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Getting out from under the mess

{ 11:09, Sunday 11 March 2007 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Sometimes I wonder... how is it people can walk past something on the floor for a week and not pick it up? I'm not a slave or a maid, I'm not going to pick it up for them. We have set chores in this house and although I do spend a lot of time picking up after everyone because they aren't doing it, I don't think I should have to do it all the time. Although anyone should pick up something they see, I don't understand how, when for example, it's XYZ's job to clean the bathroom, they can clean the whole bathroom but still leave the bandaid wrapper on the floor pretending they never saw it.

We cleaned this house spotless a few weeks ago, and it's back to about the same mess it was before.

I have way too much to do to be going behind everyone finishing the jobs they do half-way. I also don't have time to be an inspector, doing quality control.

It's a big problem with our large family. I don't have the time to be inspecting chores. By the time I see or hear that a job wasn't completed right I don't know who it was who didn't do it, and the next one won't do it, so I end up doing it. I need everyone to be responsible to do their job to the best of their ability so the next person doesn't have to do double duty. My children also seem to thrive on tattling on the last person who didn't do their job right. (yet they won't take responsibility when it was them who didn't do it right)

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