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(JD) · Sep 01, 2011, 07:42 PM

Here's a tip that might help: keep things that you use more often than not to yourself. Create a lockable drawer or cabinet to keep them in (allow others to have their own stuff wherever they happen to put them) buy your own supplies, or take what's in the house and make them buy theirs?

As for clothes, if the people are old enough to know better (such as 3 years and up) then warn them that you want them hung up upon arrival home or else. Give them one last warning. Maybe put it in writing on the fridge.

Then, decide what you wish with the items... I "threatened my sons" with the same type of thing when they refused to pick up the clothes in their rooms. They were quite young, 3rd grade etc... so after warning them, I picked up their rooms while they were at school and put them into the trunk of the car. I allowed them to buy back items. When one refused to repurchase it, I allowed the brother to buy it and own it. (Obviously it was for pennies on the dollar.) They quickly bought the clothes they wanted. I didn't have any more trouble until the mid teen years. Story follows.

I warned them, to no avail. The next day, upon arrival of the school bus with all their neighborhood friends on board, the scene was one of all their clothes that had been on the floors strewed across the front yard. I never had that trouble again.

Quit being angry and take action. They need to learn this or it might cause a future divorce! Seriously!