Can I just spend a minute to gripe about “cleaning” by stashing stuff away in the wrong place? + It becomes clutter in its temporary home making the things tha

Can I just spend a minute to gripe about “cleaning” by stashing stuff away in the wrong place? + It becomes clutter in its temporary home making the things that belong there harder to see or access. + You’ll have to go looking for it when you need it which may take orders of magnitude more time than just putting it away properly. (And if you really need it and can’t find it you might buy another one, causing more clutter and costing money.) + Even if you remember where you put it you have to handle it twice to get it where it belongs, reducing efficiency over time. I’m a huge believer in having things have a place they belong and making that process efficient. Every day frequent use things get priority. My parents have dozens of (re-usable) plastic cups that just sit precariously balanced in a cupboard. They do use them for the occasional party but mostly they’re just a menace when you want a glass of water. Solution 1: Keep 4 (or 6 or 8) cups in the cupboard. Store the rest in a box under the stairs until you need them for a party. Solution 2: Re-home the extras completely and use Solo cups for parties. (Even ignoring the benefit of the extra space, this might be cheaper over time unless you really can’t leverage the space the plastic cups take by, say, buying consumables in bulk on discount.) You shouldn’t be handling (or potentially handling) things you rarely use in order to access things you use every day. Physical space has a use besides just storing more stuff…