Cleanliness fundas for all bachelors (I mean the ones who don't live with their parents)

With all the "Swacch Bharat" buzz gripping the country, you can observe a gradual change in the masses' attitude. Still a lot has to be done. What has changed over the last year or two is that people have stopped littering in public, they have started thinking before they spit and this hesitation is so evident on the face of an individual doing such a petty thing in public.
So, earlier it used to be just houses from the inside that were clean, now the people and government are trying to keep the outside of the houses clean as well.
In between, there is an intersection - flats/apartments/row houses/PGs/hostels filled with bachelors. The problem is that the general awareness that is spreading is about keeping the outside clean. And our bachelor community is not used to cleaning the inside because they have been living with their parents up till then, so obviously they don't have the etiquette or mannerisms to keep their habitat (Yes habitat, since it cannot be called home/house because of the rowdy life style that is led there) neat, tidy and clean. So, I thought I would come up with these 8 simple rules (they might be made up, but they work) to achieve the same. Don't worry its not very difficult to follow these rules and also it will not work from day 1 as is the case with our Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan. People especially "bachelors" need time to change habits and their innate nature (which is throwing a wrapper anywhere they want to inside their "Habitat").

So, here are my cleanliness fundas for bachelors broken down into 8 simple rules:

1. Zero Displacement Law: For me its the mother of all cleanliness laws. If you are picking up a thing or an object from somewhere, place it back to its original position when you are done using it. This way, the things will be always arranged in your "Habitat". The only exception to this law is when the thing you picked no more exists (like something edible) or when the thing is no more useful  (in which case you need to throw it down the trash).
2. Clean up after yourself: If you spilled something, or littered in the process of doing something productive (which is a rare scenario in this case), clean/wipe/mop/broom whatever you need to do to make the surface clean.
3. Do not use the Refrigerator for Storage: Use it to keep your meal/snack/leftovers cold for that day only or max till the next morning until you eat it. No one likes to see a rotting fruit/yogurt/decaying food in there.
4. Keep your shoes/sandals/stilettos/chappals outside: The house is as clean as the floors of the house. You bring in a lot of dust and pebbles along with you when you are coming from somewhere outside. Yeah, the maids/bais will do it but they don't come everyday and even if they do they are not 100 percent efficient implying that ultimately you will be piling up dust in your house incrementally.
5. Keep all your stuff above sea-level: The surroundings look cleaner when there is less/no stuff placed on the floor and everything is placed either in some shelf or on top of a table. It makes your place looks spacious.
6. Appliances don't clean themselves up: The usual maids/bais do not clean/wipe dust of the appliances installed in your place. So, make sure that every now and then you clean one or the other appliance (TV, Refrigerator, Washing Machine, Microwave, kitchen stove). For a bachelor, the frequency of clean each appliance could be a month.
7. Washing Machine manual says it can wash bed-sheets and curtains as well: Bachelors tend to wash the clothes they wear regularly (at least I do) but forget to wash the curtains and bed-sheets. Washing them once in a blue-moon will bring out fascinating colors out of them, trust me on this one.
8. Empty your trash regularly: Nobody likes to see an overflowing dustbin vomiting out splatters/crumbs/fungus. Its important that a strong waste disposal system is in place. As soon, the dustbin has reached its threshold (from my experience, don't let it reach the threshold otherwise you would get your hands really messy while clearing it out), either throw it out or wrap it up in the garbage bag and wait for the garbage guy to come pick it up in the morning.

In my opinion, these 8 rules cover every aspect of the place you live in (excluding the maid/bais territory). I feel following these rules will make your "Habitat" look cleaner and might even get the certificate of a "House/Home". Everybody loves to live in a neat, tidy and well-organized place.

P.S - Certain personal references have been used above, but no hard feelings folks!!