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Britt's avatar

Thank you. Great piece! Reading this at what feels like the perfect time.

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Christie's avatar

My three kids in one room (12, 9, and 6) make such an intense mess. Periodically, such as when friends are coming over, we go through and clean, but it gets overwhelming. My middle child is a hoarder, so all cleaning must happen when he is not around. And still every surface is somehow covered in origami and rocks and all other things he accumulates. I am constantly searching for ways to organize and deal with the mess, but it still grows (and the organizing systems get broken, etc...). I would love to hear more about how you are now organizing your kids in their room. We have the oldest two on bunkbeds and the youngest on a trundle, but the oldest, who is only a couple of months from official teenage-dom is itching to have his own space. We are considering hanging a curtain and getting him his own bed for his own space, but that needs figuring and budgeting. I never thought we would have 3 kids (2 boys, 1 girl; one almost a teen) in one room, and honestly, we don't even live in a city. But we like our neighborhood, don't want to spend money to buy a bigger house, and can't afford to build on. Our mortgage is small, which lets us do things like travel a lot. This is all hard to explain to everyone else who judges us (grandparents) and asks when we are going to get the boys their own room. No one is volunteering to get that additional mortgage for us, though...

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