How to optimize household chores when living alone
Mundane domestic tasks consume significant time that ought to be optimisable, leading to a rut where starting and finishing chores becomes a struggle. This difficulty prevents efficient household maintenance and traps individuals in unproductive maintenance cycles.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1trying to devise something myself and haven't got very far
- 2Reading books or looking up methods like Dana K. White's How to Keep House While Drowning
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I've recently realised how much time I lose to completely mundane things that seem as though they ought to be optimisable.”source ↗
VI509d · r/HomeImprovement · 6 upvotes
“Now I’m literally in a rut, I know what i need to do but I struggle tremendously to even make a start & when I do start tasks I struggle to finish them.”source ↗
BrilliantMindless140 · r/CleaningTips · 2 upvotes
Where this came up
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