so this weekend an unwelcome house guest moved out and I GOT MY BEDROOM BACK. yes. which meant cleaning out my temporary bedroom (aka tiny guest bedroom), moving into my real bedroom and taking everything i had in storage in the basement upstairs. also, a million loads of laundry. i took pictures because reasons.
i kinda was letting my room go crazy because i knew i would be moving out from it soon. i hadn’t done laundry in like 2 weeks, wasn’t bothering to take my trash out, etc. getting all my stuff out took forever!
my pile of laundry (most of it, i think a load was already in the wash and i found some more after i took this picture). all during the cleaning- and i cleaned from about 10 AM to around 7 or 8- i was doing laundry constantly. i should have counted how many loads i did because it was ridiculous.
this will eventually be a nice lounge space with my TV and a futon, but for right now it’s a dumping ground. i need to buy furniture because i just don’t have anywhere to put this stuff right now. i’ll slowly work on this, but at least all of this stuff is out of the basement!
tada, bedroom! complete with cat.
i decided to clean the bathroom just because i was on a roll. (the unwanted guest left a ton of stuff in the bathroom that she didn’t want to take with her in the move and decided to leave it all for me to deal with, not pictured). anyway i’ve kind of not touched this under sink area since we moved in about 7 years ago….it was scary. i don’t know what that black stuff was. but thanks to my trust magic eraser it’s gone! yay!
all in all i worked pretty much all day from 10 until 7 or 8, plus i was doing laundry until i went to bed at 1. i took two breaks for about half an hour each time. yesterday my back killed me but it was worth it!
My desk I still a mess, but my room is finally habitable! I fully cleaned out my closet, giving away 2 bags of clothes and throwing away 2 bags of trash/recycling, and gave away all the old shoes in the storage container under my bed. I listed the guitar & amp I never use on Craigslist and moved all the furniture so I could sweep and swiffer under everything. I should have taken a picture of the dust pile…
Anyway, next is cleaning my desk and the two storage ottomans under the window, then taking down all the decorations so my parents can repaint after I move out.
Ahhhhhhh.
Before and after!!!! Finally have a fan, a heat lamp, and a regular light fixture in my bathroom, and today, I painted!
Tomorrow: The cabinets!!!!
Unfuck Your Habitat is a wonderful thing.
As you can probably guess, I finally succeeded in Unfucking my Habitat today. The unfucking literally took from the 27th of May to today, June 17th. Why so long, you might ask? Finals got in my way. Stupid, awful, terrible finals, and (as you’ll see from the photos under the cut) my room was totally and royally fucked. I literally had to do a dance in order to get out of my room every day. So, essentially, what you’re about to see is the slow whittling away of room-fuckedness into something that’s actually clean and will remain as such (hopefully).
Without further ado, I bring to you…
Still a ways to go but I made a lot of progress tonight! Thanks for all the encouragement, friends!
Before (top) and after (bottom) of my girlfriend’s desk (done with her permission of course)! Took maybe 40 minutes, tops.
i needed to do some major cleaning up of my conditions this weekend and i opted to focus on storage, because i can’t clear and clean my surfaces unless my storage is organized enough to actually STORE shit
took a huuuuuuge amount of clothes to the donation bin, but no pics of that bc it’s super boring. (did get like two drawers and half a closet back tho)
i spent most of my time on my bookshelf bc it was getting majorly out of hand. i love the shit out of this bookshelf and it makes me happy to have it full, but books have just been floating around the apartment bc there’s been literally been no place to put them what with all the non-book bullshit and the haphazard post-usage stacking
pulled everything off, wiped everything down, set aside some books to freecycle, resorted, and it just feels so much better. now my books can have proper homes! and they will start to get themselves off every other available surface in my house.
also, dang but it looks sweet to finally wrangle all my chandler into that nice neat stack
(now to get to the other four bookcases. and all the fucking comics,ugh)
I’ll be honest. Once I got back from college, I did NOT put anything away. Oopsi. It’s been four weeks since I got back, and my shit has just been piling up. Mostly because I didn’t want to face the reality that I’m not on campus, that I’m so dreadfully stuck at this house with my family. But since I am going away for two weeks, I needed to clean up a little.
I wanted to put away my laundry…
but in order to do that I had to clear a space in front of the dresser so I could, you know, actually get to the dresser…
so after FOREVER, I finally went through all that stuff. I threw out some gross crusty dried up art supplies that were super old. I tossed a lot of dead paint brushes (and I still have 28 in a long shoe box even after the selective process of choosing who will go and who will stay). I consolidated all that mess into four organizer box thingies.
Anyway, the dresser space looks like this
and the space behind my door that once was a mountain of laundry is now
a trashcan and my guitar case.
Fuckin tidy. I’ll tackle the other half of the room tomorrow…
you know, sometime when it’s not 4am.
I don’t have any before photos of the junky purse, but I organized it!
It’s about a 30-40 minute drive to my sister’s house. Spent a 20/10 in the back passenger seat unfucking my purse while I chatted with the family.
I planned ahead and brought along a small clear train case to organize the items that shouldn’t be or should migrate out of my purse. It’s a bit tricky to take everything out in the car & not lose it, but the only thing I really couldn’t do is shake out the purse.
The after photos were taken at my sister’s house (she was impressed!), and the mini train case has organized receipts/misc makeup/bits of trash that can be put away or disposed of. Because it’s clear, I’ll have even more incentive and a better reminder to clear it out than if I’d put it in in something like a fabric makeup bag!
Not my usual progress post haha but I’m proud :) the thought of cleaning/finishing of unpacking was SO terrifying to me I’ve been putting it off all week. But I used UFYH 20/10 timer and it only took me ~35 minutes! x
Done! Didn’t take a before picture of my bedroom but believe me when I say it was a mess.
All windows, front balcony, bedroom , living room, kitchen (mostly dirty from all the other cleaning, but still), toilet. Five hours total. Pfffft.
This is super embarrassing and I’m aware how bad it sounds. In two cupboards and one refrigerator, I threw away two garbage bags of old and expired food, a lot of which was unopened. It’s…. shameful. And I really, really need to go grocery shopping for food I will actually eat sometime this year.
I didn’t get a before picture of the first cabinet I tackled, but I’m including an after picture just for shiggles.
Before:(Cabinet 2)
(Fridge interior)
(Fridge door)
After:
(Cabinet 1)
(Cabinet 2)
(Fridge interior)
(Fridge door)
What a waste of money, honestly. On the up side, our compost pile is going to kick ass this year.
this is even more horrifying than i thought. but hey! reasons why i love and back UFYH! one 45/15 and a 20/10 and my closet is no longer the dumping ground for my room! i have lots of clothes to give to goodwill tomorrow and now i can actually put things away!
Thank you UFYH.
After waking up, crying for half an hour ( I have some intense family crap to deal with) I decided I would just be depressed for the day. Give into the demons! my brain cried…
So I made my morning coffee (still sobbing) and usually ( on a good day) i’ll do the dishes waiting for the coffee to finish. Today I went and sat on the couch thinking ” fuck this sh*t”Then I looked at my bed…
It was all “MAKE ME B”
And I was all “DAMN YOU FILTHY C”
…..But then I did it
And I even took a before and after and made it all pretty with shapes and text and all the things…
So UFYH lady - just know your the best. And the ways you help us can’t even be expressed in words…(but sparkly gifs are usually pretty good)
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The habits I have created both in my home and my head are helping me see the light…and thats something that doesn’t get seen a lot.
