I’ve tried to be nice … I really have.
It starts out with, “would somebody please take the dirty laundry downstairs?”
Thirty minutes later (as I’m getting ready to start laundry) …. “did anybody bring the laundry downstairs?”
Thirty minutes later, as I load laundry into the washer and notice that there should be more dirty towels than that, I yell upstairs …. “I NEED THE LAUNDRY DOWN HERE NOW !!!”
The kids will then come all the way downstairs and ask me what I was yelling about … I turn to them and say one word …. “LAUNDRY !!!”
….followed by that familiar look of “who is this woman and why does she keep telling us to do things?”
…. followed by a much louder “WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GO GET THE DAMN LAUNDRY !!!”
So this morning I tried a new plan …. the laundry hamper speed bump … in a perfect world, the kidlets would see the laundry basket and think, “Oh I should take these dirty clothes downstairs” … in my world, somebody is going to fall over that basket, tumble down the stairs, break both their arms and then I will have to feed them, bathe them, and do everything for them until their arms heal. I’m expecting it.
LOL… I’ve tried the laundry basket speed bump. Turns out…it’s invisible to kids. They just walked AROUND it to get out of their room and back in… AND put their dirty laundry on the floor!
… and when the husband takes the speed bump laundry basket downstairs while the kids are all too asleep … THEY LEARN NOTHING!
I have no choice, I am just going to start putting everything right in the middle of the pathways … maybe a broken ankle or two will teach them to pick up their stuff … nah … probably not.
It is invisible to husbands too. I set our full laundry basket at the top of the stairs and it sits for days. Drives me insane!
Dump it on him while he sleeps … muahahahahaha.
Yeh…it doesn’t work. I put a stack of newspapers in the middle of the living room floor, right in the walking path, just to see if they would be put in the recycle basket. Nope. Still sitting in the middle of the floor when I got home. Not trying to burst your bubble. Just keepin’ it real.
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Oh I know … I am thinking that I need to amp up my game .. maybe put the dirty clothes in the middle of their beds … of course, they would probably just sleep on top of them.
So, if you put it at the head of the stairs with a note taped to it that reads CARRY ME TO THE LAUNDRY ROOM RIGHT THIS SECOND YES I MEAN YOU what would happen?
They would probably write on the note “I am going to make millions with this magical talking laundry hamper” … I wonder where my kids would get that smart ass attitude from.