When I get fast food, I don’t eat the fries until I get home.

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    1 month ago

    I clean up when I’m done. Never leave dishes in the sink and such. I’m not a cleaning freak or anything, it’s just that I prefer not having to deal with these kind of obstacles before I can begin doing something else in that area.

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      1 month ago

      Doing many small tasks is easier than doing a large one. Kinda like the inverse of “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”

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        1 month ago

        Yes, for some things. Some tasks are better done summarized. Cleaning generally isn’t, because it easily conflicts with other tasks when not done.

        I’m a rather busy family man, so if I have 20 minutes to cook a meal for the family before I have to drive someone somewhere it can really mess up the entire day schedule if the sink is full of dishes and the trash bin is topped up with unsorted garbage. So I try to be on top of it for my own sake. “Keep the tools sharp” goes for everything, even a diaper supply.

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      Dishes especially are one of those things that doesn’t take any quicker to do in large batches. It’s faster and easier to just do them after eating before things get dried on.

      Even dish-cleaning-youtube experts don’t use their dishwashers anymore.

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      1 month ago

      This is the way! I never understood people waiting for the dishes to pile up before cleaning them. I’d just be more demotivated to actually clean them up.