ME! Era: Adjusting the Tidy Cycle
My husband and I have been together for 18 years in March. Not married for 18 years, but together. We have cohabitated for 17 of those years, and we've always operated on the "tidy before bed" system. Which just means before we go to bed, we tidy anything out of place: empty water bottles, empty cans, cups, blankets, shoes: anything that's not in its place gets put away before we go to bed. It's easier to spend 5 minutes tidying before bed than it is to spend an hour on a Saturday morning cleaning. Who wants to do that? During the day, I tend to tidy as I go (I don't put it down, I put it away) so at the end of the evening, there's not really much that's mine. It's usually just a collection of throw blankets around the living room that I fold and return to the blanket ladder, and couch pillows that I've rearranged for reading, maybe an errant empty water bottle and my flip flops left out. My husband tends to leave his bottles, cans, cups, and ...
