Unfuck Your Habitat

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March 2012

christineyells asked: I just want you to know that I fucking love this blog and I did my first baby-marathon session of unfuckery this evening and I feel like I could fly around and fight crime or some shit. I'm going to build you a little alter in my slowly-becoming-unfucked house and burn incense for you.

tvarmy-deactivated20130329 asked: Dumb question: Do I just tag my submission with Unfuck your habitat or do I submit it someway else? I'm not very good at tumblr...

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 and shut the lid Go to bed at a reasonable hour

Hello, all you lovely new followers!

Welcome aboard! 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. The UfYH...

February 2012

Freestyle challenge!

20 minutes, starting AS SOON AS you’re done reading this post. Pick one thing that needs unfucking and get to it. I promise that the Internet will still be here in 20 minutes. GO! GO NOW! DON’T YOU ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME. IT’S 20 MINUTES, NOT A LIFETIME COMMITMENT. Check back and tell me what you unfucked.

starting the un-fuckery

otterandtea: So: Hello unfuckers I was inspired by the people here (particularly girlunlocked) to unfuck my house. it’s going a little slow, but hey- gotta start somewhere. normally I know you would start with making your bed, however, I didn’t find out about the unfucking revolution until about midday so I began with a different part of my space. the art corner. Look at that...

partsofmeareawesome: I just want to give a shout-out to a great tumblr, Unfuck Your Habitat. It has motivated me so much. I don’t always do the challenges, but I keep them in the back of my mind. Oh, and I started my own tumblr partly so I could tell them (her?) this. Also, I love the gifs.

feminerdism asked: Do you have a preferred mop? My floors are mostly painted concrete and flag stones (prettier than it sounds, and fantastic when one has a large dog), and it's becoming painfully clear that they need regular mopping. Any particular brand or style of mop that is awesome for unfucking? Thanks for everything!

singingtomysoul asked: My habitat is so fucked I am ashamed to describe it or post pictures of pre-unfucking. I am heading to the store today to buy things to make me a grownup. Do you have a list of cleaning supplies that are essentials?

Alright so I decide to Unfuck My Life

tankgirlalltheway: It’s not super fucked but it could definitely do with some unfucking. Here is my list of accomplishments! 1) Completely paid of my car loan with my taxes! I have still to do my state taxes but at least my Fed taxes are done and used wisely! Like bombs! Ha… 2) I have Saturday off so I can spend more time at Genericon with my little sister and my boyfriend and JESS! And...

quotesfromhistorybooks asked: Hi! I noticed you have students a lot asking for advice. May I offer them some as well? I find the Pomodoro Technique works really well for sorting school work: (You can search for a whole page on it with explanations) It's 25 minutes of work, 5 minute break, repeat 3 more times, then take a 20 minute break. There are lots of free timers (I have one on my phone, on on my desktop, and one...

popelizbet asked: For the benefit of those of us who navigate Tumblr poorly, such as myself, would it be possible to link to the post on "unfuck your morning" when you do the reminder post? If not, thanks anyway for all the awesome advice & encouragement!

Unfuck tomorrow morning!

bluelightseven asked: Was putting off my workout but my inner UfYH voice got the best of me. (It sounds a lot like "I don't want to hear your damn excuses, just _________!") One episode of The Daily Show later, I got in 20 minutes on the elliptical with push-up breaks at commercials. Hooray!

rouxfully replied to your post: rouxfully replied to your post: monasequeda…

blueandbluer replied to your post: rouxfully replied to your post: monasequeda… You also need a NO FUCKING EXCUSES gif. I will also accept EXCUSES ARE BORING.

rouxfully replied to your post: monasequeda replied to your post: It’s only been a… YAAAAAAY!!!

seasights asked: Help me to prioritize! I have: 1) short films to watch, on a deadline, 2) an overflowing closet/laundry basket, 3) a MASSIVE pile of papers/bills/random crap, 4) sentimental knicknacks that I have no space for, that all needs sorting. I keep on half-heartedly picking at it and it's a little overwhelming. Also, I'm trying to donate some of my unused/unworn stuff to charity.

Morning the first: I am feeling rawrrrrr.

babiesarehorriblebosses: First day momentum, I like the way you move. I am dressed. The fetus fell asleep before I could dress it, but I have set aside human clothes for it. My bed is made. Also? This: is now this: The green rocking chair is where I nurse the Tiny Dictator, and also where I blog and read and dick around on the internet, so I spend a lot of time there. It attracts objects...

monasequeda replied to your post: It’s only been a couple few days but I have noticed that IF I make my bed as soon as I get out of it, I tend to do my maintenance unfucking (dishes while coffee brews, clothes in the laundry hamper) And work on one of my (many) cluttered areas. But if I don’t make my bed, the rest is also unlikely to happen. MAKE YOUR BED! Do you have a sparkly make your bed gif?...

ceeainthereforthat asked: It's only been a couple few days but I have noticed that IF I make my bed as soon as I get out of it, I tend to do my maintenance unfucking (dishes while coffee brews, clothes in the laundry hamper) And work on one of my (many) cluttered areas. But if I don't make my bed, the rest is also unlikely to happen. MAKE YOUR BED!

thedavynator asked: I've recently discovered this blog, and I am now determined to start unfucking my room starting tomorrow. But I need some advice! I have recently been diagnosed with a severe allergy to dust, and I also have surgery coming up to fix my tiny sinuses to keep me from constantly being sick! I really want to be able to de-dust my room before then, but living in the basement means dust is...

Tired but Awesomesauce

fireundermyfeathers: Hah. I may have woken up a wreck (understandable once my uterus sucker-punched me and I realized that today is the second day of my period, pfeh) but I still did stuff. Take THAT life! > Paid off my credit card. I have more money than I thought I did! > Went to class. Which is amazing considering my novel technique class is my only class today and it is short and...

Volcanos and Bacon and Me

girlunlocked: Two hours later: Not shown: living room and dining room, equally unfucked! Then I put the chicken we had for dinner last night in the stock pot with some onions, hard chorizo, and apples so that I could have amazing stock for all my cooking needs. Chuffed with victory, I decided to take Unfuck Your Habitat’s advice and go after our kitchen floor with VINEGAR. Our floor is...

zazzytazo asked: Okay, sorry for asking something so basic, but I tried looking through all your pages and I couldn't find the answer, so - what exactly is this 20/10s and 45/15s thing?

dorkusmajorkus asked: I think I'm going to apply your awesome 20/10 method to my homework. I'm the worst kind of college student, I procrastinate on my homework, then do it all in a fit of stress and rage. I manage to carry a pretty good GPA so I'm not really learning from my mistakes. At some point it's probably going to blow up in my face (grad school most likely).

edman: Sooooo much is being unfucked tonight. Like, my kitchen will look great and organized for the first time in six months. 20/10s really do work! It’s almost like I know what I’m talking about! Hee. Just kidding.

Unfuck tomorrow morning!

It may be a pain in the ass now, but you’ll be praising your own genius in the a.m.

kittenherder asked: My own tip: For cleaning between stove and cabinet, I try to save those bits of hard plastic strapping that some packages come with. I've used some to knock the crumb bits out onto the kitchen floor. If the gap is wide enough, I will wrap the straps with two-sided tape to get more stubborn bits.

paper-and-water asked: I just started following you this evening, and already I'm getting inspired. We're moving across the city in two days, so we're in the process of packing and the apartment looks like it exploded. Neither my roommate nor I are the most organized people, past my CDs and DVDs which I'm OCD about keeping in order, but I'm hoping that this will kick at least me into gear with...

redredhoods asked: It's monday at 515. i have until friday at 8 to get my house spotless. best advice for a full residential cleanup? I'm a 21 year old bachelor. you can imagine the state of the place, there's a party every weekend. I need some motivation!

thelearnedcat asked: Honestly, I just want to thank you so much for what you've done, which has got me doing it and blogging about it and realizing just how many of us don't know how to do this stuff. You have been a force of major awesomeness and inspiration and change in my world, and I'm so grateful for the presence of you.

chiquorinha asked: Any tips on unfucking laptop screens? Try as I might, I can't convince the family to keep their damned fingers off my screen (IT'S NOT A TOUCHSCREEN, DAMMIT!), and I'm very, very neurotic about fingerprints. I'm afraid of damaging the screen material with chemicals or even vinegar, but just using water and a microfibre cloth (as I have been advised before) never seems to...

supposedcat: No excuses, no adorable Husbandthing in it. Bed’s made. Reblogged for tags.

agnisdaughter: unfuckyourhabitat: And please, just ONE day without excuses? Please? Here’s a thought, folks. If you absolutely, positively feel like you have to make excuses for Failure to Unfuck, perhaps just fail to tag them as well. That way only you and your loyals have to see them. Or just tag them “boring”. I know the excuses are tempting, but they are not in the spirit of the thing. ...

eyesonguard asked: I have a question about making beds. I totally understand the reason behind it and what not. But, I sleep on the top of a bunk bed and get up and leave before my roommates. Do you have any suggestions for "making" a top bunk with limited noise and in a way that I don't have to stand inches from my sleeping roommate?

triskelmoon asked: I wanted to say thank you for liking my posts on UnFucking! I have found myself fighting AvoidanceBeast and one of the things that is helping is that if I post about something I did, maybe UfYH will like it. That means she read it! I want to make her proud! GO GO GO.Yay for positive reinforcement! More exclamation points!!!

mariatatuada replied to your post: Make your bed! I just want to let you know that I have been making my bed every day, even on a pain day (since my wake-up is different from y’all’s I can’t check in at the same time). Thanks for prodding me to greatness. AND SHE’S IN A DIFFERENT TIME ZONE. ONE ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE WORLD, IN FACT. Want to know how many excuses I’ve heard from...

derpstalker replied to your post: Make your bed! Is, “It’s 11:07PM” an excuse? Yup. Note: UfYH runs on Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5). If you live in a different time zone, challenges may appear at the wrong time of day for you. Rather than gleefully gloating that you can’t do the challenge because it’s not the right time of day (and why are all of you gloaters so gleeful, anyway? I’m well...

And please, just ONE day without excuses? Please?

Bathroom and Coffee Corner: Unfracked!

jmbauhaus: The Great Bathroom Unfrackination is complete, y’all, and it is glorious. I can’t even remember the last time my whole bathroom has been this clean from top to bottom. I’d even be proud to let my mom do her business in there. I don’t have any (more) pics and I’ll spare the details, since all of the exciting stuff already got blogged. But today I took care of the floor and baseboards...

Unfucking an art shelf

teabq: I try to be organized but every so often there are the places that get defined as being cluttered and therefore “used” even if what’s cluttering them is of no use to me. Case in point: The top shelf is covered in dust and all kinds of items that were put up there for the sake of putting them somewhere. The shelf below it is one that I designated for my pastels, ergo the boxes of...

Accidental Press-Ganging

agnisdaughter: Interesting development: Without being nagged, without me even mentioning it, The Husband and The Son take small measures not to fuck what I have unfucked. For instance, even though food is consumed after I have cleaned the kitchen in the evening, I still wake to an empty sink. I think I shall bake them cookies. They can be taught!