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We had a family "meeting" last week - the one where I threaten to move out if I don't start getting help around here.
Some hints for YOUR meeting:
1. Feeding the family pets does NOT mean the daily allotment all at one time so the food spills out of the bowl, onto the floor, making ANOTHER mess to clean up. It does not save time.
2. Flipping the laundry does not mean tossing it around the basement but taking from the washer and putting in the dryer AFTER the dryer has been emptied. It does not help the wet stuff to dry by leaving the dry in there.
3. Taking out the garbage means putting it INSIDE the outside garbage can, NOT leaving it outside the front door for anyone to trip over when they go to leave the house.
4. Cleaning your room should NEVER be a reason to need face masks, yard waste bags, duct tape or fumigators. If it does, YOU get to move out.
I have 3 teenagers who LOVE doing half-assed jobs, to piss off mom, and have to do the job again, leading to an argument on half-assed jobs, responsibility and the old stand-by of "when you move out I am not coming with you to help you clean!" .....can you tell? LOL
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Those who fail to ask for the truth are as ignorant as the lie.
Making your OWN lunch ALSO includes the following regardless of the fact that these steps are "after the lunch"
-putting PB away
-putting jelly away ( preferably in fridge)
-putting bread away ( look I am na looking for twisty tie ettiquette....I am just happy the damn loaf made it back to the bread box)
Breakfast ettitiquette should be along the lines of:
Krispy crumbs swept up and tossed away ( or at the very LEAST swept to the floor where Link and Ems can lick the perps away)
Milk put somewhere in the vicinity of the fridge ( you get extra life points if said milk makes it in the fridge first try)
The bowl n spoon said teen used makes it within 6 ft of the sink ( 6 ft you ask??? Trust me that is not only IMPROVEMENT in some cases but a nobel prize worthy BREAKTHROUGH in some cases...)
So yes.....
I TOTALLY understand!
C/S/
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Just pour the stuff in the thing that goes into the face.
I have banned her from doing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen for all those things listed above. We won't talk about her bedroom. (you would think that after the last time I was in her room, she lost a lot of belongs. I was sick for like a week, from all the dust in there. I refused to do it for like 2-6 months, maybe longer.)
Then there is the dog that also likes to make a mess. Especially, when our daughter doesn't empty or take out the garbage.
And my loving hubby, who likes to make a mess after a night out with the guys and/or $1 beer nights. =D
I have learned if I refuse to do it for awhile, the daughter and hubby if he has time will help. It gets old quick. XP
But I have learned, that I need to clean a little each day, it won't be as bad later in the week. This is help with the frustrations later (I have decided to pick my battles; which one is really worth my time/energy.) =P
Rethinking chore lists.... 
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