Automate as many chores as possible. Optimize any manual chores. Create a routine where you only do chores one day a week, in a specific order like a speedrun, to be all set for the entire week. A routine so easy you can do it on your worst days. Sick? Tired? Depressed? No problem, your living space doesn’t suffer. Make your home a sanctuary where the only thing you feel is peace.
Money spent on optimizing your life is replaceable, time spent worrying about chores or having a pile of chores is not. Buy disposable dishes and cutlery, mop and vacuum bots, smart appliances and lights, and utilize convenient services. Yes, flipping a light switch is easy, but never ever having to begrudgingly drag your depressed nauseated drowsy sore self out of bed to flip the switch is worth it. One day, you’ll be feeling horrible, and you’ll be so relieved that you can just switch off the appliance or light with your phone.
Now I’d go further and suggest living in an apartment or condominium, and not having a car. Live in walking or biking distance of work. Driving is stressful and you hate it. Stop paying so much to get around the place you live in!
Also save more for utilities & rent every time you’re paid. I get paid weekly and I save 1.25 weeks worth for every bill, 1.50 or 2 weeks if I did overtime. Every 4 months, I have at least one month of each bill saved. This way I can take a day, week, or even a month off of work and I have enough for all bills and groceries and stuff I don’t need. Taking an unpaid day off to play the hot new game did not put me on the slippery slope that leads to homelessness. It did nothing, actually. I could take the whole week off for a video game if I wanted to and I’m still completely secure. Bills still get paid, I still have a job, literally everything is okay.
Live in peace, it’s possible. Adulthood is awesome. If you literally want to watch cartoons and play games after work then optimize your life so you can. It’s controversial because everyone would rather be part of slow moving traffic going 32 inches a minute to create more chores at home but have zero energy or time to do them, and spend their time off work planning on doing the chores, but going grocery shopping manually instead and still having no time or energy to do the chores, and instead of changing anything about their lives they antagonize the one family member who doesn’t have piles of decade old chores because she fucking lives in the current year and utilizes conveniences, while spending all their time not doing chores or working watching subpar TV shows wishing they had space to do hobbies they’d be able to do if they didn’t have decade old piles of dirty laundry and boxes still unpacked today despite moving into the house years before Barack Obama became president.
Automate as many chores as possible. Optimize any manual chores. Create a routine where you only do chores one day a week, in a specific order like a speedrun, to be all set for the entire week. A routine so easy you can do it on your worst days. Sick? Tired? Depressed? No problem, your living space doesn’t suffer. Make your home a sanctuary where the only thing you feel is peace.
Money spent on optimizing your life is replaceable, time spent worrying about chores or having a pile of chores is not. Buy disposable dishes and cutlery, mop and vacuum bots, smart appliances and lights, and utilize convenient services. Yes, flipping a light switch is easy, but never ever having to begrudgingly drag your depressed nauseated drowsy sore self out of bed to flip the switch is worth it. One day, you’ll be feeling horrible, and you’ll be so relieved that you can just switch off the appliance or light with your phone.
Now I’d go further and suggest living in an apartment or condominium, and not having a car. Live in walking or biking distance of work. Driving is stressful and you hate it. Stop paying so much to get around the place you live in!
Also save more for utilities & rent every time you’re paid. I get paid weekly and I save 1.25 weeks worth for every bill, 1.50 or 2 weeks if I did overtime. Every 4 months, I have at least one month of each bill saved. This way I can take a day, week, or even a month off of work and I have enough for all bills and groceries and stuff I don’t need. Taking an unpaid day off to play the hot new game did not put me on the slippery slope that leads to homelessness. It did nothing, actually. I could take the whole week off for a video game if I wanted to and I’m still completely secure. Bills still get paid, I still have a job, literally everything is okay.
Live in peace, it’s possible. Adulthood is awesome. If you literally want to watch cartoons and play games after work then optimize your life so you can. It’s controversial because everyone would rather be part of slow moving traffic going 32 inches a minute to create more chores at home but have zero energy or time to do them, and spend their time off work planning on doing the chores, but going grocery shopping manually instead and still having no time or energy to do the chores, and instead of changing anything about their lives they antagonize the one family member who doesn’t have piles of decade old chores because she fucking lives in the current year and utilizes conveniences, while spending all their time not doing chores or working watching subpar TV shows wishing they had space to do hobbies they’d be able to do if they didn’t have decade old piles of dirty laundry and boxes still unpacked today despite moving into the house years before Barack Obama became president.