My wife is away for a couple of weeks,
I am in charge of the house for the
first time in 25 years.

# LAUNDRY

She separates clothers in 3 buckets,
white, black/dark, mix (green,red
etc), inspects each item for stains,
applied stain remover, then run the
laundry machine, then the dryer for
each class of clothes. And after the
dryer clothes have to hand dry as well
because they are not dry enough.

Every day she did laundry. And the
stupid laundry machine is next to my
office, I hear nonstop "click bang
click bing" from the zippers hitting
the drum.

I saw toil everywhere!

I reduced it to 2 classess, light and
dark. No stain remover, if stain stays
it is God's will, I run one laundry
machine with dark, put in dryer, in
parallel start second laundry machine
with light, once done, stop dryer, put
the new clothes in and start it again
for full cycle.

Clothes come completely dry and clean,
I just put them in the shelve, no
folding, both me and my daughter have
great vision and can pick what we want
from the pile.

The whole process takes less than 5
minutes of work and can be done once
every 7 days.

If you run out of clothes use pijamas.

Saves water, electricity, polution.


# DISHES

I dont unload dishes from the
dishwasher, just pile up the dishes in
the sink, after rincing, until every
single dish is used from the current
dishwasher, then fill it up again. If
you run out of dishes, use the cups as
dishes, if you run out of forks use
the spoons. Last resort you can use
cooking paper as dishes (for solid
food).

Ideally you should have 2 dishwashers,
clean and not clean, but its too
expensive and takes lots of space.

# FOOD

I think this one is fun, no need to
optimize.

# CLEANING

:( Not fun at all

I think this needs complete
reorganization of the house to be
robot cleaning friendly, I dont have a
roomba, but even if I do, the
furniture wont allow it to go to clean
like 50% of the room. Doors have to be
changed, chairs and tables as well.

Next time we move this will be my top
thing to look for.

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The point is, you cant optimize
anything unless you understand what
the problem is, and for that, you need
to accumulate some scar tissue.