D has a really tiny BR and tends to pile stuff up until she literally cannot take a step anywhere in her room. Then she’ll spend an entire afternoon making the room look like a spread from House Beautiful, then start the process all over again. I’ve given up except for insisting there’s a path from her bed to the door so she won’t break her neck using the bathroom in the middle of the night.
@Smilla My mom does the same. Plus so the dog doesn’t get my socks
Just found out that S16’s ED decision will likely be posted this Friday, earlier than the prior publicized date of December 15 (next Tuesday). He hasn’t even considered working on any RD applications, so hopefully this application/admission/decision process will be all wrapped up for him by Friday night. Otherwise it will be a pretty busy and difficult few weeks thereafter.
Good news is that there will be an abundance of co-slob roommates to choose from based on this thread alone. Count my DD in! With all that’s going on lately, I do take sympathy on her and gather up clothes off the floor (dirty, clean?) and throw them in the wash from time to time. I’m a big fan of closing the doors. @readingclaygirl our dog goes after socks and underwear.
Good luck, @AsleepAtTheWheel !
@AsleepAtTheWheel – Wow, it could be all over for you on Friday!! That’s so great! I think we won’t be done until April 1. Ugh, another 3 1/2 months. Wishing your S great good luck!
I have a very good feeling for your son@asleepatthewheel.
Another parent with a messy child. D16 has become worse over the last 4 months. She is extremely busy so I try to clean up her room every week. I don’t want anything growing there!! D18 is OCD clean. I saw her yesterday in her room with Lysol wipes cleaning everything. Her closet is very organized and she goes through her closet every 2 months and gets rid of things. So, same genes and environment, but totally different kids!!
@AsleepAtTheWheel , high hopes that it will be over for you on Friday!
I thought my D11 was the only slob. Her room is always dirty and clothes left in the bathroom. It seems like a constant struggle to walk around the house picking up glasses and plates.
@AsleepAtTheWheel I am hoping S school announces results on Friday. I know a few schools back East have announced they are moving results up. Wishing your S the best of luck. However, I thought your S had an acceptance a while back and was done looking?
Good luck @asleepatthewheel wishing only good things for your S!
I just looked at my son’s graduation countdown ap and we are now less than 6 months away from graduation. 
^^96 school days left for us.
My D was very neat and organized until high school. Now she just doesn’t have much free time, and when she does, she would rather not clean her room - and she’s not old enough yet to realize all she needs to do is take little, fast preventative steps to keep the room from getting really messy.
I think that may be the case with many of your kids this age… I had a messy room in high school, but by the time I got a single dorm room, I kept it neat as a pin… I think good habits like MAINTAINING tidiness take time and practice… I’m certain our kids will all get it over time (ok, a few like my husband never got it, lol… but many do!)
Someone else said, a few posts up, that their D lets the room get messy, then does a marathon cleaning session…then it gets messy again. Yes, that’s my D, too. I think ti actually bothers her that it’s messy, because she was always very neat before, even as a small child… but she just doesn’t want to take the time to clean, and she also overestimates the time it would take to clean her tiny room.
I’ve noticed D keeps he room cleaner in the summer…
She is still very organized, though, much more so than I was at her age… with all the stuff on kids’ plates these days, many of them have to be. She’s good about writing everything down in her organizer and calendar, etc. and she likes to label things…
The big gripe my husband and i have with D - and we’ve never really come out and told her about this - is her long hair.
It is EVERYWHERE! Egads. It’s stuck to the bathtub and shower surround, on the sink, on the floor…
she has been growing her hair all through high school, and she plans to get it cut over Christmas break and donate it to Locks of Love. I can’t wait, lol! Her long hair is pretty and she takes good care of it, but I think she’ll look cute with short hair too - and the bathroom will be so much cleaner!! (We have an older house with only one bathroom.)
Wow^^^
@BeeDAre – That’s why both our dogs have been poodle mixes, because they don’t shed a hair. In addition, they’re always happy to see me.
@EastGrad: She reads them and returns them too quickly for me to know the titles, and if I ask she becomes suspicious of my motives (sigh, this child), so I tried to play it cool and ask her about the cover design of the last book I remember her reading. From that I searched the internet and came up with Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Big Magic”. That was what I could do for ya.
However…she did absolutely fall in love with a book in 2014 that you may have read already if women’s writings and musings are your thing, Lily Koppel’s Red Leather Diary. She absolutely loved that book, the tale of a young woman in NYC who finds a red leather diary written decades prior by someone who, at its writing, was just a young teen, and then a young woman, in the era of the great salons of yesteryear. The story of Ms. Koppel’s journey with the diary is to both contextualize the times and the mood of the original writer’s day, and then to seek out the writer of the diary. She brings the NYC of old to vibrant life as she retraces the steps of the young diarist, and fills the reader (I saw all this in my daughter’s eyes, and the bouncing leg as it was flung over whatever arm chair or sofa she lay on) with a sense of magic, music and a catch in the throat at the undaunted spirit of a young woman insisting on self-definition and expanded parameters.
I hope to have the blessing of a life long enough to witness those very things fill my daughter’s life.
D’s ED school’s decision comes out Thursday. I may or may not have just spent the last half-hour on the bookstore’s website saving to my shopping cart a sweatshirt, mug, and decal just in case I need to order quickly for Christmas. But I probably didn’t. I mean, that would be a little nutty.
PS: Fun aside, I was typing quickly and spelled Christmas wrong above, so I right clicked to correct it. The correction choices were Christmas and Masochist. Coincidence? I think not.
@AsleepAtTheWheel “@BeeDAre – That’s why both our dogs have been poodle mixes, because they don’t shed a hair. In addition, they’re always happy to see me.”
So next time we should all strive to have daughters who are half poodle? LOL.
@AtSleepAtTheWheel and@palm715 fingers n toes crossed for acceptances to be received from impending ED schools!