why do boys, when taking their socks/undies off have to throw them as far as poss!!!

lol .......

My MIL would throw anything that was left on the floor into the garden, often I would find a pile of things lying in the middle of the crazy paving. didnt stop them doing it.

I think I may have posted before, that if my son didn't put his stuff away it was to be found at the bottom of the garden in a bin bag!
He learned very quickly!

bikergran the answer to your question is because they can and because there is probably a doting mother and / or grandmother around to pick up the offending articles. I had a boy and girl and the boy did exactly the same until time to go to school when it had to stop. Education is the key perhaps but boys will always be boys. As for adult boys who do it I would suggest a minimum of 4 years in the Army, Navy or Air Force, that should sort it.

Minibags drops her clothes all over her bedroom, or did until very recently. They don't get washed if she doesn't put them in the laundry basket. She lost her very good winter coat at school – got soaked walking because she'd missed the school bus because she was being chaotic about getting up; left it sopping and probably going mouldy, in a locker for three weeks! I made her pay for it before I bought another cheaper but still good one. That took us into the really cold weather. She knows the score now .

DDs one and two used to lob socks around until I asked them why they were telling me they had no clean socks. Why did I need to know this?

Make 'em do without socks for a day or two. They soon learn, or decide they don't mind going sockless. Whichever... it's their problem and their decision about how to cope. Teaches them that mum isn't their slave too.

I am laughing my socks off at these - an even easier way to do it!

When my son was young, he had a laundry basket and used it! In fact, he liked putting things in there a bit too much [clean things got in as well.]So I never had problems, but my daughters were another matter, they would leave clothes all over the floor for the servant to pick up [me] so it can't be a gender thing. My DG aged 9 flings all his clothes as far as possible.DH leaves his where they fall at night [ie next to bed even though he has a chair to drape them on]but he does put them in laundry basket the next morning.I fold mine carefully on a chair [but then..... I'm wonderful, as DH often tells me, but in a sarcastic kind of way.]

My little GS, age 6 does the sock fling thing. I picked GD up from school today and school had kindly lent her some tights as she had fallen over in a wet playground. She came out looking like Nora Batty, in a pair of tights age 11-12. GD is 4. But as GD said 'at least they are dry.'

Mr P tends to leave his clothes on the floor, and then complains that they are covered in cat fluff

He is also Grand Master of the Combo. This seems to mainly consist of taking off the maximum amount of clothes with the minimum amount of movements or time.

The polo shirt/sweatshirt combo is pretty impressive, but I think his all time best still lies with the jeans/pants/socks. The jeans with the pants still inside them are in a heap with the socks poking out of each leg of the jeans. Somehow it looks as if he has been beamed back to the mother ship and left his earthly casing behind.

I have no idea why boys do this, but I do know that my husband hasn't grown out of it after 65 years!

MiceElf They were brothers – or as I often mistype, bothers.

One of my GSs seems to just keep on wearing them until his mother notices that she hasn't seen any of his smalls in the wash for a week.

Absent were your cats my cat's sisters?

My DGD1s advice to her 5 yr old sister earlier this year before her first PE lesson was 'Never, ever take your knickers off in school!'

lol lol

I am forever picking up boys' socks from behind the sofas, in the flowerbeds, beside the front door, etc. when my grandchildren have visited.

Two of my cats used to remove stray undies from the drying rack in the utility room. The most embarrassing occasion was when they trotted up the hall as a pair with a lacy black suspender belt held between them – and I had a bunch of guests.

No, girls do it too. GD1 lies flat on her back and catapults her socks as far across the bedroom as she can. I think she does it to get a reaction from me, I usually just watch in case it goes behind a chest of drawers. She likes to wind her Dad up but I refuse to be drawn.

I was a reception teacher and it was often quite amusing when the little darlings first got ready for PE. There were always one or two who would quickly strip right down to nothing as if they were getting in the bath - then realise what they had done. They soon learned!
One of the most irritating things was when an item of clothing went missing with NO NAME inside, despite copious requests for labels in clothes. One Mum said her child wouldn't need his name in because he never lost things. WRONG!!!!

lol @ Nonu lol lol...........

My DD is a PE teacher and occasionally gets harangued by parents because children have lost their PE kit!

my two G/S take their kit and fling it around unless MUM & DAD are watching . In fact the youngest hangs his sock on to his willie 1
my two G/D demurely take off their clothes and fold !

Once when staying here my Sil owned up to having accidentally kicked his pants into the open toilet, whilst trying to pick them up with his foot.
They never learn! He is 40.

Oops that should read five year old granddaughter.

My five granddaughter just flings everything off and is always losing bits of her uniform at school. She is capable of dressing and undressing her self and has been for quite a while. I found her to be much more independent than her dad and uncle at a similar age.

On the days I look after her I make her hang her uniform on a hanger and polish her school shoes

MiceElf My first greyhound would raid the washing machine if the door was left open for socks and underwear which he then hid in his bed. Ironically part of his racing name was magpie and he certainly was. It must have been an anxiety thing for him as he doesn't do it any more.

It never occurred to me till now - but husband does that! He flings his socks (rolled into a ball) up the stairs having taken them off at the foot of the stairs. Needless to say, I step over them till they eventually find their way into the laundry bin. Once, they ricocheted off the doorjamb and landed up in the loo (door was open).