before - after

what I learned:

- focus and dont get distracted while doing it

- focus 1 area at a time

EVERYTHING that’s in a place where it doesn’t belong, THROW IT ON THE BED. Now you can’t sleep until it’s clean. And if you do really want to sleep, everything is in the same place. You can move all the stuff easily without the mess being everywhere.

For me this really helps because I get overwhelmed by small messes and objects everywhere, even though I know where everything belongs. If everything is in the same place, I can just work until the pile is gone.

Cleaning my room rn, will update to let you guys know if this tip really works irl

I took over a house in Caledonia, Canada that hadn’t been properly cleaned out in years. There’s old furniture stacked in almost every room, broken appliances in the basement, piles of random boxes, and a garage that’s packed wall to wall with junk. Some of it looks like it might still be usable, but most of it is just damaged or completely outdated.

I’m planning to go through everything room by room, keep a few things that are still in decent shape, and get rid of the rest. Once I’ve sorted out what can stay, I’m going to get 1dayjunk removal to haul the rest away.

What’s the best order to tackle a full house like this without getting completely overwhelmed? How do you decide what’s actually worth keeping versus just getting rid of it? And is there anything specific I should watch for when dealing with old furniture and appliances that have been sitting for years?

I got 20 minute, please help and urgently

Forgive me if this isn’t the right subreddit for this…As the title says, I finally cleaned my depression room. Of course it wasn’t as bad as you’ve maybe seen online with chronic hoarders but it was pretty bad. The main areas of my room were cleaned about every 3 months or maybe every 5 months. Despite this, the underside of my bed was barely cleaned. There would be stale food, containers of rotting food, spiders, bugs, old water bottles, trash and more. My life has been upside down since I first became a teenager, I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety almost half my life, anxiety my whole life. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve had to get prescribed antidepressants and anxiety medication to get through horrible patches. I will not go into personal details but trust me it is harsh.

Yesterday, my boyfriend, who I love with all my heart, threatened to break up with me if I didn’t clean my room. He had also previously struggled with depression so safe to say my room was a giant trigger for him. It may sound harsh but it seems to be what I needed. So today I have finally cleaned under my bed despite me being so scared of the arachnids I had lived with for years. It feels so… good? But weird and scary. I feel so empty in a way and I don’t know why. Maybe I was happy with the misery I had locked myself into? It just feels so good knowing I can let my cats in my room without worrying I would hurt them with some biohazard in my room. I don’t feel afraid when they’re by my door anymore. I’m posting this on Reddit as I needed to tell somebody, I just needed to. My boyfriend already knows but I need to get allll of this out.

Are these feelings normal? Also, any advice on how I should move forward to attempt to ease my depression a bit?

When I moved back home for the summer all my stuff got thrown in one room and you couldnt see the floor, I've spent the past few weeks cleaning it and today I was finally able to vacuum. This is huge for me and I wanted to share the progress.

ADHD and a chronic illness that’s aggravated by heat and physical exertion made me keep pushing it off and pushing it off. I was absolutely gobsmacked to find a garage under all that crap. Now I just hope I don’t pay a big physical toll for going a little over my daily exertion limit lmao

i certainly am, my room reflects it boldly. what other causes are there to mess besides mental struggles?

I really don’t have any idea on how to approach this, it’s been at least 3 years since the last time I cleaned my room and is starting to feel really overwhelming.
I need this done before September, because I will start to study again while working on the weekends, so my limited time is doing it right now, but is so much, so many things that I really REALLY need some advice.
There’s so many stuff, even some things that are not mine (but my family’s), on the floor, over the furniture, there’s many clothes that I don’t use and don’t plan to anymore, my bed is really a disaster, theres mold on the walls… luckily the only thing that is not in my room is food, because I hate bringing food to my room (since always, not only because is not a safe place to eat) so there’s no possibility of anything rotten in there.
I just need support and a good cleaning and reorganizing plan for this, that’s all I’m asking desperately.
I cannot continue to keep living like this.

My room has been a disaster for months. I just… couldn't.

Today I finally found some energy and tackled the mess. The floor is harder to clean than I imagined, sticky marks from spilled drinks, crumbs everywhere... took me a while, but thank God for my robot vac little Narwal... I feel better now, for the first in a long time, I actually want to be more better. I'm trying...a small win today

Ongoing depression but finally in a state to clean up again. Tomorrow I do the other desk and the rest of the floor, as well as some laundry.

20 minutes at a time. I hope it‘s something

took me 6 hours but i had A MILLION BREAKS in between, and plenty of drinks as you can see LOL. technically still have to put clean laundry away but close enough 🥲

also i am 19, definitely feel like my room doesn’t look 19 sometimes lol

finally cleaned the mess, ye 1 mahine se aisehi tha, was postponing the cleaning due to exams, done now😭🤚

I've tried so many times. Every time, I fail. I try to tackle it all at once, I fail. I try to tackle it in sections, I still fail.

So I'm trying something different.

Since its mainly clothes, what I'm gonna do is take this plastic bin and fill it with clothes, put all the clothes in the bin into the washer, and wash/fold/put away that load. Do that once a day. It'll take a while, but I think this method would be doable. I think I can keep this up. I guess what I'm looking for is support. Motivation. That kinda stuff. I hope I can keep it up this time.

Also, showing my room is very hard and rather embarrassing. I guess I'm trying to hold myself accountable by showing my disaster of a room.

tw for bugs, ig. I have a small ant infestation, need to get rid of it while cleaning. it’s spring, and during winter I got really depressed and ate a lot in here and didn’t clean up the mess. Cleaning soon and want the bugs out of the way.

I really don’t want to buy traps because it gives my parents something else to give me shit about, and I can’t get them from anyone else, so any ideas how to make some I can just put down while I clean?

I've been diagnosed with Depression and ADHD. Which is one of the reasons my bedroom looks like this. It's so small and I have wayyy too much stuff that I don't know what to do with. I'll be honest, I am a hoarder and I'm very ashamed of my bedroom. Whenever I go to someone's house, and their bedroom is dirty (by dirty they mean clothes on the ground and their bed not made with some makeup or skincare products scattered around) I tell them it's practically spotless. I really need help with what to start with and how to stay concentrated. Please feel free to give as many tips as possible, I really need the help but please please please don't judge.