Doing business in the Philippines, if only they would not make the mess in the first place….

olivia, the car was TRASHED. Plus it stank just terribly…ugh. They’ve been doing a pretty good job of keeping things clean since that day. We’ll have it professionally cleaned when the weather improves, hopefully they’ll appreciate that enough to continue picking up after themselves. I’m not holding out a lot of hope on that though. I don’t know if it’s a boy thing or what, but they just don’t care about throwing stuff everywhere.

Ajith, yes it’s a HUGE challenge. For some reason my 6-year-olds clean better than the older boys. I haven’t figured that one out yet, but I’ll take it.

Motorcycles for sale, I’m glad you laughed. Yes, the vacuuming is a regular thing. Once last summer the boys made little hackey sacks made from balloons stuffed with lentils. Can you see where this is going? Yep! They exploded. In the car. That was the boys’ first vacuuming the car experience. I just smiled and handed them the hose. They did a halfway decent job.

This was hilarious! I cannot tell you how many pounds of cheerios and goldfish crackers I vacuum out of the backseat of our van monthly.

Just don’t know if I am ready to try your motivation method.