Unfuck Your Habitat

missbatattack:

Wonderful Team Unfuck Your Habitat,

I have come to a conclusion about what plagues my attempts to completely unfuck my habitat. Especially the cupboards and shelves. And I have also seen through many of your posts that I’m not the only one with this issue. And that issue is:

Where the hell should I put this?!

A lot of unfucking is concerned with putting away things. But it becomes very hard when you don’t have a designated place for them. For the longest time my reusable shopping bags would lay on top of chairs in the kitchen/dining room. On top, beside, below. Always in my way but I never knew where else I could put them. If I placed them all somewhere in a corner of the kitchen, I would often forget to take them with me and use them. After thinking long and hard, I finally figured to put all of the reusable bags into one and place it in the wardrobe by the front door. Now, they are out of my way, and also in an easy to see and reach place that I don’t forget to take them and put them back.

But it took a long time and lots of trial and error to designate a proper place for them.

Any time I would “designate” a place for them, they would migrate or cease to be used for intended purposes. That also made keeping my habitat unfucked a LOT harder.

And this is what I want to as of you Team UfYH:

What best designated places you have found for stuff around your house?

Where do you keep your cleaning supplies so they are easy to access when needed and easy to put away and don’t migrate? Did you notice that when designating a place for something it would migrate to another place after a while? I already saw that another member of Team UfYH had a similar issue with migrating oil. Originally they intended to place the cooking oil on the top shelves, but because they used it often it soon migrated to the lowest shelf simply because it was easier to quickly take and put away. This of course made their once unfucked shelves fucked again, until they re-designated where stuff should stay to a more user friendly layout.

I know I’m not the only one that hasn’t figured out such things and they take time and trial and error. And that’s why I’m hoping that we can share our experiences and instead of each individually finding out the bests spots, we could at least give ideas to each other where some of the stuff should go. Because now I have an idea how to unfuck my kitchen cupboard that was once unfucked but got fucked again. Thank you Timeandbananas for the inspiration, thank you UfYH for creating such a wonderful system and community, and thank you Team UfYH for reading this and hopefully for sharing your own experiences.