Sweep the kitchen
Sweeping is a task without a clear ending. The crumbs reappear when the light changes, and the dustpan always leaves a thin line however many times you try. The pictures below show where the task actually stops.
♂Sweep the kitchen
A person sweeps crumbs into a dustpan with a broom in front of a kitchen unit with a sink.
♂Sweep the kitchen
A person sweeps with a broom and red dustpan by a green kitchen unit.
About this visual support
Chores with unclear boundaries are harder than they look. A dishwasher is empty or full, but a floor can always get a little cleaner, and anyone who wants to do it right gets stuck redoing the same patch several times. Meanwhile anyone who wants to finish fast will call it done after one pass, and both are in a sense right, because nobody has said where the line is.
Visual support sets that line in advance. A picture showing sweep the middle, one showing under the table and one showing empty the dustpan gives the task an ending that can be ticked off without argument.
A concrete tip is to define an area rather than a standard: the floor between the table and the sink. A bounded area can be finished, a whole kitchen floor can always be questioned. In Routined the sweeping can sit as a short step after dinner, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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