Minnesota!

[Minniechickmama]

When I was growing up there was no magic elf at my house. If I wanted clean clothes I had better do my laundry myself! Same with cooking, cleaning up my room/bathroom and so on. I was blown away in college when my room mate had no idea how to work a washer. He took his laundry home every weekend to his mom.

In 7th grade my boys had to learn to do laundry for their home ec class (now called Family Consumer Science). I have made them do laundry ever since, although the one at home still will forget to put the soap in sometimes and stuffs it so full it won't clean the clothes properly.
My oldest lives in an apartment in Roch. The first batch of roommates drove him nuts because they didn't clean, a guy and a girl. He was so mad one day he called me to rant because he spent 2 hours cleaning their one shared bathroom. The fact that he was so irate made me proud of him. My son at home is a pig here, but at work he is meticulous, ambitious, over the top willing to please. WHAT is that all about???
Daughter has a teenager brain right now. I just discovered she has been shoving trash like candy wrappers and such in the drawers of the coffee table. She is in big doo doo.

 

[Minniechickmama]

When my husband asks, "When is someone going to put away ____?" I say, "Well, you are somebody. When are you going to do it"
My pet peeve...
"Mom, where is the (fill in the blank)?"
Me: "I don't know?, it should be in the ___"
"Can you find it for me?"
There has been some screaming recently over that little scenario. It starts with something like, "How about you get off your lazy ....."

And don't get me started over my charger cables for phones and bluetooth that keep disappearing. I finally tagged them and made it clear the next time they are missing, someone will die.

 

[MixedFlock61]

I live in Howard Lake Mn. I am new to this site.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I live in Howard Lake Mn. I am new to this site.

Welcome! Let us know what you have?

 

[aussiegal318]

When I was growing up there was no magic elf at my house. If I wanted clean clothes I had better do my laundry myself! Same with cooking, cleaning up my room/bathroom and so on. I was blown away in college when my room mate had no idea how to work a washer. He took his laundry home every weekend to his mom.

That is so true. More then once I wouldn't let my son out of the house until he ironed his outfit. Once he got into bootcamp they taught the guys everything including brushing your teeth. DS almost got PT'd because the Drill Instructor thought he was wearing dress fatigues because they were ironed.

 

[aussiegal318]

I live in Howard Lake Mn. I am new to this site.

Howdy!

 

[aussiegal318]

Stopped off at Ralphie's on the way to go hiking at the Sand Dunes State Forest (oxymoron!?) If we weren't going to actually do some physical exercise I would have had that lemonade he was offering. I was great to be personally introduced to the stars of As The Poultry Turns. JJ & Ethel's autograph was a must! Thanks Ralphie. Let me know when you want to make the swap.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

I live in Howard Lake Mn. I am new to this site.

Welcome!!! Good to have you on board!!

 

[duluthralphie]

I live in Howard Lake Mn. I am new to this site.

Welcome to the thread..

Pictures are required here. so post away!




Thanks for stopping by Aussiegal, I can swap anytime. First kind of rainy day works best.

 

[bantiesrule]

I did sort of the same thing I laid a hammer and a pliers on the buffet to see how long they would stay there before someone put them away. They are still there.

I had a friend who wouldn't even touch her husband's tools.
Now, me, they would probably be there until I needed them and then good luck finding where I put them when I'm done with them. Not that I'd loose them, I always knew where they were, I just never seem to get them back to the right place. My husband was pretty much the same so we were always asking each other what the last project was that we might have used such and such a tool on. Worked for us.

eta: That sounds bad...it's not like we left tools laying around outside on the ground or anything like that, we just wouldn't know if the tool ended up in the garage, the house, a shed, a vehicle, a chicken coop, or wherever. We do have alot of duplicate tools for most common stuff, it's just the big stuff that we only had one or two of that we'd have to hunt down.