Very cleanable
If you have the time, try organizing in phases to make it feel less overwhelming:
- Find all books & place in one spot
- Find all loose clothes & place in a hamper
- …
- Organize books into a ‘keep’ pile and a ‘give away’ pile
- Put clothes in washing machine, if available
If you’re struggling, do 1 phase per hour, or per day, or per week – based on any restrictions you have.
Best of luck!
And I would do that with the first steps being about removing some stuff out of the room, so laundry and giveaways. Then the results will be visible earlier, and there will generally be more space to “put these things here, put that things there”
trash bags. Worry about sorting it later, get clothes into one bag, junk in another, and trash in a third. Put big things away last, as you make room for them.
Don’t stop until everything is either put away or in a bag, then start sorting. Don’t bother hanging or putting clothes away, just wash them all as a single load, put them away after washing them.
You’ll get your floor clean at least and that’s usually enough to start for me.
Not that bad unless those are last year’s Halloween decorations
Uhhhh, they’re year round, I tried making my room look better and now it looks awful.
If I were you I would move everything but the furniture out of the room, then put back only the stuff you need.
Been there more than I can count. Can’t say your room will never get depressy again but thankfully, you CAN get better at dealing with it. Here’s what works for me:
Every time you get up, put one thing away. Yeah it’s messy but no rush to get it clean. Rushing will kill your motivation. It’s overwhelming because it’s one giant task to you. And it’ll be overwhelming if you mentally turn it into a million tiny tasks, too…
So just make it routine. Putting one thing away is easy. Sometimes, you’ll get the bug and put away a dozen things at once. If you make it a “task” to be completed, you’ll feel worse when you run out of steam and it’s unfinished. Don’t worry about that.
Don’t move furniture, don’t disassemble anything that isn’t immediately leaving the room. Every step MUST be forward because you don’t know when the sad will hit.
Every time you take something out of your room, say something like “When it crosses the doorway, this item is gone” to yourself. We have attachment to our things whether they’re worth keeping or not. A little mantra as you work can help break that.
Lastly, take a mental picture before you do anything. Remember what it looked like with that shirt on the floor after you pick it up. Looks a tiny bit better now, huh?
Bonus: that’s a nice window you’ve got there. Ever thought about getting a plant? My general cleaniless went way up when I got them because I wanted easy access to see how much they grew. I really started looking forward to it…It’s still the first thing I do every day 5 years later!
Re: bonus
Don’t get the craziest looking thing you can find. Get a nice, easy plant like a monstera!! Mine survived 3 years of deep depression
been there, done that. I know it feels bad but it really isnt that bad, and many people were at that point before eventhough they wont admit it. my best advice to get started is: if you can throw stuff away, get a few big trash bags, fill them up with all the stuff you actually dont need and get it out. dont worry about recycling, this is a special occasion and progress is most important. you got this :)
honestly looks like it’s more junk than gross, so it shouldn’t be too bad. take it one area (or even item) at a time and you’ll eventually get there
Bunk bed is pretty cool
Thank you, it’s used as a trash holder, that’s why the mattress is on the floor hehe
Not that bad imo. My rule of thumb is spills/sticky stuff/rotting food are the hard things, anything else is just a matter of moving stuff around.
For advice:
- Toss the webs/decoration. That’s 75% of the bad vibes.
- Pick up until you have a clear floor, even if that means into a laundry basket for later.
- Clear off surfaces, shuffle necessary junk on desk until it looks intentional
- Toss the big furniture things above the bed by default, you know deep down you’re never going to use them [this is the hardest part probably]
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- Better wire management, the more you can get out of sight the better
- Organize shelves, toss/give away what you can get rid of
- Simplify in general (Do I need the TV and tablet? Are these plushies bringing joy? Etc…)
Better wire management, the more you can get out of sight the better
Why?
Yes, I like the wires like that. The other stuff was pretty good advice though.
Might be a pet peeve I guess, but clean lines with no loose floppy parts feels better to me. They also always spread out and take up more space than I expect (oops, half my desk is now my phone charger).
I’m not one to perfectly route and bundle cables but even jamming them under furniture or behind a lamp feels “cleaner”. The dangling power strips would drive me nuts.
feels “cleaner”
So this is just your preference, I see.
Well most of cleaning is just making things aesthetically pleasing to your preference. So long as nothing is a health hazard or an obstruction to your normal function then it’s all good.
Pro tip find some storage bins and take everything but the furniture and place it in them. If you use your desktop leave the computer keyboard and mouse. Just getting the items out of the room can be very helpful to mental health. Then when I see there is a spot for something now its easy to take it from the storage bin and put it up or pack it into drawers. Give me 2 hours and your room would be spotless
Just needs tidying. 1-2 hours maximum if you concentrate
I forgot to mention the furniture
Let it go. I mean, when you decide if a thing is a junk or not, consider it is, by default. Imagine you moved in after someone else living there. For some things you would say “wtf is that?” and throw it away. You probably don’t really need all that
Yes, I want to throw away about 50% of my possessions (after having thrown out 80% of my cloths last month) but it’s so much work. Whenever I throw anything away the room looks the same after. I wish I could just set it on fire and let it burn down.
It won’t look the same. So, first - removing the easy stuff like laundry. Then, the heavier stuff, like boards and other heavily identifiable things that you want to remove (and they are not coming back unless you bring them yourself, don’t worry). maybe pack them so it would be easier to do the garbage runs, but it’s up to you.
Then, start grouping the rest of the things. Preferably from larger groups like books - if they are all in one place things will already look better
Aand as you sort through the stuff, you might see there are new candidates for throwing out
5/10 It looks overwhelming at first, but even on the picture you can see a pattern. Throw or give away stuff, organise the rest. If you have energy and willpower, doable in 1-2 days.
I’m in a similar position, I could never get rid of that “cloth cache” so I can access all my clothes really easily. I clean my room in corners, like I pick a corner and I try to clean that only. Although that doesn’t usually work, so I do “pickup some trash” or “clean a bit of the floor”.
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Get baskets or nice looking boxes that fit in your shelves.
If there are no nasty suprises hidden below (pets?) then this looks worse than it is.
