OH! I can so beat everyone here!! I'm going home tonight and getting a shot of my 14 YO boys room!! (Better not be any calls to child services after I post!!)
To SRUDY: When I saw your pic of your dorm room, I was immediately reminded of being on a ocean racing yacht, with the pipes, hanging net bags, and "racks" for catching a few hours sleep. The confined space and the space FULL of "essentials" will prepare you for a possible career as an Astronaut....or submarine duty.
Good luck on your studies...and finding your homework in that.
srudy wrote:
Sorry - you are all lightweights. This is a freshman dorm at an otherwise wonderful New England College where three males are residing in something that resembles a veal pen. But hey, it's slightly cheaper than buying a new BMW every year. http://www.cowper.com/fm/_Y9D2172.jpg
I'm amazed that even through all that stuff you floor seems very clean, I guess you need it to be or else you would never make it from one end to the other
srudy wrote:
Sorry - you are all lightweights. This is a freshman dorm at an otherwise wonderful New England College where three males are residing in something that resembles a veal pen. But hey, it's slightly cheaper than buying a new BMW every year.
First thing that came to mind was I hope there is never a fire in that building, because no one is making it out of that room in a hurry!
ClareinME wrote:
First thing that came to mind was I hope there is never a fire in that building, because no one is making it out of that room in a hurry!
yeah but if someone yells "hot girl in bikini coming down the hall" you can be sure they are out that door quicker than the speed of light
Genoph - good luck on the mid-term
Steady - I graduated college when Jimmy Carter was President. That small human figure in the corner of this disaster is my son, who loves this place.
Kazman - they cleaned up for Parents' Weekend
ClareinME - I think I'll send him a fire extinguisher by FedEx.
Mark - I believe that speed has already been tested on this coed floor.
Uggg... Yeah I have boys and it looks the same - no I ain't posting a picture. Great idea for a thread and maybe even a coffee table book of sorts - I mean people have done traffic cones and car tires for crying out loud :-D
JohnBrose wrote:
I like the fearful look on the dog under the chair in the 2nd one.
lol - Yeh I loved that part of the image..... I suspect the dog has been the subject of too maybe strobe experiments in the past and is scared of the camera..... Growing up my parents had a dog that would hide under the bed at the far end of the house when the laundry taps turned on - too many bad memories of dog baths apparently :-D
redal wrote:
Steve,
I hope they develop sensors that record the things that really matter to a young baby, stimulation, interaction with a parent and love from a parent.
My daughters(13) room spotless and she is at me to keep my place tidier, my son (10) room is another matter, Lego, cars, and other toys all over the place.
Allan
I think the idea of the fake baby is not so much to teach them good parenting skills but to show them what a pain in the ass having a kid is, and how much of their lives it will take over.
In other words encouragment towards abstinance or at least birthcontrol
My wife had when of those when she was in highschool and she droped the poor thing on its head =/
my parents would have slapped me silly if i kept my room like that. thx mom for making me not a slob. without my parents instilling good work ethic and professionalism i wouldnt have been able to start a photography business at 17.
also, places like ikea make good design affordable and easy for the layperson. you dont need to be an interior decorator to make a room look nice, magazines/furniture stores do it for you. you cant mess up! being in a nice looking space only encourages productivity, and the want to keep it looking nice.
Lol at all this moralizing. If my kids didn't trash their rooms I'd think there was something wrong with them. It's a teenagers god given right to be rebellious. They've got the rest of their lives' to pick up dirty laundry...
Sergio Mottola wrote:
my parents would have slapped me silly if i kept my room like that. thx mom for making me not a slob. without my parents instilling good work ethic and professionalism i wouldnt have been able to start a photography business at 17.
also, places like ikea make good design affordable and easy for the layperson. you dont need to be an interior decorator to make a room look nice, magazines/furniture stores do it for you. you cant mess up! being in a nice looking space only encourages productivity, and the want to keep it looking nice.
+1
By the way Serg, you are no longer that far away from me (Vancouver). PM me.
Why does the cleanliness of a room have to relate to good/bad/proud parenting? I know plenty of idiots with clean rooms and likewise plenty of genuinely lovely people (Myself included ) with cluttered ones. My flat is never dirty, but I have been known to make liberal use of the 'floordrobe' from time to time. Back to the photographs folks, no need to be judgemental.
kazman442 wrote:
Thought I might share with you our daughters bedroom after only one week of being clean, Every week she has to clean it and after a week it seems to look like this again, ...
She needs a week to get there? My daughter does it in a single day (and my son even faster than that) ...
I'm serious. I did laugh!
