A very scary subject............

[WDWfan uk]

............ de de daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah !

[Cue the impossibly deep voice that does the voice-overs for the movies ads]

......... <b>"Teenagers bedrooms"</b>

Okay - I can just about cope with the untidiness, the (carefully ironed) clothes scattered carelessly about BUT........... my son has misplaced his precious history folder. Helping out with the search, I opened a drawer in the bed and found ...... and found ........ a huge hospital pouch of what looked like water with a tube leading from it

Well........... what and why were my first thoughts, then I smelt a VERY musty smell and discovered that the wretched bag had been slowly leaking into the bed drawer and that the files and books inside were covered in mould. AAaarghh!

You've heard it before and you've probably said it too - just WAIT until he gets home.

Turns out that it was water......... thank goodness ........ and it was used in a physics experiment but TWO YEARS ago!!!!!!

Now he's an intelligent boy ...... so WHY keep it let alone store it in a bed drawer?? Only another teenager may perhaps be able to answer

Do you have any scary teenage bedroom stories? Or are you too scared to look?

 

[KayleeUK]

Oh my

 

[keswick1uk]

Thats boys for you.

When they get older, and marry they transfer it all to their garage ;-)

 

[Olaf]

That sounds exactly like something my own son would do. You poor thing. I hope you made him clean it up.

I'd like to hear what ideas were running through your mind before you got to talk to him?

 

[squitty]

Or are you too scared to look?

Thats us, I'm afraid to look in DD's bedroom Shirley
Its not only teenage boys that have messy bedrooms.

 

[Bwalker]

Laugh?????

I thought I'd die



Aloha,
Lorraine

 

[UKANGEL]

I'm with Shel on this ...not only boys who are like this I'm afraid!

The 'carefully ironed clothes thrown all over the room' particularly niggles me!!

I find it much too scary to venture more than a foot inside these days...........

..........still, not as bad as when she was a little girl and I used to find snails all over the room that she'd brought in from the garden to 'play with'!!!!!!

 

[vernon]

This brings back some very scary memories of the disaster site that used to pass as my elder DD bedroom. I've lost count of the number of "issues" we had over the health hazard that was where she slept. I'm sure boys have the edge in the "single grossest" catagory but I think the variety of potential the girls have (make up with fungus growing on it) with all their personal items give them the edge in the "volume of differing nasties" catagory LOL

 

[CarolynU]

Shirley I know exactly what you mean, but we've just got our own back. Simon our DS was conducting some sort of biological experiment in his room. I am sure that he was being paid by some terrorist organisation to produce this health hazard!!!! Anyway he kept promising to clean it up, and then he left for the USA to work for Disney and came home with a beautiful Canadian girlfriend. They are living together in Leeds right now, as he's at Uni there, but over the Christmas holidays they came home, and guess what..... I showed her a side of Simon that she never new existed LOL!!!! He did at least have the grace to blush, and did make an effort to clean it up. It's amazing what love can do. LOL Carolyn

 

[WDWfan uk]

Steph - don't go there !!!

LOL Vernon Make-up with fungus growing on it, now that IS a very scary thought

Carolyn, I just wonder if he'll 'revert to type' once the novelty wears off !!

....... okay, I'm warming to the theme now Is there some sort of competition going on to see if they can cover every square inch of carpet in their bedrooms???

 

[Ellay]

My DD (21yrs) had a laminate floor laid in her bedroom last year saying it would be easier to keep clean. It is. All the muck and hair sticks to her slippers and deposits itself on the carpet outside her bedroom extra cleaning for me.

She doesn't bother putting clothes away, just uses this cycle: wash basket, washer, tumbler, bed. When the pile of clothes gets too big on her bed, the cycle starts again - wash basket, washer etc. etc. Goodness knows how much cheaper the electricity bill would be if only she'd put away her clothes.

 

[Scottish_Maleficent]

It's not just teenagers...............my DS is only 5 and already he has a lovely habit of picking his nose and wiping it on the wall beside his bed.................

Cath

 

[CarolynU]

Carpet what's carpet? I can't even remember whether Simon had any or not, let alone the colour of it. LOL Carolyn

 

[Astrid]

Thanks Shirley for making me feel better about Bryn's bedroom! I must admit to laughing when I read your post - but purely in sympathy because I could just see myself in the same situation!

Every so often I enter Bryn's bedroom and steel myself to a tidy up but always dread what I will find! What always amazes me is the things that he claims are lost and gone forever and which he's searched high and low for and then I discover hidden away in his room within minutes!!

I went in there this morning to do a 'dirty washing' trawl and discovered a stash of socks with holes in - eeerrrghhh!!!

Carys has yet to reach this stage .... give her time, she is only 8!!

Cath - yuk yuk yuk!!!

Ellay - Oh no, and your daughter is 21??!! There isn't even an age when they grow out of this!

Kids - who'd have 'em!

Astrid x

 

[jana]

Cath, my DS does this ( he is 9). He keeps his all in one spot and calls it his collection. I make hime clean it everytime I find it.
We have also had some nasty finds with some goo toy that leaked behind the bed and found later. I'm not looking forward to the teen years.

 

[SandraM]

I have a sort of answer.
Redecorate their room every year (to their own taste). Allow 10 months for same task.
For example, I intended repainting DD's room in February 2003 during the first couple of days of her half term. It was the same week as my DS's half term, so I thought it would all work out great.
I told DD she could sleep in the kids sitting room (on the sofa bed) while the repainting was being done, all she had to do was shift out the books, shoes etc. That took her 3 days. On the 4th day she piled the rest of the stuff on the sofa bed, which meant she had to sleep in the bed in her bedroom despite the paint stink. I had to shift furniture all over the place to get the painting finished, and told her that her new light fitting, bedspreads etc were NOT going into her room until everything was properly organised.
Well, she didn't even clear the sitting room with the sofa bed until June (then I was able to start on DS's room - which took one week from start to finish), and it was only after threats and rows from DH and I that she got her room in decent shape for Christmas! Which is a good thing, as she got a new computer that she didn't deserve. I'm going to have to have some words with Santa ...!

 

[Hilary]

I am almost too mortified to post this - but I hope it will be theraputic for me!

I got around to a Big Clean today after the Christmas holidays when I find it too difficult to bother doing much when everyone is home and the decorations are up (good excuse, eh? ).

DD2 has been on strict orders to clear away a load of 'stuff' in piles around her bedroom floor, and she made a good job of it at the weekend. So today was the day to get the hoover in all those previously hidden corners in her room.

All was going well until I moved her bed out to hoover underneath. . You will never guess what I found under the bed.................

.......are you ready for this?............

..........a dead frog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have absolutely NO idea how it got there, but we did have another curious 'frog-in-the-house' incident a few years ago!

Please don't send the Environmental Health Dept around - I promise to hoover a bit more often!

 

[edie w]

Yeuch! Reminds me of an incident when someone who works for me came into the office, opened her handbag to put her car keys in and screamed......

.... a dead mouse!

Present from her cat, we think!!!

My DS(12)'s bedroom is a disaster area. Most of the household crockery appears to have migrated in there and grown alternate life forms.

He keeps DVDs, books, worn socks and cats in his bed

He keeps his school uniform in the laundry basket (under a sleeping cat) as I recently discovered at 10 o'clock one Wednesday night.

me (panicking): what have you got on your school jumper?

him: what?

me: it's in your linen basket - why didn't you tell me earlier? It'll never dry now.

him: Oh its fine, I'm just keeping it in there. That way I know where it is in the morning.



And I know it's only going to get worse!

 

[WDWfan uk]

LOL LOL LOL Hilary !!!!!!!! I'm sorry I read your post and found it so funny!! Poor frog should have come to my son's bed drawer - there was plenty of water in there

(Do you or your neighbours have a pond??)

 

[Astrid]

OMG Hilary ............ A dead frog????!!!! Yuk yuk yuk!! LOL!!

edie w - my son has the same respect for his school uniform! A dead mouse in a handbag?? I'd have screamed the house down!

Astrid x