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True. One hour griping, one hour thinking of ways to escape unnoticed without cleaning up, one hour to decide whether to be stupendous man or spaceman spiff âŠ. It all adds up.
Sounds like my sons, too - only they take three days, unless I say they can get to computer after they have finished, in what case it is cleaned in 15 minutes.
When Iâm working out a problem or Iâm angry I clean. The house looks great afterwards and I feel alot better and I know the solution. If thereâs not enough to clean I go to the gym and work it off for a couple hours. My Mom never went to a gym to work out but we had a very clean house!
Calvin, if you clean up your room and donât mess it up again, youâll never have to hear âClean up your room!â Apparently, your aversion to hearing âClean up your room!â is less than your aversion to actually cleaning up your room.
Furthermore, if you âget off the schneidâ and clean your room âtoot sweetâ, your day wonât be wasted.
BTW, one of my pet peeves is the wording of the saying, âA mind (day) is a terrible thing to waste.â Whatâs wrong with it expressed that way?
Charlie Brown (the pitcher) lost the championship for his team by balking. Calvin is losing the day for him and Hobbes by balking. âYou Blockhead!â
But but but you donât understand! The problem isnât getting the room clean! I donât want to clean it! And Iâm prepared to ruin my whole day to not do it. So there.
Lewreader,
âAccording to myth, Hercules cleaned out the Augean stables by diverting the course of a river.â
âThe Augean Stable was one of the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Herculesâ task was to clean out a stable that had been soiled by years of neglect. Hercules succeeded by using a boulder to gouge out a trench, diverting a river (possibly the Alpheus) through the stable.â
Are you a mythology buff?
algurka,
I wasnât trying to âsteal your thunderâ. Apparently, I was composing my post while you were posting yours. You beat me by three minutes.
Never could get my youngest to clean up her disasterous room, so I finally did it for her one last time in a big wayâŠ.tossed all her scattered toys, clothes and whatnots in big trash bags and set them out in the garage where she had to go and search through them to retrieve whatever item she was looking for.
The stubborn little darling eventually got the message.
:)
My parents always said as long as the mess didnât go in front of the door, where otherâs could see it, and as long as it didnât come out of my room then it was my responsibility and if I didnât want to clean it that was up to me. I realized more often than not I wanted to clean it after a while. Just a thought! :D
Oh the tangled mess we leave , when our room isnât cleanâŠ.If at first you donât succeed , start hiding things, indeed. Under thy bed is a good place to start. Then from there just follow your heart. In the closet behind the stairs, You can put stuff everywhere.Till at last the chore is done. Now get outside and have some fun .!!
If he doesnât watch out, all of that anguish and hate will manifest itself in high blood pressure and a coronary. He should calm down, clean the room, and go outside with Hobbes for a game of Calvin Ball. The exercise will do wonders for his attitude. Wait a minute, this is Calvin Iâm talking aboutâŠâŠâŠNOT!
The problem is that Calvin doesnât see it as a mess Mom. It is cluttered organization. Unfortunately, Calvin lives in a house of âMomâ rules. So either abide or get out.
My daughter nows of a former girl friend when they where children itâs her responsiblity to clean her room, got older she had to make her own lunch. Her mom treated her small little girl younger then Calvin responsbilities.
Ushindi I think you Calvin is great represents a lot of children and sometimes adults.
Aerwalt, why putting the seat down of course! Bit**ing doesnât use any calories at all.
Iâm still waiting for my daughter (now 40) to clean her room. Iâve got stuff in my basement from when her now 18 year old son was a newborn. So I have a lot of sympathy for Calvinâs Mom.
Quite the contrary, Iâd argue that it uses a LOT of calories. Anything that draws upon the Jungian Shadow takes a LOT of transmission power.
It ainât worth it to go on the Bad Attitude Weight Loss Program, though.
Dare I ask, MatureCanadian, where your daughter and her son are living? Not meaning to pryâŠ
Iâd clean my âroomâ too, if I had any place to store anything properly! Rarely have I had anything like that in my life, save on my computer (where everything is neatly, if heterodoxically, filed).
And then another hour kickiing thigs across the room, yanking drawers open & shoving them shut. Then i have to slam the closet door open & closed again several times.
Then I can sit & think of the easiest way to get out of cleaning.
When you get older, and hardly anyone drops by, you can keep your place âCalvin styleâ all you want. My room was always messy, but in such a way that it could, if necessary, be cleaned up very quickly. Thereâs an art to this, not sure I can exactly explain itâŠ.
adubman said: Calvin is the tyke who hypes the gripe!
Very clever! Love both your comments! :-)
P.S.: Calvin, if youâd clean while you gripe, you and Hobbes will be outside playing in no time! At the rate youâre going, it will be all day before you get done!!!!!
I should have known when my first born son asked for a dumpster for his 5th birthday that he had inherited Grandpas hording gene.
There came a point when I just said, -Pick up the books, the dirty clothes and donât take food to your room;
Once he stashed a hot dog in his raincoat pocket and we thought something had died inside the walls.
The toilet seat dilemma in our house is solved simply. There are 3 of us living here now. We have 3 bathrooms. Even though we share their use, each of us has charge of 1 bathroom. The seat stays down in mine. In my husbandâs and sonâs, it is their choice.
In a twist on the âsilent treatmentâ, when my husband is angry with me, he will go in my bathroom and leave the seat up.
I, on the other hand, am an unrepentant pig. I donât have a sweater drawer because thereâs a box I can throw them on top of. And the floor catches the rest. Same with clean clothes - theyâre already in a container called a laundry basket; why should I go through the trouble of folding them?
margueritem over 14 years ago
maybe another 2 hoursâŠ
rentier over 14 years ago
Griping wastes much time!
vibjyor over 14 years ago
True. One hour griping, one hour thinking of ways to escape unnoticed without cleaning up, one hour to decide whether to be stupendous man or spaceman spiff âŠ. It all adds up.
COWBOY7 over 14 years ago
With that attitude, getting done in ONE day would be a miracle!
GâMorning, Mike, Marg & Grog!
Rakkav over 14 years ago
Itâs pretty obvious that Calvin needs to rethink his life a little bit!
DeepHappy over 14 years ago
The trick is to grip while you are cleaning. Before you know it the cleaning is finished. You can of course continuing the griping though. :)
newworldmozart over 14 years ago
This is so my son. 2 hours worth of griping for 10 mins worth of work. yessh
PetrusS over 14 years ago
And then do not underestimate the time spent playing with stuff you encounter during the cleaning of your roomâŠ
Ushindi over 14 years ago
Clean my ROOM?!?
alviebird over 14 years ago
@PetrusS,
That was me.
ladywolf17 over 14 years ago
Well clean it. It isnât going to clean itself you know.
ladywolf17 over 14 years ago
Nice Gif. Ushindi. I have that one too.
paha_siga over 14 years ago
Sounds like my sons, too - only they take three days, unless I say they can get to computer after they have finished, in what case it is cleaned in 15 minutes.
sumantamaitra over 14 years ago
yeah women are tyrants
moronbis over 14 years ago
Depends on what you call âcleanâ, Mom. I am surprised that Calvin didnât come up with *his * interpretation of cleanliness.
harrietbe over 14 years ago
He probably will, moronbis. I wonder if Mom will give it the white glove test, and Calvin will fail.
Yukoner over 14 years ago
Itâs all about the âstorage spaceâ under the bed.
Dino-1 over 14 years ago
When Iâm working out a problem or Iâm angry I clean. The house looks great afterwards and I feel alot better and I know the solution. If thereâs not enough to clean I go to the gym and work it off for a couple hours. My Mom never went to a gym to work out but we had a very clean house!
Puddleglum2 over 14 years ago
Calvin, if you clean up your room and donât mess it up again, youâll never have to hear âClean up your room!â Apparently, your aversion to hearing âClean up your room!â is less than your aversion to actually cleaning up your room. Furthermore, if you âget off the schneidâ and clean your room âtoot sweetâ, your day wonât be wasted. BTW, one of my pet peeves is the wording of the saying, âA mind (day) is a terrible thing to waste.â Whatâs wrong with it expressed that way?
lewisbower over 14 years ago
Calvin, who was it that cleaned what stable by diverting what river?Remember what I said about windows yesterday?
Puddleglum2 over 14 years ago
Charlie Brown (the pitcher) lost the championship for his team by balking. Calvin is losing the day for him and Hobbes by balking. âYou Blockhead!â
cats32 over 14 years ago
I clean my room every three years. No joke.
cdward over 14 years ago
But but but you donât understand! The problem isnât getting the room clean! I donât want to clean it! And Iâm prepared to ruin my whole day to not do it. So there.
alan.gurka over 14 years ago
It was Hercules who diverted the river, Styx, to clean Zeusâ stables, if my mythology is correct. Sure! Couldnât Stupendous Man do the same thing?
Puddleglum2 over 14 years ago
Lewreader, âAccording to myth, Hercules cleaned out the Augean stables by diverting the course of a river.â âThe Augean Stable was one of the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Herculesâ task was to clean out a stable that had been soiled by years of neglect. Hercules succeeded by using a boulder to gouge out a trench, diverting a river (possibly the Alpheus) through the stable.â Are you a mythology buff?
Sandfan over 14 years ago
Cleanliness is next to Mommyness.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
Welll a little less griping and a little more action is what you need, Calvin, if you want to do the things you enjoy doing.
Good Morning, Marg, Mike & â Lonewolf!
Puddleglum2 over 14 years ago
algurka, I wasnât trying to âsteal your thunderâ. Apparently, I was composing my post while you were posting yours. You beat me by three minutes.
lazygrazer over 14 years ago
Never could get my youngest to clean up her disasterous room, so I finally did it for her one last time in a big wayâŠ.tossed all her scattered toys, clothes and whatnots in big trash bags and set them out in the garage where she had to go and search through them to retrieve whatever item she was looking for. The stubborn little darling eventually got the message. :)
LeslieAnne over 14 years ago
My parents always said as long as the mess didnât go in front of the door, where otherâs could see it, and as long as it didnât come out of my room then it was my responsibility and if I didnât want to clean it that was up to me. I realized more often than not I wanted to clean it after a while. Just a thought! :D
gjsjr41 over 14 years ago
Grog, he IS doing the thing he loves doing, Griping. lol
TN-REDD over 14 years ago
Oh the tangled mess we leave , when our room isnât cleanâŠ.If at first you donât succeed , start hiding things, indeed. Under thy bed is a good place to start. Then from there just follow your heart. In the closet behind the stairs, You can put stuff everywhere.Till at last the chore is done. Now get outside and have some fun .!!
billdi Premium Member over 14 years ago
but mom, itâs taken me months to get this mess just the way i want it!
musicnut1986 over 14 years ago
If he doesnât watch out, all of that anguish and hate will manifest itself in high blood pressure and a coronary. He should calm down, clean the room, and go outside with Hobbes for a game of Calvin Ball. The exercise will do wonders for his attitude. Wait a minute, this is Calvin Iâm talking aboutâŠâŠâŠNOT!
JTGAM over 14 years ago
The problem is that Calvin doesnât see it as a mess Mom. It is cluttered organization. Unfortunately, Calvin lives in a house of âMomâ rules. So either abide or get out.
kab2rb over 14 years ago
My daughter nows of a former girl friend when they where children itâs her responsiblity to clean her room, got older she had to make her own lunch. Her mom treated her small little girl younger then Calvin responsbilities.
Ushindi I think you Calvin is great represents a lot of children and sometimes adults.
JanLC over 14 years ago
Poindexter, a 6-year old kid does not have the choice to get out.
aerwalt over 14 years ago
From Summer Classes for Women:
Which takes more energy- Putting the toilet seat down or
Bi*ing about it for three hours?
MatureCanadian over 14 years ago
Aerwalt, why putting the seat down of course! Bit**ing doesnât use any calories at all.
Iâm still waiting for my daughter (now 40) to clean her room. Iâve got stuff in my basement from when her now 18 year old son was a newborn. So I have a lot of sympathy for Calvinâs Mom.
Rakkav over 14 years ago
Quite the contrary, Iâd argue that it uses a LOT of calories. Anything that draws upon the Jungian Shadow takes a LOT of transmission power.
It ainât worth it to go on the Bad Attitude Weight Loss Program, though.
Dare I ask, MatureCanadian, where your daughter and her son are living? Not meaning to pryâŠ
Iâd clean my âroomâ too, if I had any place to store anything properly! Rarely have I had anything like that in my life, save on my computer (where everything is neatly, if heterodoxically, filed).
adubman over 14 years ago
Calvin is the tyke who hypes the gripe!
Brother_James437 over 14 years ago
And then another hour kickiing thigs across the room, yanking drawers open & shoving them shut. Then i have to slam the closet door open & closed again several times. Then I can sit & think of the easiest way to get out of cleaning.
gofinsc over 14 years ago
Yes, if he cleans up, he wonât know where to find anything!
(As to putting the seat down, put it down. But also be sure to put the lid down. If one has to open, the other has to open, too.)
khpage over 14 years ago
When you get older, and hardly anyone drops by, you can keep your place âCalvin styleâ all you want. My room was always messy, but in such a way that it could, if necessary, be cleaned up very quickly. Thereâs an art to this, not sure I can exactly explain itâŠ.
Gretchen's Mom over 14 years ago
sandfan said: Cleanliness is next to Mommyness.
adubman said: Calvin is the tyke who hypes the gripe!
Very clever! Love both your comments! :-)
P.S.: Calvin, if youâd clean while you gripe, you and Hobbes will be outside playing in no time! At the rate youâre going, it will be all day before you get done!!!!!
vldazzle over 14 years ago
3 of my 4 kids were like that. The second son always was neat (and heâs the only one with a really big 6 figure salary now).
bald over 14 years ago
i may be the exception to the rule for guys, I always liked my room neat, that way i never felt bad when my friends came over
ellisaana Premium Member over 14 years ago
I should have known when my first born son asked for a dumpster for his 5th birthday that he had inherited Grandpas hording gene.
There came a point when I just said, -Pick up the books, the dirty clothes and donât take food to your room;
Once he stashed a hot dog in his raincoat pocket and we thought something had died inside the walls.
The toilet seat dilemma in our house is solved simply. There are 3 of us living here now. We have 3 bathrooms. Even though we share their use, each of us has charge of 1 bathroom. The seat stays down in mine. In my husbandâs and sonâs, it is their choice. In a twist on the âsilent treatmentâ, when my husband is angry with me, he will go in my bathroom and leave the seat up.
glitterygal07 over 14 years ago
I donât mean to brag here, but Iâve gotten used to cleaning up my room since age two.
cdward over 14 years ago
I, on the other hand, am an unrepentant pig. I donât have a sweater drawer because thereâs a box I can throw them on top of. And the floor catches the rest. Same with clean clothes - theyâre already in a container called a laundry basket; why should I go through the trouble of folding them?
alviebird over 14 years ago
Whether you âfall inâ or splatter on the closed top, donât blame someone else because you didnât look.
You are responsible for yourself.
Wiseguy411 over 14 years ago
Remember âPigPenâ once said
âWhile cleanliness is next to Godliness, with me cleanliness is next to impossibleâ
It seems Calvin may have a similar genetic make-up âŠ
Sylvannis over 14 years ago
SHUT IT