Sometime in the 1960’s I read a folk tale about a little hen who’s house was a mess so she never got anything done. She decided to go to the wise man in the next village to ask for advice the next day. When she got up in the morning she couldn’t find her shoes and spent all morning looking for them. When she found them she put them by her bed for the next day, when she would try again. On day two she had her shoes but couldn’t find her skillet to cook breakfast, so she hunted all morning until she found it, then washed it and left it on the stove for the next day…

She finally realizes the solution to her problem and spends the day cleaning her house instead of going to the village.

For some reason this stuck with me as a kid and I’d like to find the story again.