Unfuck Your Habitat

iquitelikethat:

i recommend this blog for awesome tips and motivation!

http://unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com

sequinsandwedges:

Woke up today and decided to be productive.

• Cleaned kitchen counters
• gathered and washed all dishes
• scrubbed the ever living christ out of the bathroom (like hardcore cleaning, hands and knees scrubbing the tile cleaning)
• took the garbage out
• remembered to put the recyclables in the recycle bin!

and now I will sit and play some video games because it’s mother fucking WINTER BREAK Y’ALL.

(Unfucking will resume tomorrow with gathering all the laundry from my room, washing, and sorting that shit to get ready for a donation drop)

Do I sense New Year’s resolutions, hmm? Just for the record, I’m not a fan of resolutions. I feel like they set you up for failure. So let’s not make resolutions. Let’s just stop being so lazy, OK? And let’s do it past January, into the spring and summer and all the way through the year. Let’s do it because we need to, not because there’s some weird social pressure to make promises we don’t really intend to keep on a particular day of the year.

So, welcome, all you wonderful new people. Hop in. Browse the tips and challenges pages, take a look at before and after pictures, and get ready, because mercy is for the weak.

kaleyedoskope:

I’m so sorry, I haven’t been on to update!!

Day 3 was the dining room. I use that term loosely, since it hasn’t been used to “dine” in any formal sense for many months, and it’s basically been entirely converted to a nerd-room. This is where the computers go when we get together and play games, this is where the tabletop roleplaying sessions are held, where the Warhammer battles take place. Since it was converted pretty hastily, nothing really had a place, and there were just piles everywhere.

Everything has since been repurposed to hold things that are relevant! (And yes, that computer is functional there - or will be once it gets plugged in again. It doesn’t need to be at a desk because we’ll mostly use it for a server, we’ll just have to access it every now and then)

This corner was literally just piles of nonsense. There was no reason for any of that to be there.

And now it’s clear!!

And the main area of the room - awful. Notice the jury-rigged “curtain” over both windows there: it blocks SOME of the sun, some of the time, and has been like that for weeks.

Annnnd after! The addition of the table there is because when I was taking the “fucked” pictures, it had been moved to the living room to play a board game, and I didn’t have the space yet to move it back. But now I do! I have all the space in the world!! Also here is my lovely fiance completely engrossed in Old Republic.

Day 4 will be posted shortly!!

Holy crap! Huge progress! Keep the updates coming!

kaleyedoskope:

This is the worst. The invisible corner of the whole apartment. The way we have our living room set up, the couch divides it into two separate spaces. The space we usually inhabit doesn’t get too cluttered because we constantly need to use it, but the area behind the couch… a no man’s land of discarded and forgotten possessions.

Most of those boxes aren’t even FULL, they’re just THERE, being visible and ugly and cluttery. But after today, it’s all GONE.

And since I had access to the previously-inaccessible DVD shelves…

I put them all away!

So proud of this one, guys. This has been fucked since we moved in, since it’s been a catch-all for everything we didn’t know what to do with.

The only truly bad areas now are the large walk-in closet that we utilize but have never organized, and the three boxes of things from around the house that still need sorting.

But for the most part…

UNFUCKED FOR 2012!

Dude. I got chills. That is AMAZING.

harleybond:

I am now done my first day of the Great Pre2012 Unfuckening. Today, I bought a vacuum (our old one is a piece of freaking junk, and therefore I didn’t use it - it was clunky and awkward, and didn’t even really pick things up) and all my cleaning supplies. When I got home, I spent an hour and a half cleaning the upstairs bathroom. It was seriously, seriously cruddy. Everything was covered in a pretty significant layer of dust, the toilet was filthy, so filthy I don’t want to describe it, the floor was covered in spills and dust bunnies and dust bunnies stuck to spills, and the shower was…beyond gross.

Both the shower and the floor took three cleans to get to an adequate condition, and the shower is still a little gunky - it seems like it’s stuck that way, though, as I scrubbed as much as I could. However, I can now look at the bathroom without being grossed out, and it’ll be much easier to keep clean now. Day one? Pretty good accomplishment. 

However, coming downstairs and seeing my room still so fucked up even after I was exhausted from cleaning was…jarring. My desk and floor are definitely the next up for tomorrow. 

If you don’t have kids or critters that might get curious, just spray the crap out of your shower and leave it overnight. You’d be surprised how much that can loosen stuff up.

Also, awesome job!

Hey guys! Welcome. Here’s your welcome packet, refreshments are over there (but you have to clean up after yourself), and challenges may cross your dash suddenly and without warning. You may learn to love me, you may grow to hate me, you may start to curse me, but I promise: if you put at least SOME effort in, your habitat will get unfucked.

Also, rewards come in gif form. I hope that and the constant terror of being yelled at by a stranger on the Internet is enough to motivate you.

blueandbluer:

unfuckyourhabitat:

tehblackbirdissofly:

blueandbluer replied to your post: I’ve washed my sheets twice in the past two days….

Uh oh, careful… PileofMonkeys is gonna see and yell at you.

Yeah, I know. BUT, POM, I unfucked my work space AND LBC yesterday, so. I spent like AT LEAST 4 hours on those two things.

OOOOH YOU’RE IN TRUBBLE!!!!!

Nobody likes a tattletale.

tehblackbirdissofly:

blueandbluer replied to your post: I’ve washed my sheets twice in the past two days….

Uh oh, careful… PileofMonkeys is gonna see and yell at you.

Yeah, I know. BUT, POM, I unfucked my work space AND LBC yesterday, so. I spent like AT LEAST 4 hours on those two things.

motivatedslacker:

I am now a convert to the 20/10 system. I got SO MUCH done today.

Summary of what was unfucked:

Bed made

Clean laundry put away

Suitcases unpacked and put away

Bathroom cleaned

Kitchen cleaned

Rugs vacuumed 

Floors Swiffered

Litter box emptied

Recycling and trash taken out

I think I’m done for the day. Tomorrow I’ll try to tackle some of the tidying/organizing tasks now that most of the cleaning is done.

harleybond:

While I am not new to following UYH, I am new to posting about it. I have made changes since starting to follow - I am getting a lot better at the little things, but more and more, I’m starting to realize that I really do need to do one big, monumental deep clean that I can then sustain with shorter bits of effort.This next week is my week for doing this. I am going to clean the bathrooms and the kitchen and most importantly, the bedroom and my desk. I am going to get rid of stuff to deal with the too much stuff too little storage, and I am going to make at least a little room on the bookshelves for my hubby. I am going to make my habitat a positive one to be in, because I know it will lead me on to more positive things. 

I think one of the big things that would help me is doing the before/after pictures, so I’m going to do pictures tonight before I go to bed. The help they will give me is twofold - first off, I will be able to see every bit of progress I have made, because I will have a beginning to compare it to. Second, the after pictures will give me a goal for when my habitat is started to trend to the fucked and needs to be touched up. 

I don’t know whether I’ll do daily updates or just at the end of the week. My gut says daily is good, because it keeps me accountable every day and lets me see that progress that I’m pushing for, but I don’t want to make unreasonable goals for myself. So, I will try to write an update every day, but will at very least do a basic before and after.

Wish me luck! 

I can’t wait to see your progress! Don’t forget to take your breaks, though, OK? Marathon cleaning can wipe you out.