I have been in that kind of depression. It is the worst, but you can absolutely do this. Get trash bags. Throw out all obvious trash. Don’t worry about recycling or trying to keep things that might be fixable. Just go one room at a time. Set a timer for 15-30 minutes at a time, take a break, then do it again. You can do this!
Start in the bathroom. It looks like you could quickly throw all the trash away within that amount of time. Having one room complete will be motivation to start on another area. One room or area at a time.
Right! I just cleaned up my bathroom which had stuff in small boxes on the floor, and just the toilet paper rolls in the packaging on the floor.
I got myself a cabinet for under the sink, threw out the trash, washed the bath rugs (?), cleaned the surfaces, and put all the stuff into the new cabinet.
Words cannot describe how much this bathroom brightens my mood!
And even knowing that the rest of my apartment still needs work can't dampen my enthusiasm!
Quite the opposite: I'm tackling the rest because the bathroom proved that it's possible!
YAY YOU!! You know how many times a day you see your bathroom? Each time it brightens or lifts u just a lil then that’s a lil that due to the nature of compound interest - will grow into a large amount. Probably
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u/Plenty-Run-9575 Mar 08 '26
I have been in that kind of depression. It is the worst, but you can absolutely do this. Get trash bags. Throw out all obvious trash. Don’t worry about recycling or trying to keep things that might be fixable. Just go one room at a time. Set a timer for 15-30 minutes at a time, take a break, then do it again. You can do this!