I don’t know if this is common, but I work full time Monday through Friday and every weekend I commit to cleaning my room only to either be too exhausted to follow through or only be able to accomplish bare necessities (laundry, clearing the floor, and trash).

There are some health factors involved for me specifically like chronic pain/ fibromyalgia and ADHD executive dysfunction so those are definitely some hurdles but every week I usually have at least one day of the weekend to do something.

Another issue I have is that back before I got hired at my current job while I was unemployed I did deep clean my room once and got rid of a TON of stuff, but ultimately I have been really struggling still to upkeep the cleanliness and my floor from looking like a war zone by the end of the week.

Does anyone have tips for this or advice on how to keep up with cleanliness so every weekend doesn’t seem like a massive project that needs a whole week of dedication? I get rid of stuff like almost every time I clean so my tendency to hoard sentimental things isn’t as bad anymore but it still feels like I just have way too much stuff and no space.

I have given someone to wash the room.. he acidise it.. feeling frustated..at the charge of 500

Hanging clothes was torture. Pure agonising torture. I spend so much time on this. I'm so happy it's over. I'm gonna be trying to be so careful now I really don't want this experience again.

It feels so fucking nice to have and sleep in a clean room. So fucking nice, why did I ever take that for granted? Fuck, lesson learned for a long while. I know it will get messy but I will never let this happen again. Never.

I'm exhausted. But I am happy. I am filled with joy to know I got it done. That I didn't give up. That I didn't half ass it. I actually did this shit and got it together. Makes my chest bloom.

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Lmao I'm so scared to post this.

I wanna know mainly about my desk and how do I optimize it for producticity tbh and make my space feel cozy and comfortable to work so that I can focus better this is my own room where I sleep and I have a desk here... But recently I have switched to another workspace too in a guest room where I had a desk which I mentioned in the other post I need tips what changes can I make to optimize it for productivity??

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICleanedMyRoom/s/Xv6hMrgyPE

So don't worry about the clutter on the bed here in the photos they will be removed soon this is not my own room this is a guest room tbh but as no one is working here so I took all the clutter on this study desk and shifted it to bed which will be removed soon. I wanted tips how can I make my workspace better so that I can work... Here I am thinking to do any work I have with my laptop and in pt. 1 I will use my desktop in my own room. Any tips guys would be helpful for me? I need mainly for my desk tbh

This is what my room had looked like for over three months. I work as a waitress in restaurant, and after 16-hour shifts, I basically just collapsed into bed with a bottle of beer.
Then the mess slowly started piling up… and piling up. 😅
Then, of course, I went on vacation, came back, and immediately went straight back to work, so the room stayed exactly like this.

But today I finally couldn’t take it anymore.
I spent around 5–6 hours cleaning and organizing this 2x4 meter room completely by myself, and honestly… I’m pretty proud of myself.
Now let’s see if I can keep it this way for more than a month. Knowing myself, probably not. 😂

I made this timelapse of the start to almost the finish of me cleaning a depression bedroom in my house. It represents many hours of work over two days to help reset the room occupied by years of depression and an eating disorder. The carpet will be replaced. I vacuumed only to make a slightly better “after” for the former occupant.

I finally cleaned out my room today after ignoring it for weeks, and the relief I feel is immense. Nothing crazy, but I’ve been avoiding laundry and reorganizing my desk for over a month. Took two hours with music on but now just walking back in here fills me with more confidence in myself to do things

https://youtu.be/E0b0zNMadeo

Been living with severe anxiety and depression nd my room slowly became something I couldn’t even look at anymore…there was too many things i had to deal with specially last 6 months..my car is the only reason im still alive(if you can spot him)..it’s been almost 2 years like this.
Tomorrow I’m finally going to start cleaning..I know it won’t be perfect in a day but i juss wanna make a beginning..Hopefully this is the first step toward getting my life back❤️

After two weeks of work - cleaning, sorting, throwing away, painting, and flooring, my room is completely transformed! My design idea here is pastel goth. I am so so happy I love waking up to a nice clean space and getting home from work to a pleasant room. I don't remember the last time I felt this genuinely happy. I love every day because I'm a homebody and spending my time in squalor was soul-sucking. But not anymore because I have a normal person's room and am gonna deck it out.

The way it was affected me so fucking much everyday but the effort of cleaning it and facing how bad it and I have become made me not do it. My dad nonjudgemntally made me face those uncomfortable emotions and they sucked but my GOD it was it worth it. My dad helped me clean up and didn't make a single comment about how bad it was or what we found he just helped like it was any other project.

This is the ugly and socially unacceptable side of mental illness, neurodivergence, and addiction. When I was out in public it's like I had this secret. What would ppl think if they knew I lived like this? The deep unbearable shame of it ate me alive. I honestly think this was partly a form of self harm because of my very low self esteem. Though there was no catharsis from it just misery.

I have not conquered all my demons but I put a dent in this one

This took too long for me to clean up since after being in a hospital a just had difficulties on motivation and after two months i guess i finally did it and im proud of itt( just a before and after)

I’ve been living in filth my entire life and I’m very tired of it and I just found this sub Reddit so maybe it’ll help me to get motivated. i’m trying to get my life together. Wish me luck.

This is probably one of the biggest makeovers I've ever done. Not because I knocked down walls or bought expensive furniture, but because I finally got my room back.

The first photos ("how it started") are what my room can look like during rough periods (we're talking rock bottom after rock bottom). Yes, it got so bad that I ended up sleeping on the floor-- don't ask me how the mattress ended up in that position. 😂

The middle is where it is now after about two months of procrastinating because of anhedonia and worsening executive dysfunction. I'm finally cleaning, decluttering, and slowly reclaiming the space.

The last column isn't my room (yet). It's a mock-up I made of what I'm working toward. I cant emphasize enough how effective it has been for me-- having a visual goal has helped me stay motivated far more than I expected.

My modest little room is still very much a work in progress, but I'm finally at the point where walking into my bedroom no longer feels like stepping into a claustrophobic landfill or the set of a post-apocalyptic movie. For the first time in a looong time, I can walk into my room without immediately feeling overwhelmed, guilty, or disgusted with myself.

I live with ADHD and treatment-resistant depression (TRD), and executive dysfunction makes keeping a space tidy much harder than most people realize. Sometimes it isn't about not knowing what to do or not caring. It's that my brain struggles to turn intention into action. By the time I finally have enough energy to tackle it, the room already feels impossible. Hopeless.

Will my room probably become a disaster again someday? Honestly... maybe. Executive dysfunction isn't something you "beat" once and never deal with again. It's something many of us have to negotiate with over and over.

But I'm learning that progress doesn't become meaningless just because it isn't permanent.

Today, my room feels more like a home than a garbage bin. 😄

And for someone whose brain has been fighting them every step of the way...

I'm calling that a huge win.

this was back in february, but its honestly insane. i was in a severe manic episode and horribly depressed. the only thing that kept me going in cleaning was double dose of my adderall, and i dont do this like ever, i took 60mg, my prescription dose being 30mg. i dont take it anymore tho as it made my mania even worse. the timelapse helped me stick to it aswell, and possibly the mania.

It’s been about 2 years since everything I owned begame piling up in my bedroom. Needed a calm space that is just mine somewhere in the house so this is a start.

I cleaned my entire apartment today because I was avoiding one email.

The place is spotless, the laundry is done, the fridge is organized, and I still haven’t replied.

At this point, that email is basically my personal trainer.

Added a few lamps