#unfuck your habitat

[goodplace-janet]

before and after: cleaned up my laundry mess

[little-homestead-in-the-suburbs]

Reblogging since I got reminded that I made this and actually used it just now to clean off my nightstand. Trying to get back in the habit of doing little chores each day, especially now that I've moved back in with family.

Also if anyone is looking for a support group on FB, Team UFYH has a weekly comment thread to support cleaning as well as you can post specific questions.

Cleaning Jump Starter random chore picker wheel. Created from the UFYH Mini-Challenges, with extras added by me marked with an asterisk. Hope this helps someone!

[unfuckyourhabitat]

Let's talk about clean laundry.

Where's yours? In a basket? Still in the dryer, days later? Making up the bulk of your floordrobe*?

Try tackling it just a couple of pieces at a time. If you put 5 things away a few times a day, it'll get done. It doesn't have to be all at once.

(*chairdrobe/couchdrobe/ellipticaldrobe/tabledrobe/etc.)

[sunmontuewrites]

[flowersnteacups]

The health of my remaining parent is deteriorating further.

And I am very overwhelmed by all the things I need to do/take care of, so overwhelmed that I didn't even manage to write down a list.

Things I managed today:

- Took out the trash!

- One load of laundry! I have clean towels and sheets! There's still a laundry mountain to wash to do, but I managed to start on that.

[rogue-panda]

NaClYoHo vs. ADHD

I'm even more of a mess than my apartment, and I haven't done much about either me or the apartment in ages. But I made some cleaning progress today:

dirty dishes that were in the bedroom are soaking in hot, soapy water

dirty laundry collected and sorted into hampers and moved out of the bedroom

clean laundry put away (some stuffed into drawers, some neatly folded)

some trash and recycling taken to the kitchen bins

giant wheeled container with supplies for church into the living room so I can sort and donate the stuff inside (I'm not doing that job any more! Hooray!)

giant green+spinach salad with turkey, tomatoes, olives, mozzarella, and Italian dressing for dinner

It isn't much, and Dad expressed his regret that my motivation took a nosedive (he said he wasn't criticizing me, but his tone of voice told a different story), but the housework took me three 20-minute sessions. My room is still a mess, and I have a few things to move off my bed so I can sleep. But it was something, it didn't exhaust me, and my room looks a little less awful.

I got one of those tomato-shaped timers to use for UFYH/Pomodoro Method time management, but even 20 minutes seems to be too long. My first 20-minute session ended with me yelping in fear because I'd forgot about the damn thing. I'd got distracted so many times in the first fifteen minutes that I ended up standing in the living room, watching the pie fight in "The Great Race." (Dad was watching it.) I got back to my room just in time for the tomato timer to reach zero and clang shrilly. I'm looking into how to stay focused better while cleaning.

ADHD: 1

Me: 0

I've got into the Beatles recently, and my current favorite playlist on TIDAL is a few dozen of their happy-sounding songs. I've been sick with bronchitis for two weeks, but I am getting better. It was nice to sing (hoarsely) and dance (a very little) while I worked.

P.S. I don't drink alcohol. At all. How the hell did I end up with a bottle of wine on my bedroom floor?

[a-curious-studyblr]

Tidying up tip: I learned this from unf*ck your habitat, take a before and after tidying up pic of your space on your phone. It's hard to see the improvement of the tidier space, so looking at the pictures is motivating and like a pat on the back!

[snarkleharkle]

You know that one thing you have to do, the one you've been putting of for weeks because it will take forever and be such a bother to do?

I finally decided to do mine today. I had set of 2 hours of 20/10s. I had 4 20 minute youtube videos lined up.

And then before my first 20 minuted was over, I was done. Not completely, but as done as I could be while waiting for the dishwasher and washing machine.

I'd even gone out with the trash. So I started tomorrows task. And sure, that was 40 minutes. But still. So much faster than I thought it was going to take.

So now I'm on my way to IKEA. Because I might as well buy what I need to finish the job.

[shipaholic]

Look how beautiful my finished washing up is 🥰

[omisspearl]

Bone weary tonight, but I have made it my habit more often than not to do 15 minutes (by timer) dishes/kitchen clean up and 10 minutes room cleaning.

At the same time I have added a combination of the flylady "clean your sink" and @unfuckyourhabitat make your bed. The latter really gets the generationally emphasized struggle to keep ones various levels of disabled brainbody shambling forward. I have also started making my bedtime routine start at 8 PM. Likewise a ruthless purge of my physical possessions is ongoing to reduce the chaos to manage.

I have a degree of specific skepticism that everything is one minor life change away from falling apart, but man the shame/ego damage of living undiagnosed and then unsupported neurodivergent is something else.

[palabasa]

found out that unfuck your habitat actually had a book out and looked it up, all hyped up, only to see the desc comparing it to the life-changing magic of tidying up. eugh. it immediately put my hackles up bc 9 times out of 10 when books try to tout themselves as better than konmari the authors are talking out of their asses

i'm still gonna give it a read to see if it's got anything good, i'm just a Lot more wary of it now. makes me sad since UFYH was the main system i used when i was majorly depressed in high school 😔

[little-homestead-in-the-suburbs]

It's been a long day, work was decent but rough.

Cat in the picture is Bandit, aka King of the upstairs bedroom. Not pictured is my black cat, Astra, Empress of the downstairs.

Trying to get back in the routine of doing a few small chores each day.

1. Scooped the downstairs cat litter box

2. Washed dried and put my comforter back on the bed

3. Put fresh sheets on the bed

4. Picked up a box of things the cat in the picture knocked off the shelf

5. Washed the wet food cat food dishes

I believe in you as well! I hope you find or found a small task to make your habitat more comfortable!;

[unfuckyourhabitat]

Today's challenge: Clutter oubliettes

Take one box/bag/basket/etc. that's filled with random stuff and has been untouched for months/years/since the dawn of time and either find a home* for each item or get rid of it. These clutter oubliettes take up a lot of physical and mental space.

(*If things don't have a home, you either don't have enough storage for the amount of stuff you have, or your current storage isn't meeting your needs. This can start to be fixed with more/better storage or less stuff.)

[sunmontuewrites]

Unfuck your habitat even more...

[flowersnteacups]

Due to my mom in hospital I haven't managed any decluttering in my space in the last month (instead I decluttered a little at mom's home)

However, today I

washed all the dishes

carried dry, clean laundry into the bedroom

put trash in trashbag and recycling in another bag

took the trash out

managed to take my prescription to the pharmacy

washed one load of laundry, hung it up

changed my sheet, pillow cases and duvet cover

put sheets and towels into one laundry box

After the pharmacy I got some groceries, but forgot again that I need flour! I wanted to use up the curd and yogurt in the fridge to make cheesecake! Instead: laundry.

[still-bejeweled-and-shining]

whohoo! I tried unfucking my habitat a lil' bit, now that classes are about to start and my room was an absolute mess. Somehow, I managed to clear a LOT of stuff from my shelves in like, three 20/10s. I'm feeling great! And it was wayyy easier than I expected it to be. I still have many things to do to unfuck my room (cleaning out the drawers, organising my closet, etc) but at least I don't feel like staying outside of my room all of the time.