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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adult = stuff like recognizing that hair in the shower drain will clog eventually and actually using the catcher/emptying it rather than simply removing it out of short term convenience.
Immature 19yo has never had to clean up after themselves in a meaningful way and whines 3 months later that the shower doesn’t drain after it’s reached a crisis level. Also likes to blow dry hair and never notices stray hairs grossly stuck to the walls.

Seriously though. The awareness and ability to clean up after yourself is much better in a slightly older candidate who has lived independently before...[/quote]

OP here and even a mature girl might not care about hair on the walls, but the drain thing, exactly. Solving her own problems like changing a lightbulb when it blows out, at least having an understanding of what maintenance issues her car might have and mentioning them to us, emptying the lint catch in the washer if it's not drying her clothes (my current AP said when she got here she's never done her own laundry; it never occurred to me to ask because I did mine starting at 11...).

I get that there might be APs who don't need help with this, and there might be older APs who suck at adulthood, but I'm just trying to improve my odds here. [/quote]

PP. We tell APs they are responsible for cleaning the hall bath because only AP and kids use it. There's a detailed checklist that can be summed up as: bleach wipe every possible surface or spray it with cleaner once a week. Time expected for chore is about 15 minutes a week.

We basically use this as a test case to see if an AP is too much of a princess and comes back to say they should not be responsible for cleaning bathrooms (which has happened). If you're too afraid to bleach wipe a little pee from random bathroom surfaces (little boys totally miss at times), then you're not mature enough for the job in our household.

Do we hover and make sure the bathroom is sanitized every week by AP? No. But it's just enough that we've gotten 2 APs who aren't afraid of cleaning or totally don't see any mess (our AP before that).

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