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conulyUgh. Oh, and wash some dishes. I hate laundry and I hate dishes, and Eva broke a plate again just a few days ago. It'd be better if we lived somewhere warm and went around naked and lived in a state of nature and never used dishes at all.
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Date: 2014-09-01 01:26 am (UTC)So, don't the girlies do their own laundry? Or is that more trouble than the fight is bloody-well worth? I presume that the plate-breaking took place in the course of dishwashing, yeah? *sighhh*
I actually went to paper plates for a while - hang the cost, hang the environment; my mother gave me no end of shit about it when her grandchild let the fact slip ("thanks ever so") but I simply had no spoons to keep up with the damn dishes, and I couldn't bear to have a stinking sink-full of dirty ones growing mold and ewwww no, just no.
I must admit that I never really succeeded in getting my daughter to do the dishes, do her laundry, clean the bathroom, or even keep her own room in any sort of order, on any sort of regular basis. It just wasn't worth the fight; my battles with my own mother around those issues had seriously damaged our relationship, and I wasn't willing to do that to my kid.
As a result, she had to suffer the consequences once she grew up, moved out, and had to face the reality of Life Without Mama. Sloppy housemates? Fruit flies? Mold? Nothing clean to wear? There is a reason why we do these damn tedious tasks Every Frickin' Day: welcome to the wonderful world of Adulthood, where you will now live for the rest of your life!.
Unfortunately, it's your tiresome duty to keep on nudging the nieces in the direction of Good Housekeeping, Consideration for Others, and Pulling One's Weight in spite of all resistance, and regardless of how much simpler it is to just do the work yourself. You won't see the benefit until they're living on their own - in horrible squalor at first, no doubt, but then they will rise up and say "Eww!"
Meanwhile, my deepest sympathies, and I suggest you increase the volume of your nudging: school's about to start; the partay is over. Good luck!
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Date: 2014-09-01 01:41 am (UTC)Actually, it's not the washing of the clothes that irritates me, it's the putting away. I can wash just fine, I just want somebody else to FOLD them and put them in DRAWERS.
Nobody else wants to do those tasks either.