In about three weeks, my building will be doing their annual fire alarm and smoke detector testing. Some dude is gonna have to come into my apartment and take about sixty seconds to test everything. If they had to do the testing tomorrow, I’d be embarrassed because my apartment is a tad too messy for guests. Is it like an episode from a hoarding show in here? No, definitely not, but I probably have too much recycling piled up and a large pile of laundry on my couch that needs to be elsewhere. I probably need to vacuum as well. All told, nothing a few hours of cleaning can’t fix.
Of course, if I did the cleaning this week, I bet everything would be messy again in three weeks. The key to being lazy is to keep everything a mess until right before you need it clean, so you don’t have time to make it messy again.