This weekend’s muckings

[katster]

I’m still at them. Although I’ve discovered once again that the carpet in my room is red. (Also, we’re not going to talk about the closet — the closet will get handled in the next stage, which is called ‘one box a night’.

I have learned a few things:

1. Cleaning rooms, especially when I’ve let it get really bad, sucks the big one.
2. I need to come up with a better system of handling the books and papers that come into my room.
3. I need to come up with a better system about cramming epic levels of stuff into my room. (A blessed bag of holding would be really awesome about this point…)
4. I need to be better at dealing with the chores that failure to do make the room messier — taking out the trash and doing laundry are probably excellent starts, although the “putting clothes away” part of laundry would also be a good thing.
5. I am reminded once again that paper cuts suck.
6. I am reminded once again that the things one needs to do to avoid identity theft also suck.

Anyway, I’ve still got a lot to do and approximately four hours to do it, so back to work.

Any motivation you care to provide me in the comments would be awesome.

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Currently mucking out the spare bedroom/office

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

- so I feel your pain. With all the hassles of moving in, I've come to realize the sensibility of the "one room at a time" philosophy.

Re: Currently mucking out the spare bedroom/office

[katster.livejournal.com]

And the fact that you've got to give yourself time to do the things you want to do along with the things you have to do. A break every hour or so has done some wonders to keep me on task.

I still don't know if I'll be done by the time my folks get back, but if I can point to the room and say 'Hey! Progress!' (or, alternatively, 'Hey! Carpet!'), I think they'll be happy.

-kat

[rbos.livejournal.com]

I'd like to add, that large trash bags and bins for donation to the library and Salvation Army are excellent helpers in any large-scale cleanup effort.

The less crap you have, the less opportunity there is for clutter.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Cleaning rooms, especially when I’ve let it get really bad, sucks the big one.
Quentin Crisp claimed that dust did not attract dust. Once you have a basic layer of dust, it remains at that level. So he said.

I need to come up with a better system of handling the books and papers that come into my room.
Ann used to sigh when a new stack of fanzines or comics arrived in the house, knowing it'd never leave in my lifetime.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Oh, I haven't even begun to tackle the dust. That's stage three, after the 'one box at a time' policy.

(I may or may not vacuum anytime soon depending on how much the cruft annoys me.)

-kat

[katster.livejournal.com]

Okay, the cruft annoyed me. Also, I moved the bed, and figured that it was probably better to vacuum underneath where it was going.

-kat

[kuangning]

I deal with my laundry by having three collapsible hampers -- one for dirty clothing, one for clean clothing, and the third is "as needed." This usually means my clothing and bedding never sees the inside of a drawer, but at least it's not all over my floor and bed. Also, banker's boxes work well for papers.