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I used to tidy my room according to a fairly arbitrary set of rules - namely my parents’ rules. When I was a small child and my parents yelled at me to “tidy your room”, they usually meant something like “make it so we can’t see your stuff”. I could achieve that outcome by stuffing everything into cupboards and sweeping things under my bed, so my brain decided that was “tidying”.

At some point, I noticed that I did “tidying” because otherwise people would shout at me, but it was actually a pointless activity, and fairly destructive to my ability to find stuff and get things done. I’d tidy an item into a bottom of a drawer, and then not be able to find it, because it was at the bottom of a drawer full of other random things. Or I’d tidy an item into a bottom of a drawer, and then just kind of… forget about it. “Tidying” my toothbrush is a great way to guarantee that I’ll forget to clean my teeth.

…so I stopped doing “tidying”, and decided that I was Anti Tidying and that the correct response to the “tidy” meme was to put on some angry rock music and yell about complying with arbitrary systems being soul-sucking.

But it turns out that there is actually value to … if not tidying, at least a tidying-adjacent activity! Which I am about to explain how to do.