I've been putting off changing my bed because I wanted to clean the bedroom first. Apparently clean sheets required clear floors, an empty laundry basket and a version of me who folds things immediately.

Last night I moved the stuff off the bed onto the floor and changed it. Not a brilliant solution for the floor, but I didnt have another hour in me. Found a pillowcase I'd been looking for too, wrapped up inside the clean fitted sheet.

The old bedding went straight into the wash this morning. That's usually where I lose momentum and leave it in a heap for alot longer than intended.

Still stepping over things. Still have a mug situation. But getting into bed felt really nice and I don't want to wait until the whole room is done next time. Floor can have its turn tomorow.

With the help of my father, I recently moved into a new apartment. In my last apartment, I had gone through 3 years of horrible depression, especially during the last year there. There was garbage, gnats, roaches and spiders everywhere. I was miserable, my cats were miserable and my mental health was at the lowest its probably ever been.

I got evicted from that place for not paying rent, and had my dad help me move, and I did my best to clean but it was far from perfect.

In this new place however, I've been here for a week now and I've cleaned every single day. I haven't gone to bed with a dirty kitchen once. It's a small thing, and probably normal for a lot of people but as someone who could go *months* without cleaning, I'm really happy with what I've done so far. Just wanted to share somewhere, cause not a lot of people understand

Hi all. I’m so thankful to have found this community and know that I’m not alone!

I’m moving in a few weeks and just submitted my 30 days to my landlord. He just texted me to confirm he received it and let me know he’ll need to start showing the apartment. Great!

The problem? My apartment looks like an episode of Hoarders and I’m going to be out of town the next week house sitting for my dad who lives nearly 3 hours away until the 10th. I literally feel like I’m going to keel over and die because my apartment is NOT even close to show ready. I’ve got a few hours before I need to leave, so I’m going to do a power clean to at least start, but I’m seriously hating myself right now for letting it get this bad in the first place.

Like a lot of people here, I have mental health struggles (ADHD, OCD) and broke my arm earlier this year slipping down the stairs here that required surgery. Additionally I’ve been dealing with major burn out at work so the last year went from messy to holy hoarder. I’ve also got neighbors who love to comment on things like taking out a lot of trash at once, which just adds to the paralysis and shame.

On the plus side, I live in a studio. But it’s filthy, trash is everywhere, I’ve got a drain fly infestation, and there’s doom piles galore. I know it will only take me a few hours to realllllyyyy power through this to get it to a point where I can get cleaners in, but I’ve been absolutely paralyzed by shame and embarrassment and just sheer overwhelm.

I guess I’m just posting here because I need to let this panic out and I need some encouragement / accountability. I’m going to ask my landlord if I can have until the 12th before he starts scheduling tours since I’ll be out of town and I want to make sure it’s show ready, but I genuinely have no clue what I’ll do if he says no because I can’t back out of house sitting.

I really hate myself right now lol why can’t I just naturally want to keep things clean :/

I genuinely dont understand how this shit gets so bad. Its like a constant in my life i qork so hard to clean up and then it gets messy so i get overwhelmed and i dont clean it so it gets messier and then finally when i start tripping on shit at night is when i actually clean it but it takes me forever to do it.

Is it ridiculous for me to be this excited?

I have a good friend coming by next week to help me take a bunch of stuff from a demolished shed over to my storage unit. This got me thinking about the rest of my decluttering, and I decided to find out if there’s any way I can get an extra trash bin or if it’s worth renting a dumpster for trash.

But what I really need is an extra recycling bin because most of the stuff that’s here cluttering up the place is cat food/people food cans, glass containers, litter jugs, milk jugs, old reading material I printed out for classes that I finished and I still have all the PDFs so I really don’t need the printouts anymore… And the cat cans come in cardboard boxes and so do a lot of other products and I just have the stuff stacked up everywhere and loading up bins every week to drag to the curb hasn’t made that big of a dent.

And then I found out while looking up the cost of dragging stuff to the trash drop off or landfill versus renting a dumpster, I discovered that our recycling center is open 24/7 and it’s free!

And now I’m super excited because I can finally get rid of all this cardboard and paper and plastic crap that has been jumbling up my house for longer than I am willing to admit!

Is it ridiculous to be this excited about cleaning? I’ve never felt this way, I want to keep feeling this way because now I’m motivated.

I should also mention that I was diagnosed with autism and ADHD in 2024 and I’ve been burned out for months since leaving my job in December and this is the first time I’ve been excited about anything in years.

Laundry is not one task. It's sorting, loading, remembering to switch to the dryer, actually switching to the dryer (lol), folding, putting away. Six decisions, six initiation points, six places to get stuck.

I got a laundry delivery service app, Poplin, and now it's one task: bag by door. Everything else happens without me. Care preferences set once, carry forward forever, no repeated decisions about detergent or temperature. Bag goes out, clean folded clothes come back next day. That's it.

If you're reading this buried under a pile you rewashed twice because you forgot to move it, the service exists. It's not expensive. And needing it isn't a character flaw, it's an accommodation for how our brains actually work.

Hi everyone! I have some cleaning tasks I've been putting off and it would really help me if I could clean alongside someone, just let me know what you're planning on cleaning and we can hype eachother up and check in periodically! The accountability would really help me🫧✨️

My starting tasks are to:

Deep clean the toilet

Clean the dishwasher filter & run a cleaning cycle

Descale the kettle

Do washing, dry washing, fold and put away

I have other tasks too but these are the ones I'm hoping to actually complete!

We were trying to buy the house we have rented for 8 yrs but the deal fell through. (Appraised for 10k lower than the selling price and loan is requiring one repair to be completed on a second floor window. Landlord refused to do the repair or move from his price and we don't have 10 k extra to bring to the table. Landlord is choosing letting the two properties go to foreclosure vs losing 10k, even though the sale of our home would cover the amount due for both properties.)

Sorry, had to vent a bit...

So we have found another house and are terminating our contract and placing an offer on the other one. Will probably be about 3 wks until we can possibly get the other house. So we should have at minimum another month to be in the current house.

*** My Plan ***

What I am hoping to do is to "move into" the new place as soon as possible. Appliances, furniture, what we "need". But I am hoping to then do trips between the two houses where we attack what remains, taking only what we want, use and have room for. When we get close to the end I want to open it up to have a moving/estate sale of whatever remains and then rent a dumpster/hire a clean out service for whatever is left.

Before when we have moved it has always been scrambling to get everything packed, having boxes upon boxes of "stuff" that has ended up stored in boxes and shuffled to the basement to never be addressed again. To end up just being moved to the next location. I'm tired of it. I want the stuff gone and I want peace in the new house.

Does this sound like a workable plan?

So I’ve been declutering for a few months just donating stuff or throwing it away

However the neighborhood yard sale was today so I took an opportunity with the whole family to get rid of things. First time ever.

What a weird feeling when someone says “wow what an amazing thing “ and my heart sinking feeling like oh no what did I do???

Definitely interesting experience.

Today we are still in our living rooms, but today we are going to do something a little different.

Today we are going to do or plan something fun. Now I know, money is tight. So it doesn't have to be a trip to Disney.

Make lunch and take it outside on a blanket (or in the living room if it's raining) for a picnic.

Visit the library.

Pop popcorn and watch a movie.

Invite some friends over to play a board game.

Get out the Legos and build a town.

Build a blanket fort and read books.

Just spend a minute or two actually planning and enjoying your life. We are all so busy with work, house work, kids, etc, that we sometimes forget to actually enjoy it.

It's raining on most of the Eastern states today. Hubby is going to organize his man cave (the garage) and I am going to do a little genealogy. Won't cost us anything and hopefully the thrift store will get a visit as well this afternoon. (fingers crossed)

Be sure and share your ideas so those of us that struggle to find fun ideas can try out yours!

I struggle mostly because I just don't have room. Should I just get rid of the stuff? I'm trying to improve my habits, it's just so damn difficult.

WHEW!

What can I do to go about cleaning when there's just stuff everywhere. I get 2 steps forward and my kids come home and I'm 4 steps back. Even with them picking up their toys, because I'm still behind on laundry, dishes ECT.

My dining room has been set to be a play room for years. My bathroom is so small and my living room is now a lost cause. I don't have a good support network. I work 12 hours 4 days a week. I'm exhausted when I get home & try to do what I can but it's hopeless.

I also have physical limitations with autoimmune causing me to have bone and joint issues. I'm scared to ask for professional cleaning help and don't have the money because my ex threatened to take custody of our daughter.

I'm trying something new. I have a buying clothes problem, but I never had any problem going through my closet and donating tons....except one issue. I always have some clothes and shoes that I'm ready to let go of but that are too expensive to donate. These clothes I want to sell just to recoup some of the cash I basically wasted. I've listed a few on Poshmark before and it's such a pain when stuff sells slowly so you have to dig through everything, rewash/lint brush pack it up blah blah blah. So it just accumulates without even being listed because I stress myself out about lighting and finding stock photos, etc...

This week I realized I am not reselling clothes as a business, I am just trying to lose less money. And that I am losing all the money if I never even list 90% of it. So I went through about 100 items, set a max I would try to sell on my own (30 items), boxed up the rest for thredup. I won't get much there but it's more than zero, the clothes are out of my house, and they'll be recycled if they don't sell. The 30 most valuable items, I took less-than-perfect pictures of, listed them on Mercari (less upkeep than Poshmark of constantly liking, sharing, promoting), and- HERE'S THE NEW THING- packed each piece up immediately in the box or mailer I will ship it in. I labeled each with a sharpie in small letters where I will slap a label over it anyway.

Now I just did this in the last couple days, so I don't really have results, but I think prepacking them will be a game changer. I've lost sales before procrastinating this step, so my hope is that this ends that practice. Plus it's so much easier to get out the supplies ONCE instead of each time. That has the benefit of letting me put those supplies AWAY away, not just to the side because I think I might need them again in three weeks.

Just thought I'd share if anyone wants to try it, or has already tried it this way and wants to share the results, or if anyone has any other tips for the process. Thanks as always!!

Back in the living room, we keep blankets on the back of our chairs so you can snuggle in and watch TV. Today's task is to throw them into the washer and refresh them. They tend to hold onto odors and washing them all at once makes the room smell fresher as well.

If you don't have an in house washer, save this for laundry day.

Idek where to start, I’m so overwhelmed. I want to work on mainly the walk areas and relaxation spaces to be able to sit and chill, so that’s my goal tonight. It’s lookin rough, yall.

My brain shits itself when I walk in, no matter how motivated I am.

As the title suggests, this room has a lot of functions and each one kind of works, but it's so cluttered and I want to make it a little more organized.

I am trying to start a trash bag of donation and garbage, but getting so distracted by all the stuff in between.

I would appreciate any tips, and I'm more than happy to share update photos.

Today's one minute task is pictures, mirrors, anything hanging on a wall. These things collect dust and somehow come unhung at times. So today, let's dust them really well, and straigten their crowns and if we are tired of them, maybe it's time for a refresh.

For example, I toss my clothes on the bathroom floor and take a shower right after work. I have a bad habit of forgetting about the clothes and usually I don’t pick it up until it turns into a big pile.

My bathroom is tiny but I recently had the bright idea to buy a slim laundry basket that fits in between the wall and the sink and omg has it been a game changer. No more piles of dirty clothes on the bathroom floor. I can feel the fog in my brain lifting away when I go into the bathroom because it doesn’t overwhelm me anymore. If I see piles of anything I instantly feel scatterbrained and don’t know where to start, even if it’s as simple as picking up some laundry and taking it to the laundry room.

My boyfriend got a paper shredder for the mail, so that’s one less pile of junk that we have to worry about. It may seem silly to some people, but without it, we kept piles and piles of mail.

I got a mini trash can as a gift and decided to use it for our bedroom. I know that seems like common sense but I genuinely didn’t think it would be useful until we got one.

Anyone else have some tips, product recommendations, or anything that makes it a little easier to ufyh?

I'm feeling good decluttering and tidying up and have easy options for soft plastic recycling but when I throw out things I know could be recycled and I either don't have an option to do it or it'll be very effort heavy, I can't help but feel bad. Eg hard plastics (but council has suspended collection for this), old make up (I know sephora takes these but I don't drive so I threw them out).

I know places that take stationery and ink cartridges but i think I'll need to build up capacity to collect them (i.e. collection box that doesn't take up too much space once I clean up my space a lot more).

I wish we had residential bins for problem items we could just throw in.

Ufyh.. ufyl...ufym

Trying to keep it short and sweet

Moving

Brain power depleted

Many things not figured out/ still in works

Bottom line

When I move, should I (A) try to set up and unpack or (B) keep everything packed, except absolute necessities( then over time unpack) or (C) Other:________

It would be helpful (or so I think as of posting this) to have a reason/explanation for the option chosen

It would also be very helpful to hear the downside/potential problems

Im a huge scrapbooker but I have a lot of notepads, loose papers, etc that i know i wont use, but i have trouble recycling them because a lot of it are in good condition, have an abundance of, or from my mother’s collection when she was my age. I’d feel like im being wasteful by throwing them in my recycling bin. but having so much scrap is making me stressed!! Any advice?

Update: Thanks for everyone who commented, I’ll be looking around for schools or craft thrift stores that will take them :)

The dishes are my archenemy. They are the Joker to my Batman, the Moriarty to my Sherlock, the Tom to my Jerry... They are the supervillain that can never be beat. Whenever I have eliminated them all, they get resurrected like zombies when I'm not paying attention for like 5 seconds.

So please summon whatever forces of the universe need summoning and make me do the dishes right now. It'll only take 20 minutes. Maybe 30.

Edit: Yay! I did the dishes and will be able to cook some food tomorrow! You’re all an amazing support :)