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watt price tully 
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| Post subject: To the parents of teenagers, to teenagers & ex teenagers |  |
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There are many questions in this world I don't have an answer for.
Why do such awful natural disasters occur?
Why are people so incredibly mean to each other?
Why are ther wars?
But one that has ben perplexed & vexed is why does the houses' bathroom towels migrate to teenagers bedrooms?
I need help. Despite my daughters being 17 & 20 - I want to know about teenagers & towels.
Why is it that they mysteriously collect in teenagers ( & 20 yr old bedrooms)?
Do towels have a homing devise inbuilt that they naturally self navigate there?
I'm open to suggestions to deal with this eternal (it seems) quandry.
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Nick - Pie Man
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While I appreciate that you are employing a humourous device in your post, I cannot help but point out that towels end up in teenagers bedrooms because teenagers place them there.
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watt price tully
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| Nick - Pie Man wrote: | While I appreciate that you are employing a humourous device in your post, I cannot help but point out that towels end up in teenagers bedrooms because teenagers place them there.
No need to thank me |
Good response but why are there so many there. I go to the linen closet & they've disappeared. I need a remedy to the problem which has been discussed at length with those concerned. At work I find my experience is not a unique one.
The question is then why so many & why not put them on the towel rack rather than on the .....floor / bed / desk? This is unique I understand to teenagers.
I'm not talking about a solitary towel here, I'm talking about multiple towels as though they breed!
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Nick - Pie Man
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| Take a look at where the towels are collecting and see if you can discern a pattern. Are there clothes strewn about nearby? Dirty laundry that has escaped the laundry basket? |
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Tannin 
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They do it in silent protest - worn down by all those years of living with a parent so horribly lacking in patriotism and care for what used to be a perfectly good language that he can call a linen cupboard a " linen closet".
(Shakes head, walks away. bloody yank lovers)
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HAL
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| Who, specifically, does it in silent protest - worn down by all those years of living with a parent so horribly lacking in patriotism and care for what used to be a good language that he can call a linen cupboard a linen closet? |
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stui magpie 
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It's like asking why do men drop their clothes on the floor (answer, because the won't stick to the ceiling  )
Simple solution, remove the towel supply. Stash your towels in your room and leave the rest alone. When they come screaming at you asking where are the clean towels, you can answer "I guess they're in your room and you forgot to wash them"
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Donny 
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Spot on. 
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mandy 
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| watt price tully wrote: | | Why is it that they mysteriously collect in teenagers ( & 20 yr old bedrooms)? |
I'd just shut up and stop asking questions if I were you. I'd be more than happy if I at least knew where the missing towels would be.
Last week I came home one day to find a towel on the couch, and another on the kitchen bench. When asked why they were there, the teenage girl of the house replied "I couldn't find a tea towel so I used them."
After checking the tea towel drawer and finding plenty of clean ones in there, I really couldn't be bothered asking the next obvious question.
And Stui - you really must have raised some super human teenagers if they even knew where the washing machine was, let alone knowing how to operate it.
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stui magpie
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We've came to a few compromises. My Son moved back in just before his 20th birthday, with his GF about 14 months ago. They do their own washing and do the housework and dishes. I provide the house and cook the food.
19 year old daughter stayed over last night, while her brother was working on plastering my laundry (he's on holidays so I put him to work) she did the dishes for him and cleaned up the kitchen.
I taught them how to use the washing machine, clothes dryer and how to iron their own school clothes while they were still in primary school. Both of them can cook and can do basic housework.
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watt price tully
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| Tannin wrote: | They do it in silent protest - worn down by all those years of living with a parent so horribly lacking in patriotism and care for what used to be a perfectly good language that he can call a linen cupboard a " linen closet".
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Yes the linen closet is next to the water cupboard!! I've been reading "affebeck lauder" recently too.
Mea culpa Tannin - please forgive me - in my defence I still spell programme programme & not program!
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David 
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I have a feeling that it comes down to whether or not the teenager/non-teenager in question decides to dress themselves in the bathroom or in their bedroom.
I, for example, usually pick my clothes out before my shower, and take them to the bathroom with me. This means that the drying process, the putting-towel-back-on-rack process and the dressing process all occur in the bathroom.
My girlfriend, on the other hand, likes to observe slightly different rules when she stays over. As she prefers to dress in the bedroom, this involves transportation of said towel as portable modesty device from bathroom to bedroom. Ideally, the towel would then be transported back to the bathroom once dressing has concluded, but, alas, this does not occur. Instead, I frequently find wet towels on my floor, in my bed and on my tv set, as opposed to on the towel rack in the bathroom.
This, I believe, may be the answer to your dilemma.
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think positive
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my kids towels are colour coded to their bedrooms - plus i can tell oldest daughters by the mascara stripes!! so i know who is picking them up and who leaves them on the floor.
i guess they dress mainly in the bathroom as i dont have that problem,we have a massive bathroom with a big mirror i am sure they love!
but no.1 puts her dirty socks in the top drawer of the bathroom cabinet sometimes,and the laundry chute is right next to the cabinet, we havent got round to putting a door on the chute yet (we are occupier building!!) so its easier to put them in the chute but go figure Mr Tully, why would she do that???
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think positive
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| David wrote: | I have a feeling that it comes down to whether or not the teenager/non-teenager in question decides to dress themselves in the bathroom or in their bedroom.
I, for example, usually pick my clothes out before my shower, and take them to the bathroom with me. This means that the drying process, the putting-towel-back-on-rack process and the dressing process all occur in the bathroom.
My girlfriend, on the other hand, likes to observe slightly different rules when she stays over. As she prefers to dress in the bedroom, this involves transportation of said towel as portable modesty device from bathroom to bedroom. Ideally, the towel would then be transported back to the bathroom once dressing has concluded, but, alas, this does not occur. Instead, I frequently find wet towels on my floor, in my bed and on my tv set, as opposed to on the towel rack in the bathroom.
This, I believe, may be the answer to your dilemma. |
david....she needs training!!
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watt price tully
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| think positive wrote: | my kids towels are colour coded to their bedrooms - plus i can tell oldest daughters by the mascara stripes!! so i know who is picking them up and who leaves them on the floor.
i guess they dress mainly in the bathroom as i dont have that problem,we have a massive bathroom with a big mirror i am sure they love!
but no.1 puts her dirty socks in the top drawer of the bathroom cabinet sometimes,and the laundry chute is right next to the cabinet, we havent got round to putting a door on the chute yet (we are occupier building!!) so its easier to put them in the chute but go figure Mr Tully, why would she do that??? |
A work colleague subscribes to the theory that teenagers are wired differently than the rest of us (read western world) & what is an issue for us is not even on the radar for them - with respect to things like towels, not using a different cup or glass each time you drink but rinse the one you just used so you can use it later.
One that really sh*ts me off is not closing lids on things. The oldest made a banana cake & biscuits yesterday. She left the lid unscrewed but on the vanilla essence bottle. My wife got home form Boort today reached up & the bottle spilled on her new white top! Don't get me started on toothpaste....
I know whose got towels coz when I go into their rooms my wife or myself pick up 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 which is the most I 've picked up once! I link it to the cost of washing ie electricity etc. Meaning less $ for them & the family - My father used to have a saying about leaving lights on everywhere - "I'm not family with the SEC - please switch offf the lights". And its noit like that all of the time - infact in the last few months it's been much better - time, maturity....
Don't get me wrong we're lucky to have two relatively well adjusted & independently minded young women, lucky that there's not been any major sh*t go down but the little things of domestic contradictions....
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