A Slob Comes Clean 271: Figuring Out Laundry Day
Nov 19, 2020
Practical strategies for making laundry feel doable, including treating the first load as a project and accepting multi-day progress. Tips for age-appropriate kid participation and simple five-minute pickups with young children. Advice on assigning logical homes for items and transitioning belongings to new places. Thoughts on balancing homeschooling and household routines without perfection.
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Use Take It There Right Now To Remove Mental Load
- Do use the "take it there right now" rule to eliminate background mental load from visible clutter.
- Corinne practiced it until it became automatic and said the constant guilt and nagging worry disappeared once items were put away immediately.
Hot Tub Removal Revealed Hidden Worry
- Anecdote: Corinne compared removing a hot tub to removing constant worry in her home.
- After removing the hot tub she realized she had been unconsciously worrying about her kids around it every day.
House Is A Routine Not A Project
- Insight: Treating a home as a routine, not a project, changes how maintenance feels and yields cumulative benefits.
- Corinne realized consistent daily habits replaced sporadic project-cleaning and only after practicing did she truly grasp the long-term payoff.
