Storage

Your kids must be related to my son. He has plenty of places to put things, but I am always finding them next to or on top of where they actually go.

I just do not know. I get the same results from my hubby. I am not particularly neat, but I am neater than I used to be. When I first met hubby, his favorite sister told me he was a slob. His youngest sister just says he is unbothered by clutter. I just know that if there is a flat surface in my house, he covers it with something. My small rant. My two kids, on the subject of shoes, were very good about the rule of where to put shoes if they took them off downstairs. It was out by the front entrance. However I could not get some of the child care kids to comply. This was an important thing, since I never knew when I would have to go run an errand, and not only would we have to get ready, we would have to look behind furniture and under chairs, hoping to find those shoes. For your kids, would a bribe, er, reward work? Give them a sticker or a penny or something each time you randomly check and the shoes are in the correct place? I will never fathom how their minds work.

It is all part of the joys of having children. They just don't believe in hanging up there clothes, putting their books on the shelves or putting anything away for that matter. I once asked my youngest son why he couldn't put his belongings away and keep his room tidy and he responded, "Then you would have nothing to do all day." I must admit he was right. If all my children had tidied up after themselves, my days would have been rather boring. Now that they have all grown up and left home, I would love to have them back once again messing up the house. Enjoy them while you have them Anne18...easy for me to say now that mine are gone...ha, ha.

oh I know what you mean my girls have shelves an such but when you go in thier room everything is on the floor an when you tell them to pick it up they want to know where to put it hhmm how about those empty shelves lol

Not only children guilty of this grown ups too. I find myself not putting things back where they belong. I have shoe racks and instead of putting my shoes on the rack I just slip my foot out of them and push them out the way.

Hi there Anne18

I guess that's kids for you!! I want to know why my kids put their dirty clothes beside the washing basket and not in!!

Got to be honest here lol my shoes are just semi thrown into the shoe cupboard,which is under the stairs lol,but I do understand what you say.I recently bought some large plastic storage containers,the ones that stack on the top of each other,and I have sorted all of my material out and stored it in them,that way it keeps clean and dust free,and as the containers stack it takes less room to.