towels, clothes and toys

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How do you manage your disorganized, collector AS child. What can I do that

would be effective? She is 11.

My daughter takes clean towels (if not under constant watch)

and lays them out in the bathroom and gives her dolls a spa.

My response: I lock the towels up and parcel them out.

Something about this seems wierd on my part. But she won't

stop. As a toddler I had to put toliet paper out of sight :-)

Oh and she use to take all the kleenex out of a box. She is over that

thank goodness.

My daughter's room is a constant mess. And she panics that

she can't find her clothes.

My response: I keep many (not all) of her clean clothes in my

room so we always have some for the next morning and not have

a big drama. I just can't keep up with all her disorder and

every evening it is so hard to get her to brush here teeth and

get in her pjs.

My daughter has her pets in everyroom even the kitchen she is

a hoarder and taking over the house. My husband has the

basement and out bedroom and she has other rooms. I am getting

squeezed into a small spare room by this too. I again lock her

toys and collections in a room we keep toys in periodically

when it gets out of control. And I don't let her take things

out until we get it under control.

Does anyone have any ideas how to get control over there

expolsive collecting and disorder?

What do you think of my strategy to try and maintain order

by cutting her off of things she doesn't put away.

I do try to reserve Saturday to have them both help me clean

up somethings. But it is never ever enough time.

thanks for your ideas.

Pam