You've got to...

You know the whole "you've got to spend money in order to make money"?

In my house it's "you've got to make a mess in order to clean one up"

The only way to distract Finn from re-destroying something I'm cleaning up is to give him a basket full of plastic dishes and let him fling them every which way everywhere.

Is it a wash? Is it worse? I don't really know, but I know nothing else works.