A Very Long Day

Jake and I spent the entire day yesterday working on cleaning out the kids rooms. We removed 4, yes FOUR, 55 gallon trash bags full of trash out of their 3 rooms. Then on top of that we removed 3 55 gallon bags and numerous boxes of garage sale stuff out. Their rooms are virtually empty. Our motto was if we haven't seen in in the last 2 months it's going. The kids helped, and were actually cooperative. We are playing musical furniture also. The girls are getting a new queen sized bed (we will have to see how that goes), and Jayden got the top part of their bunk beds with attached dresser and desk. We are turning the bottom part into a tented play area. Being able to remove his dresser from his room will give him more floor space to make a mess, ha ha. Jessica and Jordan want their room redecorated, so it was a little sad to remove all the beautiful fairies and pink stuff. We will be replacing it with jungle prints, aaaaah the preteen years - here they come. Anyway it was a very long day, and it ended with a bubble bath and 3 ibuprofen for all my aches and pains. I did not think to take before and after pictures until I was already half done. The results were amazing, but do any of you parents have any suggestions on bargaining tools so we can get them to keep them this way?????