Tidying up

Mine sits on the stairs waiting to be carried up. I split it into piles belonging to each wearer. I only carry my own up now, as I need to hang on to the rail, and have noticed that sometimes DS's pile can teeter alarmingly before he gives in and carries it up.

Mine sits on the dining room table as well until I spot the cat edging closer with a kind of, 'That looks like a cozy place for an afternoon snooze' look in her eye.

Petra, if you don`t like the clutter of ornaments, it`d drive you dotty in my house, I love my ornaments! One of my daughter`s is a minimalist, she hates my ornaments with a passion! When I`m no longer here, the only one of my kids who`s interested in them is youngest son, and only because they might be worth something!

I asked middle GD then just four and her friend to put the dolls away they had been playing with. GD sat down and said "I'll watch."

When I was babysitting, youngest GD then 2 had just woken from her afternoon sleep. I went into her bedroom as I got her out of bed I asked what she would like to do and her answer, "pack up." She wanted to put the toys away she had previously left on her bedroom floor. What two year old does that?

My MiL and SiL can't leave the house until they've " got turned round"
I'm not particularly untidy but this " getting turned round" always eluded me.

Faye I think it's an age thing. The only one of my five grandchildren who spontaneously puts away the Mega Blocks, Lego, train set, jigsaw puzzles, Lunch Box game and sundry other toys in the toy boxes is the two-year-old. The others will do it only if I shout (or much better grandmother) promise a "good boy" or "good girl" stamp for the backs of their hands – I have a set of six different colours and pictures. There's still one child who likes to watch the others doing the work.

Oh yes - the piles on the stairs! They do reduce gradually but then there is always something new added!

I asked DGS then about 4 to pick up his toy cars from the lawn before the lawn was cut. He went and sat on the bank and gazed at his toys with an agonised look on his face then put his head in his hands and sat there for 20 minutes. Eventually, when he heard the lawnmower coming and realised that I wasn't going to pick them up for him for him, he stomped around and picked them up.
Is it a 'man thing'?

Scary in a 4 year old roseq!

Just stubborn! Takes after SIL of course!

Whereas I was just being strong-minded and not giving in and running to help him

A couple of you have mentioned ironing in the dining room and, left on the bottom of the stairs.
Am I the only one who Irons in the bedroom? It seems the obvious place to me. As there is only the two of us, what I iron gets put in the wardrobe/drawers straight away.

Am I the only one who puts the ironed stuff into the airing cupboard?
Then eventually (sometimes) it gets transferred to drawers, wardrobes.

April I know exactly what your MIL and SisIL mean! And I love the phrase "got turned round". If I don't get 'turned round' before I go out, I just know I won't do it when I get back.

Things get lost in airing cupboards rose. And then you have to turn the whole sodding flippin' cupboard out to find it. Sigh.

(I am being polite with the not swearing because CariGNHQ is reading the thread)

But it's great when you find things again!

Guess what I've been doing this morning. Tidying!
Just in case any of you popped in for and [cake]

But one person's tidy could be another person's mess.
And as a consequence the ironing didn't get done.

Cari that's the problem with all today's princesses (and princes) they think we have been put on this earth to pick up after them.
Is she called Kevin? ' I have to do everything round here'

"I have to do everything round here!" that's what I shout at husband, fairly often.
Now I know I'm not alone.
Yesterday he said he would make a list for me of all the jobs I do, some weekly, some daily, some 3 times a day etc. Then make another list for himself.
He's good at tidying up though.

Bedroom 4 is Kate the cleaner's domain, it has all junk stored items, flat bed press, iron and ironing board and anything I want out of the way when I have the rabble Gransnet visitors!

At least it's all in one room Galen

I have given in now.
The is out

The conservatory is where all the toys get stored here, along with my wool stash and other craft projects which are around twit things.