Behavior modification sucks.
Trying to modify things like eating, drinking, and exercising is difficult. Trying to modify my incessant need to leave clutter in my wake is a right pain in the ass. It's hard because it doesn't seem that important. I can't get amped up about cleaning up after myself.
As you can see in the picture above, my wife came up with a solution. A social douchebag jar. She got the idea from the hilarious Fox comedy, New Girl.
Why don't you see a jar? You know why, Neo. There is no jar.
Leaving my contact solution and glasses on the vanity is a nasty habit of mine that drives her nuts. So what she's done is committed to posting my failures in cleanliness on Facebook. She's making a humilitation deposit in her Social Douchebag Jar. I see it in my feed, feel shame, and eat 2 bowls of Honey Nut Cheerios, which only compounds my weight loss challenge!
Perhaps I need to start posting everything I eat directly on Facebook and Twitter and let all my friends shame me into fitness.
For all you wives out there, this might be a great way to change your husband's behavior. Unless they're like my Dad, who has no shame. Love you, Dad!
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