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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They do not expect you to clean up after them.  Don't.  I would call a family meeting.  "Guys, I refuse to live like this any longer. These designated areas of the house and garage are mine after June 26. You have 4 days to clear out your things. If I find anything of yours in one of my areas, I will discard or donate it.  I will not inform you before doing so because I have already wasted far too much mental and emotional energy on your clutter."  If DH resisted I would be letting him know that I was preparing for separation, at a minimum.  You can love someone without sharing living space.[/quote]

This. Except you said you have a large property. Why not build a long/large workshop shed just for the 3 males. Far from the house. If you need an excuse why its .20 acres away...put in a dirt path and buy them some dirt bikes or 4-wheelers and say they can them out there as well.

That way they think its a positive and you don't have any mess in your house or garage.

If you see something like tools or screws laying around after that - put a designed plastic tub at the garage entrance, dump all the stuff there and say 'you're looking for x? have you tried the project tub?'

A shed like this fully-outfitted could probably be found for $3K. If your sons are big on TitTok or Instagram, they'll probably keep it organized just for cool points.

Op here.  Wow that would be an awesome shed.  I wish it would work, but it won't.  If I have no access to it, it will be a mess within weeks and although I wouldn't care if my things were left alone, it still leaves my basement to be destroyed and disrespected and in the end this is what it feels like to me.  Complete and total disrespect for the money things cost, our time, my stress level, etc.    And definitely disrespect for common sense which anyone can see because it makes no sense to take extra time "later" to clean up a much bigger mess, spend more time looking for things, and quite often just buying another item because you can't find the first and don't have time to sort through 10 boxes.

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