What if he ignores me? For example,

he likes to throw around his socks on the floor, I told him to collect them in our laundry basket, with a deadline, otherwise I won't do anything about it. Each time he ends up with wearing dirty socks and go out buy more new socks. Now he has more than 40 pairs and our home could be so messy and finally I just gave up and went clean things up.

I am really out of tricks...