I feel like my house is constantly a fucking mess. My wife and I work 80 hours between us and we have a 2 year old and I feel like it’s constantly a mess.

We do what we can and often spend a couple hours on a weekend tidying but it’s a losing battle.

How do you cope/keep on top of things?

  • meiti@lemmy.world
    462·
    vor 3 Jahren

    You just need to master one rule: designate a place for each item and put them IMMEDIATELY back in their designated place after use.

    • Joinlemmy5lemmy@feddit.nl
      52·
      vor 3 Jahren

      Yeah, it really helps if you limit the amount of stuff you have in your house and put everything back where it belongs right away.

      If you then clean 1/1.5 hours a week you can keep everything relatively clean.

      Also like one of the others comments said a robot vacuum can really help limit the dust in your house.

      • meiti@lemmy.world
        12·
        vor 3 Jahren

        It’s very interesting indeed. A while ago I read Carl Popper’s Open Society and it’s Enemies. In that book he argues that Plato and to some extent Aristotle have developed underlying philosophical tools to support, for a lack of better term, “closed” societies. For example slaves rather remain slaves, farmers remain farmers, and rulers remain rulers. He argues that they contribute to a totalitarianism, and undermine democracy by discouraging being equal and in general “change”.

        Take all this with a grain of salt, since it’s a while I’ve read the book, so can’t articulate it better. But your comment reminded me of all this, so I thought it might be interesting for you and other readers.

        ps: I personally think there is no natural place for things, that’s us, sentient beings, who define that and give things meanings.