Happy & Healthy

how to hide the fact that you are a slob

‘Well, that was the best forty euros I spent this week.’ The days I get back home after our cleaner dropped by are always the best. Yet I still have the impeccable talent of being incapable of keeping it clean for more than an hour…

It goes as follows: I come home, dump my bag on a chair, drape my jacket over the chair (we have a coat rack), throw off my shoes, dump my other (gym) bag in a corner, oh yeah, hang up that wet towel of mine in any random place, shit, I need my charger so I have to shovel through my entire bag, dump half it’s content on the table, open up a couple of envelopes and put the bills somewhere far out of reach, open up my laptop, grab another few things out of my bag and voilà, the entire place is back to being a complete and utter mess.

• Do you have a hallway? Drop off all your things in the hallway. Jacket, bag, shoes: out of sight.
• Do you have a storage room or closet? Drop everything off in there.
• Make piles of things, it looks better than having everything scattered around.
• Clothing all over the place? Dump all of it into your laundry basket.
• Do the laundry.
• Purchase storage boxes. The ones you can store under your bed are great.
• Always make your bed, it’ll suddenly make your room look a lot nicer.
• Use your doors. Put everything in one room and shut the door. Nobody will be able to see the mess behind it. Always keep your living room the cleanest.
• Have a barn or an attic? Use it. The perfect place to hide all of your junk.
• Have a cleaner come by every week. Like I said: money well spent.