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January 2013

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

December 2012

Dirty Little Secret

sparkyinthesnow: I hate cleaning. I’m one of those people who loves the idea of a clean, organized home, but has no idea how real people in the real world make it happen. I clean up, and within 24 hours, the place is a disaster again. My sister has a 3 year old monster-child, and her house is cleaner than mine, and all I have is a husband and a cat. I love seeing the pics on Unfuck Your...

deanon: THE GREAT KITCHEN UNFUCKING CONTINUES Or: Dee Is A Huge Nerd About Cleaning HERE GOES: Read More

almostaccurate: Got a bug up my butt a few days ago to clean out the master bedroom closet. Actually, I was just putting off taking down Christmas stuff and this seemed like a more enjoyable activity. Read More

I don't like New Year's resolutions.

I think that they set you up for failure, and I’m not a fan of encouraging failure. Resolutions are generally sweeping, dramatic changes made on a day when there’s a social expectation to get your act together one way or another, and that’s not a recipe for success. That’s a recipe to marathon clean, and we all know that’s not sustainable in the long term. So...

Lots of new followers right before New Year's? Hi,...

Until then, if you’re new to UfYH, here’s the welcome packet: I curse. A lot. If this is problematic for you, we may have to admire each other from afar. There will be many f-bombs, as well as some more creative stuff. A 20/10 is 20 minutes of unfucking (cleaning, studying, what have you) followed by a 10-minute break. 45/15s are the same, only, you know, 45 and 15. A drain volcano is baking...

Members of the Why The Fuck Are You Still On the Internet And Not Going To Bed Right Now 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

thedoctorplusone asked: how do you feel about to-do lists?

heymethere: After weeks and months of ignoring and avoiding both the tv table [and hold all for whatever I wanted near me while sitting in my oh so comfortable ferrari armchair] and the desk, I attacked both. Lo and behold, the mighty war I had anticipated fighting did not take longer than twenty minutes. And that includes opening up three different storage boxes to find a table cloth [which...

My First Official Un Effffing!

unsugar: I made a tumblr just so I could post my before and afters. I have been doing a lot of 20/10s but not really maintaining them. I’ve been at my wit’s end, being a stay at home mom to a toddler while battling a stupid disease. It has been a tough couple of years with my health and other things and I have been in a bit of a serious depression the last week after receiving some bad news from...

UFYH: Post Christmas Edition

noelfigart: I don’t have a before pic, but I was Very Naughty when I came home from my Christmas visit to my family. Yes, I drove all night both to avoid traffic and a snow storm, arriving at home exhausted, shaky and smelling of Road Trip Funk. While that might have excused leaving everything on the kitchen counter and dining room table for long enough to eat, shower and get in a good long...

crayoncandy asked: is there a particular reason you've memorized the entire ikea catalog? it's impressive. :U

Even if you’re getting right back into it!

bluewolfshadow replied to your post: Just got a hilariously terrible review of the app… Is the app available on android? If not, will it be? Soon. I promise.

grace—jealousy—wisdom replied to your post: Just got a hilariously terrible review of the app… I’m guessing those comments are only visible in the US itunes store? There are only 5 reviews on the app as far as I can see and they’re all positive. I think it only shows you reviews from your country. I get to see them all, which is more of a curse than a blessing, I think. I mean,...

Just got a hilariously terrible review of the app in the iTunes store, which I felt upset by and angry about, until I saw that of the 33 reviews this person has submitted, they are all equally negative, rude, and combative for no apparent reason. Also, the reviewer makes the assumption that I’m a guy and refers to me as “he” and “him” about a dozen times. So...

If you’re in the Shut the 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

End of Year Unfucking

chess-ka: I’m not a tidy person, really. Even though I love to make lists and I love having deadlines and stuff like that, I am abysmally untidy. Not disorganised, necessarily - I know where everything is! - but my organisation tends to involve having things in piles. Since moving from an entire flat into the (admittedly very large) upstairs bedroom of my grandmother’s house (hurray for being...

Noticed some new followers today. In a couple of...

In the meantime, if you’re new to UfYH, here’s the welcome packet: I curse. A lot. If this is problematic for you, we may have to admire each other from afar. There will be many f-bombs, as well as some more creative stuff. A 20/10 is 20 minutes of unfucking (cleaning, studying, what have you) followed by a 10-minute break. 45/15s are the same, only, you know, 45 and 15. A drain volcano is...

lilacflames-deactivated20130402 asked: What are 20/10s? I looked around a bit to find out but I couldn't see it anywhere

rainbowlite answered your question: ailbhe-leamy: I think I need a pep talk It’s so… The best day only has 24 hours. So does the worst day. Truth here, guys.

Why "company ready" is good, but "you ready" is...

Raise your hand if this sounds familiar: for whatever reason, someone is coming to your house. And you’re in a complete panic, frantically cleaning whatever you can get to as quickly as you can, just so the house will be “company ready” for your guests. Here’s a serious question, though: why do your guests deserve to have your house look nice more than you do?...

Wash your sheets!

And then make your bed.

Members of the Fridays Sometimes Don’t Mean Anything Special, So Turn Off the Computer and Fucking Go 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

If you’re in the Why the Fuck Are You Still On the Computer and Not Going To Bed Yet club, it’s time!

ailbhe-leamy: I think I need a pep talk It’s so much work. Five people, three cats, three autie/aspie/ADHD behavioural traited people, intermittent chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and squalor. I seem to never stop and never get it clean. (Making this answerable/reply-able.) You guys, ailbhe-leamy is good people, and a long-time active member of Team UfYH. I know you all have some kind...

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

Why is "marathoning" bad?

Marathoning is bad for a few reasons: It’s all or nothing. So, “all” is great, but the vast majority of the time, it’s “nothing.” It’s not sustainable. The good thing about cleaning in short, manageable chunks of time is that you can do it every day without it cutting into your life. You can’t do that with marathons. A lot of members of Team UfYH have physical or mental limitations that make...

OK, I just photographed all the Befores...

utternutter: in an effort to shame motivate myself into 20/10ing my way back to basic standards of hygiene. Depression is a helluva drug, y’all. But I feel much, much better now that the 25th/anniversary has passed, Christmas is fucking over, and now I can clean the shit out of some mental and physical house. The pictures are horrible and embarrassing. But when I get enough done, I’ll post...

Golf_Princess: Praise UfYH →

golf-princess: I lost count of my 20/10s getting ready for the in-laws to visit. Not only did I get my entire house cleaned, but I did extras: Dusting everything on the walls, pledge the handrails and furniture, cleaned the front of the dishwasher, stove, and fridge (and magnets - how do THEY get dirty?), ran a…

Post-Christmas Cleanup

mamatofour: Thanks to a lovely Christmas Day migraine I didn’t get as much cleaning up done as I wanted to yesterday, but thanks to UFYH I knew that it wouldn’t take much to get it back under control. I used the 13 minutes while the kids’ lunch was in the oven to transform this: Into this: It’s so much easier to do it in short bursts regularly than to let it pile up and try to do marathon...

If you’re in the Turn the Computer the Fuck Off And Go the Hell To Sleep club, it’s time!

Very slowly cleaning up

turtlewexler: In honour of the people who are probably not coming over tomorrow because snowstorm, I finished cleaning my living/dining room area. My kitchen is almost done, but I have to finish baking the cookies that no one will eat. (What, bitter?) Before: After: A great deal of this was figuring out when it was neat enough that I could post the images. I haven’t done the bookshelves...