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How to spot a chore that doesn’t need to exist (opens the original)
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In our last article, wrote about phantom chores, the ones you accidentally give yourself.A phantom chore has nothing to do with running a home. It suddenly exists because of something you bought or placed somewhere.They’re usually attached to legitimate housework, which is why they can go unnoticed.First, ask what is this work attached to?If a task is attached to your real life, it’s a real chore. You ate, so there are dishes. You wear clothes, so there is laundry. These are real chores on a co
Is it a real chore, or a chore you invented? (opens the original)
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Every morning I’d move a pile of clothes from the bathroom floor to the hamper in the bedroom.It’s not so hard. Just drop them in the hamper already in your room…ugh.In my head: You drop the clothes in the bedroom hamper, grab your robe—off to shower you go.In the house: The clothes never went in the bedroom hamper, unless I put them there.Months of this.Finally, I moved the hamper into the bathroom in the exact spot the clothes always landed.Everyone uses it.This
Anything smaller than a cantaloupe is clutter (opens the original)
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Interior designers have this rule: nothing on display smaller than a cantaloupe.I’d heard this rule before and it’s getting some hype recently. And it’s been rattling around my brain.Basically interior designers use this rule to help you decorate a room: don’t put anything out smaller than a cantaloupe. Below a melon, the eye stops reading the object as… Read more
Your home isn’t supposed to stay clean (opens the original)
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