#unfuck your life

[haruharuz]

Episode #01 / ??

Is life fucking you with a cactus? Do you not know where the fuck to start with getting your shit together? Join the club. I've failed probably a hundred different types of challenges and life transformations. Doing so has taught me exactly how to get my shit together over the years.

The tasks are random and customized to my personal experiences, you can add or remove whatever doesn't fit your lifestyle. I have added detailed instructions or links for those that need help with knowing exactly what to do. There is no "Start date" or "end date" you just do what tasks fit into your lifestyle. These things don't even have to be done on the same day.

TASK LIST #001:

-> Clean The Kitchen Sink & Counters: Wash any dishes or place them in the dishwasher, get a rag or sponge & a toothbrush you don't need, take dish soap or disinfectant multi-surface cleaner (i used pine sol) and scrub the sink. Take the toothbrush and get any small areas (especially behind the sink and faucet) with it. Rinse the rag and wipe it down. Remove any trash / random items from the counters and use a rag with soap to wipe down. Try to get underneath the microwave/whatever else if you can. Any items that were on the counters, find a home for them or place them back on the counter where they belong.

-> At-Home Gel / Polish / Whatever Pedicure : Go on youtube or tiktok and find the instructions for whatever supplies you have.

-> Clean your bathroom drawers and counters: Start with the counter, remove anything unnecessary and throw away any trash. Use a spray cleaner or disinfectant cleaner and a rag/sponge. Scrub the grime off from the sink and use the toothbrush you had earlier to get any nitty gritty areas. Then, open your bathroom drawers and have a small bag (grocery bag, trash bag) near. Look at each item and decide whether you need/want it or not. Throw anything that is expired away, find a place for everything that makes sense. You can optionally wipe the inside of the drawers with disinfectant if you'd like.

-> Buy floss / floss picks / water flosser and place it somewhere VISIBLE . Floss before you brush your teeth that night.

-> Create a Meal Plan / Grocery Plan: Look on youtube, tiktok, or whatever you'd like and find some easy meals you know you can reliably make and eat even on a bad day. When you go grocery shopping, make sure to have at least two kinds of fruit, some veggies, and something that is insanely easy to eat. I have frozen burritos in my fridge right now, they may not be the "healthiest" but it doesn't matter. Start the change today not tomorrow and keep that mindset in your head. It doesn't matter if the change is literally just that you ate an apple today. Make that change now.

[theriverbeyond]

local butch not immune to egolifting, spends 30 minutes on the floor doing progressive lower abdominal exercises to unfuck their back 😔👍

[eldritchboop]

Starting my "Unfuck your life" week a little early. I have literally taken off an entire week with the goal of focusing on the house and getting my nonsense in order.

First step - all the boxes I moved from the Midwest with (ca. 2018) that were put into storage and then thrown into the closet when we moved into our current house.

It's a massive trip down memory lane and I've successfully purged a lot of old paperwork.

[goldiipond]

whoever designed the twitterized desktop layout should have an anvil dropped on their head looney tunes style

[tiangouaway]

alright so my dashboard is uhhhhhhh completely fucked thats nice i guess

[mydeclutterjourney]

[Image description: screenshot of a tweet by jenny slate, posted at 05:48 on 4 Aug 2011 saying "I love love love waking up! Love it! Everything in my house is waiting for me to look at it and use it. Hello, coffee cup! I love you!" End description.]

Honestly, goals. To get to a point where everything in my house is purposely used by me. Can't wait.

[vzajemnik]

:((((((( friendship.......................

[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?

[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.

[khihi]

tumblr is now hiding people's icons and making it look like i'm not following them. love a functioning website.

[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 😔

[eldritchboop]

Emotionally, the hardest part of unfucking my life is acknowledging how fucked it is and how long I've been living with that.

[arolesbianism]

I've been playing the new cotl update and I generally like it but god do I fucking hate like all of the balance changes just let things be strong man

[spicypussywave]

i see a stupid take on a show i had no interest in thinking about (bc others do enough of that) and now i wanna defend it and make op see how delusional they've gotten

[little-homestead-in-the-suburbs]

Operation functional home Take two-week seven

The bedtime cleaning spoons are back.

Picked up dog toys which became clear packages and ended with vacuuming all exposed floors.

Did a few 5 minutes or less tasks earlier using my Picker Wheel thing from earlier this week.

Microwave, exterior of fridge+ obviously bad food, dusted a fan, some laundry, took trash to the dumpster, and cleared a side table.

Also dealt with a helicopter horse owner, who is panicking about her horse's weight. The horse is fine, just an anxious show type who spent the summer learning to be a real horse.

[mydeclutterjourney]

I love Marie Kondo and I would like to read her books, so I can learn to have a healthy amount of attachment to my things. But I know for a fact I absolutely Will Not be folding my underwear, that's too much effort, especially for something that will come undone in minutes.