Did that with toys. Mom could never wrangle the toys in that were left all over. I was home, told the kids once to come clean up the toys now. 3 hours later when they came out, they found all their toys in the garbage.My kids used to leave their clothes on the floor in opposition to my repeated requests for them to put them in the hamper, in their rooms mind you. So one day they came home and all of the clothes left on the floor where burned in our wood furnace. Some of which they bought for themselves. I refused to replace them and guess what? They never left any clothes on the floor again. Sometimes hard lessons are the easiest learned.
I am rolling. I am playing out this scenario in my head and it screens like a scene from an 80's sitcom. My day has been made. Cracking responseDid that with toys. Mom could never wrangle the toys in that were left all over. I was home, told the kids once to come clean up the toys now. 3 hours later when they came out, they found all their toys in the garbage.
They did get them back, but the next time I told them they needed to clean up the toys, they didn't need told twice.
Now clothes, it was me. Get a shower at 5 am in the morning and wife complained that I left the clothes on the bathroom floor (very small bathroom, very small house.) So I did what she wanted me to do. I walked into the bedroom at 5 am, flipped the blazing overhead light on, really ticked her off from waking her up. She didn't ask me to come into the bedroom at 5 am to put my clothes away where they needed to be after that.
I could never get her to not come into the bedroom at 5 am on a Saturday and fire up the screaming hair dryer though... My life didn't matter. Reason 6875
Exactly the same for meDirty clothes go in the hamper. Clean clothes hang on a hook on the back of the bathroom door.