📝 AITA for not wanting to clean after my brother, his wife, 3 kids and 6 dogs?

By Justagirlinthewrldd • Score: 1 • April 11, 2025 10:36 PM


So I recently moved in with my brother and his wife while I save up money to get a place of my own. They own 6 Rottweilers and have 3 kids. The kids are 11, 8, and 4. The kids don’t clean after themselves like AT ALL. They let their dishes pile up, and keep grabbing more until there aren’t any clean dishes to grab. I used to clean the dishes and sweep when I first moved in but I started getting tired of no one helping and the kids being old enough to clean behind themselves but just being lazy.

I work Mon-Fri 9am-6pm and I am gone on the weekends. I’m barely ever home. Only during the week for work. I have my own dishes and clean them after every use and store them back in my room.

I also pay rent and bills here. I buy and cook all of my own food as well.

I bought my SIL a vacuum to help with the dog hair everywhere but she never uses it. There is dog hair everywhere! Even in the refrigerator.

I clean the bathroom for it to get nasty within one day. Toothpaste everywhere, tissue everywhere, literally EVERYWHERE. Toys, clothes all over the bathroom.

No one helps not even my brother. My SIL cleans but she gets tired. While the kids never get any discipline for being nasty.

The kids leave the lights in their rooms on ALL DAY LONG. In the summer, my nephew keeps his AC on all day, everyday for months straight. I turn it off, but he just turns it right back on again and leaves the room. The same with the lights. My niece keeps all her lights on in her room and will leave.

Today my SIL asked me if I could help around the house with cleaning the bathroom, sweeping and making sure the lights stay off because the light bill was extremely high last month. I sent her text saying that I don’t mind cleaning the BATHROOM but the kids need to be taught how to clean behind themselves. That they’re old enough to clean up and learn rules. I also said that if they don’t enforce rules on them it doesn’t matter if I help clean or not because when I move out the problem will still be present. It starts with the KIDS!

I also told her it would help if they agreed to get rid of the 4 Rottweiler puppies they have because they stink up the house of feces and leaves messes. Who wants to live with 6 Rottweilers?!

AITA?!

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