During the pandemic me and my then wife and my mom started selling stuff on eBay. All the thrift stores were getting over run with donations while having to be closed and ran a lot of huge blowout sales to get rid of the excess inventory once they reopened and we got a lot of stuff. We were pretty successful on eBay but stopped once I started a business that took off. My garage and dining room and backyard and everything just filled to the brim with eBay inventory and old stuff I needed to throw out

Since then my ex wife left me and my sons. Between raising them and running my business I’m spread thin. I try so hard to get it all wrangled in, taken out, given away, thrown away, organized.

I’ve gotten to the point where most of the bulk is gone. Now every time I find the time to clean it become me cleaning one room by piling it all in another room. I don’t know what to do with any of it anymore. I have no organization techniques or habits to help me. I desperately want to unfuck my house so me and my mom and my boys can have a nice uncluttered plaxe To exist and move from room to room.

I thought about hiring someone to help but I can’t afford it. All of the YouTube videos and stuff I find require me to spend a lot of money on organization tools and things that I don’t have and can’t afford.

I’ll take a lot of pictures of what I have left. I am new to Reddit I’ve been here for one day and saw this subreddit and thought maybe I could finally get help and take my house back for good, I don’t even have anywhere for my business equipment and stuff it’s a messsssssssss.

I’ve been moving and throwing away and putting in boxes and donated and storing for like 3 years. I’m so close to some but this last leg I’m at a loss and keep taking steps backward and making it worse somehow

I'm unfucking my bathtub and have actually made some progress! I used a ton of Dawn Powerwash, some baking soda, boiling water, and one of those battery-powered scrubbers.

I still have a ways to go, but I'm wondering:

Can and how would I use white vinegar? I found some under the sink. I don't want to mix it with the dawn and baking soda if you're not supposed to.

Any way of getting rid of rust in and around the drain?

Any other good tips I'm missing? Should I use an abrasive cleaner next time? I've gotten so much useful advice from this sub and am so happy to finally see a difference in my tub!

Mail and paperwork are always an issue for me, I shuffle and stack but by the end of the week there’s a paperwork mess on every surface. Have you got a system that works? Unfuck my documents please.

It's not much but it's a start. I'm going to eliminate lots of old documents, now straight to the recycling bin.

Then I'll proceed with more stuff.

Wish me luck❤️

I hope this is OK with mods/the community.

Hey, friends. I've taken a lot of inspiration from y'all these last few months. I take to heart your efforts and trials. I've been there. Right now, my 11yo daughter is there. We have tried.... EVERYTHING. Logic, reasoning, help, enthusiasm, rewards......begging, crying, yelling, consequences. We've tried not to guilt (husband and I have had to deal with that as kids), but we know we have guilted her. We have apologized. And yet there is no change. I've cleaned it for her 10-12 times in the 7 years we have lived in this house. I get a cocktail, put on Bob's Burgers, and make all the decisions for her (something we spend the year trying to NOT do, but then it ends like this.) So here's the plan. I'm gonna make her a path to the closet so that the laundry she does AND IS GOOD AT has a home again. I'm gonna mark off the path with blue tape. Then her job, with mom and dad's help, is to go from the blue tape outwards. I told her about this sub. She LOVES that other people are making their homes more enjoyable. She wants to show "after" pictures to the sub when she's done. I hope this post is OK with everyone. Mom, dad, and kiddo need accountability - - and my kid deserves to have her efforts celebrated. We love her. We want to help her.

I broke up with my abuser 1 week ago today! I’ve been down and out with pneumonia all week and haven’t had the strength to do much but I just drank a double energy and bought a bunch of packing boxes and file folders and sharpies and I am so excited to get every bit of everything of his packed up and into the garage for him to pick up. My house is a reflection of where my mind has been, it’s a disaster. I’m unfucking today and tomorrow. I’ll add pics as I go. Thank you all for the inspiration and keeping it real. My time has come.

So, my MIL/FIL are in their mid to late seventies , FIL has Parkinson’s. They live in their old family home that is much too large for the both of them to maintain alone so my husband and I are volunteering to help them as they age. i have tremendous respect for both of them. however, MIL has hoarder tendencies and the accumulation of garbage seems to be rapid there.

does anyone have any tips on how to gently advise my MIL? or how to streamline an old mansion filled with knick knacks and old children’s toys?

none of this is my mess....it's my (soon to be ex) boyfriend (40m) and his brother's (40m) mess. i resent the fact that i will have to be the one that cleans it up...because at this point, i'd rather them just leave than stay here any longer and clean it up themselves. (ha, yeah right. 🙄) the total lack of respect for me AND my childhood home is unbelievable and infuriating! problem is though...i can't seem to muster enough give a damn to even WANT to get started....

Hello everyone! This is a weekend megathread for those small updates, accountability requests, and success stories that you want to send out to the universe!

Maybe ones that don’t require a full post but that still deserve some recognition, plans made today for over the coming days, or solicitations for suggestions on how to complete your intended tasks!

Still feel free to make absolutely any posts that you want, but if you prefer a smaller-format update option here it is! I want to encourage participation in whatever form it takes :)

ALSO!!! Pictures are enabled in comments so feel free to add pics of your area to tackle of your progress if you please :)

I have layers. It's like archeology, going through them. But there's no sorting space. Shelves were removed from a storage closet when the landlord was looking for a leak. Every horizontal surface is now covered, not just with the items that used to be neatly on the shelves, but daily stuff on top of it, things that would normally be where the shelf stuff lives.

I start to declutter, pick something up and say I'll keep it. But where to put it? Even the box that's going to someone happily taking odds and ends (materials artist), is buried.

Suggestions?

i have several depression rooms. just found out that there is a term for it. made me feel better. now it is more like a recognised symptom than me being a failure. even though i knew it was the result of depression and anxieties. i am seeing a counsellor.

so... any advice on how to get the courage to start tackling something. i know that i am apparenty immune to cheesy inspirational quotes. what did do it for you?

John (my supervisor) decided to hang out in one of the boxes I said I'd UF during my deep cleaning project. Hopefully I will have time again over the long weekend to make some good progress on this. At least I finally donated the overflowing donations bin last weekend.

Hello everyone! This is a midweek megathread for those small updates, accountability requests, and success stories that you want to send out to the universe!

Maybe ones that don’t require a full post but that still deserve some recognition, plans made today for over the coming days, or solicitations for suggestions on how to complete your intended tasks!

Still feel free to make absolutely any posts that you want, but if you prefer a smaller-format update option here it is! I want to encourage participation in whatever form it takes :)

ALSO!!! Pictures are enabled in comments so feel free to add pics of your area to tackle of your progress if you please :)

After a leak in the room of our building wrecked our bedroom ceiling, our landlord realized he'd have to put up a while new ceiling, which meant emptying out our bedroom. Our bedroom has been the catchall in our smallish two bedroom apartment, so just way more junk than we needed. We decided we'd empty the bedroom before we left for a vacation so he could work while we weren't home. In the process of emptying our room, I got more and more overwhelmed. My friend, who runs Neat Space, Neat Mind, an organization business, offered to help us put things back together when we were back in town. She literally saved us--I was paralyzed with indecision about what to keep, where things should go, literally everything. And, I knew we had to do our kids' room next, as my son was climbing out of his crib and it was time for bunk beds. Danielle was with us every step of the way--she took tons of measurements and then was with us at ikea helping us figure out which choices to make and which systems would work best for our space. She did every detail--right down to which hangers would work best and which bins to buy! The end result, which she put together while we were away, was more perfect than I could have ever imagined! The kids were so happy and I felt such a weight off of my shoulders. I actually loved being in our apartment again, which is a lot after many years of pandemic sheltering in and kid chaos! I cannot recommend her highly enough--I know some people think that that's not a thing to spend money on, but she's worth every penny she charges! I never realized the sheer amount of mental energy this process takes up until I was forced to do it--I needed Danielle's expertise and support!

Gotta UFMH the dining room before Thanksgiving….

Just joined and I unfucked my lounge room today