The issue is that, normally, there is a sharp transition from “enough clutter to feel messy and be hard to find things” to “clean enough that I can find things and it doesn’t feel cluttered”. This transition is in the last 30 minutes or so of the 3 hours. This means that:
on day 1 collect all things and put them into a temporary basket, and on day 2 take a few random things from the basket and put them where they belong.
will help solve the first half of the problem (feeling cluttered), even though it won’t help as much with the second half (finding things). The trick will be to actually go back and unpack the temporary clutter storage space. I expect this won’t be too hard, since I will be reminded every time I need something that is inside of it.
Ah, okay, this helps a lot.
The issue is that, normally, there is a sharp transition from “enough clutter to feel messy and be hard to find things” to “clean enough that I can find things and it doesn’t feel cluttered”. This transition is in the last 30 minutes or so of the 3 hours. This means that:
will help solve the first half of the problem (feeling cluttered), even though it won’t help as much with the second half (finding things). The trick will be to actually go back and unpack the temporary clutter storage space. I expect this won’t be too hard, since I will be reminded every time I need something that is inside of it.