A katamari can grow extremely large in a very short amount of time, especially when you leave things laying around in varying sizes. The best way to prevent a katamari from ever starting is to keep your house clean. If you can, try to have as little things as possible, or if you need your earthly possessions, keep them somewhere high off the ground. Do not put up ramps in your room, no matter how cool it may seem. Do not keep your collection of thumbtacks, erasers, sushi on the floor. Stop keeping every little thing before a katamari comes to roll it, and you, up.

But what if the katamari doesn’t start in your home? Simple. Start a free cleaning business. The world will thank you for your dedication to saving it. If people refuse your compulsive need to lock their knickknacks away in katamari proofed container—like a chest or a refrigerator or a fire—you can always break into their homes and clean in the middle of the night. Not that we’re telling you to do that.

So what can you do when a katamari gets too large for you to handle? What if a katamari starts in, say, a trash dump? Try to get into something larger than it is. If you happen to have a truck just sitting around while a katamari is merrily rolling up your neighbour Steve, run it over. Chances are you’ll hit the Prince. If not, reverse and run it over again. Repeat.

What if a katamari is rolling up houses? Get into a skyscraper. What if a katamari is rolling up skyscrapers? Hide on Godzilla. Always get in or on something larger than the katamari and hope that the time limit runs out. If a katamari continues for more than 10 minutes, you and the world are pretty much screwed.