Took a couple of phases of work, and still have more to go, but the hubs and I, mainly the hubs 😅 got it back to functioning! Now to just stay on top of it, and slowly work thru shelves, and a corner of some boxes/baskets.

A quick before and after, I have literally got a little scythe and some gloves. I know there’s a lot of work to do but I have surgery in two weeks and need to unfuck my entire habitat before then to take the pressure off. X

i am in hell. nothing i own has a place and i have done so much laundry and there is still laundry to do and have i mentioned that i am in hell.

need to get someone in here to lift my ac unit out of the window and so we must go on or i will freeze 😔 want to go to bed but also im so worried that if i stop i may not start again. please advise, please cheer, idek.

I've always been a cluttered person but more in the way of the laundry never leaves the basket, taking a few days to finish the dishes kind of person.

The past year, but really the past 6 months have been the most difficult and stressful period of my life. I currently have a bit of time off work, and I want to spend this week tidying my place finally so I can enjoy the company of other people during my favorite time of year (Halloween!)

I was going to start with the common areas because my guests won't even see my room, but I decided the most important thing I need to do is make my bedroom a physically and emotionally safe place. Right now its not because I haven't been able to bring myself to touch things tied to the losses I've been grieving.

Today is the last day I can really do any cleaning. I need to clean the bathroom and tidy up in my main apartment. It is a late start to the day but its time to get moving.

Partially unfucked my studio yesterday. Took about 2 hours, but I can finally see the floor again. I still need to purge a lot, but I'm happy to be able to walk in and not feel completely overwhelmed. Progress!

This is so much bloody work! I honestly can’t wait until it’s all finally done.

EDIT: I’ve posted some updates in the comments. Go have a look!

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Yesterday I spent the day cleaning what was intended to be my partner's bedroom but has turned into misc storage and laundry swamp.

Pics are as follows:

1. After about 20 mins of cleaning when I realized I forgot to take a before picture

2. When I decided to take a snack break

3. Finished! There's a floor in here!

4. Shoes and clothes!

5. Cat tax (his name is Louis de Pointe du Lac and the banana is full of catnip)

Once you've got the vast majority of your un-fing done what is the best way to combat lingering smells? I know that ultimately keeping it clean over time is the best way, but I would like to at least have people be able to come to the door without anything smelling. At the moment I'm airing out as much as I can, and I'm going to buy some baking soda to sprinkle on the carpets. I also plan to vacuum and mop at least twice a week.

Hi, I was hoping to get some help and motivation to clean my bedroom and bathroom. Every time I look at my room I get so overwhelmed, and to ease the guilt I’ve been cleaning every other part of the house. But I can’t seem to tackle my own bedroom without feeling helpless.

Any advice? 🥺 whenever I try to clean my room, I can only do enough that it doesn’t look as bad, but it’s still bad.

I'm currently back at unfucking a box at a time. I need some suggestions about attacking this one when the time comes This one sits in the middle of my living room. As you can see it's chock full of CDs and some cassettes. There might be other stuff under the big layer of CDs but not sure. The wooden thing in there is a CD holder I made in shop class many years ago but it wouldn't be able to hold most of those CDs.

Some of these hold memories for me. Some are of recorded school concerts. I don't own a boombox. My car is so recent it doesn't even have a CD player. I'd have to listen to them through the optical drive I modded into my computer.

I still listen to a lot of this music one way or another. What are some strategies to deal with a box like this? I do have a "memory box" with a bunch of space from a previous unfucking challenge.

Yes, I was a weird kid that saved up my allowance for Pure Disco in the 90s.

Yesterday I didnt do as much as I would like but I did do a massive amount of laundry. All my clothes are clean and about half of it has been folded and put away. The rest is resting in a laundry hamper and I will tackle latter. Today I need to refocus and get back to work. I want to focus on cleaning the walls and then putting stuff away.

I've found it works best when I ease my way into cleaning sessions. I started with collapsing boxes and now im moving onto the harder stuff.

HELLO.
I cleaned my room after 2-3 months of living like this and I’m so happy, there’s still more to get done but to have done this with my ocd which usually makes it more difficult or takes longer to clean makes me feel ecstatic!!

I've been working really hard at uf-ing everything. My front hall and living room are clean and free of trash now so that I can open my curtains and front door without being embarrassed. My kitchen and backhall are still gross (but making big strides). My eldest didn't go to his dads this weekend since he felt sick, though his younger brothers went. My ex knows how I can be (he's not much better tbh), and he tried to force his way into my house saying he wanted to see his son but I know he was just snooping. I blocked him because my son was SICK. My son did come to the door but was obviously unwell.

I know now that I'm going to get phone calls and messages accusing me of hiding something. Its set off a panic attack and now I'm going to panic clean all night despite having work in the morning.

First two pics are from one month ago. I cleaned up just the floor section because it was getting impossible to walk around. The third pic is from today. This feels endless.

Partner and I run a business together (we make stuff). We both have ADHD. My workspaces alone are hard to manage but then I have to work around our shared spaces and his work spaces too. It's so overwhelming because there's so much that we are bringing in and scraps and trash getting generated in the process of operating a business and our home is slowly being consumed.

I don't know what the mechanism is that he just drops stuff and then walks around it like it doesn't exist. If I drop stuff I might put off putting it away but I eventually clean up. The only space left that I can keep under control (barely) are my personal office and the kitchen (which is the only area I'm constantly cleaning).

Its immensely overwhelming to even look for things (and we are constantly looking for things) because it's like a review of everything that got put off, at least for me. And cleaning one space is often just opening a can of worms because the same type of stuff is in piles in every room so I can't even find a place for anything until I have gathered every one of the thing to be able to decide how it should be stored. Not to mention the tools that I don't know what they do and can't help to organize them in a way that makes sense - easy to take out and easy to put away.

I hate squirreling things out of sight in junk bins because that's the way his mom comes and "helps" and now we have a whole basement full of junk bins that I can't even properly sort through. Out of sight out of mind. Where do I even start?

Today is a big day. The floors are mostly clean. There are some areas I need to spot treat but other than that things are going well on that front. For the first time in idk how long there is no garbage on the floor of my apartment. Not even under my bed. I want to clean the walls today and do laundry. Tomorrow I want to clean the bathroom and wipe down all the counters/organize.

Current apartment has been fucked for a year. Signed new lease for November 1st. Made some progress but generally habitat is still fucked. Got a good idea of how to manage the situation. All I need now is consistency. Wish me luck!

this is a long one. main topics are break up, ceiling leak, mold in apartment, car getting stolen, cat issues, aquarium tank.

so for starters i’ve been typically able to semi catch up with house chores with a decent schedule. i’ve been going to therapy for a few years and on consistent meds. i moved into another apartment unit which is just a 1 bed 1 bath, with my cat. she was found declawed so she has some issues with the litter box, typically in which she has to have it extremely clean. but she also doesn’t like to urinate in a litter box, but that’s a whole other story.

so i got broken up with/cheated on seemingly out of nowhere and it killed me. then the next day or two i saw that my closet had a leak from the ceiling, and i live downstairs, which caused a giant thing of mold on my carpet but also my dirty clothes pile. i had to throw away so many of my clothes because the leak just happened and i had no idea it was there. i basically live out of my dryer so my closet was hardly used in the first place, but i had some stuff for jackets and whatnot.

so then i found black mold on my closet door as well. i let maintenance know about it ASAP and cleared out the closet for them to fix it and clear the mold, but they only repaired the drip pan and the leak stopped. they left the mold there. i put in another request and it was ignored. i then decided to just give up and try to remove it myself with vinegar but i don’t think it worked.

i also decided to get myself a fish tank since i wanted a betta fish for years. i finally had enough money to get a tank and the proper set up, and got an entire ecosystem going. but then one day when im trying to go to work, i cant find my car and learn that it got stolen.

i just finished paying off my car a few months prior and was panicking to say the least, and had only 10 days to find a new car before my car insurance said i’d have to pay OOP for a rental. luckily someone was spotted driving my car, but at the same time they were in a high speed chase and completely totaled my car. it was unlike anything they’ve ever seen, the engine got tossed out of my car. i was on the local news for it. so long story short, i had a monthly payment that’s twice as much as what i was used to, so i couldn’t afford keeping up with my tank.

this made me extremely depressed and anxious. my tank got dirty and it started smelling like dirty socks in my apartment, and eventually i fixed the issue but don’t know what it was. i also washed my carpets or tried to due to my cats litter box avoidance issues. i don’t know if it’s related, but now i have the issue of random things in my place smelling like vinegar? like i’ll touch it and my hands will smell disgusting. my fish tank is just abandoned and only had pest snails in it originally, but they just all kept dying somehow. i feel awful about my house because i don’t know if my cat is happy being here. i got pheromone sprays and joint supplements, i spend time with her when i can.

i’m stuck in this lease for another year and i can’t find a place i can afford to live in. i can’t afford a professional deep clean. i don’t know what to do about the mold. i just got a new credit card for a vet because my cat is more important to me and i want to make sure shes ok. i’ve tried so many different cleaning routines and the state of everything, just ruins my motivation to keep going. i truly feel like im in a cycle of constant despair and i don’t see the ending. i truly feel like the vinegar smell is the thing destroying me the most, as i can’t figure out for the life of me what it’s from. it’s just embarrassing altogether.

honestly, i just need advice with literally anything i think. this year was horrible for me and i didn’t even mention my family dog getting put down or my biological father reaching out to me after 13 years and admitting he stalked me. i haven’t even dealt with that because i feel like everything else is too much. i feel really really alone

Im about to start once again. I have made serious progress but I need to keep going. I need to continue on the floors and finish cleaning them today. I also want to do some laundry.

Currently watching celebrity traitors uk season 1. I need some good shows to watch while cleaning. I have been watching last week tonight, have I got news for you and and the graham norton show.

Anybody else clean things and stuff just breaks?! I'm so careful and spend hours researching/hyping myself up before attempting anything. I cleaned the oven glass doors and now they rattle, I learned I should be cleaning my washing machine detergent drawer and now my auto dosing function isn't working, I cleaned the soap dispenser bottle in the bathroom and it slipped and broke, lots of glass everywhere, just sick of it. It's killing my motivation! Sorry for the rant, just need to know if I'm alone with this? Oh I also attempted to clean my disgusting airfryer and left it with cleaner for too long so now I'm scared to use it and think I'll just replace it once I've saved enough money. I tried cleaning by scrubbing the inside of my kettle which little plastic bits inside broke off luckily that was a easy replacement. Im just scared to clean now!!

Hello everyone! This is a weekend megathread for those small updates, accountability requests, and success stories that you want to send out to the universe!

Maybe ones that don’t require a full post but that still deserve some recognition, plans made today for over the coming days, or solicitations for suggestions on how to complete your intended tasks!

Still feel free to make absolutely any posts that you want, but if you prefer a smaller-format update option here it is! I want to encourage participation in whatever form it takes :)

ALSO!!! Pictures are enabled in comments so feel free to add pics of your area to tackle of your progress if you please :)