Housecleaning for me is a series of room reclamations. This weekend was good because I was able to reclaim both the kitchen and the bedroom. The question of how long they will stay this tidy is another question, but I tend to have a pretty good ability to keep things tidy so long as they don't cross over a certain invisible threshold into excessive disarray.

For now an empty sink and clean counters mean that cooking a meal is only minutes away, and a clean desk and work table mean that all I need to descend on a project is to open the folder and process all the necessary tasks. Both rooms are a very precarious state -- if I need anything in any of the dozen cardboard storage boxes piled on the shelves, nearly every one of them wind up on the floor, and I found myself casually dropping dirty laundry on the floor just a few minutes ago.

The rule of thumb seems to be that 20 days in a row is enough to set a new habit, and if I can use and clean the sink every day for the rest of this month, and keep my bedroom floor free of anything out of place, I should be able to maintain better habits going forward.

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