Discuss your dailies.

If your garbage has a lid, I wouldn't worry about air quality. You're not throwing away toxic crap everyday. Save a little time (and money for trashbags) and just take it out when it's full, unless you threw away something especially stinky.

Well let's think of the time you might be saving here. Less than a minute, max. I use grocery bags for the little garbage can which can become quite full by the end of the day. Generally it is not stinky garbage but it just takes a second to bring it out to the main garbage can and dump it, then it is replaced with a nice clean grocery bag. It needs to be done some time, why not right away?

I'd also consider a load of laundry each day excessive and wasteful of time and water. For myself 1-2 times per week is sufficient. I'm thinking most people would agree with me here.

I live in Canada. If you calculate Canada in terms of land mass, we're smaller than China or the USA. But since we have so many lakes and rivers and ponds, we're second only to Russia. The water is of no concern to me since it literally comes out of the ground by my house. The washing machine takes care of most of the time concerns, it's only about 2 minutes of human time per day. The clean smell of bedsheets and clean clothes in the room is to me, priceless, and also pretty hard to maintain. It's certainly not necessary, like you said, the purpose of my regime is to go above and beyond.

Beyond that I think your habits are healthy and reasonable. I do similar things but I also include things like watching/reading the news as I'm an IR student, and I make sure to do things that make me happy (videogames, reading for fun, etc.). I also tend to think of my workouts on a weekly basis, because I have 2-3 off days to recover.

Thank you, thank you. The reason for my habits being as extreme as they are is because I'm used to living in small environments, and the more small the environment, the more noticeable all of these things are. I have seen people who live in similar small conditions but their place is a complete pigsty, very old garbage cans that are never emptied, full of semen covered tissues and orange peels and god knows what else, and it hasn't been changed in god knows how long, and their sheets and keyboard are filthy, and they get no where in their life. Being the complete opposite of that is one of my driving motivations, because that is truly no way to live.

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