A housekeeper who cleaned up 6000 houses teaches ``the only reason why the house is messy'' (Diamond Online)-Yahoo! News

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For more than 20 years, Mr. sea has been cleaning up more than 6,000 houses. She has become popular through word of mouth on the housekeeping matching service "Tasukaji", and is called "a housekeeper who can't make a reservation". There is no shortage of topics, such as appearing on TV "Seven Rules" in December last year. The culmination of sea's tidying techniques is the new book "Eliminating the 'troublesomeness' of the whole house." --The simplest "tidying up" rule. In this series, a part of this book will be specially excerpted, edited and published. In fact, January to March is the season when there are many requests for tidying up. This is because the number of requests from people who say things like, "I cleaned everything up in a big cleaning, but it's all messed up in no time" or "I can't start the new year like this!" is increasing. Why is tidying up not working? I will explain the cause that I can understand because I cleaned up 6000 houses. ● Because it's "troublesome" to put things back in a mess, how many times have you tidy up in your life? "There are probably an overwhelming number of people who say they can't count." On the other hand, there should be almost no one who says, "I have never cleaned up." Even though it was cleaned up once by cleaning up before guests, it becomes messy again. So I have to clean up again. In other words, due to the endless rebound, I'm stuck in the tidying up all the time. "Then why does the rebound occur?" I'll say the conclusion after asking the question, but the reason things are messy is because it's troublesome to "return" them. There are no other causes. If there is even the slightest obstacle to "returning" the house, it will continue to be cluttered. "Please remember to prepare for your trip." You can do some preparation before going out, but the work of putting things back after coming back is depressing and tends to get stuck. The same goes for clothes, tableware, and documents. It is overwhelmingly more troublesome to "return" all things than "take them out". When you "take it out", it is for the purpose of dressing or eating, but if you postpone "putting it back", you will not be in trouble right away. Unless you're a big tidying maniac, everyone should have the experience of procrastinating "putting things back" thinking, "I'll put them away later...". The result is a cluttered home with no room for new purchases, with items that have not been put back into storage. If you observe cluttered places in your home, you will definitely find things that have been used and left unreturned. In particular, when stationery that you use every day or clothes that you wear often are left unreturned, it is difficult to move around and stressful. No matter how much you decide to change your mind and keep it this time! The easiest way to keep things tidy without any effort is to eliminate "troublesome things" = "difficult things to put back" throughout the house. The reason why I wrote a book specializing in "getting rid of troublesomeness" is because all the causes of cluttered homes lead to "troublesomeness." This book provides a comprehensive introduction to how to get rid of "troublesomeness", but just by realizing that "I feel troublesome right now", the quality of life will greatly improve.

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