Happy & Healthy

THIS IS HOW YOU HIDE THAT YOU'RE A MESSY PERSON

‘So, that was again the best spent 40 bucks of the week.’ The day I come home after the cleaner has been is insane. The unbelievable thing is that somehow I never manage to keep it that way for more than an hour…

This is what it looks like: I walk in, drop my bag on a chair, drape my coat over a chair (we just have a coat rack), kick off my shoes, throw the other (sports) bag in a corner, oh yeah, hang that wet towel somewhere, shit, I need my charger so that means rummaging through my bag, hop, first throw some stuff on the table, tear open some letters and put bills somewhere (far away!) in the house, open my computer, take out some extra stuff from my bag AND THEN IT'S A TOTAL MESS AGAIN. This is how you can hide your messiness:

• Do you have a hallway? Drop everything in that hallway. Coat, bag, shoes: get rid of them.
• Do you have a junk room or closet? Drop everything in that junk room or in that closet.
• Make piles of everything. It looks neat right away.
• Is there clothing everywhere? Put everything in the laundry basket.
• Do the dishes.
• Buy storage boxes. Like those drawers for under your bed, for example.
• Always make your bed, it looks tidier right away.
• Work with doors anyway. Put everything in a room, close the door and no one sees it. Keep the living room the neatest.
• Fluff the cushions on the couch a bit.
• Have a big shed or attic. That's the perfect hiding place for just about everything.
• Have a cleaner come weekly. I'm telling you: the best money spent ever.