Just another tip that's only taken me three years to learn! One of the things that sends me batty is the dilemma of seeing lots of crap on the floor which I'm not meant to pick up. I should get around to getting a reacher (stick with pincer thing on the end) but in the meantime what I do is tell DP to pick everything up and put it on a sofa/bed/hallway table that I can reach so I can sort it out. Takes him five minutes - would take me an hour and would kill me. Learnt this one when we sold our house a couple of months back and we were having to tidy our house for open for inspections twice a week.