I have this perfectly good wicker laundry hamper,

[reyd reid reed]

and it sits in the hallway, close to all the bedrooms AND the bathroom.

So...can someone please explain why it's so difficult to get the laundry in the hamper?

There's a pile of laundry between the kids' rooms (I'm afraid of what's IN the rooms). The hamper's empty.



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edited because I can't code for shit, apparently.

[wildhorses]

1. it requires effort and some thought process

evidently your group has not evolved in these areas:shrug:
give 'em Hell
:hi::hug:

[reyd reid reed]

4. My kids....evolved....

Somehow, those two concepts in the same sentence is just....jarring.

Heh...school's out at the end of the week. I see a laundry strike in the near future.

[bleedingheart]

2. it is all in the training....

put all the dirty stuff back in the drawers...just fold it....when they ask..."why are dirty clothes in my drawers"...tell them ..."well it wasn't in the hamper so it mustn't be dirty"

the plus side of this will be more free time for you....

[reyd reid reed]

5. Heh...I like that...

Only, half the stuff in the hallway is stuff I've already washed and asked them to put away...it's still FOLDED, fer cryin' out loud.

[bleedingheart]

11. if they don't put it away...put it somewhere they won't be able to find it

I don't know the age of these kids but my 10 and 7 year old are required to put their own stuff away. I put it on the couch all sorted and they must put it away or the password protected TV doesn't get turned on....

bwhahahahaha

[reyd reid reed]

13. Yup...mine are supposed to put theirs away, too

I figure, I sort it and haul it downstairs and back upstairs and fold it...the least they can do is put it away. My 16-year-old does his own but the others...drive me crazy. They're 9, 12, and 13.

They're gonna have a loooooong summer 'cause there are some things that are gonna change...

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. Taught hubby a lesson about that...

He thinks it's perfectly OK to just walk out of his underwear and leave dirty clothes strewn all over. I got so disgusted about picking the stuff up that I just left it (should have done it a long time ago!), and the dirty underwear and socks and pants and shirts and...just piled up. He searched high and low one day for a pair of clean underwear, and I said, "You'd have clean underwear if you put your dirty stuff in the hamper." I told him I wasn't a laundry slave (or any other kind of slave, for that matter :P ) and that if he wanted clean clothes, he should either put them in the hamper as soon as he takes them off or do them himself. (I kind of enjoy doing laundry, but only if the dirty stuff is already in the hamper.) He does them himself occasionally, but now the hamper is used by another person besides me. :D

He'd gotten to be a total lazy ass about that stuff, and I'd had enough! The hamper has always been in the hallway within very easy reach. :)

BTW, hubby has to put away his own clean clothes, and that happens about half the time. The other half, the chair beside the bed is heaped with his clean (and wrinkled) clothes. Not my fault. :P

[reyd reid reed]

7. Oooooh....how cool.

Ain't it grand when you really Can teach and old dog new tricks?

:P

[Harley Quinn]

6. It's the laundry's fault...

Happens to me all the time. I pick up every bit of dirty clothes and put them in the hamper. Before you know it, they're everywhere again! They keep muttering something about it being dark in there...honest!

[reyd reid reed]

8. LOL!

Makes PERFECT sense to me. And it would explain a lot. Yesterday I picked it all up and put it in the hamper and it's all over the hallway again...I figure someone was looking for something, but...why would they want something out of that nasty laundry pile that's all smooshed and wrinkled.

GOTTA be the laundry itself.

Now, if I could just train it to get itself down to the washing machine....

[Aiptasia]

9. Strike

My sister has three girls, all teenagers now. I swear those girls would go through five outfits a day and just toss perfectly clean clothes on their bedroom floor instead of hanging them back up.

My sister eventually went on strike, and made laundry a required chore with losses of TV and telephone priviledges. Nothing puts more fear in a teenage girl than the loss of phone priviledges (especially cell phone), so everyone in their household now does their own laundry themselves.

No more laundry on the floor. No more massive laundry mountains.

[reyd reid reed]

10. My daughter's one of the worst offenders...

I can't imagine if I had three of her.

:scared:

Heh...but yeah -- she'd jump through rings of fire to keep from losing the phone.

:)

[jukes]

12. get a cat

they'll DEF climb into the hamper, y your little rrr's will love dumping their sox onto the cat.

[reyd reid reed]

15. Heh...got four of 'em.

The cats just settle in the laundry on the floor.

Strange cats.

When I was growing up, we had a cat who would pee on anything left on the floor. She'd pee on pillows, too, if the bed didn't get made.

Consequently, I learned to pick up my clothes and make my bed.

[jukes]

17. CATS

go figure. it SHD work, but they can foil any plan...

[Dora]

14. Take the lid off.

The lid.... it's too.... heavy.

[reyd reid reed]

16. It's already off. I stepped on it when I went to sort laundry today.

My kids are just lazy slobs. They're gonna learn, though, or my name isn't Mom.

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