For crying out loud

[SwedishMeatball]

Michie, let me hear your words of wisdom

She'll tell you to stand and do squats while you're eating.

Hey, there's a hot guy waiting for you at the treehouse.

 

[Michie]

Buy every family their own certain color of towels. Like you, pink, the Dh blue, blah,blah so forth. And tell them they can only use their color, when they are out, or if they are smart, when they almost run out, they will do a load Or just move out and not tell them.

 

[FreshTressa]

Or just move out and not tell them.

best idea yet

 

[Cantw8]

Buy every family their own certain color of towels. Like you, pink, the Dh blue, blah,blah so forth. And tell them they can only use their color, when they are out, or if they are smart, when they almost run out, they will do a load Or just move out and not tell them.

Ohhh, I like the moving out part

 

[tevagirl]

No, you get pregnant from washing towels

This is why we drip dry at my house.

 

[Michie]

No, you get pregnant from washing towels

No, but if you wash yours and your Dh's unmentionables together you might!!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

MrsPete, I'll even pay you a dollar if I can use your ideas!

I don't really know how a person gets pregnant, which is why I had 4 children. Never figured out what was causing it. I think the biological clock hit just in time, though, since we were out of bedrooms.

And I'm disappointed...I clicked on this thread expecting pictures and there aren't any.

 

[sugarpie]

I would avoid the towels completely. Burn them.

You don't want your resulting offspring from doing the laundry to be your child & your grandchild at the same time. Unless you like 2 headed creatures.

 

[FreshTressa]

Hehe...are you sure one didn't happen from your mr. clean eraser??

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Hehe...are you sure one didn't happen from your mr. clean eraser??

Shhhhhh...it was good for me, was it good for him? Except none of my children keep clean.

 

[MrsPete]

MrsPete, I'll even pay you a dollar if I can use your ideas! (

Feel free to use them! This particular idea is my own, but I have "lifted" many, many parenting ideas from other people over the years. I hope this one works for you.

 

[WatchinCaptKangaroo]

I think it's the fabric softner, it acts as an aphrodisiac

I'm so confused. Washing my towels with fabric softner will get me pregnant? That is so not what I learned in the hallways of high school.

 

[clh2]

I'm so confused. Washing my towels with fabric softner will get me pregnant? That is so not what I learned in the hallways of high school.

Didn't your parents tell you not to believe what you heard in the hallways of high school?

 

[Glynis]

I used to have the wet-towel-on-the-floor problem, but I solved it.

I opened the "Mom's towel-picking-up service." Yes, for only a $1 deduction from your allowance, I will pick up your towel and hang it neatly on the towel bar. No complaints, no nagging . . . but you're going to pay.

The first two weeks both girls actually owed me money. Since then they've decided that "my service" isn't really worth the cost. They still don't see the point in picking up their towels, but they do it.


Related topic . . . want to know how I handle unmade beds? I don't complain about them either. I just strip the sheets off and leave everything folded neatly at the foot of the bed. The girls learned that it's easier to make your bed in the first place rather than to have to make it up completely from scratch.

I'm loving these ideas! Do you mind if I use them?

 

[mickeysgal]

Related topic . . . want to know how I handle unmade beds? I don't complain about them either. I just strip the sheets off and leave everything folded neatly at the foot of the bed. The girls learned that it's easier to make your bed in the first place rather than to have to make it up completely from scratch.

Certainly worth a try, but knowing my two teens, they'd just sleep right on the mattress.

 

[Cantw8]

Certainly worth a try, but knowing my two teens, they'd just sleep right on the mattress.

OMG, do yours do that too???? Right on the mattress and cover up with a nasty sheet that who knows how long it's been since it was washed? Grosses me out big time

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

Certainly worth a try, but knowing my two teens, they'd just sleep right on the mattress.

My mom used to tell me the story of how her mother told her brother he must sleep with sheets on the bed. He would just take the folded sheets, put them (still folded) down the middle of the bed and go to sleep. Technically he was sleeping on top of the sheets.

OP: Keep the dry towels hidden. If your kids want to use wet towels, well that is their choice. They will have to wash them themselves. Hopefully they will learn fast that putting the towels in the washer for mom to do is much easier than doing the wash themselves.

 

[SillyMe]

I think you need a weekend away from them. Pack your bags and let's head to AC.

 

[Cantw8]

I think you need a weekend away from them. Pack your bags and let's head to AC.

How 'bout Vegas???? For what we payed for that room for one night we could have found a package deal to Vegas

 

[INDISMOM]

My mom solved this problem by making my sister and me wash all of the towels every Wednesday and Saturday -- we made sure the towels were hung up after every shower because the more towels we used, the more work we had!

At the ripe old age of 12, I was in our basement learning how to use the washing machine. By the age of 13 I was expected to do ALL of my own laundry on a specific day designated by her -- if I remember correctly my night was Tuesday and my sister's was Monday.

At the time, I swore I would never do that to my kids, but you know what? I went to college with WAY too many people who didn't know how to do laundry!! Right now my 9 year old has to get the clothes out of the dryer for me and I have her fold the towels and washclothes. My 6 year old then helps put them away (sometimes she does fold because she thinks it's fun!)