Aiden’s room……Done :D

I finally stopped putting it off and cleaned Aiden’s room! It only took me one and three quarter hours and I feel so much better now it’s done.
Like the girl’s room, there was enough space on the floor to just be able to get in the door.

 

I also cleaned our room, changed the bedding and hoovered all upstairs.
On reflection, changing the beds on the same day as cleaning Aiden’s room wasn’t very smart because now I’ve gone from having no laundry to having about 6 loads worth.
The following is just from Aiden’s room! You can’t tell from the photo how much laundry there actually is…believe me, it’s a lot!

What is it with boys and laundry? No matter how many times we tell Aiden to put his dirty clothes straight to wash, he leaves them on the floor in his room.
I end up with a mountain of laundry when I’ve been congratulating myself for keeping on top of it all week. Somehow, I fail to notice that hardly any of the clothes I wash are Aiden’s. In my defence, Ella changes clothes at least 3 times a day, sometimes more so I get swamped with girls’ clothes. My mind is then overtaken with ways in which to stop the little minx wearing so many clothes so I don’t have to do so much washing but no matter what I try, she still ends up changing, over and over again!

Back to Aiden’s room and a little story from July when he’d just finished school for the holidays.
I decided to empty his school bag and sort it out (I didn’t usually go in his bag as I figured he was old enough to sort it out himself now) seeing as it had in it all his work from the last year at primary school and I wanted to save it for him for when he’s older.

I took the first lot of books out then the smell hit me. Mould.
On closer inspection, the bottom of his bag contained 2 small lunch boxes which in turn contained left over, extremely mouldy bits of bread/banana skins/yogurt pots.
I couldn’t stand the smell so I handed the bag to Aiden and told him it was too disgusting and as he’d let it get that way, he could be the one to clean it.

Back to room cleaning day…he’d emptied his bag and sorted the lunchboxes that had been in it but he hadn’t brought down two more lunch boxes that were in his room and they had about the same amount of mould as the first two. He also hadn’t put his bag to wash so it was still stinky.
You know, I was wondering what had happened to all the lunchboxes I’d bought and I figured he’d lost them at school. Little did I know they were festering away in his bag and his room.

I had to soak them in bicarb of soda to get rid of the smell.

Suffice it to say, when he starts secondary school in September, I’ll be standing over him, watching him empty his bag every night as soon as he gets home from school.

So now his room is all nice and clean and I’ll be checking it daily to make sure he keeps it that way!

The only thing I didn’t do was make his bed. There’s no way I’m going to try and get up there to make it so that’s his first job when he gets home on Sunday.

 

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