sounds pretty cool to me. my son who is now 24 would do exactly as I said so I had to be very careful (the rascal). One day he was complaining about having to clean his room when he was about 10. So nice mom here said, "well at least get everything off the floor so I can vacuum." So he assented, and about 10 minutes later was out the door to play basketball. Very happy & proud of accomplishing what I asked. I knew he hadn't spent enough time at his task but gave him the benefit of the doubt. Well I dragged the vac upstairs and went in his room, and it looked like he moved - couldn't find a thing - table and dresser tops- empty, shelves - empty, drawers....you guessed it - empty. Well I started vacuuming and sure enough when I got to the bed I couldn't get the vacuum under it - 1/2 of what he owned was crammed under there, and when I went to open the walk in closet it piled crammed full & piled high like something from a slapstick comedy.

Mt first reaction was annoyance but then I just started to laugh - he did exactly what I said - everything was off the floor so I could vacuum the carpet.

He's currently in grad school for Physics and is a TA. I hope his students have a "payback" awaiting him

but seriously, we did well to look for the positive in any effort and I think my children benefited from that in the long run.

Brilliant!