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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my teen leaves too much stuff lying around, I give a deadline for when it has to be cleaned up or I will clean it up and if I clean up it gets thrown out and my teen knows I mean it.

She left a new pair of sandals lying around and she thought for sure I would just put them away for her. Nope. I put them in the donation bag and donated them. No reminders, no yelling, no fussing on my part. I had given her the deadline and she didn't put them away so I reasoned she didn't want them or care about them. She had an old pair of sandals she could wear or other shoes or she could earn money and buy herself another pair. Yes, it hurt to donate a brand new pair of shoes but she now knows I am serious.

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Who pays for the stuff you donated? [/quote]

Yeah. This just seems like throwing money away. I might put them away and make her earn them back.[/quote]

PP here and it only took one pair of sandals for her to take me seriously.  
It was more than worth my $35 so that now when I say "clean up by this date/time or I will toss it", I have no arguments or shouting matches and it gets cleaned up.[/quote]

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