July 1, 2009
My daughter is asserting that if I make her clean her room she is going to die.
I maintain that nobody has ever died from cleaning their bedroom.
Can you guys back me up on this?
It appears my time has come to abdicate the Drama Queen crown.
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July 1st, 2009 at 9:23 am, Mel @ A Box of Chocolates Says:
OMGosh that is too darn funny and I’m sure I will be getting the same reaction in about an hour when we start cleaning the rooms too!
July 1st, 2009 at 9:39 am, susan (trout towers) Says:
No, no one has ever died from cleaning her room. But children who do not clean their rooms are sometimes lost in the mess and die slow and painful deaths – unless they can find that pb&j they put on the bookshelf in March.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:18 am, zeghsy Says:
cleaning rooms does not lead to death. NOT cleaning rooms however have been known to be quite deadly. especially to ones social life.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:43 am, jodifur Says:
Huh. I thought I won that award when someone emailed me and told me they weren’t reading my blog anymore b/c I was such a drama queen.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:59 am, Sarah Says:
I am not dead. Given the state of disorder that oven reigned in my room, I would undoubtedly have died were it actually possible to die from cleaning a room.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:31 am, Kelly Says:
It’s awfully difficult to prove a negative.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:51 am, AprylsAntics Says:
In the film “About Shmidt”, which is a very long, slow, and ultimately disappointing story about a retired man played by Jack Nicholson, his wife died while vacuuming. Technically it does fall under the umbrella of cleaning, however, she was in the living room and not a bedroom. I’m not sure if it was the vacuuming or the fact that she was kind of old that killed her. They never elaborate.
Anyway, I wouldn’t let Claudia see that movie, especially since there is a naked Kathy Bates scene and even though I really like her, no one needs to see that.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:59 am, Kathi D Says:
I doubt that it is actually possible to die from cleaning your room, however, I don’t want to take that chance myself.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:38 pm, MA Smith Says:
I have cleaned many rooms and am still alive to tell about it.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:55 pm, Lori Says:
Well if she’s going to die from cleaning, might as well have her do the whole house! You know, while she’s at it.
July 1st, 2009 at 7:49 pm, Jess Says:
Yes, the whole house. And windows!!
July 1st, 2009 at 7:54 pm, Tammy Says:
That’s why I don’t clean, I may die. Of course I’ll call Claudia & back you up!
July 1st, 2009 at 8:38 pm, Ree Says:
I’ve never died from cleaning my own room, but there was the time I thought about dialing 911 when I cleaned Shortman’s.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:35 am, Stephanie Nichols Says:
Once when I was in high school, I took a break from washing dishes, and fell asleep on the kitchen floor. When my mom came home and found me there, she thought I was dead. Does that count?
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 am, Vanessa Says:
My daughter told me last weekend that God and Jesus don’t want her to clean her room. Fortunately, I was able to convince her that I have more commanding power in y house than the Lord. Sweet
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:51 pm, heyjoe Says:
I’ve threatened to kill my kids if they DON’T clean their rooms, so technically she has the basis for some sort of argument such that a room plus some act of cleaning may or may not result in death.
I rest my case.
July 4th, 2009 at 2:03 pm, Your Mother Says:
Just point out to her that you are still alive – and somehow managed to have a social life despite my demands that you clean your room EACH and EVERY Friday before you went anywhere!
July 4th, 2009 at 5:42 pm, patois Says:
Once, there was this kid, and he DIED by inhaling the dust in his room. Yeah, my friend Julian has a friend who has a friend who has a friend who knew him.
July 4th, 2009 at 9:26 pm, Lisa Stone Says:
Oh Sarah, I hear you. If she has the crown, my 13-year-old has the chalice. Is there anything one can give a teenage boy so that he’s as sensitive to the scent of a gym bag as his mother? My sins revisited upon me…
July 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm, Johnina Regish Says:
I think you should run out, and buy the biggest, pink, frilly dress you can find. If we’re going to act like the queen, you must dress like the queen.