OK ... I've had it!
when the contents of "someone's" closet spill out onto the floor ... and then grow little by little into the room like a slowly advancing glacier ...
until this morning ~ while trying to get into said closet to hang a shirt ~ step ~ crunch ~ reach ~ uggh ~ lean ~ FALL INTO THE CLOSET!!!!
That's it!
So I did what I said I wouldn't do ... after she went to school I attacked the closet.
Not bad. 45 minutes of sorting and stacking and THROWING OUT and it looks 85% better. (the doors actually close!) Now the rest is up to her and I'm late for work as usual.
She will thank me when she gets home and she will thank me even more tomorrow when her grandmother comes to babysit and does not find reason to lecture her on the condition of her room!
I have been there. "I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it." Until, like you said, the mess, like a fungus, starts to creep down the hall. You finally give in (with a harumph) but it looks so much better. It doesn't seem to bother THEM.....maybe it's just us?
Well I have even more of a problem. I get frustrated and clean it up and then durring "nap" time Juliet not only empties the closet but all the dresser draws and the hamper too. Now I have to try and remember what was clean and what wasn't. Then after empting the hamper she uses it to climb up on her now empty dresser and clear the shelf over head of any diappers and wippes she can find. When I ask what she thinks she is doing she says "Helping Mommy:)"