The Clean Underwear Philosophy of Household Cleaning.
So I’m cleaning my room one day for a get together at my place and I get to thinking… over cleaning leaves a false impression of who you are. Not cleaning leave a horrible less that drives people away, and is rather embarrasing. Being as lazy and short for time as I usually am, I could not be make my apartment spotless, nor would I want to. I wouldn’t know where anything is.
Some how the idea of wearing clean underwear before getting on a plane occured to me. The idea is, if the plane crashes, people will at least know you kept clean underwear. (Now whether it stays clean on the trip down is another story completely.)
Having noticed that I spent much of my time rearranging piles of books so that the ones I would like for people to think I was actively reading were on top, I dubbed my tidying up process the Clean Underwear Philosophy of Cleaning. Basically it is the process of arrange one’s apartment in such a way that if someone were to rifle through it unattended, or find it after you had died, it would leave the best impression of you.
The theory allows one to optimize how much cleaning one needs to suit the impression they want to make. Keeping with this philosopy at all times allows people to pop in at any time to find your home reflecting the you that you want them to see, hopefuly the you that you want to become. (For instance I have a subscription to Foreign Affairs to look more knowledgeable about the world and in the hopes that I may one day acutally sit down and read it).
And now, time to go hide all the pr0n.