It's worse with girls, I think. Recitals, particularly dance recitals, are a massive, massive time-suck and PITA. For a couple of weeks beforehand, the tutus and costumes were piled around the house so deep you had to wade through them. The main living areas of the house looked a lot like that Aeroflot turbulence video Gimp posted --or at least that's what if felt like.