Cleaning out Room

[becciquilter]

When my oldest child graduated from college, she came home and moved all her things into her new apartment.  My son's room is almost exactly the way he left it when he left for boot camp.  When do you "clean out" their stuff?  I don't want it to look like "good riddance, he's gone!" but I can't see him moving his "stuff" to Power School or Proto.

 

What did you do?  When did your sailor take the rest of their stuff?

 

I still haven't received word from my son, but I'm trying to figure out where to put my extra guests this summer.

 

Thanks --

Becci

[LLovesmysailor]

BTW, we do still have 4 boxes of his stuff but it is in storage. We also finished the basement and put an extra bedroom down there for when he has friends come to stay. And a 52 inch TV so he can play video games. Anything to get him to come home when he can.

[Stephanie]

We started our sons clean out before BC. He really went to town!! Everything that was left we rented a storage unit for. We painted the roon, shampooed the carpets and bought a new bed and linens. Of course like other sailors we lost tons of weight so all the clothes he really wanted to keep just don't work. I guess that we will have a storage unit for sometime but better than it filling up my garage or spare room.

[Lion55's mom]

Clean out the room! I was talking to my son last week about the same thing. I asked him to think about his lifestyle now compared to a year ago. His words "I was a SLOB!" BLW - same. We have alot of things in boxes under the house. If he comes home in July, he gets another chance to save anything and then it is YARD SALE! I told him that if he prices the stuff, I will send him the money, If I have to do it, ITS MINE!

[Emily-aaronsgirl11]

My brother was a slob before the Navy too. He still is, haha. He's a little better, he doesn't throw quite as much on the floor. But he's still the same ol' Alan with his messy room :) I thought maybe it was just because he was home, but when I went out to Washington, his room was a huge mess! Okay, I'll give him credit, he had just gotten back from a deployment like two days prior, but oh my lord. I made fun of him for the mess for awhile :)

[becciquilter]

I have to tell you truthfully - I fell out of my chair laughing when I read your post!! You have to understand, that my son was such a slob, we had forgotten that his floor was tiled and not carpeted like the rest of the house! We hadn't seen the floor for quite a while! When he left for boot camp, he stayed up all night "cleaning" his room. He even swept the floor! Of course, he swept the dirt piles outside his door onto the carpet. I guess he thought "The Vacummn Fairy" was going to come and finish it for him!!

When he came home on leave at Christmas time, he complained that his roommate was a slob and it got on his nerves. I had to pinch myself so that I wouldn't fall over laughing. He wouldn't have understood! How poetic!

Anyway - I'm glad you posted and you really made my day!

Thanks a million ---
B

[rlyons]

These are great stories. We've had similar discussion and done minimal "cleaning out". Delivered some of his stuff to him at GC when we brought his car to him at Easter, but due to limited space at GC much remains. Almost all his "kid" furniture bunk beds, dresser, desk etc. are still intact. I guess we're waiting to see if he goes to Ballston Spa, he'll pass right by here (MD) and may need it to furnish his new digs. So, I suppose we're just taking it slow, holding on to so many memories.

[becciquilter]

I can only imagine the memories and everything flooding in all at once. I'm really not looking forward to doing this. I've been keeping the door to his room shut so I wouldn't have to look in. I wanted to ask him about his laptop and if he wanted me to ship it up, but as you know, he hasn't called or written in months. I'm going to pack everything though in bins and just store it all until he lets us know what he wants to keep.

I loved how Donnie Duck had cataracts! That was very creative! "Cuffy" had been in a gang war and that's why his arm was sewn back on. The reattachment surgery was successful!!

Becci