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Organizing and Cleaning Problem!
I have a problem! I love to organize, but don't have good ideas- but the big problem is that I hate to clean, and the term 'can't see the floor' REALLY applies to my room- and I can't find anything! I tried the 'put everything in a giant pile and attack the pile' but when I see the pile I get overwhelmed, push it to my floor, and it stays there. I hate it! I love being clean, but I just can't get there! So I need:
A) Organizing Ideas (I enjoy it, remember!)
B) HOW THE HECK SHOULD I CLEAN MY ROOM??!!!!!
Thanks, and I KNOW ITS WEIRD!!!
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Maybe give some free advice about: Cleaning?
Take it one step at a time. Don't plan to get it all done at once, I personally get extremely overwhelmed whenever I do that. Instead, make little goals, starting with the biggest and easiest: your bed. (I'm assuming.) Take all the junk off of it that doesn't belong there, and put it away!! Don't make piles of stuff to put away, and definitely don't drop it onto the floor. Make your bed and step back: it makes the entire room seem cleaner! (Or messier in comparison to your bed.)
Then take your room apart. Make a list of different sections that need cleaning, and work your way down the list. (Desk, far corner, closet, etc.) Plan to put one small thing away every time you go into/out of your room, be it a shirt or some dirty dishes.
And lastly, organizing. The best way to do it is to start fresh, which means more mess. When I organize my closet (I'm weirder than you) I take out everything, lay it out on my bed/floor/desk, and then put it all away the way I want it. Don't do this until your room is clean, it will just make things worse.
Good luck!
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1) For cleaning, start with your bed. Wash the sheets/make it, whatever. Put all your pillows on it and arrange it the way you want it.
2) Then do all your clothes. Whatever clothes are lying out and NOT in the drawers/closet or wherever it needs to be, PUT IT THERE. If the washer is free, start up some laundry.
3) ANYTHING is on your floor, that doesn't need to be, start putting it on your bed (this should clear off your floor and now you have a clear idea of what you need to put away because it is all on your bed).
4) At the same time you're doing that, start throwing away trash/shred papers (if you have a shredder, its good to shred old documents that have any important info on you--I don't like throwing away old mail, etc. I always shred it).
5) Don't limit it to just trash. Anything else you don't want/need. Find a place for it, make a pile in the living room (its better to keep it out of the space you're trying to clean) and decide what you want to do with it. If its old pieces of furniture, give it to the goodwill, etc. If its something a sibling may want, give it to them, etc.
6) Now go back to the pile of stuff on your bed and start putting things away.
As for organizing your room, I always concentrate on the secret spots: under my bed and in my closet. I'm a big fan of plastic drawers, baskets on my shelves. If you have shelves, try to use those too and buy cute basket/drawers and organize them accordingly. Under my bed, I keep things I don't usually want or need access to on a daily basis. Also, if you have a top shelf of your closet and have room, you can probably buy and put together a mini shelf and stick it up there to help you organize.
Remember your door too: its good for a shoe organizer hanger.
Organization consists of "storage". So next time you go to Wal-Mart, Ikea, etc. Take a look at the storage section and you'll find tons of organizers and nifty things such as the shoe organizer that utilizes the back of your bedroom door as storage; as well as closet organizers, etc.
I hope this helps. My room is pretty clean/clutter free and I love to organize as well and these are just tips on how I clean my room and organize it. Any other questions, feel free to ask.
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Don't try to move the pile, what I do, is i sit in a corner of my room and put things that are on the floor there into plastic bags, sorted by where they need to go, for example one would be rubbish, one would be things for my desk and above it, and one would be for my dressing table etc. that way when you give up, you don't go back to square one cos the sorting is still done, then you can take that bag over to where it needs to be put away and do that, then another bag, then do the whole proccess again. Its good cos you can take as long as you want with it and usually by looking in the bags you can tell which they are.
As for organising ideas, if you have lots of bits and bobs, sort them into similar things and put them in glass jars. I have all my nail varnishes in a giant jar, you could put pens in, or hair ribbons/bands in another etc.
If you have a lot of jewellary, get a simple wall decoration or even just a wall bracket, and you can hang things in order of length or just round it, thats what i do round my light above my dressing table and its really useful cos then i can find the necklace I want at a glance.
Hope that helps!
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