Bringing out the garbage bag again

I don't know if I was just extra ornery or what, but the other day it seemed like everywhere I looked the boys had dumped, left, scattered, piled, draped and thrown their stuff all over the house.   I could tell exactly where they had been and what they were doing by the trail they left in their wake.

After ordering them around for about an hour, pointing to items and telling them to clean it up and put it away,  I took a deep breath and called them together.

I told them simply that I was re-introducing the garbage bag.  Everything I found that wasn't in it's rightful place would get tossed in the bag.  If you wanted it out, you had to do a job.

It's filling up fast.  Here's hoping for a cleaner house one way or another.