This one’s for pet owners. No pets? Do a freestyle 20/10 on whatever needs unfucking.
Pet owners: wash out those slobbery food and water dishes, and wipe down the area where your pets get fed, including any cabinet or wall surfaces that may get accidental splatter mess. Cat people, clean out your litter box. Gather up any toys and pet-related detritus scattered around the house and put them away. Wash your pet’s bedding. It smells. Trust me.
1. Thank you!
2. Melt the wax with a hairdryer, then wipe it up. Use a little hardwood cleaner when you’re done to get the residue off.
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Clean them with
Just make sure they’re dry before you use them, because I have no idea what vinegar+hot ash will result in.
To the bathroom! Time to go through the medicine cabinet, drawers, and any other storage you have in there. Throw out anything expired or gross, wipe down anything icky or sticky, sort, toss, organize and clean. Check to see if you’re running low on anything (especially critical stuff, like toilet paper).
So yesterday, we did all of the big stuff and got the place looking (I hope) at least surface-clean. Today, we’re going to go a bit more in-depth.
For today’s first challenge, head into the kitchen and open up your worst drawer or cabinet. You know the one. It’s maybe your junk drawer, or the Tupperware cabinet, or that random drawer that’s filled with who-know-what.
20 minutes dealing with it. No excuses.
Frankly I have no idea how to better format this, and the ‘read more’ function isn’t working. So sorry for the wall of images.
I made a detailed post, but tumblr erased it. So instead, just pictures.
First, here are the before pics of all cleaned areas. Except, I put away all the laundry (that’s all over my bedroom, on the bed and the sofa thing) yesterday, not today.
“After”s coming up!
Make your bed!
“More stuff than storage” has two solution: less stuff or more storage. Since you’ve ruled out one, you may have to start making some decisions about the other.
So today, I dearly wanted to move things around in my room. Sadly the items I wanted to move aren’t going to be moveable.
I wanted to switch the general positions of my bed and my desk. My bed, which is currently against the back wall, was going to be moved to just under the window. Then I would move my desk to the corner.
However, I can’t move my desk currently because of the internet cable. We don’t know how long it is, and if we’ll be able to move the desk around the bed.
So instead, I cleaned my room. I swept under the bed, under the desk, and around the room. I took all the fabric off my dog’s bed and am going to wash it.
Then I unfucked my closet… well most of it. Mostly just the clothes. I put all the clothes I’m not ever going to wear again into a bag to be donated, moved all my dress clothes to one section, all my shirts to another, all my skirts and my pants to the back. Then I got all my sleeping clothes and put them in an extra drawer under the bed [which I also unfucked].
YAY FOR CLEANING!!
OK, kids, it’s serious business here at UfYH headquarters this weekend. We’re going to be throwing challenges at you all weekend long.
Here are the rules:
- You don’t have to do every challenge, but you need to do some.
- If a particular challenge doesn’t apply to you for whatever reason, there’s no need to be a snide brat about it. Just do something else.
- When all else fails, do a freestyle 20/10. Twenty minutes unfucking something that needs it, then a ten minute break.
- Before and after pictures always get love here.
- If you’re working on a specific project (schoolwork, the garage, whatever) instead of general unfucking, use the challenges to remind you to get back on track, or do one or two to break up the project a little.
- No excuses, no whining, no being brats. If you aren’t doing or don’t want or need to do something, keep that to yourself. I may be a bitch, but Team UfYH runs on encouragement and doing, not laziness and negative thinking.
- Check in! Let us know what you’ve accomplished.
OK, folks. Go get your coffee and breakfast, drink your water, and get ready. We’re starting soon.
Using this to guide my cleaning today.
Unfortunately, I’m only starting now, and they’re on challenge 10. :(
Everything is tagged with “weekend challenge” and is numbered, so you can do them in order!
By this point, almost everything should be done but most of your floors. (If you were following along, you’ll have swept your bathroom and vacuumed the living room.)
Grab the vacuum and a mop and bucket (or, if you’re me, your steam mop WHICH IS THE BEST THING EVER) and go to town on your floors. You should have access to most floors, since you picked up all of your clothes and put everything back where it belongs everywhere else.
In bags under the bed? Or line an empty drawer with a laundry bag and put a bunch in there?
Full credit goes to someone else, who is almost definitely Martha Stewart.
Time to double check your flat surfaces. Any table, counter, desk, or bookshelf that you haven’t already dealt with is getting some attention. Clear them off, put or throw stuff away, and clean or dust off the surface.
You’re avoiding something. It might be an invisible corner. It might be a box of crap you need to deal with. It might be your junk drawer. Whatever it is that you’ve been relieved that none of the challenges so far have made you deal with, that’s what you’re dealing with for the next 20 minutes. Don’t lie to yourself. You’re putting something off, but now you have to go deal with it.
