Is it normal that people who don't clean up after themselves piss me off?

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I still live at home with my sister, little brother(he's two) step mom and father.

I'm the only one who cleans I swear to god.

My step mom used to bitch when she first moved in about how dirty the house was. She cleaned some, and me and my sister did most of it though because she had to take care of my brother.

Now my brother is two, meaning that he doesn't take up nearly the time he used to, but my step mom helps out even less than she did when he was little. Not only does she not clean, but she doesn't even help pick up after herself or my brother. He destroys the house daily, she cooks and just leaves stuff like cheese and seasonings out, leaves the pots and pans everywhere and just expects me to clean them up.

I asked her why she wanted another baby, because by that time me and my sis will be moved out and she will have to take care of both of them and do all the house work. Her response was "Well it will be easier because I wont have people(meaning me) leaving stuff everywhere for him to get into"

Really? I'm the one who leaves stuff everywhere? Hmmm well lets see... On the floor there is a shit ton of your kids toys, stuff he dug out of the cabinets, and all the shit that's still out from you cooking. Oh but don't worry, I'll get all that cleaned up when I get home exhausted from being at school all day. I guess watching tv and watering the garden is just so hard that you can't clean.

My ritual before I go to bed is do the dishes, and clean the kitchen. This requires me to scrub ALL the counters because apparently everyone else is incompetent of wiping messes up when they spill it, and picking up all the trash that her and my dad just leave all over (like drink cups and empty jars) and whatever else they were just too busy to put away. If I don't do this I get bitched at for being "lazy"

The other day she "cleaned" by that I mean she picked up a few toys off the floor. Groaning every time she bent down like she had been working all day. Then asked if I could sweep and mop the floors. After she asked that she just left, leaving about 30 objects (toys and crap her son got out) for me to pick up before I cleaned all the floors. On the rare occasion she does actually clean she bitches about how she had to do it and why someone else hadn't done it.

Why oh why can't people help me clean.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    Well, first off, I think you should move out. Simple as that. They treat you like a maid!

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    good story. the positive thing to come out of it is that you sound like a fully functioning independent person, well done look to the future and stay strong

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    I think we have the same lifestyle. I live with my mum and my 6 year old brother. We have 2 dogs and a cat, one of the dogs is mine, though I had 2, with the intention of breeding them, but my mum used him as an excuse to blame the rubbish on. It was always 'Casper's dragging the bin bag round the kitchen' or 'Casper's jumping up at the hob and licking the grease off it.' You walk into the living room and there are toys on toys and crisp packets and sweet wrappers. You tell my brother to clean up, and he says 'mum doesn't expect me to' and at the end of the day she complains she lives in a stye and has to put up with every one elses filth while we tread around the fag ends and gum melted to the sides. My dog that I sold wouldn't be making half the mess if she had cleaned up in the first place, but then she goes out to work without letting me know her days and it's 'are you ok to pick your brother up, and there are a few- by few she means all- dishes in the kitchen that need a quick rinse, and would you mind wiping the surfaces'. To which point I am so stuck into it, I might as well just do it good and proper, but then she comes home and complains she can't find anything, and that's not where the pans go, and where are the TV remotes and all the kerfuffle. I have moved out, and been sent back and moved out and been sent back, and moved out again and my Nannan tells me 'why don't you just go home and help your mother'. I don't even have my own bedroom, so when I clean it, I go in it an hour later, and my brother has trashed the room again. Moving out is an impossibility with me, and considering I wanna do well and go to Uni and can't afford a house and education, I have to pick, and it makes me so depressed and I feel so unappreciated. I completely understand what you're going through.

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    • Gatto-Gorado
      12 years ago

      Wow.

      Luckily when I go to university that will be my ticket out of the house.
      Maybe your university has some dorms you could live in? The one I'm planing to go to requires you live in the dorms the first year. Or you could find a friend to live with and split the rent and bills.

      I hope after my first year at school to move in with my boyfriend and one of my other friends.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    I'd litteraly be like... No clean your own shit up and dont bitch and whine to me when you havn't done squat. And cleaning the whole fucking house and your son isnt my responsibility...

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    • Gatto-Gorado
      12 years ago

      I really would but that would result in me not being allowed to do anything.

      Take this for example.

      In my school seniors get out a few weeks earlier than the rest of the students. My sister was a senior, so she was out of school, and I still had to go. While she was home all day she did nothing. I would come home from school completely worn out and all I wanted to do was relax and play some video games. I HOPED that since she and my step mom were home ALL day they would be kind enough to clean since I was still having to get up early and go to school. But no. My sister spent the whole day watching TV and play on her computer. So one day when I got home from school I was relaxing on the couch, and my step mom comes stomping in, bitching and whining that the house was a wreck. She was bitching at me saying "all you do is sit there and play on your computer meh meh meh" So guess who had to clean the house after being at school all day?

      I honestly don't know what she's going to do when I go to University. Seeing as she wants to pop out another kid. I know one thing for sure, if she expects me to come home on the weekends and baby sit and clean she's got another thing coming. I'll just stay at my dorm and relax rather than come home to TWO squalling babies.

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      • [Old Memory]
        12 years ago

        good plan

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  • Geneva5
    12 years ago

    You should find a pimp ?

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  • Geneva5
    12 years ago

    Who gives a fuck ? Not me !
    If you don't like it there - leave.

    They sound like dicks anyway :)

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    • Gatto-Gorado
      12 years ago

      That's a bit hard when your seventeen and still in high school.

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