Arnold Schwarzenegger reportedly burns any clothes that his children leave lying around.

His wife Maria Shriver has revealed how the California governor takes no nonsense at home, burning whatever his children fail to wash. Hello! magazine quotes her as saying: "He's strict about laundry. I go 'Arnold, you're running the state – don't worry about the laundry, but he will call me from the Capitol asking 'Have they done the laundry? If I come home and they haven't done the laundry, I'm telling you, there'll be no play dates'."

"He goes around the house taking the kids' clothes that they leave. He throws things in the fire or he hides things and they don't ever get them back. And he is serious about it – I am scared to death too."

She added that the Terminator actor has equally little patience for wasting energy: "If you don't turn out the lights he takes the bulbs out. He goes 'We have an energy crisis – the children have no respect for the energy!'."