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i have finally investigated the dark recesses of my 9 year old's bedroom ! i was slightly surprised to find [ hidden behind a toy box] a small tin with a dead snail in it ! i was slightly more surprised to find another container [from my kitchen !] with some dead spiders in side. i shall not go on about a the magazine called i think 'nuts'- probably pilferred from his 24 year old brothers room ! along with a couple of tons of odds and ends that are now in the bin ! yuck ! am now going to disinfect myself, pmsl !!! am sure he will not be happy when he gets home, lol. sue.

You're brave investigating a 9 year old boy's secret stores like that!!

lol- its taken me all weekend to pluck up the courage ! glad i didnt do it last week - the spiders might have been mobile !!! just do not know how he has managed so much in one weeks holiday from school ! and we were away for 2 of those days ! and i cannot decide wether he is a magpie- or stig of the bloody dump, lol. sue [on the last day of her hols ]

i've a 10 year old just the same!!! A real difference after 2 girls

D'ya wanna know what I found in my eldest boy's room when I packed it up after he left home? (Makes your Stig look like Little Lord Fauntleroy, lol)

Someone from the missing person's register?

Before my 30 yr old son left home 2 yrs ago i had to wait untill he went on holidays then went in armed with mask and marigolds and disinfectant the things i found with penicilin growing you wouldn't believe. Now he has his own place with his wife and wont allow a thing out of place he says everything has a place and should be kept there(UNBELIEVEABLE) But they are about to have a baby so that will teach um i will get the last laugh. Gill

Sue you would be surprised what i used to find in my boys rooms, lol. Now they have their own homes they are tidy, only because mum is not there to do it lol.

lol my son will be 9 this month, wouldn't catch me in his bedroom Nicky.x

wendy- the eldest one moves out in 3 weeks- to a posh flat in leeds- bet it is kept spot less. i am gonna go over at least twice a month- and treat it like he has done my house for all these years. pmsl, sue.

having 2 boys and 1 teenage daughter, it is the girl that make the most mess, ans her shoes just whiffffffff , boy, new secret weapon. lynnxx

ooh lynn- i have heard what girls can be like, lol ! would still consider a swap, cos i get the girlfriends staying too- how do you get make up off white towels ????

Put itching powder on the towels - they will quickly stop using them to remove make up, lol.

When my eldest son (now aged 33) was about 10, he and his friend over the road held competitions to see how long their Mums would leave a milk bottle with about 1/4 pint of milk in it in their rooms. They would hide them in all sorts of places and in the end my neighbour and I gave up looking. Funnily enough, we could never smell the rancid milk - the smelly sock smell overpowered it! LOL Two of my grandchildren have been here today, almost 7 year old girl and 6 year old boy. They spent most of the afternoon in my garden collecting snails of all sizes and making a house for them out of large pebbles and the ornaments from the bottom of our empty fish tank. When I took them home, they insisted the snails went too! I dropped grandson off first and younger daughter (his mum) told grandaughter she thought her mum (my elder daughter) would like to see the snails. Wasn't that good of her? LOL Elder daughter told grandaughter to put the snails in the garden - so she did - right in the middle of a newly planted flower bed! And that is the story of how the 20 Langley Vale Snails became the 20 Chessington Snails and not the 20 West Ewell Snails! LOL Kids - don't you just love 'em! Sue xx

its not just what u find in little boys rooms, they never grow out of it!! My gran was tidying my uncles bedroom ( they shared) she went to turn over the mattresses, under one should a mucky mag, under the other she found a farming mag, she swapped them over, lol. To this day neither of them have mentioned it.

lol julie ! i liked that one, sue.

Boys are keen on collecting things. My 11-year old has Pokemon cards, playing cards, Harry Potter cards, Top Trumps cards (various), James Bond cards... none of them is kept in the same pack. He spreads them all over the floor and periodically I shove them all in a drawer. The male of the species doesn't like to throw anything away - which is another reason why they can't find anything, of course. It's also very sad that they don't grow out of it, but that the things they collect just get bigger - motorbike engines, electric keyboards... nell

My son was always neat and tidy but my daughter...... The story about the spiders rings a bell. My mother found my 'menagerie' under the bookcase in my room when I was probably 8 or 9 - but they were all alive and she had the fright of her life, having dread of spiders. I still like them. Len

I never had sons so do not know what I have missed. I do have 2 grandsons aged 3 & 4 and I can already see what they are going to be like when they get a little older. I can not wait.................... Love and Peace Marianne.xxxx

mmm len ! it is definately a 'boy' thing he came back from playing out, said his bedroom looked lovely- then shot in the garden. caught him trying to sneak a frog up there, in a new plastic container , from the kitchen, when i stopped him , he said 'but its nice and tidy now, lots of room for the frogs'.... i give up ! frog now back in pond ! and son has been given a 'talking to' ! lol, sue.