This is my post for #freewriters prompt directory of lost things hosted by @mariannewest
Mothers were not put on Earth to be a directory of lost things but that is what we do.
MOM, WHERE'S MY...... These three words have to be the most heard words by a mother. As a mother you are required to know where your child and some husbands left THEIR things. That is what they think and they are 90% correct because you picked up the shoes that were in the middle of the living room floor where they kicked them off and left them for you to trip over so you were the one who put them away.
It does not end when they move out. One day they will come back and say, Mom, where's my old Nintendo? I left it in my room when I moved out 12 years ago. The bad thing is, they really expect you to keep everything they left in your house.
My daughter purged her daughter's room when she was 9 years old and my granddaughter begged me to take her things and keep them at my house. I agreed to keep her things, I did not know they would take up one wall of my shed, but I kept them and when I needed to make room in the shed, I asked her if she wanted any of it. This is eleven years later, she says "What stuff". I had a yard sale and got rid of all of it plus other things that have been left in there and in the house. And yes, I still hear MOM, WHERES MY....
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