put things in their designated places after you use them
How to keep your room tidy?
Share your lifehacks please.
Even if I clean everything, after a week it looks like this again. I only use this room to sleep so I see no reason to keep it tidy but I'd prefer waking up in a clean room.
Form habits. They take time and effort to form, but once you do them, they are quite self sustaining.
Clean every single day something in your apartment. Even if it's just moving one object from place A to B.
How much you actually clean each day is not nearly as important, than actually cleaning every single day.
If you keep doing it for long enough, you will start to feel "weird" and like "there's something wrong" if you haven't cleaned today.
It does.
One example of this is quite simple, but demonstrates how the instinct to repeat the habit activates even in irrational situations:
I was quite paranoid of forgetting my keys and not being able to get back into my apartment again, so i made myself physically touch my keys before closing the front door every single time i left my apartment. Some years ago our apartment complex installed us new doors, and for like a day the doors were installed, but none had any locks in them.
As i was leaving my apartment, i still had to touch my keys before closing the door, eventhough the doors had no locks in them.
Another time i went out to take out the trashbag into the trashbin, while i had a friend inside my apartment. At the door i realized that i didn't have my keys so i couldn't touch them before closing the door, and i couldn't be arsed to go find them, as i could just leave the door open or ring the door bell to get back in.
But because of my self-conditioning the whole way to the trashbin felt the same like i had left the stove on, and i had this feeling of absolute dread of getting locked out of my apartment.
