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<blockquote data-quote="emotionallybankrupt" data-source="post: 364710" data-attributes="member: 8226"><p>Well...as for what to do with the room, I'm sure it will be easier for you to figure that out once his stuff is out of it. My memory is that I hadn't made a final decision about difficult child's room until it was empty. I know I didn't wind up doing at all what I had originally planned. I realized once it was empty, though, that it was really the most allergy friendly room in the house. I'd removed the carpet, put in hardwood floors, and once the room was empty, the solution was much more obvious.</p><p> </p><p>So...I turned easy child's bedroom into a playroom, and difficult child's bedroom into easy child's new bedroom--with strict rules for her that we keep it as "barren" as possible. All toys, DEFINITELY those dust-collecting stuffed animals, and all books, papers, etc.... all the stuff allergists say should never be in an allergy kid's bedroom...stay in the playroom/study. Bedroom is a bedroom. Has worked great. She now has a suite!</p><p> </p><p>My difficult child wasn't very concerned about getting her stuff right away either. Leaving it here made for good excuses to wander in and out when she wanted to. She didn't REALLY want to be OUT. She wanted to keep the door cracked. So I rented a storage facility. Sort of. I had a friend who had extra space in her garage and also needed a little boost in her spending money, and so I moved every particle of difficult child's stuff there, paid my friend a month's storage, and informed difficult child where it was and that she'd need to coordinate getting it within 30 days or arrange payments from then on. She was STUNNED. It was a win/win all the way around.</p><p> </p><p>One word of caution though. If you like the storage facility idea but don't have a "neat" arrangement like I found, DON'T rent a space in your name and then give difficult child the access. My "garage" friend knew of a parent who did this and then wound up in jail when illegal drugs turned up in the facility. Because it was in parent's name, there was no way out of harm's way.</p><p> </p><p>Good luck figuring out what will work for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emotionallybankrupt, post: 364710, member: 8226"] Well...as for what to do with the room, I'm sure it will be easier for you to figure that out once his stuff is out of it. My memory is that I hadn't made a final decision about difficult child's room until it was empty. I know I didn't wind up doing at all what I had originally planned. I realized once it was empty, though, that it was really the most allergy friendly room in the house. I'd removed the carpet, put in hardwood floors, and once the room was empty, the solution was much more obvious. So...I turned easy child's bedroom into a playroom, and difficult child's bedroom into easy child's new bedroom--with strict rules for her that we keep it as "barren" as possible. All toys, DEFINITELY those dust-collecting stuffed animals, and all books, papers, etc.... all the stuff allergists say should never be in an allergy kid's bedroom...stay in the playroom/study. Bedroom is a bedroom. Has worked great. She now has a suite! My difficult child wasn't very concerned about getting her stuff right away either. Leaving it here made for good excuses to wander in and out when she wanted to. She didn't REALLY want to be OUT. She wanted to keep the door cracked. So I rented a storage facility. Sort of. I had a friend who had extra space in her garage and also needed a little boost in her spending money, and so I moved every particle of difficult child's stuff there, paid my friend a month's storage, and informed difficult child where it was and that she'd need to coordinate getting it within 30 days or arrange payments from then on. She was STUNNED. It was a win/win all the way around. One word of caution though. If you like the storage facility idea but don't have a "neat" arrangement like I found, DON'T rent a space in your name and then give difficult child the access. My "garage" friend knew of a parent who did this and then wound up in jail when illegal drugs turned up in the facility. Because it was in parent's name, there was no way out of harm's way. Good luck figuring out what will work for you. [/QUOTE]
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