This post is a chapter of the book It Ain’t Gonna Lick Itself: Housekeeping In Spite Of It All) by Hanne Blank Boyd.
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Outcome matters more than method when it comes to getting shit done in any household. If the way you do a thing gets the job done tolerably well, it really doesn’t matter too much how you do it as long as it is something you will do.
The method you think is the “right way to do X” isn’t the right way to do X if you cannot or won’t actually do it.
What should you do instead? I don’t know. What will you actually do that will get it done? That one sounds like a good place to start your thinking
If what you’ll actually do to get something done is not the method your parents taught you, or the method you saw on some video somewhere that says it’s the best possible way to do whatever, seriously, don’t worry about it. Your parents don’t necessarily need to know about the fact that you no longer clean the bathroom mirror the way they taught you. If they do discover that this is the case, they can learn to cope with the fact that you may do some things differently than they do. It’s really not that big a deal. (No, not even if they try to make it one.)
As for the online video person, I guarantee they’ll never know the difference if you do or don’t follow their method. Besides, who died and made them the emperor of how to wash a floor? Who says there aren’t other ways to get the job done well?
