Isn’t life different when kids come along? It’s not just your mess you have to clean up any more! As I’ve been focusing more on cleaning and de-cluttering for the Home Organisation Challenge, I’ve taken more notice of all the funny signs that there is a toddler (and a pre-schooler) in the house! Go ahead, Laugh At My Expense!
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The toilet paper looks like it has been mauled by a lion (cub)
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You have a drawer/cupboard overfilled with multi-coloured plastic and melamine plates, bowls and cups
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The cups are never in the drawer when you need them, instead you’ll find them in the toy box, behind the sofa, in the backyard, under your pillow.
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You have a grungy ‘dado’ feature around the bottom one metre of all the walls in the house
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The bottom half of your full-length mirror is so smeared your cellulite is disguised by the soft-focus effect (bonus)
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Your fruit bowl is empty the day after you shopped
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You can’t see out your windows
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If you can’t find anything, it will be in the car, along with a stash of old apple cores and the missing socks
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Your backyard looks like the chimpanzee enclosure after the zookeepers have done their ‘enrichment’ rounds
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There is at least one spot ‘up high’ in your house crammed full of stuff you’ve whisked away from the kids, but never put away
What are the signs of the kids in residence at your place?
Laney x
ps. See that green mark to the left of the toilet paper? It’s a green reindeer stamp. CrashGirl has tagged our entire house with them in the most random places. I keep finding them and I can’t get them off!
Yes, yes and yes! My goodness our yard is awful, I can’t remember the last the bathroom mirro wasn’t smeared with dirty hand prints, and I am so over trying to organise the random collection of plastic plates!
All I want is the house to be clean for one day. Is that too much to ask?
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Yes, Jess, that is too much to ask. Unless you send them away somewhere! ;)
Who would have thought, I can identify with every one of those things! I predict that some may last for years (empty fruit bowl, anyone?) while I’ll be happy to see the end of grimy windows and mirrors in a few years, fingers crossed.
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Our windows are the worst. I refuse to clean them anymore because they just end up the same in a few short hours!
Love this Laney and so very true. And having a baby in the house has reminded me that I must clean the high chair after every meal because I have just been trying to scrape off cement like cereal from yesterday….and it ain’t easy!
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Cereal is the worst! If I miss a stray soggy mini wheat I almost need to chisel it off the floor! I find a spray of vinegar mixed with water left on for a while helps to soften it up. Good luck!
I can totally relate!! Oh no, green stamps everywhere? Lol here it is stickers! I could also add more food under the table than on it at any given meal!
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Oh, don’t get me started on the stickers!!! And yes, I detest cleaning up the post-meal mess. Nothing more demotivating than scraping food off the floor ;)
I definitely laughed Laney – Thankyou. That drawer of melamine cups and plates you have? Still have mine. Goes with cup full of shaped small spoons and forks sitting on the fridge “just in case”. Don’t have the window problem as we moved in post toddler. I also still have the top of wardrobe stash. That never changes!
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I’m loving how everyone can relate, and that it’s not just my crazy house ;) Our window problem is particularly bad as we have more windows than walls and mostly floor to ceiling too. I’m doomed!
oh i only learnt about the windows since moving here. at the old place the windows were not reachable for the toddler but here we have huge windows and huge mirrors in the bathroom. Theres always tooth paste smudged on the mirror.
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So glad to hear I am not the only one who needs to clean their windows. I did clean the front door glass one day only for it to look just as filthy the next. I find I am forever picking up the cushions and putting them back on the couches!
It’s funny because it’s all so true!!! :x
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To answer your question… You find chairs, stool, boxes, upturn toy crates and occasional tables pushed up against doors so said small person can reach the door knob of entry to the holy grail – the bathroom!
Toothpaste, zinc cream and margarine death traps on the tiled floors – Pro Hart style.
Crumpled mounds of linen on previously pristine, freshly made beds.
Books here, there and everywhere except on the bookshelves… Oh wait, no… That’s me…
Yes Yes Yes. All of the above. Add in little fruit stickers stuck to floor, walls, fridge door and anywhere else they see fit (any other stickers are banned, really must remember to remove those darn things from the apples before putting them away) My youngest is past toddler stage and I still have the smeared windows and have given up on cleaning them, in fact on thoroughly cleaning any surface that we don’t have to eat off!
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I see you’ve been to my house already!! I could match you 10 our or 10 on that one. Very cute post Laney :)
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Haha yes – I tick every box in your list Laney!
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Oh yes! We have stamp pad marks on our lounge room carpet. I have no idea how to get it out.
I can relate to all these…I often find our cutlery outdoors in random places.
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Ha ha, we had a stamp pad mark on our carpet growing up too. I can’t remember if it was me or my brother ;). I don’t think you have any chance of getting it out!
YES! So true & hilarious!
Undies in random places. Behind the couch for example – AGAIN!
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