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Learning to be tidy
06-05-2014, 09:59 PM
The only two solutions:
1. Discipline
2. Hire a maid
If you can't hire a housekeeper, you have to just get into a routine. Clean the place top-to-bottom once a week. Eventually that chore becomes so cumbersome that you begin to adjust your habits and pick up after yourself (all the time), wash and put away dishes (every time), never let laundry pile up--don't have one of those huge dirty clothes hampers that will hold 2 weeks of laundry, and never leave laundry lying around the house. When you are constantly "cleaning as you go" and picking up your mess, cleaning is not that bad.
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Learning to be tidy
06-05-2014, 09:59 PM
Tidy. One d. Pay attention to details.
If there is something out of place, put that shit away asap. A towel on the floor? Don't leave it there...put it in the spot for towels. Have a spot for everything.
When cooking--clean dishes and put shit away as you cook
makes things much much easier.
The only things that should be seen are things that you use every day. Anything else, store away in its proper place.
Put up shelves. Bitches love my shelves and the little things that are on them. Trinkets from around the world on display, nice and neat.
My apartment gets a lot of dust that blows in from the street. It needs to be dusted twice a week at minimum. I like this 10 minutes to take a look around and see what could be more organized.
Take this from a guy whose natural tendency is to be messy. I work at being organized and it works for me.
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Learning to be tidy
06-05-2014, 10:08 PM
I've been an organized and tidy person all my life, so while I don't know how exactly to make the transition, I can honestly say that making a change from slobby and unorganized to neat and tidy can make a big improvement in a lot of areas in your life. For example, which do you see a woman appreciating more: coming back to a guy's place that's filthy or clean. Seeing that a guy actually cares about upholding the appearance and quality of where he lives can get some serious brownie points with girls as well as friends/people in general.
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Learning to be tidy
06-05-2014, 11:03 PM
I've actually had many girls say that my apartment is eerily clean. I usually make sure my place is spotless before I know a girl is coming over and have had quite a few girls think that I don't actually live here because "It's too clean for a guy to live here"
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Learning to be tidy
06-05-2014, 11:36 PM
Easiest route is to find one girl who loves things tidy and get her to do it after a bang. I'll trade spooning for that any day.
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Learning to be tidy
06-06-2014, 02:37 AM
If you live in a cheaper side of the world/borderline 3rd world country, get a maid.
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Learning to be tidy
06-06-2014, 08:57 AM
Implement the 5S system...sans tape en su casa
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
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Learning to be tidy
06-06-2014, 09:37 AM
My attitude to everything I don't like doing has always been:
Earn some more money and get someone else to do it.
Works a treat.
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Learning to be tidy
06-06-2014, 11:06 AM
One thing that wasn't mentioned yet and that helped me the most to keep a neat flat : OWN LESS SHIT
It's so much easier to keep a clean place when you don't have piles of stuff lying around. It also makes dusting/vacuuming much easier by not having to move stuff around so much. I used to not even do it anymore because it was a pain in the ass. Now that I have managed to get rid of half of my stuff, it's a 15 minute affair that I don't mind doing once or twice a week. Being tidy is not an issue when you lean on the minimalist side.
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Learning to be tidy
06-06-2014, 12:05 PM
Christian Mcqueen had some good advice on this I liked. It went something like this: "If you don't use it everyday, put it away".
This made me look at all the stuff in my apartment. If I don't use it everyday I put it away in boxes etc. Helped me out a lot.
I'm actually going to get two maids cleaning my apartment from next week on. My brothers wife and her daughter will start cleaning my place. Only payment is my empty beer cans initially. Maybe a few bucks eventually. Great deal for me I think. Her reasoning is that her daughter doesn't need that much money, and the value of work, or something like that.
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Learning to be tidy
06-06-2014, 01:52 PM
Learn to throw things away. Not garbage and those kind of things, that's a given, material stuff. Books, clothes, old electronics, decorations, etc.
I guess you can give it away or sell it, but its just easier to toss it out and forget about it.
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Learning to be tidy
06-06-2014, 07:26 PM
I've been meaning to be a bit more organized, cleaned, and disciplined. I love the minimalistic look however I've never understood where people who have this look store things? I have so many little tools, knicknacks, calculators and tape and stuff I need for my biz. I wouldn't have a clue where to store all my junk.