Busy Girl's phone was stolen at a party last night.
At the YMCA.
Grr...
ATT Wireless was very nice and now I'm trying to get psyched up to get dressed and go over to the ATT store and do something about it.
That really has nothing to do with anything other that it pisses me off since most of the people there were from her school.
Anyway, as usual we had a spend the night guest last night and I've observed a trend.
No one brings anything when they spend the night out anymore.
Sometimes, like last night, they literally bring nothing.
And, this was even a girl.
I don't get it.
When I was growing up, half the fun was packing the things you'd need and we even had special "slumber party bags" to put the crap in.
On the occasion that spend the night guests do bring stuff, why do they never have toothbrushes?
I usually keep a couple of toothbrushes (yes, they are new) in the guest bathroom.
The occasional adult guest would need one, but somehow the kids discovered them and now everyone wants to come over here because apparently it's gotten out that you get a free toothbrush with overnight stay at the Busy's.
I've even relocated them, but now I have people asking for their toothbrush.
Can anyone hook me up with a case of toothbrushes?
I passed out one to last week's toothbrush-less guest (I know he didn't have one) at bedtime and he thanked me and promptly stuffed it in his bag rather than using it.
And what is it with boys who sleep in their clothes?
It could be just me projecting my own sleep weirdness (Please don't let the pillow sham thing start up again), but I can't sleep if you are sleeping in your clothes. You are making me uncomfortable.
Even if these young men sleep in their clothes, what is it with their refusal to put on clean clothes the next day?
I've been a girl, but I've never been a boy, maybe this is just standard and I don't know it, but Busy Boy changes his clothes when he's a guest at someone's house.
What if I've scarred him socially?
What if his autobiography has an entire chapter about how we made him wear clean clothes and he was tormented for his actions?
How will I live with myself?
These are the things that keep me awake at night, you see.
Recent Entries on Busymom.net:
- Ho-tel Mo-tel Holiday Inn
- Purchase paralysis
- One more time
- Getting the whiny posts off the top
- My dad is in the House
For Local Blog
Oh, great, my son (and ONLY boy) is sleeping over his friend's house, tonight and now I can't sleep. Oh, well. Stands to reason, since I pretty much messed my girls up of EVER being able to function at a normal level. GAH, indeed!
My son always asks me if he can sleep in his day tshirt, even though pj is right there for him. Of course I always say no. I don't get it. Is it a boy thing?
One of my sons takes a shower at night and then puts on his clothes for the next day and sleeps in them "to save time."
Whatever.
Oh, dear. My daughter is at the Y with friends at this very minute with an ATT wireless cell phone! I sure hopes she comes home with it.
And I know exactly what you mean about kids not bringing anything to spend the night. I don't like the cheap toothbrushes my dentist gives out, so I save those for these occasions. Apparently, they're not enough of a hook to get to kids to ask for them.
Oh yes your son is in for years of therapy all because if clean clothes! And as for the cell phone thing....mine was stolen last December and I will never understand this. Why steal a cell phone that you won't be able to use or sell! People dazzle me with their lack of intellect sometimes :)
The 3yo already argues with me -- every single day -- about the need for clean underwear. His poor concept of time notwithstanding, every morning he insists, "No, I put this underwear on last 40. It's still clean." [Or "next Tuesday." You get the picture.]
The 9yo [a girl] puts on clean underwear so often it's hard to keep it in her drawer.
It's got to be a boy thing....
My 15 y/o daughter keeps her own toothbrush at her 2 best friends' houses, so if she forgets, she still has one to use. Both moms know about it and approve.
My 13 y/o son, like many of the boys mentioned in the comments, is not really interested in the pre-planning it takes to actually pack for a night out, and is also the same about clean clothes - not so interested. On the plus side, it cuts down on laundry.
Always had a full box of toothbrushes and always spares on top of that.
Move on to little shampoo bottles, mini soaps and towels contorted into small fluffy animals, and you can make some money with this. Don't forget the mint on the pillow!
Welcome to my life, where cell phones are stolen at sleepovers, nobody brings anything to sleep over except cell phones (I now confiscate them because they spend all their time texting each other while they're in the same room, which I have declared antisocial), boys sleep in their clothing and don't change anything the next day, including underwear, and something you didn't mention, they eat you out of house and home. Yup, that's what I've been dealing with for about 5 years now. With no signs of change.
Some children have clean clothes?
Wait till I break the news to my kids at our family meeting. Should be interesting ;-).
My son is 15 and when he spends the night at a friends (I stopped calling them sleepovers when they stopped sleeping) he brings a backpack with his laptop, cell phone and Ipod and I'm sure there hasn't been a toothbrush or spare clothes in there for a couple years. It used to drive me crazy in the beginning, but now I worry about bigger things, like what they are doing when they "go for a walk". And whose car is he getting into. And are they sneaking out after the parents fall asleep?
Thank heavens - I thought Youngest was the only child in the whole world who thought nothing of sleeping in his clothes and then trying to wear them again the next day. MOST days I notice and make him change...MOST, I say. And he tries it every morning - waits for me to say "you wore that yesterday - change"...kind of like a game...a cruel, cruel game.
I picked up Travis from a sleepover yesterday - SAME CLOTHES and I guarantee you the toothbrush I packed wasn't used. Yuck. I made him get in the shower as soon as he hit the door AND brush his teeth. That's just icky.
I think it's a "boy" thing. My son would stay in the same clothes and never brush his teeth if someone (namely me) didn't make sure that his grooming was being taken care of.
I'm always looking for a new toothbrush, can I sleep over?
BusyMom! We discussed this a year or so ago...stop with the sleepovers already. They lead to nothing good. ( I'm only half kidding.) But, yeah, it's a 21st century kid thing. My son would come home, shower and sleep. All the kids who slept over stopped bringing anything with them in about 6th or 7th grade. Half the time they didn't even want blankets or pillows. They did fight over the couches, though. We did stop the sleepovers though. Next kid coming up! Yikes!
My daughter always packed a GIANT bag of stuff for a sleepover. Including her toothbrush. Girls not bringing stuff is odd.
We recently had a slumber party for 10 girls and at least half didn't bring a sleeping bag, blanket or pillow. What exactly were they planning on "sleeping" on?
And, I've yet to pick up my daughter in the morning from a party where she has actually changed out of her pj's. I've stopped making her pack a change of clothes because it is useless. She usually takes a toothbrush and nail polish. Only the necessities, I guess.
I found you on the scavenger hunt - but the comments were full. does this count?
May I suggest e-bay for the toothbrushes? Someone should be selling them at a discount.