry after "cleaning" my room), but I also had to do it right. He was watching me like a hawk. I had to sort trash from keep, and I had to run the keep back up to my room and put it in a logical spot. If it wasn't logical, he'd stop me midway down the stairs and make me go back in my room and try again. Then, he'd get thirsty because I was taking too long, so I'd have to go get him something to drink since it wasn't safe yet for him to pass. Then, I'd have to take his glass back to the kitchen. Work a little. Then, he'd want a snack...on a plate. Then, I'd have to take the dish back. See how devious his punishments could be???
The good news -- I outgrew it. I still have a higher tolerance for clutter than some, but it's much lower than it was in my early teen years.
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Post by aljack on Jul 22, 2014 14:14:29 GMT
Good times finding this! I was cringing for you. Mine is 17 and it is candy wrappers mixed with papers. I am easily grossed out by things like this and so is DH. DH took the dust ruffle off the bed because we have direct vision under his bed when walking up the stairs.
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