Thank you for the responses. I tried suggestions. Yesterday when I hosted my little dinner party, there was a mess - a small mess - afterwards because I make small messes as I cook, which is by itself normal. So I set the timer. I had to set the timer twice 15+15=30 mins to clean the mess. It took me exactly 30 mins. Curiously, before I started, I estimated that cleaning up would take only 10-15 minutes but I was lazy. When I pushed myself to do it, with the timer technique, not only did I finish and was proud of myself, I also learned by how much I misestimate the amount of effort it would take to clean up my act.
I put a recurrent 30 min event on my calendar to mop the vinyl floors on Wed nights. We will see how it goes.
I will throw stuff away, except for suitcases with cute clothing sizes 6-10 whereas I am now 14-16 but I am ridiculously hopeful... to use it at some point. Then, there is memento after memento. My drawings from inpatient stay. Should I keep them?
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