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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have tried telling nicely, screaming, nothing is working. Every day DD throws her clothes on the bathroom floor in her bathroom that she shares with sibling. Initially I tried telling nicely that this is not acceptable and I am not her maid to pick it up and put it in the laundry basket in the laundry room which is just 2 doors down in the same upper level. It's not like she has to go to the basement. It didn't work and she either ignored me or said she will do it but never did. I started screaming and that doesn't work either. Now she has resorted to throwing things in the floor in the laundry room or in the kids bathroom and it is like a pile there in both places. And if she likes a certain top she rummages through the laundry baskets, dumps everything else on the floor and takes the unlaundered top to use again. I've tried taking away the laptop or Chromebook chargers so she won't be able to use those as a consequence but she doesn't care and takes a book and goes to read. I am at my wits end. [/quote]

My DD did this too!! She has a big laundry basket in her room and I couldn’t stand to see her clothes in a pile on the bathroom floor every day. I picked them up and put them in her basket. She’d do her laundry, leave the clean clothes for WEEKS, and every morning rush out to school, get her shorts out of the bottom of the basket, spill the rest out on to the living room floor (where she left the basket).

I would beg, bribe, punish, etc. nothing worked long term. So, not the best solution but I just got it out of my face so it wouldn’t drive me crazy. I’d put her dirty clothes in her hamper. I’d dump the clean ones in her room (out of the laundry room), then, her room would be knee deep in a mess of dirty clothes and clean clothes. And papers. And spoons. Every few months I’d clean it, or help her clean it while listening to music. Every once in a while I’d tell her she couldn’t go out until it was clean. Sometimes she “forgot” and went out anyway. Sometimes she’d clean it - half way. I would do the rest.

In August, she moved out to college. She’s managed to figure out how to keep her little room clean (I think) and her laundry done. She and her roommate are close friends.

I miss her SO much. Her room is clean. I have another kid who leaves her clothes on the bathroom floor.

I pick them up.[/quote]

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