Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess

by Rachel Hoffman

We need to learn to separate the state of our homes from our feelings of worth.

Try to do something—anything, really—that allows you to interact positively with your home every day. Whether that’s cleaning, organizing, or even just displaying something that makes you happy, aim for getting one thing done every day that makes you feel better about where you live.

There are two solutions: less stuff or more storage. Less stuff is almost always the better option.

Put your effort, instead, into making sure that all of the things you own have both a use and a place.

Drunk cleaning is like an advanced class, and you’re not at that stage yet.

TWENTY MINUTES IS NOT A LONG TIME. Marathon cleaning sessions, while satisfying, are exhausting and make you never want to clean ever again. Twenty minutes at a time, once or a few times a day, is a sustainable way of keeping your habitat unfucked.