Son cleaned out his car.....dear lord!
My son had a Jeep back in high school. After he graduated the motor blew up in it and he was able to scrape together enough to buy a Ford Taurus that he has been driving around ever since. He said the only good thing about it was it had A/C (something the Jeep didn't have.) He's ready to buy a small truck that a friend of mine is gong to be selling soon. My friend flips cars for money....buys them, fixes them up and sells them for a quick profit. This one is a silver Ranger, 6 cylinder, with low miles on it. It needed some cosmetic things done and he has the hood/fenders off being painted right now. My friend told me about it and I passed the info along to my son. Ever since then my son has been texting and calling me to see if it is ready. I got word that it should be ready soon.......so I sent the message over to my son because I knew he would be excited.
Well.....yesterday the driveway alarm went off and we looked outside to see who was here???? I see my son pull up and park in the middle of the driveway. He comes in, goes back outside and a bit later we see a garbage bag beside his car. I tell everyone he is jumping the gun because the truck isn't ready yet, but its probably not a bad thing that he is cleaning out his car. Time passes and he hasn't come in. I look back out there and there are SIX GARBAGE BAGS beside his car!!! The boy has been stashing every article of clothing he owns, his shoes, boots, plastic cups, AR mags, a pizza box, some tools, unopened mail I've given him, coats, every kind of charging cord imaginable.....and who the heck knows what all else was in there???
I go out there and tell him its like a clown car and the pile of crap is bigger than the car.....he laughs and hoists a couple bags into the air and jogs past me. I follow behind asking "where are you going with that?" He bounds up the stairs like a gazelle to his old room...which has become a catch all and spare bedroom. He shoves the bags into the closet and runs back to get more. I tell him...."if there is dirty laundry in that you need to run it to the washroom." Then I think about what I just said.....if its in my washroom then I get to wash it, which is NOT happening. So I just ignore it for now. I don't know what is in there and I hope I can resist the urge to pull it out and start washing things.
BOYS!!!
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Everyone here already knows that you'll not only wash his clothes, but hand him back a stack of neatly folded laundry and give him a bag of groceries to take with him.
You are after all the ultimate mother.
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mark christian: 31514601491867/comments/31514601533083
Everyone here already knows that you'll not only wash his clothes, but hand him back a stack of neatly folded laundry and give him a bag of groceries to take with him.
You are after all the ultimate mother.
I’m trying to dial it down a notch.....I give it til Sunday before I start pulling crap out of that closely though
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better just hope there aren't any critters in the bags that had been hiding in his car............
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"who the heck knows what all else was in there" Probably best you don't know Kasey. 🤣
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I had my wife come over so I could read your post to her. We both agreed it sounded just like our son Uri!! I hope there is comfort in knowing you are not alone. A high % of boys are like this!
And yup. She would get the clothes washed and either folded or ironed depending on what was needed. All the while she would be [female dog]ing up a storm!! 😁
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I change the oil in my grandson’s car. I told my wife I need to take a shower after just sitting in it. (Shiver)
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I usually try to clean my office once a week but really I just move piles of stuff from one flat surface to another.
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Locust Fork: 31514601491867/comments/31514595472923
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I’m trying to dial it down a notch.....I give it til Sunday before I start pulling crap out of that closely though
UH-Huh, that's like trying to unspoil the dog........
What happened to the Jeep? Is it sittin' "out back" in the weeds?
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Is the guy going to flip the jeep and why not?
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"He bounds up the stairs like a gazelle to his old room...which has become a catch all and spare bedroom. He shoves the bags into the closet and runs back to get more."
Does he still live in your house?
Does he pay rent to live in your house?
If the answer to the above questions is NO, simply remove the bags he has stashed in the closet and place them on the curb. He has no rights to your house and the mess he intends to place on your shoulders is out of bounds.
As a youngster, my cars were kept clean, not even a gum wrapper was safe. It's the same way now, no garbage in my car. I've seen women's cars which appear to be rolling purses, everything under the sun and more just because they might need it. Ridiculous!
Best.
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Over the Christmas break, we handed out food packages at the elementary school. Some would pull up, and their car would be so full of junk that there was no room to put the boxes of food.
Like No-no, I kept my (Dad’s) car spotless. No girls would want to ride in a junked up car.
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If you parked all of our cars beside each other you wouldn't know any of us were related to each other by what you saw.
My car is spotless....seriously....spotless, it drives me BATTY to have a dirty car and when it does get dingy its in my thoughts non stop until I can get it detailed. I don't think of this as a good thing though, because its bothersome to be so uptight about this and I wish I could just live with a bit of clutter. I think it is actually because I have so little control over other spaces that I've fixated on the one thing I can control.
For the most part everyone else here is a total pig as far as their cars go....Larry is a hoarder and his truck is full of "treasure" he has found at junk stores and such, plus he is ready for anything....flashlights, jumper cables, tools, emergency kits of all kinds. I swear, you can ask him for anything and he probably has it either on him or in his truck. The kids are just disgusting though....Karen is getting better, but the other two are lost causes.
None of the kids live here anymore. I have this bedroom that is a catch all though. It has all the crap all the kids left when they each moved out and a queen size bed that was Karen's. I've put my clothes in that closet because Larry sleeps later than me and it made it where I could get ready in the morning without waking him up. I keep saying I'm going to clean that room out and make it my own space, but that is some kind of crazy dream. The more I think about it the more gets piled in there. Right now its got long gun boxes stacked up ready to ship out.
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I have no doubt your car and work areas are clean and organized just based on your post
some traits just do not pass an so well
I fall some where in between my cars / trucks are clean but then again I keep jumper cables flash lights spare windshield wipers broke many in the winter too big hurry and assorted other items glove box always full and behind the truck seat forget it LOL due to when younger being broke down and nothing with me to help , now its habit now I am retired I seldom go more than 20 miles from home and have a cell phone its a world apart from when younger
I worked with a gal ( RIP woody her nick name ) her car(s) had just enough room for to sit in the drivers seat
they were always packed with every thing including all the fast food trash ,
we had a carpenter foreman back in my younger years his car was just as bad , the job superintend ( who was a straight faced prankster ) started every day taking the trash out of the job site trailer and just adding to it . it took a while weeks but the foreman finely caught on when he was running out of room to sit
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Our son played allot of high school sports...He got a full scholarship for football...After he went to college we decided we would make his room into a "guest" room and the cleaning began...The garbage was un believable...But about 2-3 months after the clean there was an order coming from the room...Finally checked the closet and discovered his sports bag...OMG...when we opened it we gaged...his singlet, shoes, underwear etc...was a pile of mold!!! We provided a car for him in college it eventually broke down and we towed home for repairs...Unlike Locust...we only got two trash bags out of the car...He has been a slob all his life until he got married...Noe he's a clean freak... 😁
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Driving as much as I do the trash can is the passenger floor. Water bottles are the most prevalent but junk mail, customer notes and a plethora of other detritus accumulates over a week or so. I open the passenger door, carefully, and place a trash can under the sill. After scraping all the goodies out it goes to the burn barrel.
After almost 600,000 miles it is a weekly or bi-weekly routine. Once the pile reaches the level of the passenger seat it is time to scoop it all out for the next go-around of miles upon miles.
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