Buying Les Mess will motivate your child to get organized and clutter free! When you play “Les Mess” you’ll have less mess in your home.

Les Mess is an organizing card game for children and parents.You shuffle the deck of cards, pick one, and do what it says on the card in the amount of time allowed and get a present. Play this once a week or every day!

OUR THOUGHTS…We were on the search for something to motivate the kids to help us out around the house. For both hubby and I, we’re often tired by the end of a long work day and the last thing we REALLY want to spend doing in the last hours of the day is CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN. And who wants to spend a weekend of time off cleaning? We needed something for the kids. They love making messes but they hate cleaning up. So search the internet we did and we came across the Les Mess card game.

The kids (4, 9, & 11) – YES! I kept pulling cards that tell me I don’t have to do anything or my parents have to clean for me! Still when I had to do a chore, it was fun trying to beat the clock.

Today your mother and/or father have to clean your room!

The parents (mom & dad) – I thought this was meant for THEM to clean and organize? They keep pulling “freebie” cards! BUT…done 1-2 days during the week INSTEAD of everyday can be a good compliment with the regular chore list. They pick a card BEFORE working on the regular chores that day to determine if they’ll have an extra “fun chore” to do OR a day of no chores. We also thought some of the tasks weren’t things we’d likely have them do. For example, for someone who has OCD, the thought of letting the kids re-organize the media collection can cause some serious anxiety attacks so we’d take that one out and replace it with another “out of the ordinary” task like “re-organize clothes” in 30 minutes.

Go through the other rooms in your house, picking up your toys, and putting them away. – 60 minutes

For the price of $14.95, would I buy this myself? Honestly, no. It’s a bit on the pricey side. The concept was great, but the thought of spending over $5 for a card deck is not so great.

WHERE TO BUY…From www.lesmess.com for $14.95.

I received this product in exchange for a review.

TOOT TOOT for me on this beautiful sunny Tuesday! Spring is definitely in the air and to get myself in the spirit of cleansing the dreary winter days, I’ve been de-cluttering and re-organizing. Yesterday I cleaned out and re-organized under the sink. I swear I was under attack by the dust bunnies! I actually tossed out 3 bags of old lotions, make-up, and medicine! I went from “I can’t find anything” and “ooh I had that here?” to “ahh I can finally easily get to that without taking all of this other crap out”. It was such a nice feeling of victory and I definitely felt “lighter” after ridding all of that junk!

After purging all the junk out from under the sink I decided to tackle my son’s clothes as he appears to be going through another growth spurt. Lately I’ve been putting clothes to the side as he tells me they no longer fit. I THOUGHT this was working until I tried putting an overnight bag together for him and discovered his jeans too big in length and shirt a little too short. All I can say is “thank goodness” he’s only 9 and isn’t AS fashion conscious yet. LOL

Since I achieved success with de-cluttering earlier I grabbed him just before bed and together we went through EVERY PIECE of clothing both in drawers and in the closet hanging up. I was amazed at how much he had grown out of! Unfortunately he’s in between pant sizes so it appears I have some hemming to do since my little man is quite the shorty right now. After all the clothes were tried on and sorted, I happily (yet sadly too) found lots of drawer/closet space. Happy I no longer have the baskets filled with clothes from over flow, sad that we’ll soon need to go clothes shopping once again. In the end I have 3 garbage bag full of clothes to bless another little boy like we were.

What’s next on the list? Well, over the weekend I DID give away 57 books (this was amazingly not even 1 shelf of books!) and I have many more to weed out. I’ve promised my husband that since I prefer hardback to paperback I’d starting getting rid of the paperbacks and eventually replace the “good stories” with hardbacks as I come across them.

What are you doing to get into the “Spring” of things?