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[quote=Anonymous]You still have time to teach him, and please do!  Otherwise he'll end up a man like my DH and a wife who hates it.  DH's family did not have a housekeeper, but he had a mother who was obsessively neat.  You'd think this would teach him to be neat too, but no, she didn't mind picking up things dropped and messes wherever they were found, either she enjoyed it or she was so obsessive she could not stand anyone else doing it or doing it wrong.

So DH still does that thing of just dropping things wherever he happens to be.  He just never had to think about what happened to the object after he was done with it.  Trash just disppeared, glasses somehow made their way back to the kitchen, clothes to the hamper.  I don't pick up after him like his mom, and he still expresses surprise at how quickly our place gets messy.  That's what happens when you don't put anything away!

You need to teach him better habits -- that if you open something, the wrapper/package goes into the garbage.  Same for clothes -- into the hamper.  It is automatic for me, it is not for DH.  [/quote]

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