If you enter two rooms of Candice Blansett-Cummins’ otherwise immaculate home, you might need a mask to disguise the smell, along with some anti-bacterial soap. That’s because Blansett-Cummins is the mother of two teenagers, one 14 and the other, 18, and she’s learned to choose her battles.
“It didn’t make any sense to argue with them and make them clean it just to make it fall back apart again,” Blansett-Cummins said. “Behind their doors, that’s their space, and we’re not going to govern what’s in there, aside from the fact that there has to be a path for safety. Also, you shouldn’t have rotting food!”