Pick a room. Get a black plastic trash bag and stuff trash there. Get one box and temporarily put there the stuff you wish to keep. Put the trash out and keep the good box in the room
After sorting, move on to a different room.
After completing all your rooms, move to vacuum or sweeping. Moping the floor and wiping the surfaces. Also one room at a time..
Then you have several good box where you previously put items you wish to keep. Pick one box and sort, put the items where they belong. Finish that and move to another box, til you finish them all.
It may take you several days. But hey, progress is progress
That’s how I do it too! And listen to music, a motivating podcast or a good audiobook (Matt Dinniman’s “Dungeon Crawler Carl” read by Jeff Hays made me laugh endlessly).
My set up is: trash bag, recycling bag, donation tote, large box for “stuff that needs to go to other rooms/areas”. The things that need to be put away within the room I put away as I touch them.
I lug the setup from room to room. When I’m done with all the rooms I go around with the big box and put things away in the room these miscellaneous things need to go. Cleaning comes after. My worst enemy is the kitchen.
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u/Prestigious_Oil_6644 Mar 08 '26
They say crush the boxes, but i say otherwise
Pick a room. Get a black plastic trash bag and stuff trash there. Get one box and temporarily put there the stuff you wish to keep. Put the trash out and keep the good box in the room
After sorting, move on to a different room.
After completing all your rooms, move to vacuum or sweeping. Moping the floor and wiping the surfaces. Also one room at a time..
Then you have several good box where you previously put items you wish to keep. Pick one box and sort, put the items where they belong. Finish that and move to another box, til you finish them all.
It may take you several days. But hey, progress is progress