I was digging through the empty shelves of my bedroom closet, looking for my favorite jeans. I never really noticed how fast clean clothes ended up in the laundry hamper. And I threw my stuff around so much that it could have gotten lost anywhere. Even under the bed. So whenever something wasn't where I'd left it, the first thing I did was look around. The room was small—the smallest in this two-story townhouse on a quiet...