Why cleaning before the cleaners come is a great use of time

Essential concept: leverage

Another week, another esoteric scientific principle applied to your home. But first, I’m touched at how many of you have upgraded to paid subscriptions. Thank you, thank you!! At the same time, I’m realizing that bifurcating content as paid vs not paid also bifurcates community. So I’m going to be experimenting with the format and how/where the paywall appears. If you are a paid supporter, I deeply appreciate you. And if you’re not, I hope you’ll consider supporting this labor so I can continue bringing you overthought pontifications on bits of home life!

This is the first of an every-so-often series where we’ll explore an essential concept within systems thinking. We approach everything here at Your House Machine from a systems perspective, and internalizing these ideas will help you build your own systems instincts (what more could a girl want?).

The first we’ll discuss today is leverage. Let’s learn about leverage from this spry fellow:

A lever is a simple machine that lets you exert…