Does This Happpen to You?

Cups, plates, empty bottles, wrappers, crumbs, popsicle sticks, socks, shin guards. Leave my living room (which is also where you enter the house) for a single day and that is what you are likely to find. Now is it just my kids who feel it's okay to litter the house this way? I have tried to enforce a no eating zone but it's a little late for that I fear. They respect the upstairs food rule, but the downstairs has always been where they have felt free to snack so it will be a whole other ball game to change that. Now perhaps if I put a garbage can in that room it would help. That I should definitely do. My husband says I should not clean it up but tell them to. So for the last two days I would go in and say "I see an orange peel, a yogurt container, a spoon, socks, etc." and the two younger ones would begin to debate with eachother who was responsible and who should clean it up. Eventually most of the things were removed. Still, this very morning I went in and found all those things mentioned at the beginning of this entry again. Something must change!