Regina George asked:
My poor room is a disaster zone. I keep starting to clean it but then I get overwhelmed by the clutter and mess, and I give up again.
My poor room is a disaster zone. I keep starting to clean it but then I get overwhelmed by the clutter and mess, and I give up again.
I cannot walked into my room today and just about cried!!!
I don’t even know where to start. I have about three laundry baskets full of STUFF. No idea what is in them!!.
I just keep taking crap from one table to another and then moving it again. I feel like I have nowhere to put the stuff, but I do!! but I just can’t get my head around where to put it all.
My parents and my sister told me that my room needs to be cleaned asap. I would like to know if there are any methods of cleaning my room that would make it less overwhelming than just starting to clean.
Any suggestions?
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Start with throwning all the trash away and work from there~! Good Luck
I’ve had the same problem. Start with one type of thing, such as magazines and books, and sort those and put those away first. Then start with another thing, like clothes, and put those away or in the hamper. Keep repeating this process until everything is picked up. Once you have everything cleaned up, add some finishing touches like vacuuming and dusting. While you’re cleaning, listen to some of your favorite music, it will help keep you from getting too bored. Good luck!
Get rid of stuff. Why are you keeping it? Do you need it?
Get trash bags and get rid of it. if you don’t even know what is in the box then you couldn’t possibly use it everyday.
When our kids were younger and their rooms were disasters, they employed a couple of strategies. See which seems best for your situation.
1. Divide the room into manageable sections. Pick an area at least 6 feet by 6 feet. (Bigger is better.) Clean it, putting away anything that’s in it where it belongs, dusting, changing the sheets if the bed’s there, etc. (Only thing you don’t do is vacuum.) Take a short break or even a small reward. Then pick another area, not necessarily adjacent, and get busy.
2. Put everything that isn’t where it belongs in the center of the room. Clean everywhere else. Then put away the huge mound in the center.
3. Itemize. Deal with all the items of a single type–dirty clothes, papers, books, toys, display items, projects, whatever it is you’ve got making a mess. When everything’s stowed, all you have to do is dust and vacuum or sweep. Those are easy.
first get a big trash bag like a contractor 1 and put it so the side! then dump everything on your bed then vacum the floor the 1 by 1 put everything thats on your bed where it belongs and if its garbage you dont have to go too far cause…. IT SHOULD BE IN YOUR ROOM!! and your dorty clothes put it in a pile and then when your bed is cleared off make a dark light and white pile and go to work with wasking them!! i hoped i helped good luck
Get a pen and paper and write down what you need to do. Then draw a diagram where you want to put everything in your room. Put clothes in one pile everything else in another. Start washing clothes first, then seperate other items WHILE PLAYING YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC, TURN OFF THE TV AND CLOSE THE DOOR!!!!! Then follow your diagram and throw some of that stuff away!!!
First clear out everything that shouldn’t be in there – rubbish out to the bin, dirty clothes in the washing machine, dirty cups in the kitchen. Take the baskets full of stuff out of the room while you tackle the rest of it. You need to empty out as much as possible to make it easier to clean and sort out.
Work a section at a time, personally I’d clear the floor first, then each surface one at a time, putting back only what should actually be there.
Hoover the floor and use a damp cloth to wipe the surfaces as you go. Go back to the laundry baskets when you’ve sorted the worst of the rest of it.
A) Start at the beginning of the day, not the end of the day.
B) Start in one corner or space and do not leave before you are done with that space. Do not put something down in an area where you will just have to touch it again to move it as you clean that area. Make sense?
C) TOSS as much as you can. I love tossing things because once it’s gone I know I never, ever have to touch/clean/move it again!
D) Bring large black plastic bags with you and a few white ones like for the kitchen. In the white ones you put all the clothing you want to keep but won’t wear for a few months due to seasons changing, weight, whatever. In the black ones, TOSS TOSS TOSS as much as you can. If you are good at staying focused, you could put a bag in there for goodwill but if not, just toss it.
E) Plan how you want your room to look. Use that as a motivational idea to keep you going!
F) Play motivational music, NOT the tv. Tv makes you want to curl up and watch intently.
Well first of all I’d set a spare weekend away to do it – trying to do it when you’re in a rush won’t work.
First of all I would put EVERYTHING that isn’t nailed to the wall or floor out of the room. strip all the bedding and curtains etc.
Get in and vaccuum and dust every possible surface in the room. Get yourself a room freshener.
Now sit down on your bed and look around. Wow, doesn’t that feel better and doesn’t your head feel less crowded with all those clean and clear surfaces around you? Spend a good half an hour just admiring your cleaning work because when you’ve done that you will feel far more precious about what you let in to your room.
Start going through all your stuff, get some wet wipes and clean anything that you feel you desperately want to keep and decide on the most practical place for it. Make sure that you really really want and need it and keep going until you’ve replaced everything you need.
Bag up what you don’t then either bin/sell/donate it.
Don’t put any of this stuff in your room, even for storage, because once you do it might never leave again.
Good luck.
Go get three big boxes or laundry baskets. Label one “keep”, one “giveaway”, one “throw”. Start with those unidentified laundry baskets full of stuff. Sort into those three boxes. Go into your room and fill up your laundry baskets again. Repeat. When “giveaway” or “throw” get full, take them out immediately. When “keep” gets full, set it aside and replace with a new box. Keep going.
When everything in the room* (except maybe the furniture) has been sorted into keep/give/throw, clean the light fixture(s), wash the windows, clean along the moldings, turn the mattress, sweep/vacuum the floor. Rearrange the furniture if you want.
*yes, including all the stuff in the closet
This all may take several days. Grit your teeth and do it. Wouldn’t be surprised if your family might not help a bit when they see you making good progress. Turn up the music and work.
Now: make the bed, and start sorting the stuff in the keep boxes.
Hang up clothes that should hang, fold other clothes into drawers. If there’s something in the keep box that is not immediately useful, put it in a “store this” box. Keep going.
When you’re done, write the date on them and put the “store this” box/boxes into storage… under the bed if no place else to store.
Your room should be in control now. Get yourself a kitchen timer
and spend 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes at night doing
a blitz cleaning… hanging up stuff, throwing out trash, folding clothes, whatever. At the end of 5 minutes you can quit, but you must work for the whole 5 minutes.
Bet you’ll only need about 5 minutes a day after a few weeks to keep your room looking good.
Write on your calendar for winter break an appointment with yourself to go over the “store this” box. Again, sort into keep/give/throw.
When you’ve got less junque, life isn’t nearly as overwhelming.
Recommended reading: Don Aslett’s Clutter’s Last Stand. You’ll probably have to get it from the library or used book store.
Also recommended: when you bring something new into your room, look for something similar that you can giveaway or at least store… two new shirts? Find the two shirts in your closet that you least wear, and put them in the giveaway bin.