Unfuck Your Habitat

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December 2012

If you’re in the Sleep is Still Necessary On the Weekend So Turn Off the Computer and Go the Hell To Bed club, it’s time!

Current non-laundry unfucking project: THE FRONT...

utterlyfubar: To refresh your memories, this is what it looked like back in May: It got better, and then it got worse again. (Dear children of mine, moving things from the living room to the front hall is not actually cleaning it up. kkthxbai.) And then, WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE?! B actually VOLUNTEERED to hang some hooks up in that front hall. VOLUNTEERED!!!!! So, after hanging said...

Unfuck tomorrow morning!

Wash the dishes in your sink Get your outfit for tomorrow together, including accessories Set up coffee/tea/breakfast Make your lunch Put your keys somewhere obvious Wash your face and brush your teeth Charge your electronics Pour a little cleaner in the toilet bowl (if you don’t have pets or children or sleepwalking adults) Set your alarm Go to bed at a reasonable hour

misandrypls asked: Do you have any tips for cleaning hairbrushes? I can pull off the majority of the hair, but there is a lot of hair, dust, etc. that doesn't really come off easily.

November 2012

thelipsplitter asked: Do you or any of your followers have advice pertaining to the best way to clean a very moldy cast iron skillet? I mine in a water soak and subsequently forgot about it for an amount of time I'd rather not say.

jiamekare asked: No matter how well I put the sheets on my bed, they are constantly coming uprooted and causing making my bed to be a lot more time consuming than it strictly needs to be. Do you have any advice on preventing this?

prettyshrub asked: I bought a baby bissel steamer to clean up some pet related spots, and finally got off my ass yesterday and did the worst ones. I felt pretty bad-ass and rewarded myself with a new sweater. The downside - the carpet cleaner solution triggered a migraine last night. Fortunately I was able to head it off by painkillers and sleeping on the couch (away from the cleaner in my bedroom). I will NEVER use...

ficklepenguin asked: help me, ufyh!! i have a bad habit of forgetting when i'm boiling water, and have boiled a pot dry multiple times... do you have any tips on how to clean them? how about how to remember that i'm actually boiling water?

h4nchan asked: Hello! A mysterious butt-shaped blue patch has appeared on my nice clean wall in my brand new flat. It looks like someone got wet in the rain and leant on the wall while wearing indigo jeans. We've tried just washing the wall but the indigo is pretty dark and isn't budging. Is there anything that works particularly well on dye? On a wall? I'm baffled.

New people! Welcome!

Here’s the welcome packet. Make yourselves at home. Well, make yourselves at a slightly neater version of home.

shifted-autumn asked: You have any unfucking tips for clearing a house of fleas? We're at wits end and its hit us deep in our pockets.

iamagadfly: I cleaned my electric kettle with a white vinegar/water solution, following a tip I got from Unfuck Your Habitat. The coils had been disgustingly crusted with minerals and… well I don’t know what all else, but since I’m still recovering from a nasty H Pylori infection, I don’t want any of it in my tea. It worked like a charm. The coils are de-crusted, and now it smells really...

Trying to work my way through the askbox today. I’m turning off asks for a day or so, so that I don’t get swamped with new ones as I answer older ones. One tip: the homepage has a custom Google search box that’s infinitely more useful and accurate than Tumblr search. Try a quick search for the subject of your question and see if it’s been talked about before.

HEY GUYS I DID IT IT'S CLEAN

thereisloveintheworld: remember that post a few hours ago with the really dirty apartment? yeah look now ahhhhhhhh

One Invisible Corner Vanquished

ai731: The invisible corner by the front door. Before: After: The wooden crates hold DH’s and my winter hats, mitts, scarves, and our work gloves (we live on a hobby farm). The crates will eventually, one day, maybe even this year, get mounted on the wall. The large round wicker basket holds bags of stuff on their way out to Goodwill / charity shops. Cunning, eh? Note to those not...

If you’re in the Shut That Damn Computer Down And Get Your Ass to Bed club, it’s time!

Unfuck tomorrow morning!

Wash the dishes in your sink Get your outfit for tomorrow together, including accessories Set up coffee/tea/breakfast Make your lunch Put your keys somewhere obvious Wash your face and brush your teeth Charge your electronics Pour a little cleaner in the toilet bowl (if you don’t have pets or children or sleepwalking adults) Set your alarm Go to bed at a reasonable hour

foxwithsocks asked: Is vinegar good for removing smells? I see you reference a vinegar/water mixture a lot. I just moved into a new apartment and it's mostly great, but there is one cabinet in the kitchen that continues to reek and I'm not sure what it is or how to get rid of it. I tried using a Clorox spray and wiping it down a little afterwards and it doesn't work at all. I've basically kept...

Unfucking Habitats... Like a BOSS

marchie-monrey: The Story: I got home from Thanksgiving Sunday night, and had no time to unpack my suitcases, so i thought i’d do it the next day when i got some spare time. NEXT DAY, I find out a very important Term paper for my Costume History was due that day, and i hadn’t finished the first page. Everything basically goes to shit, I end up spending the entire night working on the paper. My...

[redacted] replied to your post: 11 p.m. UfYHST lols at 3 hour time difference.

If you’re in the Get the Fuck Off the Computer and Go To Bed, Goddammit club, it’s time!

Unfuck tomorrow morning!

Wash the dishes in your sink Get your outfit for tomorrow together, including accessories Set up coffee/tea/breakfast Make your lunch Put your keys somewhere obvious Wash your face and brush your teeth Charge your electronics Pour a little cleaner in the toilet bowl (if you don’t have pets or children or sleepwalking adults) Set your alarm Go to bed at a reasonable hour

Total Contractor Bags: 6 - in progres photo

unfuckify: I can’t believe I’m actually posting a photo. But since that’s what I like looking at when I look at UFYH stuff, I guess I’d better pony up. OMG OMG! I did two more bags today - hate my ex!! I hate that I have to do this because of HIS STUFF. But I try not to dwell on that, because I just want this over and done with and to get my life back once and for all, 100%! Cursing him as...

Solstice minus 23 days and counting

ai731: It’s the Coming of the Dark time of year, the time I always struggle with most. So I told myself that even if I only unfucked ONE THING, then it was one thing that was unfucked, and wouldn’t need to be done tomorrow… Corner-drobe before and after: The basket of laundry was clean and got folded and put away. The other pile of clothes got sorted into “Clean enough to wear again,...

thiswearyhead: The poor craft room tends to be the area in the house where things get dumped. The main problem is that our house doesn’t have very many storage options for things we need to use on a semi-regular basis. The things we use all the time have their places, and the things we only use once or twice a year go in the attic. But the things in between get stuffed in the craft...

If you’re in the Why Are You Still On the Computer and Not Getting Ready For Bed club, it’s time!

Unfuck tomorrow morning!

Wash the dishes in your sink Get your outfit for tomorrow together, including accessories Set up coffee/tea/breakfast Make your lunch Put your keys somewhere obvious Wash your face and brush your teeth Charge your electronics Pour a little cleaner in the toilet bowl (if you don’t have pets or children or sleepwalking adults) Set your alarm Go to bed at a reasonable hour

rissani: I’m desperately in love with Really Useful Boxes. They’re amazingly sturdy, come in a bunch of different sizes and shapes and colors, but are sadly hard to find or expensive. But the other day I was in a store and happened to see a few new boxes. One meant for ornaments, one meant for packing a Christmas tree and one for wrapping paper. I picked up the wrapping paper one, even though I...

jumblejo: You guys, the Amazon deal-of-the-day is a Dyson for 40% off. for people with discretionary income and a desire to unfuck on a grand scale.

Unfucked My Bathroom!

writersarethekeepersofhumanity: Welp, I did it! Unfuck Your Habit really worked wonders! Here’s the before picture of my bathroom: And here’s the after: UNFUCKED!

Members of the Get the Fuck Off the Computer and Go the Hell to Bed club, it’s time!

Unfuck tomorrow morning!

Wash the dishes in your sink Get your outfit for tomorrow together, including accessories Set up coffee/tea/breakfast Make your lunch Put your keys somewhere obvious Wash your face and brush your teeth Charge your electronics Pour a little cleaner in the toilet bowl (if you don’t have pets or children or sleepwalking adults) Set your alarm Go to bed at a reasonable hour

Unfucking With Friends

edisonhatesme: I have this really great apartment. It’s got high ceilings and big windows and colored walls and when I walked in the first time, I wrote my landlord a check and said “I want this apartment. I’ll sign a two year lease right now if you drop the price.” And he did, and it’s been great. It’s walking distance to everything and generally adorable and perfect. BUT. Thanks to two jobs...

Mini-challenge!

Take five minutes and collect all the dishes in your house and bring them to the sink/dishwasher. Bonus points for actually washing them. If that doesn’t take five minutes, round out the time by throwing away some obvious trash.

If you’re in the Holy Crap Turn Off the Computer and Get Ready For Bed club, it’s time!

Unfuck tomorrow morning!

Wash the dishes in your sink Get your outfit for tomorrow together, including accessories Set up coffee/tea/breakfast Make your lunch Put your keys somewhere obvious Wash your face and brush your teeth Charge your electronics Pour a little cleaner in the toilet bowl (if you don’t have pets or children or sleepwalking adults) Set your alarm Go to bed at a reasonable hour