15 Forgotten Farmhouse Habits to Never Have a Messy Home

I grew up in a farmhouse with eight people, a mudroom full of barn boots, and not one closet, and in eighteen years I never once saw anybody hunt for their keys. It was not because my mother cleaned all day. It was fifteen small habits everybody in that house did without thinking. Most take less than a minute, none cost a dime, and almost all of them have been forgotten. Do not try all fifteen. Pick three.