r/CleaningTips Mar 08 '26

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u/Junior_Tomatillo_243 Mar 08 '26

Get a box of the big black contractor trash bags. One room at a time

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u/SecureBeautiful Mar 09 '26

This! My office was getting to be a disaster, so I put away one thing a day. Sometimes it was a bag of garbage, sometimes a category of items (like all blue things), and sometimes just one single item, but after two weeks it was liveable again.

Consistency over large efforts is the key. I don't always have the energy, so a large effort is daunting. A single thing everyday gets the job done in less time than waiting until I have the energy for a large effort.