Routine is key. Another I do which I find helps me, when there’s a mess, I put it all in a pile and sort it from there.
My little roomba buddy does a pretty good job, and he gets me to clean up my random junk and cables that tend to collect on my floor so he can reach all the spots I want him to clean.
For me this is the real benefit of robot vacuums. I don’t want to sweep twice a day so I keep the floor clear for my robot. We have a deal, I keep shit from accumulating on the floor and it provides a cleanliness level somewhere between sweeping and vacuuming.
It’s been a long time since roombas worked like this.
Nowadays they are highly systematic, mapping out the entire room and start vacuuming the most optimal route for max coverage
The model we have (that’s only a few years old) works like this. My favorite is when it’s trying to get back to the dock, it’ll just move aimlessly until it accidentally reaches the vicinity of it and can make it home. A lot of times it runs out of battery. Or gets stuck somewhere (in the same spots because I can’t tell it to avoid problem areas).
The new roborocks are great. Truly, one of my best purchases
So you’re saying roombas are more efficient than my adhd brain…
I’m not mad at it.
Yeah this is how I clean the house 80%.
The other 20% is me not cleaning the house and playing with the stuff I find.Yep me too!
The books in my house will never be dusted because I know I won’t get past the first shelf without opening one and sitting down until it’s read.
I normally make a huge mess. I take everything out, clean it, and leave them in a pile in the middle of the room until the room is basically unusable. A true disaster. A disaster of such proportions that it makes me desperate to a point where it triggers an unrelenting hyperfocus that will not let go until everything is put away and organized. Then and only then will I remember to eat or sleep.
PS: Clean things as you take them out, not the other way around. Otherwise you’ll either put them away dirty or give up entirely, leaving a monster mess behind. If all you have to do is put away stuff, you can reach a state of flow and be done before it runs out.
