Precious in Texas says that whenever her mother comes over to visit, “all she wants to do is clean my messy house.” One day, Precious says, her daughter, Allison — along with Allison’s 5-year-old cousin — decided to take matters into their own hands, writing this warning and handing it to their grandma “fast mail.” As for Grandma’s response, says Precious, “I had to read it to her because she was laughing so hard.”
![Dear grandma this is not your house so stop cleaning it or else we will lock you in a safe and open it the day after. Did you like my [choice] of fast mail? P.S. Send the envelope back I don't have many](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2851/10058214016_62e571ca3d_o.jpg "Dear grandma this is not your house so stop cleaning it or else we will lock you in a safe and open it the day after. Did you like my [choice] of fast mail? P.S. Send the envelope back I don't have many")
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78 responses so far ↓
#1
sunshynegrll
One is never too young for threats.
Oct 2, 2013 at 7:28 pm rating: 16
#2
Qua
Run Grandma Run !!
Oct 2, 2013 at 8:04 pm rating: 4
#3
Susan
Who named these people? How is Breiydyn even pronounced? Braden? Breyeden?
Oct 2, 2013 at 8:04 pm rating: 33
#4
1deprogrammed1
I wouldn’t even bother giving these two ingrates a lump of coal for Christmas.
Oct 2, 2013 at 8:33 pm rating: 16
#5
Bitchy The Dwarf
grandma needs to adopt ME- my house always needs a good cleaning!
Oct 2, 2013 at 9:08 pm rating: 29
#6
Cartwright
Sounds like mom has been talking smack about grandma in front of her children. And we wonder why kids are so disrespectful.
Oct 2, 2013 at 9:34 pm rating: 18
#7
petty bee
some of you really need to run out tho the store & buy a sense of humor
Oct 2, 2013 at 10:00 pm rating: 35
#8
sockpuppet
maybe Grandma sucks at cleaning…my mother likes to show up and start cleaning my kitchen right when she walks in the door—I end up with half-dirty dishes in my cupboards that I have to redo, and they are all in the wrong place. Also, she’s ruined colored shirts when she throws them in with the whites when she decides to help me with my laundry. Oh yeah, and I can’t ind bills or other things like keys because she shoves them into random cabinets. So, I don’t blame this family for wanting the lady to keep her hands off
Oct 2, 2013 at 10:44 pm rating: 33
#9
kelly
The best part is ‘send the envelope back, I don’t have many’.
Oct 2, 2013 at 10:46 pm rating: 53
#10
Eliavy
I’m always happy when my mom visits and cleans while she’s here. Free cleaning!
Oct 3, 2013 at 12:42 am rating: 4
#11
Kim
I thought this note was adorable. But hey, if you are so angry at the world and your life that you need to pick it apart, call the kids spoiled, the mom a piece of crap, or even get to the point where you have to criticize the way their names are spelled, well enjoy that stick and judge away.
The rest of us are smiling a little at how fun kids can be.
Oct 3, 2013 at 3:22 am rating: 44
#12
Gladystopia
Personally, right about now I’m wishing I had kids so they could tell their grandma to leave their momma’s stuff alone and stop picking her to pieces. Because having that convo MYSELF with my mom? Total nonstarter. I would prefer not to be killed, evicted, or locked in the Millipede Bathroom (the one in the basement.)
Oct 3, 2013 at 5:21 am rating: 5
#13
Nola
Maybe she wrote this because she heard her mom complain about it over and over again. Not very nice.
Oct 3, 2013 at 5:54 am rating: 4
#14
madrugada
Whatever Allison’s cousin’s name is – Breidyn, Bredyn, Braaaaaydhan – she will be cursing her parents in years to come for giving her a yoo-nique spelling of Braden. But what can one expect from a family who has a female human named Precious?
To the point, though, I don’t give a whit about Grandma’s cleaning. The kids? I’m sure (I hope) they were only kidding, and I doubt the house has a safe large enough to fit Grandma. But it is disrespectful to threaten to lock her in the safe and not let her out till the next day.
Kids, if you really want Grandma to relax (as opposed to your just being annoyed by her cleaning), try something like, “if you don’t stop cleaning, we will make you sit on the couch, put your feet up and watch movies with us. No cleaning!” Lame, but at least it’s not so nasty.
Oct 3, 2013 at 6:14 am rating: 2
#15
Lil'
I think they were just trying to be funny. Grandma probably doesn’t know how to relax and they wanted her to put down the Swiffer and play with them. She had a sense of humor about it. If they had left out the “This is not your house” part, it wouldn’t have sounded so sharp. I don’t think it’s a big deal. My five-year-old thinks his grandparents’ only job is to play with him when they come to our house, and I would rather them do that than clean. Fortunately for us, my mother feels the same way and my mother-in-law is coming around, although she is still the one most likely to scrub a bathroom,wash my dishes, or start my dinner. They both know all his favorite super heroes and interests and play with him for hours. The kids just wanted her attention. That doesn’t make them out of control brats.
Oct 3, 2013 at 8:05 am rating: 17
#16
Legally K speaking
My grandmother, who has sadly passed on, would visit me when I was a young mother. She picked up clutter, did laundry, swept, cooked…it was friggin’ great. She was funny, laughed a lot and would still clean up whenever she came over.
She couldn’t sit still, not even when she was in her 80′s. She was a wonderful gardener and probably would have been outside planting a vegetable garden in my backyard for me if I had let her. I learned a lot about keeping a house from her. Maybe this family should take a hint….
Oct 3, 2013 at 8:48 am rating: 2
#17
My name is Princess!
I had my mother and two aunts visit me for my Birthday this year. They cleaned the house, watered the garden, fed the chickens and made breakfast all before I managed to roll out of bed.
I’d have told those girls to zip it unless they want to help clean. 5 year old kids can wash dishes after all.
Oct 3, 2013 at 9:01 am rating: 3
#18
The Elf
I understand Grandma’s need to clean if she’s a neat-nick and Mom & co are more casual housekeepers. I’m assuming the place isn’t biohazard level of filthy or Grandma isn’t a compulsive cleaner and a germaphobe who uses cleans everything with bleach, either of which would change the scenario quite a bit. But, Grandma, look the other way and enjoy your grandchildren. It’s a special relationship, one that doesn’t need to be pushed aside for vacuuming.
Oct 3, 2013 at 9:40 am rating: 12
#19
Ace of Space
I had this same problem with my mother, but the kicker was that she was a hoarder! I can’t remember all of the arguments we had on the subject of hypocrisy.
Oct 3, 2013 at 10:33 am rating: 8
#20
Madrias
I can kinda understand this one. Dad got in many arguments with my grandmother (mom’s side of the family, at that) because she’d show up, “clean” everything (by throwing everything that looks out of place in a big black garbage bag, including things that were important), then tell us that we needed to clean more often.
I finally had enough when she kept doing this, even after Mom died from cancer, and finally told her “Grandma, please stop cleaning the house. I can’t find anything after you clean, but I can find it when you leave it alone. Cleaning is not the same as throwing everything away.”
She got the hint. Specifically because one of the things I couldn’t find was a picture of my mother (small picture and frame) that I had in my room. She died when I was 6, I was only 8 when it went missing. No, I wasn’t fully over it yet, and that didn’t help.
Being in my 20′s now, we didn’t see much of Grandma after that. Guess she realized that the two surviving males of the family appreciated the calm that comes from not having to tear the house apart (making a bigger mess than it ever was before) before cursing her name in heated rage because we can’t find what we were looking for and we knew it was in that trash bag that she took with her to her house to throw out.
Oct 3, 2013 at 1:57 pm rating: 11
#21
Jdaniel
Mom would show up in my home to “help out with the cleaning”. Then she would find the Hustler and get mad at me.
Oct 3, 2013 at 5:19 pm rating: 6
#22
Redheadwglasses
My grandma and aunt would let themselves in to my cousin’s house and clean to “help” his wife. They were 18 and 19 and had a baby and worked full time. I found out that cousin’s wife was furious that they did this. I was young and asked what the problem was, sounded like a good deal to me. Mom said that it was telling the wife that she wasn’t keeping a clean enough home, it was dripping in judgment. Knowing my grandma and aunt (dad’s family), mom was right.
Oct 4, 2013 at 12:39 am rating: 14
#23
Redheadwglasses
Alternative: the mom isn’t complaining about grandma to the kids; rather, maybe she says to her mom, in front of the kids, “mom, relax! Stop! I was going to do that later tonight. Just sit down!”
Oct 4, 2013 at 1:55 am rating: 7
#24
gig
Ok, I give in, I’ll post.
Team Kids all the way.
When we were on holiday my mother-in law came over and changed the curtains AT me.
This I translated as her PA way of saying “You are a slut and will never be good enough for my son”!
Oct 7, 2013 at 1:31 am rating: 9
#25
Coffee
My mother likes to clean whenever she’s over, and I allow it to an extent. Dishes? Sure, she’s good at them and it’s something we can do together (big kitchen). But organizing ANYTHING? Nope, nada, not happening. Same with her decorating ideas or talk on yard work. I don’t even like talking about that with her.
Oct 7, 2013 at 8:52 am rating: 0
#26
onlyslightlycraycray
It also depends who is doing the cleaning. I am giving one child a bath, cleaning supper dishes, helping another child with homework, and cleaning cat puke. My mom: let me help you by folding the load of laundry you threw in the dryer before you left for work. His mom: I ironed and folded the laundry so my precious son and grand kids don’t look like ragamuffins. I noticed you hadn’t scrubbed the kitchen floor properly since I was here last time so I did that. I also hand washed all your dishes and moved the Tupperware to this cabinet because its easier for me to get to.
Oct 9, 2013 at 10:06 pm rating: 5
#27
Rainne
Yeah, I’m with the kids on this one. It absolutely ENRAGES me when my mother starts “cleaning” my stuff. She doesn’t know what I have or what my systems are, and more than once has nearly ruined my master’s thesis because she thought my desk was too disorganized.
Oct 15, 2013 at 2:00 am rating: 4
#28
Tapadance
In other words, please spend time with the grand kids you might have come here to visit with! Because yes it is insulting to come to another persons home and clean. It’s different if the Mom had asked for help, but just “cleaning” is rude.
Nov 14, 2013 at 8:05 pm rating: 0
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