A veritable tower of logical process and efficiency that is way beyond my actual follow-through capacity! The mental tower and I both crash out at this point, and I’ll somehow not be able to start on the original task, let alone the “stack.”
Adding real-world physical or sensory cues can help remind you to stay on task. These could be clothing, footwear, or even a particular soundtrack.
Home Routines now has a French version! L’application « Home Routines » est disponible en français ! La version française s’appelle « Routines chez soi »
Adding real-world physical or sensory cues can help remind you to stay on task. These could be clothing, footwear, or even a particular soundtrack.
We’re happy to announce that we have brought back the Daily Messages feature to the app.
Home Routines 4 is now available in the app store!
Hello, friends! How is your June going? It’s the middle of winter, here in New Zealand. Where we are (Auckland) it’s pretty mild, so for me this just means a light cardigan on errands day. Or a puffer jacket if I go for a walk down the chilly beach (for mental health purposes, and to say hello to local dogs) ⭐️New Home Routines app later this year!⭐️ We’ve been working hard at a refreshed version of Home Routines. Our first version was released in 2010…
Recently I’ve been really enjoying catching up on the excellent videos and resources produced by Steph at The Secret Slob. She has a great speed cleaning hack that she calls “5×5”. She uses a timer to keep on task, and zips around cleaning five rooms, for five minutes each. If she has extra time at the end of a room, she pops back to the “worst room” to do a little more there. (There is so much more on her Youtube channel, have a look…
“Half-tidying” is when you only sorta-kinda put things away. You know, you open the bathroom cupboard, scrunch up your eyes and just shove that new shower-puff into the nearest space. I’m prone to this because if I look properly I get stressed about where the “correct” place is to put that thing, and in order to locate that “correct” place I think I need to empty everything out of the cupboard and have an extended Tetris-type arranging party and it will take hours I tell…
Here are some things I have “just” put in the wrong place “for now” in the past day or so. You know. Then Dan Howell (Danisnotonfire) from the You Tubes talked about it better than me. (note: video includes cussing) One week ago I did a hard-core complete tidy of this room and yet here I am standing in a post-apocalyptic laundry pile. … So, how did this happen? I’ve thought about it and I think it’s because people tend to only ever do half-tidies….
