Coming January 2020, Cleaning Sucks: An Unf*ck Your Habitat Guided Journal for Less Mess, Less Stress, and a Home You Don’t Hate is a smart, colorful guided journal to remind you that you’re better than your mess.
Looking to change your messy ways? Through prompts, challenges, and checklists, this full-color guided journal will help you explore your relationship with cleaning: why you hate it, what stands in your way, and how to make small changes that lead to big results down the road.
Cleaning Sucks will help you define your own measure of success—forget about those unattainable #goals in glossy magazines and TV makeover shows. Everyone deserves a space they love, but that means something different for everyone. When inspiration does strike to get up and clean, you’ll find easy-to-accomplish tasks, ways to track new habits as they’re being built, and other real-life tools to help you reach your home goals. And for when you just need a little extra motivation, Cleaning Sucks provides tips, tricks, quotes, and gentle kicks in the pants to get you off your butt and tidying up.
Hi. Your blog has been very helpful to me, particularly the
Before and After posts. I’ve noticed that there haven’t been any posts
in about a month. Have you abandoned Tumblr? Do you need/want some help
with posts?
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I haven’t seen you since the middle of January. I don’t have an
app question or a media question, so I hesitate to use the email accts
on your website. I just, if you’ve given up on Tumblr because of the
Verizon nonsense or anything else, I wanted to tell you: thank you for
having been here. Thank you for making my life better. Thank you for
putting up with stupid shit we say in the asks and reblogs. And hurray
for book!
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Are you still active?
—- Is this tumblr dead? I just noticed you aren’t posting your
clean up and wash dishes and things like that every day anymore and was
wondering what was going on?
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Hi, everyone! Many of you have noticed that the UfYH Tumblr is no longer particularly active. I apologize for having essentially walked away from Tumblr with no real announcement about it. To be frank about it, Tumblr had long been becoming a largely unusable platform, and then with the major content rule changes, lack of accountability for stolen IP, and lack of support for those reporting abuse or harassment, I no longer found it a place that I wanted to invest much time or energy in.
UfYH still very much exists, and you can find me at the following places:
and an upcoming guided journal, which will be available in January 2020.
I’m not ruling out coming back to Tumblr from time to time, but I also want to be realistic about the amount of work it takes to keep UfYH up and running, and focus my energy on the platforms that don’t seem to be actively working against creators. Tumblr will always be the origin and the heart of UfYH, and I hope those of you who want to stay engaged with it will seek it out in its other spaces.
As always, thanks to you all for the support you’ve given and the community you’ve helped build. I’ll do my best to pop back here when I can.
Thank you @unfuckyourhabitat for helping me overcome my depression and anxiety related mess. I feel like I can breathe in my room and it’s become my little oasis. Now to scrub and repaint the walls and replace the beat up rug.
It’s not done yet, but the first was take one October 16th and the second today. After a 3 month severe depression spiral, 24 hours of therapy in a week and a half, and 3 trash bags, I can finally say I am feeling my depression lessen a bit finally.
Two drawers of plastic containers reduced to one! I recycled 7 containers and 9 lids (they were not nice enough to donate). And some of these are now full of fresh soup for some lunches and dinners this week :)
After a stressful semester with no time to clean and the majority of my break spent with holiday gatherings or work training I am SO happy to have finally done a deep clean. After about three hours everything is organized, bedding washed, floor mopped and swept and I feel much better.
Spent about 2 hours cleaning up my mess of a kitchen. Thank you to B99 and dish washing gloves for making this a more bearable task. Not perfect but much better.
I even went through my mail, which is a major anxiety trigger for me. Found a check with some money, and I found some gift cards from students/family.
Dishes are in the wash and air drying, and a couple plants were moved to create room on the table. I even ate lunch sitting at my table! The last time I was able to do that was probably October.
No excuses, but the past couple months have been very difficult- mental health wise. On top of that, I’ve been stressed which I deal with by eating out and sleeping. Both are not conducive to a clean and happy environment.
Not pictured: my clean bathrooms (minus the shower), my clean bedroom, and all clothes put away (except for the air dry only clothes).
Gonna start the new year with a clean house and a clear brain.
Before and after photos of today’s ill-advised, albeit incredibly successful, clean-a-thon.
A few months ago, I got a notice that a unit in my building had roaches, and that I needed to take everything out of my kitchen so they could check my apartment, set traps, and so on. Taking my kitchen apart was a pain in the ass, and I couldn’t fathom putting forth that same effort to reassemble it. Today I found that strength, and not only got my living room back, but also my desk back and transformed my coffee table into something a bit nicer to look at. I still have some work to do in my bedroom next weekend, and my invisible corner by the door still isn’t the way I’d like it to be. After that, the challenge will be keeping everything this way. Here’s hoping!!
After forgetting about @unfuckyourhabitat for far too long, today I turned my before bathroom disaster into a refuge of an after. I tend to hoard beauty products, but here’s the kicker - the more I hoard, the less I use. Realizing this, I tossed two bags of beauty and old cleaning products - don’t worry, I kept my cat LOL - and I cleaned every surface. It took two 45/15s. It has been months since this room felt comfortable. Now I’m motivated to conquer the other areas of my home that have been making me upset. 2018 was a bad year and my anxiety and depression caused me to ignore self-care, including taking care of my home. I’m ready for 2019 to be the year I make my home feel like a home again!
A before and after I’m so proud of. I cleared out my junk room to make space for my new roommate. I’m very excited to start the new year off with a bang.
before: a baker’s rack to hold my office supplies and things. It was always messy looking, even when I attempted to tidy and no amount of decluttering helped.
after: this took a few 20/10’s because I pulled it all out Friday night, then lucked into finding that cabinet Saturday afternoon and then got to work trying to declutter and repurpose things I already had.
bought: the cabinet
reused: all baskets, lamp and decorative box on top
declutter: all my current bill statements and such. this will be ongoing for the next couple weeks as I get rid of and shred more billing statements I just don’t need to keep, which will hopefully result in getting rid of the filing cabinet or repurposing it for something else.
donate: the bakers rack and some art work I’m not interested in keeping are being donated
Feels so much better in our old (haunted?) rental row-home. I have 3 bags of clothes to donate and other trash. The things that we use & enjoy are in their rightful place…I hung up my art and nice frames we found & give them the respect they deserve.
