Can someone explain this kid-logic to me? cause I am at a total loss as to why they keep doing this

As most of you know, my skids are with mil for the summer. I have been deep cleaning their rooms slowly over the past month. Some of the stuff I can understand. Too lazy to pick IP the game so the pieces are in ten different places. A sock gets kicked around and ends up behind the door or under the dresser. Papers that they thought the wanted accumulate. I get that.

But there were a few things I found that defy all logic. If anyone has insight into these behaviors I'd really appreciate it...

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1. Dirty laundry hidden

1. Dirty laundry hidden around the room. And I don't mean the random sock here or there....or a shirt that ended up under the bed. I mean dirty laundry stuffed in places that had to be deliberate. Dirty pants in the board game box, shirt stuffed into his carry on suit case in his closet etc. I literally found an entire laundry basket of extra dirty clothes in each room. Clothes stuffed into hiding in places that they couldn't have gotten unless it was deliberate.

I don't get it. Its not like I charge them to do the laundry. They have a basket right in each room. Why go through extra effort to do the wrong thing....when just throwing it in their basket is so much easier?

2. Hoarding old food and food wrappers. OMFG.....these kids have to be the nastiest kids alive. I almost vomitted several times. They have clearly been sneaking food into their rooms based of the volume of candy wrappers, chip wrappers, banana peels and orange peels I found hidden in games and in every nook and cranky. I also found, in ss11's room three bag that at one point were lunches. I assume from spring vacation when he packed a lunch for his park program. But instead of throwing the leftovers away.....he brought it back to his room and put them in his closet. Three grocery bags filled with sandwich baggies of putrifised rotting food..

Why why why. Why would you keep that stuff. And it wasn't like jus in the closet as if he tossed it down and forgot about it...no, they were clearly tucked away on purpose. I imagine it was thrown down and forgotten about and then rediscovered a some point. And rather than risk us seeing him throwing it out, he decided to hide the evidence deeper.

OK, I get that kids will sneak snacks. Buy at 10 and 11 shouldn't they be smart enough to also get rid of the evidence? I know I would have at their age had a plan of how I would get rid of the wrappers and peals so that I wouldn't get caught. Nor would I have wanted bugs in my room.. Yet these kids just treat their rooms like a garbage dump. As soon as they finished eating they just cast the garbage down and it was forgotten. What was their end game? How did they think it would go in noticed forever? Are they just this stupid?

Peanut I just dry heaved.

Peanut I just dry heaved. Rotting food in bags.. :sick:

Yeah, it was horrifying. Now,

Yeah, it was horrifying.

Now, if that had been me.... I'd have made a point to wake up early the next day before anyone else, and dispose of the bag. Not his it deeper in my room and forget it exists. I am honestly questioning the functional capacity of their brains if this is the problem solving skills they have.

OK, I snuck this banana and I've eaten it. Yeah! I didn't get caught. But now I am left with this peel. Hmmm, I'll just throw it in the corner, done deal. ..... And then to smell it and see (i assume) fuitbflies for days and to never think to get it to the garbage some how. To mix it in with school papers to throw out. To take it to school and throw it out the next morning. To throw it out at night. To throw it out first thing in the am before we are up. To throw it out while I'm gone and dh is distracted at the comp. I can literally literally think up a dozen ways to throw this stuff out and not get caught with the evidence. Yet they couldn't come up with anything g? Did they even realize the quandary they were in?