When you were a teen (or now) did you clean a room by shoving the mess in a closet or under the bed?

[debm55]

Or maybe your kid?

[RandySF]

1. My kid does.

[debm55]

2. HAHAHHAHA

[underpants]

3. Oh hell no. My mom wouldn't have put up with that.

My daughter moved into her dorm last weekend. I still haven’t been in her room. I’m scared.

[debm55]

5. Funny, look under the bed too.

[FalloutShelter]

4. ... and under the bed.

[debm55]

7. Fallout, we use the same place.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. Not when I was a teen subject to parental inspection.

But I do now, LOL!

[debm55]

9. You are so funny.

[MontanaMama]

8. No way.

I was a tidy as a teen and I am now too. My folks wouldn't have put up with a messy room for one thin minute. My kiddo on the other had...yikes.

[debm55]

11. Did you check under the bed and in the closet???

[MontanaMama]

17. Yes...the child's closet is a disaster.

There's nothing I can/will do until he goes to AK fishing with his dad next week. Mama will have her way with that closet. Count on that.

[debm55]

18. You are funny. What are you going to do when he comes back and can't find his stuff?

[Ocelot II]

10. It never worked then - I was always busted - but I do it now

because I can get away with it until I have to find something.

[debm55]

12. I know, Even now I have tons of shoes and slippers under the bed.

[rsdsharp]

13. No. My mother had been a Sargent in the WACS.

I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.

[debm55]

14. So you really cleaned your room? That's good.

[rsdsharp]

15. She wore a platinum and diamond dinner ring.

That sucker hurt when it hit you.

[debm55]

16. Oh, sorry.

[AnnaLee]

19. I shared a room with my sister

So, yes, I shoved the mess on her side of the closet and under her bed. This left room for the good stuff to go on my side and under my bed.

[debm55]

23. Very good

[grumpyduck]

20. No, but for a while there I thought I was a genius.

Sometime in high school, I decided to sort my clean laundry by partially opening each drawer of my dresser and tossing things in from the bed: T-shirts in one, boxer shorts in another, socks in another, something else in another. Not folded, just tossed. My Mom was disappointed, but I told her that they didn't need to be folded since no one would see them anyway. She just walked out of my room shaking her head.

[debm55]

24. grumpy, at least you had a system

[grumpyduck]

28. Yeah, there's that.

[Scottie Mom]

21. Oh, gawd, no!

I'm just the opposite on this.

If I know that there might be a messy drawer or closet somewhere, that gets my attention first. You could blindfold me and ask me to get something in my house, and I would got right to it at least 90% of the time or better.

While I am a picky housekeeper on dusting, polishing, vacuuming, scrubbing floors, cleaning windows, etc., I have have to have closets and drawers in perfect order. It's like if I don't, I am not being honest with myself about how things really are! As in: Looks good on the surface, but a mess underneath.

Weird, huh?

[debm55]

26. I.m sort of like that too. Don't think it's werd at all

[Scottie Mom]

27. Glad to hear that...

...I felt like the Lone Rangerette!

The other day, I had a guest at my house and the bathroom door remained locked and locked closed after he left the bathroom. So, my guest apologized and asked for a screw driver. Told him it was not needed. I walked into my bedroom and opened a drawer and pulled out the little key that was used to open inside the house door locks. I got that key almost 19 years ago when I moved in -- new house and those keys were in plastic attached to the bathroom door locks. First time I ever had to use that key...and I knew exactly where it was. Still in the little plastic bag where it had been attached to the lock.

I just knew where it was! Go figure...

[3catwoman3]

22. I would have if I could have.

My mom used to call neatness fanatics “demon housekeepers.” She was one. It was not nough for clothes to be put away in dresser drawers, they had to be neatly folded, too. Beds were made before leaving for school, with neat hospital square corners - she was a nurse.

On Thursday evenings, it was empty-the-wastebasket night because trash collection was on Friday, and woe to whomever was the first person to put something in the just-emptied bathroom wastebasket. I used to flush Kleenex down the commode so as not to be the one that was guilty of defiling a newly empty wastebasket.

[debm55]

25. In that respect I'm like that. I will run down to the garbage can an throw it away

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[Scottie Mom]

29. All the beds in my house have "hospital corners."

I learned that phrase when I was in the 6th grade and I rarely hear it used anymore. I have said it to housekeepers I have...and I usually get a puzzled look back at me.

[3catwoman3]

36. None of mine do. While staying on a small German hotel...

...several years ago, I decided I liked their idea of just folding back the duvet/coverlet to the foot of the bed to let the bottom sheet air out. That is what I have done ever since.

It's fast and easy, plus I get to enjoy the pretty sheets I have instead of hiding them under a bedspread/duvet/etc.

And, I would end up undoing the top sheet every night because I like my feet to be free.

[Scottie Mom]

37. Well, here is the difference and why i always make a bed with hospital corners.

If the top sheet comes loose, I will get up and remake the bed -- even in the middle of the night -- so that I can pull the top sheet taunt over me. I cannot stand to have crinkled up sheet around my feet! Hospital corners helps to prevent the crinkled sheet around my feet problem.

What I do with the top sheet when I make the bed is put is print side down and turn it over the top of the quilts I use so that the print shows in a big band just below the pillows at the top of the bed.

How interesting that something that seems so simple -- putting sheets on a bed -- is seen so differently by different people.

[debm55]

41. I need to have loose top sheet. If we are at a Hotel, I will pull them out, My feet feel better,

[Mr.Bill]

30. We're in the process of selling our mobile home.

We told the realtor we can have it ready to be shown at any time with two hours notice. Ready means all clutter removed from countertops in the kitchen and bathroom, everything reasonably clean, no dirty dishes in the sink, bed made, etc. I have a small walk-in closet in the main bedroom with a locking door. That's where we throw everything. We have no garage, our outdoor shed is packed full to tidy up the outdoor spaces. The closet was well photographed in all the advertising about the house so no one needs to see it.

We can just about do it in one hour.

[debm55]

32. WOW, Mr.Bill you timed it!

[lastlib]

31. Yes.

It's still there.

(fifty years later....... )

[debm55]

33. That's funny, lastlib

[Tree Lady]

34. I did as a child

And my younger daughter did. We both laugh about it now. On family call I had to smile as my granddaughter in her mid 20's talked about learning what deep cleaning was.

[debm55]

35. Grandma, what's cleaning???

[Scottie Mom]

38. OMG...I remember my mother and my grandmother taking a knife and wrapping a rag around the point...

...to clean corners on the linoleum floors in our house. This was back in the 1950s. Yep, Grammy deep cleaning methods!

[GP6971]

39. I never got away with that...

first place my mother looked.

[debm55]

40. so sorry

[ailsagirl]

42. When I was a kid, but my mom was no fool

Bottom line is, it didn’t work ☹️

[debm55]

43. Sorry, ailsagirl.

[ailsagirl]

44. That's OK

I finally woke to the fact that she “wasn’t born yesterday.”

[ailsagirl]

45. Reminds me of Mark Twain's quote

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
😎🤣😆😁🤩

[debm55]

46. Excellent

[Emile]

47. Not me.

It would have drove me nuts, until I did it right.

[debm55]

48. Emile, I did do it right--I stuck it under the bed. You would would not believe the socks without

partners you can find under there.

[Prairie_Seagull]

49. Not really, my fathers words still ring in my ears.

"It is easier to clean up a small mess than it is a big one". So of course I had to share the pain, my daughters now are quoting my father back to me. I don't know where they heard that. Haha

ETA. Maybe the first 'life hack' haha

[debm55]

51. Hahaha

[Elessar Zappa]

50. Yeah.

Even now, under my bed is a mess of books and notebooks. Maybe I should clean today….

[debm55]

52. Or maybe not

[malthaussen]

53. "Clean a room?" I am not familiar with this expression. :) n/t

[debm55]

54. hahaha

[malthaussen]

55. One house we lived in had a couple of spare bedrooms...

... I literally moved into a new bedroom when the one I had been using filled up.

-- Mal

[debm55]

58. hahahahaha. That is funny.

[ballardgirl]

56. In the 60's

When I was a teen, we really didn't have so much stuff. Mine all went into the closet or drawer. Maybe we were just poor.

[debm55]

57. No, people didn't have as much "stuff", like shoes, games. etc. Put we did have chip bags, pop

bottles, records., etc.

[hunter]

59. I grew up in small homes sharing rooms with multiple siblings.

My parents didn't care in any way what our bedrooms looked like so long as the doors could be shut.

[debm55]

60. Very true

[Phentex]

63. I should have read your post first...

basically same answer as mine. I only got my own room after the older ones trailed off.

[Aristus]

61. I cleaned up my room by cleaning up my room.

I was (and am) a neatnik; my brother was the slob. I hated sharing a room with him, and was overjoyed when we moved into a new house and I got my own room at last.

Then I married a slob. Mrs. Aristus. I adore her to Heaven and back. But she's not a neatnik. By any stretch.

[debm55]

64. Aristus, don't let her read this.

[Phentex]

62. I slept on top of the bedspread. No one cared what the room looked like.

To this day, I won't make a bed unless it's wash day. Even then, I throw stuff on top.

I didn't have a lot of clothes so there was just a clean pile and a dirty pile and I washed something when I wanted to wear it.

I only ever had a few friends over and they didn't care. I'm sure it was a pig sty.

The priest dropped in from time to time but NEVER in my bedroom ha ha!

[debm55]

65. That's funny.