# Pile / Unpile Goal

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pile-unpile-goal/12012>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [November 17, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pile-unpile-goal/12012 "2024-11-17T17:49:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![lambo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/lambo/32/5451_2.png) [@lambo](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lambo)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pile-unpile-goal/12012/1 "2024-11-17T17:49:51Z")

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Sharing something simple that’s been working well for me:

I thought the concept of [redqueening](https://blog.beeminder.com/redqueen/) was interesting, and I read somewhere that a really simple way to manage cleaning in general (i.e. putting things / trash / clothes away) is that all you have to do is “pile” and “unpile” things, which felt like a similar concept

So I made 2 goals, one called pile and one unpile

And throughout the day, when the bee prompts me (or when I feel like it), I put things in piles and then put them away from those piles (unpiling) and update a loose count based on that.

Particularly I do it based on “trips” – how many times I need to go to and from a pile.

It’s very simple and fairly effective, because you don’t need to pile / unpile that many times a day to rapidly tidy up a space and keep it that way.

And now I kind of _like_ cleaning?! Because I don’t have to worry about doing it too much or too little, and it’s very simple to think about – just pile or unpile, and get your points.

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/pile-unpile-goal/12012/2 "2024-11-17T21:06:54Z")

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Ah, I love the “pile/unpile” concept and having two graphs is smart. Bee and I combine them like so:

> [@Advent 2022: 13. Inbox and Backlog Reduction and Freshening](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-13-inbox-and-backlog-reduction-and-freshening/10667/4):
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> I’m copying in @dreev’s “cluttermania” daily beemail from 22 December, 2022 because it’s a clever enhancement to the original Control Systems approach for dealing with clutter. Happy Solstice! Here’s a holiday special beemail: My and Bee’s new scheme for beeminding decluttering. It starts with the obvious thing everyone does: a do-more goal to put items of clutter away. You get a +1 for putting away something that was cluttering the house. The new twist is that we designate a big box or clos…