Level of appropriate chaos at home - me and housework What do I like to do as a housework? As most people I know, I don't like any kind of housework. But I try to keep my kitchen in normal condition, I don't let the dirty dishes to stay more than one day in the sink. Also I try to keep control on the amount of clothes to wash and on the amount of cat fur on the floor. By the way, after observing the flats of people I know, I concluded that everybody has in their minds some kind of "appropriate level of chaos". For somebody "too dirty" means situations, when the floor is covered by different stuff and you have no space to step or, for example, there is no more clean plates and cups. For somebody else even a cup left on the table after lunch brings the feeling of disorder. So, I think, most people clean their houses when they see that level of disorder has overcome this critical point. What about me, I have two kinds of such critical levels - one is for me, when I am alone at home, and another one for situations, when I invite people to me, in this case I make my flat cleaner than usual:)