Unfuck Your Habitat

golf-princess:

unfucked my nightstand (again) I really need to put.things.away.every.day :/

miscreantrose:

BOOM!  UfYH strikes again ~ Master closet edition.

I love my closet.  It is awesome.  It is a freaking room with a window and shelves and dressers and just lovely.

And I have abused and neglected it.  I had not done a serious seasonal rotation/purge-out in about 5 years.  So this is 1 day and one evening of 20/10s of major purgings that resulted in:

• 4 bags of clothes to donate
• 3 bags of handbags to donate
• 1 bag of hangers to donate
• 1 bag of trash
• 4 handbags to list on eBay
• 6 gazillion BPAL imps & vials to list on eBay

I feel like a rockstar.  

Check out that scarf storage in the 2nd after pic — I AM A CLEVER MONKEY.  24” towel bar + 24 shower hooks = perfect scarf storage.  TA DA!

Best of all is coming home, and jumping into my pjs and knowing it is super easy now to keep everything this clean and organized.

radiantbaby:

I meant to post these ages ago, but my old computer kept crashing every time I tried. Now that I have a new computer, I thought I’d go ahead and finally post them.

About a month ago or so, a couple that I know were moving and in desperate need of boxes. Offhandedly, I mentioned that we had a bunch of boxes leftover from our own move from about 3 years ago. They were very excited about the prospect of getting said boxes from us, plus I was excited about getting rid of all the ones we could. See, until then many of the boxes were just stacked in the guestroom in piles nearly 6 feet in height. It’s a room we never use, so they’d accumulated there over time as we unpacked. And it became a room that had a mess I wished to ignore.

Anyway, my friends were coming by the next evening, so I decided to just bite the bullet and dig in and break down as many of the boxes as I could. I can’t remember about many 20/10s total I did that day, but after about 5 hours of working with a few breaks here and there, I cleared out most of the room (and they got a ton of boxes off us)!

As you can see in Before Pic #1, the view walking in was almost nothing but boxes. The entire open area to the left was packed with boxes and even the bed (yes, there’s a bed buried in there!) was covered with them. In the end, it is still not finished. There is stuff still on the shelves I need to sort, some small boxes on the bed (I only gave them mostly medium to big-sized boxes, but I did sort the smaller ones left by size and organized them neatly on the bed for now) that I need to get to the curb to throw out, and the table (see After Pic #3) which has the GIANT pillow and crate on top as well as the bags of clothes for Goodwill (that has previous been underneath in front of the bed — see Before Pic #4) underneath. It’s not perfect, but it is a big improvement.

Depression for months has made tasks like this quite challenging, but I thank #unfuckyourhabitat for the daily inspiration to at least try to do things a little bit at a time.

projectgethealthy:

It took quite a while, and lots of Doctor Who while I worked, but I cleaned up one of the worst parts of our (very bad) room! AND I made the bed!!!

practicingempathy:

So, January 14, 2013, my husband and I woke up in our bed to 2 inches of water everywhere in our 1000 square foot condo. One hundred and one days later, we moved back in. Our shit is still everywhere, nothing is organized anymore, and while we have floor space, we’re generally really upset and unsettled by our surroundings. For some reason, I decided yesterday was the day to take the laundry room back. (I am personally of the school of thought that the laundry room should be a nice place so that you like to spend time there. Husband, not so much. But he helped. :D)

Pictures in the galleries are before.

One 20/10 with me in the laundry room, and husband taking boxes that belong else where and unpacking them there (aka, the linen closet and the kitchen linens into the kitchen).

Second 20/10 with my husband hanging our new hanging thingie, and me cleaning off the kitchen table (not pictured).

The pink hook that currently has the pink hand broom is for my daughter’s little broom. As soon as we find it. I’m going to get a 3m sticky hook for her hand broom and dust pan.