So how do you handle it when the messy one is not your child or husband, but your mother? My mother has lived with me since my father's death and keeping up with her untidiness is beyond me. I do all the laundry and when I go into her room to collect it, I just want to cry. It is like a 14 year old girls lives in there. I've tried everything. I even redecorated for her last year, hoping it would make her want to keep all the new things nice, but it only lasted for a month or so, then it was the same pigsty. If I don't clean it, it won't get cleaned, but I bulk at cleaning up after a grown woman.
