We all hate tidying up but it all depends on how old you are as to how you approach it. The following is a list of the ages you have to be to tidy up in a certain way.
- If you are 1 year old, then whatever needs tidying up you should eat!
- When you are 5 years old, picking up the item to tidy is a good start. Unfortunately, then you probably will decide that you actually wanted to play with it. That means that you immediately forget about tidying up at all.
- When you are 10 years old, there is no reason why anything should be tidied up as it all looks fine to you.
- When you are 15 years old, you have to stamp your feet, sulk and breathe out very noisily (door slamming is optional). Tidying of course doesn't happen.
- When you are 20 years old, you have just left home and there is no-one to tell you to tidy up so you don't bother.
- When you are 30 years old, you probably aren't married so there is a great incentive to tidy up in case you can persuade someone to come back to your place.
- When you are 40 years old, you have children so you never tidy your own stuff as you are too busy tidying up the children's toys (see 1 year old and 5 year old).
- When you are 50 years old, you have teenagers and you are depressed. Add to that a bit of stress, a general state of being out of your mind with worry and a pinch of miserable. This means that a glass of wine is going to be far more important than tidying up.
- When you are 60 years old, you have just retired so you have plenty of time. You can tidy up all the time if you like. Of course, you are a lot slower these days so it can take you all day even if you didn't want it to. Although you probably won't admit it, it could be because you've just come upstairs to this room but you can't remember why.
Happy tidying.
