So far this morning....

[kellyg403]

I have had to change out toilet paper in all 3 bathrooms.

Why can't my kids ever put the used cardboad toilet paper roll in the trash and the new roll on the holder? Why is this such a problem for them? They leave the cardboad on the holder and sit the new roll on the back of the toilet or sink. EVEN my dh did this apparently this morning.

These little menial tasks that make my life so interesting! Now I am off to look for towels in the kids bedrooms. God forbid they put them in the hamper or hang them up and use them twice!

Kelly

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

For some strange reason, my DS8 has been changing the roll in the boys' bathroom for a couple of years, now. I never asked him to do it, he just started to do it! As far ast my other son, my DH and the other two bathrooms, I am the only one who does it.

 

[mdrob214]

I know how you feel. It seems like that's how it goes here, too. I am the only one who knows how to change the roll and why do they all seem to go at the same time? What's weird is I'll see the kids' bathroom roll empty and not get around to changing it, and it'll still be empty the next day! It's not like they aren't capable they are 11 and 14.

 

[I_Know_You2!]

For the same reason no one else can get a new trashbag out and put it in the container.

 

[singingpixie]

Lol they don't grow out of it either- I always changed it when I shared a bathroom with my roommate. Now that we have our own bathrooms, she just never uses the holder!

I even find myself putting the new roll on the holder at friends' houses!

 

[mousetravel]

I know what ya mean, my DD never replaces the roll. I can find the new roll in various places: back of the toilet, on the side of the bathtub, on countertop, in my makeup basket, and sometimes on the floor beside toilet.

 

[kellyg403]

I know how you feel. It seems like that's how it goes here, too. I am the only one who knows how to change the roll and why do they all seem to go at the same time? What's weird is I'll see the kids' bathroom roll empty and not get around to changing it, and it'll still be empty the next day! It's not like they aren't capable they are 11 and 14.

Exactly, and if I fail to do it sooner than later, there will be 3 cardboard pieces laying around the sink. Because you know the trashcan SITTING beside the toilet is too far to throw the darn thing.

One glorious time in my life I mistakenly thought they got the hint because I went a whole two weeks without finding a single cardboard middle. BTW what do they even call these things. Anyway, dh came to me one day and asked me if I had bought tp on sale. I said yes. He showed me the package and NONE of the rolls had the cardboard thingies in the middle. 2 days later I caught ds7 at the time lying on the floor in his room with this long tp roll which he called a telescope, all taped together trying to look under the door in his sisters room. How he even got them out of the full rolls I will never know. He wasn't trying to "see" them he was trying to "hear" what they were talking about with the door closed. Looking for ammunition I guess.

Kelly

 

[missypie]

We have a powder room downstairs and two full baths upstairs. When the TP runs out downstairs, the kids just use the bathrooms upstairs. I've been tempted to not fil the TP downstairs, just to see how long they'd avoid using the downstairs bathroom beofre they said something about it.

 

[kellyg403]

We have a powder room downstairs and two full baths upstairs. When the TP runs out downstairs, the kids just use the bathrooms upstairs. I've been tempted to not fil the TP downstairs, just to see how long they'd avoid using the downstairs bathroom beofre they said something about it.

See, we mom's need to stick together. Here I am complaining about the seconds it takes to do this and you have the answer to saving me a whole hour cleaning the downstairs bathroom.

The minute they come home from school they head to this bathroom. Noone rushes up the steps to the other two. They stand outside the door or in the kitchen waiting for someone to get out for their turn.

I will have to try this next time!

Kelly

 

[just4today]

I am the only one in my house who can change toilet paper or paper towels, see crumbs on the countertop, rinse out an empty milk jug, see that the cats need water in their bowl, take a full bag of trash out of the container and close it rather than let it overflow onto the floor, or rinse out dishes rather than leaving them sitting in the sink.

 

[missypie]

I am the only one in my house who can change toilet paper or paper towels, see crumbs on the countertop, rinse out an empty milk jug, see that the cats need water in their bowl, take a full bag of trash out of the container and close it rather than let it overflow onto the floor, or rinse out dishes rather than leaving them sitting in the sink.

Yes, what special skills we moms have!!!

 

[VirtuallyMe]

glad to know this phenomenon is not only occurring in my home...

My kids can not change toilet paper rolls, change garbage bags (put a new one in if they see one is missing even), put clothes in labeled hampers, etc...

My older kids- I quit worrying about it- they can not have clean clothes or toilet paper-

The younger one I'm trying harder with now that I know there seems to be a general aversion.

I thought about just finding a toilet paper dispenser that sits on the back of the toilet for their bathroom- but haven't found one yet...

Also anyone have the problem with no one being able to empty the trashcans in the bathrooms? I seem to be the only one able to do that as well.

 

[Disneylover79]

O O O can I join in..... why is it so hard to put the dirty clothes in the dirty clothes hamper and not on the floor in front of it... that drives me crazy.... DBF never does this.....

 

[KAMLEM]

One glorious time in my life I mistakenly thought they got the hint because I went a whole two weeks without finding a single cardboard middle. BTW what do they even call these things. Anyway, dh came to me one day and asked me if I had bought tp on sale. I said yes. He showed me the package and NONE of the rolls had the cardboard thingies in the middle. 2 days later I caught ds7 at the time lying on the floor in his room with this long tp roll which he called a telescope, all taped together trying to look under the door in his sisters room. How he even got them out of the full rolls I will never know. He wasn't trying to "see" them he was trying to "hear" what they were talking about with the door closed. Looking for ammunition I guess.

That's so funny. Wouldn't it be nice if they could make it this way? You'd think they could in this day and age.

 

[kellyg403]

Also anyone have the problem with no one being able to empty the trashcans in the bathrooms? I seem to be the only one able to do that as well.

Well it depends...do you mean emptying the two pieces that fell IN the trashcan by some divine intervention or the 70 little pieces of toilet paper (what is that all about...or do I want to know?) that fell AROUND the can. I do both.

My teen dd's are supposed to do their own laundry. When they do it they are famous for taking whatever is in the dryer...wet or dry...putting it a basket and putting their stuff in the dryer. I also have to get on them because they take stuff they have never worn, tried on, threw on the floor and now decide to "freshen up" in the dryer for 60 minutes on HIGH. Hello!

Kelly

 

[FayeW]

I think we are all in the same boat. I routinely have to change the toilet paper in all 3 bathrooms, and often find the cardboard roll lying around. Just today I had to change the garbage in the kitchen, even though I purposely left it yesterday to see if anybody else would do it. They just kept shoving things down further. My favourite is when I take out the full garbage bag, and then somebody throws garbage into the can without the bag. Can't they see there is no bag??? Who do they think is going to have to grap that rotten banana peel later???

I remember reading an email about a nightly routine. It went something like this: A wife said to her husband "I think I'll go to bed" and then on her way through the kitchen, stopped and packed lunches for the next day, loaded the dishwasher, set out the breakfast dishes, took the dog out for one last pee before bed, checked the children's backpacks to make sure they had packed their homework, signed some notices from the school, took a basket of clothes upstairs where she folded them and put them away, threw in another load of laundry, and laid out the kids' clothes for the next day.

A half an hour later, her husband announced, to no one in particular "I'm going to bed"...and he did.

 

[justjulie]

and not toilets. I live in an all-boy house and in the last month three of our four toilets have been clogged - two of them we had to physically take out of the house and flush out!

I think my neighbours just about got whiplash as they were out enjoying a beer - they looked and then looked again. Quick on the draw I yelled over, it's cleaning day - isn't this what everyone does on a weekly basis ....

So, be thankful it's only a roll of toilet paper ...