Currently, one of my favorite blogs is Apartment Therapy and I just wanted to share a good housekeeping post about keeping the bedroom tidy that really resonated with me. Kyle Freeman writes:
I'm usually so exhausted by bedtime that the the best I can do is throw my clothes at the end of my bed or on a chair. But I've recently employed a new head game with myself that actually seems to be working.
It's simple and might sound strange — when I'm tempted to just chuck the clothes somewhere, anywhere, I just start calmly counting seconds in my head. This started as an exercise just to see how long it would actually take to just put the clothes away. I learned that it only takes about sixty seconds to hang up and fold whatever I'm wearing. But this counting practice, which I employ whenever I'm convinced that I'm too tired to put my clothes away, has turned into a successful and oddly meditative pre-bedtime ritual.
It's hard to justify NOT taking sixty seconds to do something that will a) make it more pleasant to wake up in a tidy bedroom b) save me from a much longer clothes organizing session when the clothes reach critical mass (or mess) c) make it a lot easier to find my clothes when I dress the next day and d) takes better care of my clothes by reducing the need for laundering and ironing.
So I am definitely giving this a try!! I am totally guilty of throwing my clothes on a chair or on the drying rack at the end of the day. I am not proud of this, but I have actually broken a drying rack because of the mass of clothes on top of it. Let's hope that this little trick helps to break my bad habit!
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