I'd forgotten what it's like!!

I stayed at home the summer I turned 18, my parents went on holiday with my younger brother and sister.

I was looking forward to having the house to myself; however, my Grandma fell out with one of her neighbours and ended up having to come and stay with me!

I'm afraid I carried on as planned, and took her "for a walk" ie to the pub with me.
Once she got over that shock (she was teetotal) she sat at a table chatting with some sailors on leave and had a whale of a time 🤣

When my parents came home they were flabbergasted 😂

A friends daughter was very untidy when she lived at home . After she got married here house was spotless. When challenged about this her reply was " Well this is different this is my house " .

Mine changed her ways when working onboard ship.
Space at a premium.

Floradora9

A friends daughter was very untidy when she lived at home . After she got married here house was spotless. When challenged about this her reply was " Well this is different this is my house " .

Oh yes, I remember when we stayed with DD at her first flat and left a few things around.

😲 "What a mess" she said as she came home and we said "we're just getting our own back" 😁

kittylester

Crikey, lighten up everyone. My grandchildren can make as much mess as they like so long as they come to stay.

I taught my children about tidiness, I want to enjoy the company of my grandchildren not become their parents.

This!

Mind you, my granddaughters are tidier than I am. 😂

When we left DD at home when we were overseas for a couple of months we came home to an immaculately tidy and clean house.
We were astonished, knowing she was not the tidiest of people. Then she confessed that her brother's fianceé had come round and helped her clear up and clean before we came home 😁

It looks like a bomb has fallen in our house after our 2 grandsons have left, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. We love having them here. In a year or so they will be off with their friends and I will remember the happy chaos.

A tale from a distant acquaintance about leaving her 18yo home alone. Her dd went out that evening, having done her hair and make up and all the rest. She came home in the early hours and was then rudely awakened at about 5am by a couple of burly firefighters in her bedroom, which was filled with smoke.

It turned out she’d used some sort of styling wand to do her hair in her parents bedroom but had failed to turn them off. She didn’t notice anything when she got home but a neighbour who was up in the middle in the night saw flames in the window and called the fire brigade out.

She wasn’t allowed to be home alone for quite some time after that. 😳😳😳

I so hope my grandchildren will want to stay with me, enjoying old films, when they are older. I wouldn't mind the mess at all (my eldest daughter only had to walk in a room and things would throw themselves onto the floor as she passed through).
Make the most of it Tanith, you can clean to your hearts content when your lovely gd has returned home

Thankyou 😊

I bet you’re having a great time with her! Enjoy tanith.

my eldest daughter only had to walk in a room and things would throw themselves onto the floor as she passed through
😂😂😂
I love that, must remember it Grannyben

tanith it is lovely you get on so well together and can sit down to watch a film you both enjoy.

The week will fly past and next week you can clean to your heart's content.

My daughter and her three children came back to live with us for a couple of years, she is really messy, so the children just think it’s normal.
I could have spent every hour of everyday yelling at someone, but that would only have been a different type of hell, so I just shut the doors on their bedrooms, luckily they had their own bathrooms, so I just tried not to stress.
when I realised that my nagging wasn’t getting anywhere I hired a cleaning company, which eased the strain.
Eventually they moved out, but my teenage granddaughter stayed on, and I don’t think in three years I’d had any influence on her at all.

I’d go a bit ape over bits of shaved hair everywhere! Rinse it off!!

What I don’t miss from teen/early 20s dds at home, is the several bottles of shampoo/conditioner/shower gel in the other bathroom, with just a bit left in the bottom, because they couldn’t be bothered to turn it upside down and use it up.

Not to mention my missing moisturisers/deodorant etc., which they ‘borrowed’ and forgot to put back….

Re bedrooms, dh used to despair at the state of theirs - he said that if we ever moved he wouldn’t bother with wardrobes or chests of drawers for them - the ‘floordrobe’ was evidently enough.
I used to tell him just to shut the door and not look. I’d be the one to retrieve 4 mugs with mouldy dregs of tea, fossilised apple cores, bowls with Ready Brek dried on like cement, etc., though.
Happy Days! 😂

One of my GD was so very messy (even dirty), in her own bedroom in the family home. My daughter used to get so angry with her, as (against the rules) she would leave food lying around amongst all her clean and dirty clothes. Twice in less than ten years her bedroom carpet had to be thrown out due to its condition.

At 18 years this young lady (who had left school and was working), announced she was getting her own flat. She moved in just few days after that birthday only a few hundred yards from the family house. One bedroomed flat own front door.

My daughter's main concern was how she would keep it. Before she moved in it had been done up, freshly painted and new carpet throughout by the landlord. I went out a bought a whole box full of cleaning materials!!!!

Signs were there even during moving in process. She had put down cardboard to protect the light coloured carpet. A piece had moved and a small mark appeared. Even whilst we were having a break from moving things in, she got down on her knees to clean this mark.

The flat is always beautifully clean and tidy. Cannot believe it is the same person. Even when she has friends staying with her, they have to obey her very strict rules about keeping it tidy.

She has now been there several month

my eldest daughter only had to walk in a room and things would throw themselves onto the floor as she passed through
Love this, grannyben 😅

It reminded me of something my mother said when I came home from uni after my first term: "You've only been in the house half an hour and it's already full!" The six other people in the house apparently didn't fill it 🤔

My kids (and grandkids) are like snails - they leave a visable trail of belongings and mess wherever they go - in my house. In their own spaces, though, they're incredibly neat and tidy.

I was the same at home (the cleaner refused to 'muck out pigsties') but reformed when I moved out aged 17. It's only when the chaos reflects badly on you, personally, that you suddenly care.

my eldest daughter only had to walk in a room and things would throw themselves onto the floor as she passed through

... sadly this happens to me.
I used to blame it on the children - but since they don't live here anymore it's obviously me... (must just happen when I look away) ... and it's not just the floor... it's on all flat surfaces, everywhere!

I used to.say my daughter had a little cloud of chaos that followed her around😅 water bottles, tissues, plates, bowls all.left wherever she sat, and don't get me started on hair ties
She's at uni now and I do miss her but I don't miss the mess 😅

SueDonim

When she’s got her own home you can visit and make an unholy mess there, Tanith.

I wish it worked like that. My DD was an absolute shocker, at home and at uni, but if I put a foot down in the wrong place in her house, though she says nothing to me, it’s all there in the body language! Everyone else gets burnt to a crisp🔥😁!!

I'm afraid I'm the "leave things alone and do a blitz when I feel like it" sort of cleaner. So my GD aged 10comes round sometimes and says "You done a tidy-up!". She has been told anytime she wants to come round and lend a hand she's very welcome.

My two girls were nightmares when living at home as teens. Despite my nagging they didn’t improve. But when they got their own places things changed! They are immaculately neat, clean and tidy now as adults so something I said must have paid off. My son has always been a clean/tidy freak but his fiancée with whom he lives is less so. And it drives him mad! However I live alone these days in a well ordered home and would give anything to have those chaotic days back again! I just have to wait until my GC come to stay and then it descends into chaos (and a bit of nagging) once more!