My four-year-old loves to watch a handful of YouTube channels, and the other day I put one family's popular vlog on the TV for her. As we were watching, I couldn't help but think about their house, and I don't mean the size of it. (It seems like a pretty average American-sized home.) I was struck by how tidy and clean it was. Now I'm sure that when you post videos of events happening in your home on a daily basis for millions of people to see, you probably do your best to keep your surroundings as neat and tidy as possible (and perhaps hire a cleaning service). At the same time, though, I feel like in order to keep our home looking that nice, I would need to find a lot more time to clean than I currently seem to muster up with little kids underfoot.
That answer surprised me at first. Then I realized that it made a lot of sense.
Generally speaking, small homes clean up a lot faster than big homes do. There is just less square footage to clean and less room for belongings so fewer belongings to put away. Overall, cleaning a small space is a pretty small job.
Conversely, though, tiny houses start to feel messy much more quickly than larger homes do.
Five stuffed animals strewn across a big open room seems hardly noticeable, but those same five stuffed animals on our living room floor leaves me feeling a little panicky inside because the room starts to feel cluttered and closed in very quickly.
The more people you have living in a tiny space, the more quickly is will seem messy, too.
It can be frustrating to me at times how quickly our house gets cluttered and noticeably dirty; I spend quite a bit of time picking up the same small messes over and over throughout the day. I am glad that we can go from disaster to presentable fairly quickly, but like most things in life, there are benefits and negatives to living in a small home just as there are to living in a large one. The rate at which our house gets cluttered is definitely one of the downsides to tiny house living.
"How do you think they keep their house looking so clean?" I asked Chris.
His answer was thought provoking.
"It's probably because it's so big."
Huh.That answer surprised me at first. Then I realized that it made a lot of sense.
Generally speaking, small homes clean up a lot faster than big homes do. There is just less square footage to clean and less room for belongings so fewer belongings to put away. Overall, cleaning a small space is a pretty small job.
Conversely, though, tiny houses start to feel messy much more quickly than larger homes do.
Five stuffed animals strewn across a big open room seems hardly noticeable, but those same five stuffed animals on our living room floor leaves me feeling a little panicky inside because the room starts to feel cluttered and closed in very quickly.
The more people you have living in a tiny space, the more quickly is will seem messy, too.
It can be frustrating to me at times how quickly our house gets cluttered and noticeably dirty; I spend quite a bit of time picking up the same small messes over and over throughout the day. I am glad that we can go from disaster to presentable fairly quickly, but like most things in life, there are benefits and negatives to living in a small home just as there are to living in a large one. The rate at which our house gets cluttered is definitely one of the downsides to tiny house living.
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